I love getting to create and share healthy recipes with you all. In this past year, my health journey has challenged a lot of my beliefs on what healthy looks like at each meal. My portions are different, and it makes all the difference.
My hardest meal time to deal with is still breakfast. The most importatnt meal of the day? For sure! But usually I'm rushed and all the easy choices are so full of carbs and sugars.
Here's some ideas I've been using for well balanced breakfasts:
1. 1 cup of cereal from this list:
Shredded Wheat Original
Multigrain Cheerios
All Bran
Fiber One Original
Grape Nuts Flakes
Raisin Bran
Kashi Go Lean Crunch
With one cup of skim milk and ½ cup of blueberries
2. 1 cup of plain, non-fat yogurt, ½ cup of sliced banana, ½ teaspoon honey. 1 slice whole wheat bread with ½ tablespoon butter
3. ¼ of a cantaloupe, ½ cup cottage cheese (counts as 2 ounces of protein) one scrambled egg (one ounce of protein), ½ whole wheat English muffin with 1 teaspoon sugar free jelly
4. Green smoothie (1/4 cup greek yogurt, 1/2 cup mixed fruit (be sure to have some soluble fiber- think berries, pears, peaches, etc. to help with the greens), and 1/2 cup greens (spinach, collards, kale, chard, etc). Add water before blending.) and a piece of whole wheat toast
Side note on smoothies: Be careful about what you think about smoothies. God packaged fruit sugar in lots of fiber. When you blend it, you are taking a low glycemic option and making it high glycemic. Add just enough fruit to make it palatable.
If you can cook ahead, make some boiled eggs to have on hand. This makes grab and go quality breakfasts possible.
What are your favorite healthy breakfast choices?
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