Ideas

[Nina Kay]

Hi everyone,
I really would appreciate it, if as many of you as could, would please share some of your breakfast ideas with me. I am in desperate need of healthy breakfast ideas. I'm trying to plan my menus & have to go shopping this evening. I really don't have clue about what's healthy for breakfast, because obviously, what I thought was healthy, wasn't. I really need you guys. Thanks alot.

[tobstah]

hey nina!

I eat a bowl of HIGH FIBRE cereal with a sliced up banana and 2% (or 1%) milk. The fibre is really healthy and fills me up. The banana is also healthy and adds some flavour. I love this breakfest and its a healthy one too!

another good one is a fruit salad, but I personnally find that it doesnt make me feel full. Its fun to make a big bowl of fruit salad (pineapple, apple, watermelon, grapes, cantaloup ect) with love and effort, and make it last all week. The love and effort you put into it will make you enjoy it more.

hope this helped!

[smoke gets in my eyes]

I still do the bad thing. Coffee for breakfast. When I do have breakfast it's a bannana or a slimfast. In some decade that common sense forgot I remember having plain vanilla yogurt with fruit in it. Seems like that was a good thing.

[Paulie]

veggie omlette, sometimes with 1 chicken/apple sausage. But almost always a veggie omlette or fiber ceral.
(my favorite is spinach and a little motz cheese)

[Nina Kay]

Thanks everyone for helping me. I wrote your ideas down to incorporate into my breakfasts. I would love to hear anything else anyone comes up with.

tobstah, I like the idea of putting fruit in high fiber cereal with 2% milk. That sounds healthy. I will have to find a protein to go with it because I have hypoglycemia. I never thought of fruit salad.

Smoke, I also have to have my coffee when I first wake up. It's a must, & something I really look forward to, otherwise I would probably just pull the covers over my head & stay in bed.

Paulie, I really like the idea of a veggie omelette. I love spinach. My H doesn't like it, but he would pobably be glad to fix it for me sometimes, if he can get away with saying yuk alot. He likes to & is good at cooking omelettes.

[gratefulgal]

Nina,
You know from a different post that I am abstaining from sugar, flour and wheat, but this is what I've been eating for breakfast and I love it: 4 oz. of turkey sausage (1 lb. of ground turkey with 1 tbsp. each of ground fennel, garlic powder and poultry seasoning), then mixed together like a cereal the following: 6 oz. cut-up apple, 1/2 c. dry oats (not instant), 1/2 c. non-fat plain yogurt and 1/2 c. skim milk. Breakfast was my biggest obstacle because I always ate a smaller breakfast and I had to get used to a larger, but healthy one.

[Nina Kay]

Thank you gg, for the ideas. About the turkey sausage, I understand the ingredients, but how do you prepare it?

[Ashes]

This cooking stuff is way too complicated for my hectic early-morning life! If I eat breakfast, I have two Wasa Crackers (any variety) and one slice of fat free cheese. Comes to a little over 100 cals, but contains protein and whole grains, so it's much better than nothing if you don't have time to cook!

~ashes

[Nina Kay]

Ashes, Thanks for your suggestion. There are lots of times that I have to grab something running so this is a very good suggestion.

[tobstah]

oooh i forgot

allbran mixed in with 0% yogurt and sliced apple

DEEEEELISH

[pedagogue]

3 egg veggie and cheese omlette..

I usually throw in some chopped veggies, tabasco sauce, and a tiny bit of butter into a pan. Sautee a bit, then throw in the eggs. add cheese once the egg starts to form.

Takes ~ 5 min (use pre-chopped veggies. I try and make fajitas on sunday so I have veggies)

-pedagogue

[splendra]

I do smoothies=in a blender I banana, 2tbls plain yogurt, 1/2 cup any kind whole grain cereal I like oatmeal the best and fill with apple jucie I also put a powder made with blue-green algae and ice and blend until smooth. We get pineapples and other kinds of fruit to go in as well. Canalope is real good in it too in the summer. I fill the blender all the way to the top and add extra bananas when any of the kids are with us. If just me and H I usually only fill no more than half way.

My son had these everyday since after he stopped breast feeding and now he even makes them for himself and his brothers and sister in the morning at his dads house.

[pedagogue]

That sounds really good!

I use to make protein shakes (i'd also throw fruit in). I'll have to try that.

[Nina Kay]

tobstah, pedagogue & splendra,
Thank you all so much for the breakfast ideas. They all sound so delicious. I've written them all, down to try, in my OA Notebook. Splendra, I don't understand what you mean about the powder made with blue-green algae & ice. Is this a seperate smoothie from the first one or is it together?
Peda, How do you make the protein shakes? I have hypoglycemia & the protein is very good for me.

[wantneeda]

hi there
eggs for breakfast is a good way to get your protien. Even if you hard boil some to keep in the fridge for when you have to grab and run. a hard boiled egg, cereal and a piece of fruit is very healthy. scrambled egg wraps are good. you can add lots of veggies, peppers, tomatoes, anything really. For the wraps you can use tortilla shells, the soft ones, or pita bread, whole wheat.
Oatmeal is a very good breakfast that keeps you sustained for longer than most things. I used to have a really great recipe for the slow cooker, have to look on the net for it maybe. It had oatmeal, red river cereal, oat bran and dried fruit in it. ready when you get up in the morning. just add milk. I didn't need to add sugar because of the fruit.
If you go to a health food store they have a variety of powders to choose from for protien shakes.
just my 2 cents
hugs & hugs Wendy

[pedagogue]

Originally Posted by Nina Kay

Peda, How do you make the protein shakes? I have hypoglycemia & the protein is very good for me.

I would take powder supplements, mix in some whole milk, a bit of fruit, and a few other things. (At the time I was weight lifting 5-6 times a week) I still highly recommend a high protein intake.

Not sure I have a recipe. sorry!