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Breakfast is Served
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
How many times have you heard it, "Breakfast is the most important meal of the day." Personally, I believe all the meals are important. Every meal is fuel and skipping any of them will make you feel bad...Skip lunch and you're cranky and yelling at everyone by dinner and starving. Skip dinner and you end up eating a bowl of ice cream before bed, or worse, oh yes, there is worse. So why is breakfast the most important? In my opinion, it's not. They're all important. It just seems like breakfast is the easiest to forget. I'm guilty of it too sometimes. You fill up on coffee, do all the morning stuff (kids ready, lunches packed, beds made, etc.), then on the way to drop the kids at school, you realize, "I'm hungry." Since I started my early morning runs, I have to eat, and eat healthy. Lucky Charms just doesn't cut it. My personal breakfast criteria are these: carbs, protein, dairy, fruit. It may seem like a lot, but it's pretty easy; low fat vanilla yogurt with a handful of granola and a banana. I love the Emerald Breakfast to Go. Sometimes I'll make breakfast burritos and freeze them (scrambled eggs, turkey bacon crumbled up, minced red pepper, some shredded Colby Jack). I also keep hard boiled eggs in the fridge, makes breakfast easy. Here are a few other simple and quick ideas
- Toast whole grain bread and place a slice of cheese and a sliced hard boiled egg on it while still warm (Hey, it's better than an Egg McMuffin) with apple slices on the side
- Bagel with cream cheese and tomato slices
- Cottage cheese with granola and dried fruit
- Sliced hard boiled egg, low fat feta cheese, fresh spinach, wrapped in a tortilla
- Whole grain english muffin with Nutella and strawberries
- Oatmeal with cranberries and walnuts
- Smoothies (Here's a hint, if you have yogurt close to expiration, toss it in the freezer and use it in your smoothie. Same goes for fruit, chop it, freeze it, make a peach-berry smoothie. I put bananas in the freezer in the peel. Run them under water, clip the end and squeeze out the banana)
- Waffle with peanut butter and raisins
