So how are you all starting your day? Any favorite breakfasts? We normally do a hearty breakfast but since I started back to work (6 months ago!!), I just don't seem to have the time... I'm getting sick of oatmeal and today I tried special K and was hungry in like an hour!! Any quick easy hearty breakfasts that you CCer's have found tried and true?
Usually I just have fruit and yogurt, or cottage cheese, oatmeal or cereal.
If I'm a tad more hungry or I know I might not be able to have my morning snack I'll go a bit more filling with an egg on a double fiber whole wheat english muffin (only about 110 calories for the muffin).
I just fry up an egg in a nonstick pan so I don't have to use oils/butters and add a bit of pepper. My husband loves em and we can eat them on the way.
If I eat breakfast, which I usually don't, I eat a piece of wheat toast w/ peanut butter. Lame & boring, but it's quick & easy. Not exactly hearty either... :-)
We make two eggs each every morning. Add just a bit of reduced fat cheese, onion, tomato and mushroom and I'm good for about 3 hours. I eat "real", fresh and organic eggs. I do not have problems with cholesterol and I balance it out with protein intake for lunch. You can change the eggs up too. Make em' over easy and put on top of a nice, dense, high fiber toast. You should be good for awhile. Good luck.
Pixie: On the days I do not have my oatmeal or cheerios and fruit I like to have the garden vegetable egg beaters, two slices of the 40 cal a slice Nature's own light wheat or Wonder light wheat bread (both are 40 calories a slice) with a half serving of smucker's sugar free strawberry preserves on my toast.
I do 1/2 a cup of the egg beaters for 80 calories and 10 grams of protein. With my coffee creamer (for two cups of coffee) it comes to 240 calories and I eat around 6:30-7:00 a.m. and I am not hungry before my 10:30 midmorning snack.
I have a couple of standby breakfasts that work well for me. I tend to get in a routine and eat one version for a week or more, then switch to something else.
My standbys are:
Fage greek yogurt w/ frozen blueberries
Steel cut oats with shredded sharp cheddar & V8
PB on a piece of whole grain bread (basically 1/2 a pb sandwich) and a sliced apple
Blue Goodness smoothie (whole bottle, which is 2 servings - this is rare, in the nature of a splurge for me, because there's not much protein in it, and I'm all about the protein!)
I rotate through these options regularly. Each of them is 340-ish calories, give or take. I think the lowest is the yogurt and blueberries, at under 300 and the highest is the pb sandwich and apple at 350.
But they all keep me full until lunch and they all give me a good boost of protein or fiber.
Oatmeal mixed with pumpkin and cranberry sauce, plus a cafe au lait.
Protein pancakes topped with blueberries and cafe au lait.
Egg sandwich made with Arnold sandwich thin and cafe au lait.
Fage yogurt with granola, strawberries and honey, plus cafe au lait.
For a long time I didn't eat breakfast, not because I didn't think it was important, but because I don't care for breakfast foods in general. I don't know why, I was just stuck in the mindset that breakfast means breakfast foods.
So, I'm over that now! Breakfast for me could mean any number of things, shrimp on a salad, tuna, turkey or a hunk of peanut butter. Sometimes, god forbid, it will be bacon and a veggie omelet w. goat cheese! It's always heavy on protein.
- double fiber english muffic with a slice of sharp cheddar, glass of milk
- steel cut oats with 1/2 tbsp of honey, glass of milk
- special k cereal with milk
- whole wheat waffles, glass of milk
On days where I have more time I will often scramble 2 eggs and have turkey bacon and sausage with it. Mmmm!
I rotate between a couple different b'fasts. I really like Kashi's cereals, especially the Heart to Heart and Cinnamon Harvest, so I do one of those most days. A couple times a week, I scramble two eggs with some chopped onion, chopped carrots, an ounce or two of turkey or some beans and 1/4 cup mozzarella cheese. The egg scramble is higher in calories, but stays with me much longer than the cereals and then I don't usually have a morning snack.
To make the egg scramble faster, you can make it up the night before, then heat it in the microwave in the morning.
These are great ideas! I think my main problem was that I didn't eat enough calories for breakfast, not just what I was eating. I'm going to work on something more substantial tomorrow morning.
my favorite would have to be 1/3 cup granola with a low fat yogurt, its got low enough calories to pair with a banana or a cup of strawberries so that it's substantial, healthy, and extremely yummy at the same time, hope that helps =)
Definitely my most important meal of the day! I usually have 4-500 calories at breakfast and always drink black tea. Recently I've been doing a lot of:
regular oatmeal mixed with peanut or almond butter and chocolate protein powder
regular oatmeal and cottage cheese (one of my all time favorite combos)
Greek yogurt with banana and almonds or walnuts
Cereal takes me a long time to eat, but on a weekend or a day when I am not in a hurry I like Trader Joe's brand Raisin Bran with soymilk and cinnamon.
Most important meal of the day...
Each of them is 340-ish calories, give or take. I think the lowest is the yogurt and blueberries, at under 300 and the highest is the pb sandwich and apple at 350. 
