Is this a healthy breakfast?

danrhodes

Hey, I love oats for breakfast especially overnight oats but is it healthy, I have 50g of cold rolled oats, a handful of dried fruit and a squeeze of honey most morning. I run three times a week too if that has any baring?

Cheers

Alatariel75

Healthy is in the context of an overall diet, rather than one meal. Does it fit your calories for the day? Fit your macros, if you track them? Satisfy you? Keep you energised for your run?

CoachBrafford

Protein is the only missing thing. Other than that seems great. Try egg whites or a whole egg if your cholesterol is low. If you always build a meal 1st around protein then veggies or fruits and lastly carbs (as starches) you will always hit all the good points
Hope that helps and good luck

EricaCraigie

Definitely a good choice

jjpptt2

Alatariel75 wrote: »

Healthy is in the context of an overall diet, rather than one meal. Does it fit your calories for the day? Fit your macros, if you track them? Satisfy you? Keep you energised for your run?

Agreed. Hard to see any 1 meal/food as healthy or unhealthy without knowing how it fits into an overall diet.

Need2Exerc1se

If it keeps you full until your next meal/snack and is part of a well balanced diet, it's awesome!

cwolfman13

danrhodes wrote: »

Hey, I love oats for breakfast especially overnight oats but is it healthy, I have 50g of cold rolled oats, a handful of dried fruit and a squeeze of honey most morning. I run three times a week too if that has any baring?

Cheers

Why wouldn't it be healthy...oats are a nice complex carbohydrate that have good amounts of both soluble and insoluble fiber.

Beyond that, "healthy" really need to be discussed in the context of diet as a whole...are you meeting micro nutritional requirements? Are you hitting protein requirements? Are you hitting dietary fat requirements? Are you getting enough fiber, etc? All of these things throughout the day...you have to look beyond a singular meal or food item.

ETA: a typical breakfast for me when I'm cutting is a bowl of Coach's Oats and two boiled eggs and some berries.

lemurcat12

Alatariel75 wrote: »

Healthy is in the context of an overall diet, rather than one meal. Does it fit your calories for the day? Fit your macros, if you track them? Satisfy you? Keep you energised for your run?

This.

sarraheclark

My breakfast is similar and I find that it keeps me full for several hours. I use half milk, half water to up the protein a bit.

Francl27

If it works for you, it's great! I like more protein at breakfast though.

Rocknut53

Sounds like a good breakfast to me. I eat oatmeal a couple times a week and make sure my other meals cover my protein requirements.