Ok need some help chickadees. I am trying to eat breakfast in the morning. Usually I cannot bring myself to be hungry so I have been drinking SlimFast Shakes...but they just are not doing it for me. I am looking for suggestions on ready made really easy to travel with breakfast suggestions. I take a train to work and commute about 2 hours every morning so I know realistically if I have to make it that morning it will not get done. Anyone have any suggestions?
I make a chocolate whey protein shake with vanilla silk soy milk. 210 calories, 5g Fat, 12 carbs, and 29 protein. (You could grab a piece of fruit on the way out also.) It's very good! you can put it in a travel coffee mug, and sip away at it.
I know a lot of the other ladies in here make smoothies, and add a scoop of protein to it, and they say it's very good also. Never tried it though.
For me, the protein shakes keep me feeling full for 3-4 hours. I try to eat every 3 hours though.
I don't have the 2 hour commute, but I do go into work at 5 every morning, if it takes more than 30 seconds to make it gets made the night before.
I usually do a grahm cracker or wheat things with either nuts or a slathering of peanut butter. I did the shake thing, and I was hungry in a matter of 2 hours. No matter what I grab some sort of fruit to balance it out. Also, Target and the supermarkets now carry little bowls of cereal, those could work too!
There are lots of ready-made easy breakfast solutions.
The problem is, the vast majority of them are terribly unhealthy! (Pop tarts, those little sausage/egg biscuits you can buy frozen, etc.) If you're talking I-bought-it-from-the-store-and-put-it-in-my-bag kind of ready-made, and not the kind of ready-made you get when you make something the night before, you don't have many options beyond shakes I think...
Those little cups of cereal might work, but then what do you do about milk in it? buy the little school-sized cartons? Hmm.
You could get cereal bars, but they're loaded with sugar and only stay with you about as long as it takes to eat them.
There's always fruit and yogurt. Those are about as ready-made as you get. Though I find when I'm not hungry for breakfast and I try to eat fruit, my stomach rebels.
Maybe you could buy/make some trail mix to munch on till you get to work, when you can have something more substantial?
Thomas's just came out with 100-cal english muffins that have 5 g fiber per muffin. Maybe top that with a small amount of peanut butter or other high-protein spread (I use a natural peanut butter blended with some flax that is 160 cals, 9 g protein, and 5 g fiber per 2 tbsp). Toast your english muffin and spread on 2 tbsp of peanut butter, and you have a 260 calorie breakfast with 10 g of fiber and 10 g of protein to keep you satisfied, and its very portable.
I second what Mandolinn suggested.. PB on an english muffin. Sometimes I'll just have half a regular english muffin with 1 tbsp of peanut butter and half a banana crushed on top (ill usually save the rest for a snack on the way to work). It tides me over for easily 4 hours, usually more, but lately I've been doing the mid-morning snack thing.
Sometimes I have slim-fast for lunch, but I can never have it for breakfast. I need something a lot more substantial for breakfast.
You can make protein pancakes the night before and take them with you. They're nice eaten cold.
You need:
egg whites/egg beaters/whole eggs (I either use 4 egg whites or 2 egg whites and a whole egg)
blended with 1/2 C cottage cheese
after those are blended together, add 1/2 C oats and blend further. Then fry in a non-stick pan. Will usually make about 2 pancakes. You can add any fruit you like to the pancakes and either blend or not depending on your preference. I like bananas and pineapples in mine. Frozen forest fruits work well too. Also you can make the pancakes chocolate flavoured with some cocoa and splenda.
I have about an hour's drive to school/work every day, less if traffic is good: I've started taking Special K breakfast bars with me - one is 90 cal, and the strawberry-flavoured are actually pretty good. And smoothies *are* great: soy milk + any fruit in a blender = awesome. I like plain soy milk with a banana - if you want it to last longer freezing the banana makes the drink harder to get through a straw. Added bonus being those bananas that are too spotted to eat will freeze happily. A spoon of lowfat peanut butter goes well with the banana-milk, depending on how many calories you want for breakfast.
I like apple chips also - don't add any suger, but dust cinammon and a tiny bit of ground cloves on them before drying/baking. For that matter, I suppose that same brown, derelict banana can be used for chips also!
I'm one who makes my own smoothies. I used to do Slim Fast (or other brands of ready-made canned shakes), but they just didn't work as well for me for some reason. I LOVE my smoothie of 1 small frozen banana, 2 scoops vanilla protein powder, and skim milk. I make it using my Magic Bullet, so I don't have to worry about making too much in a whole blender. The Magic Bullet cups are very portable and even come with lids if you're not ready to drink it right away.
I just put cereal in a large coffe to-go cup (that way if the train jerks or I get jostled I dont spill. Just stick a plastic spoon in your bag and a bottle of water you are good.
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