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Aurora · Marc Jacobs

Breakfast ideas?

janey831 · Kate Spade

Breakfast burritos (load them up with veggies, salsa, egg whites)

Whole Wheat Bagels

Cream of Wheat

Fruit, Yogurt, Granola parfait

fairywings · Dooney & Bourke

Yes I second the parfait! I try to have one of these whenever I have the ingredients. Use granola with almonds or any kind of nuts, fresh cut fruit (I usually do strawberries or blueberries), and not fat vanilla yogurt. So yummy and it fills me up for a long time.

I also like apples with peanut butter and honey. They are really high in fiber so I don't get an appetite again until late lunchtime. You want to eat breakfast food with high fiber because they will make you fell fuller longer. I also brew green and black tea with honey all day long as my snack because it rids you of toxins and makes me eat less if I have it in hand.
Also, don't forget a healthy drink at breakfast. I like skim milk with Ovaltine or there's this great chai tea mix that you just add milk and ice and it's the perfect chai tea drink. Juices can be high in calories and sugars and can make you feel bloated. Of course, making your own smoothie is always good too...

Teresa · Kate Spade

smoothies!!!! i have one almost every morning. SO easy and really healthy, if made right!

Aurora · Marc Jacobs

Thanks guys. I'll have to try the parfait idea as it sounds close to my Kashi high fiber cereal but a little different so that could be good. The breakfast burrito sounds a lot like the breakfast tacos I make. I'll have to look into new veggies to try with it and maybe a new tortilla. The La Tortilla Factory ones don't work out so well for this.

Has anyone tried the Western Alternative Bagels? They are only 1 WW point so it would be a bagel that wouldn't wreck me for the entire day points wise.

sydney · Kate Spade

I'm reaaaalllllly boring. My DH makes me a breakfast burrito every morning - eggs, cheese and pico pica. I'm addicted.

wetbandit42 · Marc Jacobs

I usually make a homemade Egg McMuffin-type thing.

I put a fried egg, a slice of cheese, and a slice of canadian bacon on a whole wheat/whole grain English muffin. Thomas makes good ones which have like 6 grams of fiber.

This with a glass of milk or oj fills me up until lunch, and my appetite is like a bottomless pit. I'm always hungry.

Aurora · Marc Jacobs

What is a fried egg? I like the idea of the sandwich. I might try it with scrambled eggs.

ILoveChoo · Hermes

chobani honey yogurt with granola
muffin

Elle · Hermes

I second the Egg McMuffin idea, except I don't both to cook and egg in a pan - I have smallish round tupperware container that I spray with cooking spray and crack an egg into - cook in microwave in 20-30 second stretches until it's not liquidy anymore.

I eat mine on whole wheat english muffins with a Morningstar sausage patty. Sometimes I'll throw some spinach in with the egg in the microwave, or you could do salsa/pico, or you can throw some cheese in with the egg ...

-- Edited by Elle at 17:58, 2009-03-06

NCshopper · Hermes

I also love making Egg McMuffins. Thomas's Lite English Muffins are great for them. They're 100 calories and have 8g fiber. I cook egg beaters (to further cut down the fat/calories) and also use a Morningstar Farm sausage patty. I'll sometimes add cheese or ketchup or salsa/hot sauce. YUM!

Also, Kashi has great waffles. I buy them in bulk at Costco (same goes for the MSF sausage patties). They're low in calories and have a good amount of fiber too. Sometimes I'll eat two of those for breakfast with some fresh fruit and two MorningStar Farms sausage patties.

AllieGurl · Marc Jacobs

We have fresh fruit smoothies for bkfast every morning. My DH makes them , and they are fabulous~

gossipgirl · Dooney & Bourke

When I have time to eat B, I usually will do a breakfast burrito like everyone else. Sometimes cereal yawn

cahabo · Kate Spade

I don't feel like eating in the morning so I have a chocolate Carnation Instant Breakfast. It's the only way I'll drink milk too. They are good and keep me full and satisfied until lunch. On the weekends though when I can eat later in the morning I like whole wheat waffles with boysenberry syrup.

jettie · Kate Spade

Trader Joes has crustless quiches that are pretty good (and easy to throw in the microwave). They are about 200 calories and really seam to fill me up.

pollyjean23 · Marc Jacobs

A good way to mix things up is to try different grains for use in hot cereals. Try barley, spelt, brown rice, millet, quinoa, buckwheat, etc.

The hot cereal I eat most often is very simple.

brown rice, unsweetened vanilla soymilk, with pecans and ground flax seed sprinkled on top.

I either have an apple on the side or throw in some blueberries or peaches.

I like it because it doesn't have any added sugar. The vanilla flavor in the soymilk makes it seem like it has been sweetened. I cook up a pot of brown rice on Sundays for use during the week.

Nice thing about this cereal is it helps take care of my extreme cravings for sweet, carb-heavy foods in the morning.

There's nothing that I would love more than to have a big, crumbly, fatty muffin or cinnamon roll!

Kitty · Hermes

jettie wrote:

Trader Joes has crustless quiches that are pretty good (and easy to throw in the microwave). They are about 200 calories and really seam to fill me up.

that sounds good..what section of the store are they in?

Suasoria · Chanel

I'm not a big eater in the morning. Usually it's some sort of granola/nut cereal with rice or soy milk. Or an English muffin with Earth Balance and hemp seeds sprinkled on top. If I'm in a hurry, soy yogurt. Sometimes DH makes green smoothies (fresh and frozen fruit plus greens like kale, romaine lettuce or spinach) - which would be great but he puts tons of foul-tasting powders like spirulina and whatnot in them. They are really filling, though.

sydney · Kate Spade

Kitty wrote:

jettie wrote:

Trader Joes has crustless quiches that are pretty good (and easy to throw in the microwave). They are about 200 calories and really seam to fill me up.

that sounds good..what section of the store are they in?

Sounds good - I love Trader Joes

Aurora · Marc Jacobs

I wish we had TJs here. I always get jealous when I read about the great food they have there.