So breakfast is usually a tough one for me, dinner as well but let's start with breakfast! I always seem to get lunch right but when it comes to breakfast...am I eating too little, am I eating too much, am I eating healthy enough (these are some of the thoughts I deal with)!!
Share some of your breakfasts and help me out! Happy New Year!!
1/2 cup of low fat unflavored yogurt with splenda and 1 cup of fiber one cereal, original flavor (I like walmart's store brand of bran flakes, too whcih have the same cals and cost less)==190 cals
1 serving of 7-grain hot cereal, 1/2 cup almond milk and 1 cup of raspberries or blueberries==230 cal
1 cup eggbeaters with 1 oz. feta cheese and any veg you want to put in. Or, lose the cheese and use salsa instead. 200 cals plus veg cals, or 135 cal plus veg cals.
If you're not into typical breakfast food, you could also have 1 pita bread with 3 oz turkey or ham 180 cal plus condimaent cal and any veg cal if you like tomato and lettuce etc.
Those are all things I eat regularly and there's enough protein/carb/veg to be fairly filling for not too many cals. Prolly a little more processed than I would like, but still a dietary bargin for them all.
Right now, I'm rotating between two breakfasts depending on whether I feel like salty or sweet. Oh, and I prefer having breakfast be the largest of my 5 small meals in the day.
Salty: 2 egg omelette with 1oz cheese, half a tomato and a quarter of an avocado; with half a grapefruit on the side
Sweet: 1 cup plain greek yogurt with 1 chopped banana, 1/2 cup blueberries and 1/4 cup walnuts
Honestly I make a breakfast cereal out of oats, nuts, and dried fruits of my choice. I mix it all together, and have about half a cup (more or less) each morning and that keeps me going. I don't really like milk (regular, soy, or almond) so I have it dry, but Dexter has it with soymilk.
I like eating these things called bagel-fils. I think they're by Kraft. They're 190 calories each so it's a good amount for a small breakfast and they're sweet and tasty so I don't feel like I'm restraining my love of food.
I'm so over eggs. I know I need protein, but I've had so many eggs in the last month I kind of just want to erase eggs from the planet.
I'm terrible at breakfast. I usually have two of them. First one is usually 8 oz. whole milk (WHICH IS DELICIOUS DONT JUDGE ME) with 2 graham crackers. I do that at 5am and eat again at 10 or 11 am. Second breakfast is usually a boiled egg or two.
I tend to mix my breakfast up from time to time.
I will have an omelet with black olives, cheese, and turkey. (there are so many things you can have in an omelet to keep healthy)
or a mini bagel (100 calories and whole wheat with 3g fiber) with one half with lf/ff cream cheese and the other half with natural peanut butter.
somewhere I incorporate a fruit (i'm not big on fruits so I tend to get my one serving out in the morning).
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Originally Posted by The Last Noel
boiled eggs 70 x 2
Boiled eggs are good too for bfast
Last edited by martha328; 01-02-2011 at 09:15 PM.
Reason: Didn't want to double post and wanted to add on to existing post :)
Today I just had a waffle sandwich. 2 Kashi waffles with 1 tbsp peanut butter, 1 tbsp nutella and 1 banana. This was a pretty abnormal breakfast for me, but it just sounded so good and it was! A little high in sugar and low in protien for my norm, but occasionally yum!
My usual is oatmeal with nuts, banana, flaxseed and Greek yogurt or kefir. I Also like a whole grain and flax English muffin with egg beaters, avocado, Swiss cheese, peppers and onion or an English muffin with peanut butter and banana.
Usually during the work week my breakfast is a piece of fruit (usually an apple, orange, or banana) and a bowl of maple and brown sugar oatmeal. On the weekends I make vegan pancakes with bananas on top or a fruit smoothie.
I'm a late riser (I work second shift) so my times may be a little off from yours but I always have a post-workout protein shake around 9am so I suppose technically that is my breakfast but I eat again around 11 or 11:30 and that's my first real meal so I pretty much count that as my breakfast.
My favorite breakfast is 2 to 3 egg whites fried with no-cal cooking spray and topped with black beans, salsa, any veggies I have on hand (like onion, pepper, asparagus, etc.) and a little low fat cheese. Often I eat it alone but sometimes I wrap it up in a low carb tortilla wrap which is also really good!
Another good one is oatmeal made with berries and nuts, I like to mix in a tablespoon of peanut butter and some blueberries or strawberries and toasted slivered almonds are really good too.
Also a lot of times for breakfast I don't have "breakfast foods" and I'll just have leftovers like reheated chicken and veggies, whatever is in the fridge.
Between the protein shake and my meal I shoot for approximately 700 calories in the morning, then the other 800 calories of my day are broken down between 2 more meals and a snack or two. I specifically try to eat more in the morning than I do the rest of the day.
Share some of your breakfast ideas :)
