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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWhat do you usually have for a quick breakfast? I'm on a new diet and I'm going to try
to start the day with some yogurt or oatmeal. Normally i wake up late so I don't have anything.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)CurtEastPoint
(18,644 posts)and an appliance timer.
Buy some McCann's Steel Cut Irish Oatmeal.
The night before, 1 c water + 1/4 c oatmeal plus whatever else you want to add (raisins, a dash of salt, cinnamon), set the timer for about 1.5 hours before you get up.
Voila! Delicious, nutty, healthy hot oatmeal. Of course, I add butter, brown sugar, nuts and milk but hey, that's me!
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)I put butter, brown sugar, vanilla and sea salt on mine.
Graybeard
(6,996 posts)No prep and should get you through the morning. Stay away from so called "Juice drinks" that are mostly water. My fave is Ruby Red grapefruit.
LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)Greek has more protein than regular yogurt, and even the fat-free ones taste creamy.
I'd go for plain, unsweetened frozen blueberries or other frozen fruit.
siligut
(12,272 posts)Sometimes both. I am not much of an big breakfast eater. Make sure you get the yogurt with the active culture, so good for digestion and colon health. Good luck with your diet.
Shrek
(3,979 posts)LoveMyCali
(2,015 posts)She has a bunch of quick, guilt-free (as she calls them) recipes here is a link to some egg mug recipes
http://www.hungry-girl.com/newsletters/raw/1499
IcyPeas
(21,871 posts)I can't eat in the morning for some reason...
http://www.drinkorgain.com/
(sold in Whole Foods and Ralphs in CA)
some of these other suggestions sound really good though.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)Alternate with home made whole wheat English Muffins with a good quality jam.
noamnety
(20,234 posts)a 1/4 cup scoop of kidney or pinto beans, mixed into 3 eggs and enough roasted vegetables added in to fill my 2 cup mug. Microwave at 1 minute, then 30 second intervals til done. (Normally with curry spices or hot sauce). The protein keeps me full, and the carbs (beans) are slow to digest so that helps as well.
Sometimes the vegetables are left over from dinner the night before, otherwise I shove them in the oven to cook while I shower.
doc03
(35,337 posts)freshwest
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MiddleFingerMom
(25,163 posts)Generic Brad
(14,275 posts)Cut it up the night before and grab it out of the fridge in the morning.
MissB
(15,808 posts)Made with frozen mangos or strawberries, soy protein powder and soy milk. It's fast and keeps me full until lunch.
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)My sister is in a major health crisis but one positive is that she's had extensive consults with THE BEST dieticians and nutritionists in the world.
They are ALL in agreement that you MUST combine a protein with the carbs to maximize energy and optimum body function. So whatever you choose, be sure to make it a combo of 4 gs protein and that carb we crave in the am to ensure maximal dietary value.
Swede
(33,244 posts)Black coffee,no toast. Losing weight like a mutha.
Duer 157099
(17,742 posts)mzteris
(16,232 posts)Greek goddess honey. Lowest sugar and fat (besides plain).
I hav about a half cup ( not qute)', someimes I eat a sal handful of raw almonds.
My sons like to mix in special k low fat granola.
Many years ago I used to mis grape nuts with plain yogurrt. Do they Even make grape nuts anymore?
grasswire
(50,130 posts)Wish I could eat them. Yum.
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)I normally don't eat breakfast, but I usually have a banana every day after my workout.
csziggy
(34,136 posts)1/3 cup quick cooking oatmeal
shake of salt
big shake of cinnamon
1/2 cup fat free milk
1 tsp butter
Cook in microwave on 50% for three and a half minutes. Stir.
That is probably cooked enough for most people - I like really thick oatmeal so I cook it for another three and a half minutes at 70%.
It's good straight, but fruit or some turbinado sugar is great with it, too.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)Sometimes I have a handful of hemp and ginger granola instead of the nuts.
pokerfan
(27,677 posts)Learned it from Roger Ebert....
Slice your bananas, your peaches, your applies, pears, plums, apricots, strawberries, your Kiwi. Throw in your blueberries, your blackberries, your boysenberries, your this berry, your that berry. Drop in maybe a couple dried prunes. No, stupid. Not all the fruits at once. We're making breakfast, not fruit compote. Let's say two fruits together are nice. Bananas and peaches make Peaches 'n Cream. Mmmm! Chaz loves 'em.
While you're doing this, your oatmeal is already cooking. Figure out the hard way when to add the fruit to the Pot so it tastes the best and doesn't get all boiled to death on you. Okay. Fruit's in. Slam the lid back down. Cook, click, and Warm. It will wait there for you a long time. Find out the hard way what's too long. If the result looks like a potato pancake, that was too long. On the other hand, you can make a sortofa half-assed potato pancake, although not crisp on the bottom, that way. You can even start with instant potatoes, if you are a fool. Chop in some onions on the far turn. Throw in onions, peppers and mushrooms, and when they're thundering down the home stretch, some stirred-up eggs, and you have what down home we call Skillet.
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2008/11/the_pot_and_how_to_use_it.html
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)cup of milk, 1 and half envelopes of strawberry carnation breakfast, banana, ice.
i have fell in love with this.
then dinner. whatever i cook