Breakfast question

mmccurrach

What is the lowest calorie but most lasting (staves off hunger) and satisfying breakfast item? I don't eat eggs and I would rather save my calories for more food in the afternoon when I'm hungrier. Thoughts?

TrainerRobin

My favorites:

Breakfast tacos (low carb 80 calorie tortilla, two egg whites scrambled into my own taco filling recipe which is made with TVP, chipotle peppers, taco seasoning, fire roasted tomatoes, garlic, cilantro), greek yogurt (tastes like sour cream), and a little guacamole (the kind in the bag in the produce department that's mixed with green salsa which REALLY drops the calories!). Yummo!

Steel cut oatmeal.

Plain, nonfat Greek yogurt with sweetener, and a BUNCH of fresh berries (blueberries, blackberries and strawberries).

melsinct

Oatmeal, specifically the old fashioned rolled oats. 150 calories for 1/2 cup dry. I microwave it in the morning with water for 2.5 minutes on high and it is done. Quick and easy and extremely filling. Sometimes I can't finish the whole bowl!

Low fat cottage cheese with a small piece of toast is also very low cal. I think the 1.5% fat cottage cheese I have is 90 calories for 1/2 cup.

HealthierMamasita

I love steel cut oats with fruit or whole wheat 100 calorie cinnamon pancakes/waffles(will search for the recipe and post the link) with sugar free syrup. Very filling for me.

perrytyra

Oatmeal, or some filling cereal plus fruit. Or whole weat toast with peanut butter. I like to save my calories for later too. But there aren't a lot of low cal breakfast foods that can hold me to lunch. So, if my breakfast has a little too many calories, I watch what I eat at lunch so I can still have a satisfying dinner and small bedtime snack.

knittnponder

What kinds of foods stick with you personally the longest? For me, if I eat oatmeal for breakfast (even loaded with nuts, fruit and chia seeds) it doesn't last very long with me and I end up starving very quickly. Cereal, pastry, toast...basically anything high in carbs and low in protein and I'm hungry very quickly and it sets my day up to go bad because I feel hungry all day if I'm not careful to have a high protein lunch.

So for me, eating protein is imperative. It may not seem like mine are low calorie choices but I really try to eat higher protein and lower carb while still remaining in my calorie limits so just know I do balance it out the rest of the day.

You mentioned you don't do eggs but that would be one of the main staples in my diet (not only are they low carb, low calorie and good protein but I have 24 chickens so we're eating eggs people! lol) Sausage, sometimes bacon, ham or any leftover meat from dinner. I often bake up several chicken breasts at a time and have them in the fridge for convenience and sometimes I'll just grab one and eat it for breakfast. It's lower in fat, no carbs and has oodles of protein for not that many calories.

I'm a big fan of green smoothies so often I'll have a little bit of meat and pair it with a good green smoothie and i'm good to go until lunch time. Plus the fruits and vegetables in the smoothies make me feel really good! I'm kind of addicted to them.

DawnOf1969

Oatmeal or fruit packed yogurt smoothies.
Cottage cheese w/fruit

Sarahr73

I have oatmeal every morning for breakfast with granola mixed in. I get the Better Oats oatmeal because they are so yummy and they are $1 per pack (5 packets each) at Cub right now. I have been hooked on the MMM...muffins kind right now, I eat the blueberry flavor, mixed with 4 tsp Wild Harvest Organic banana walnut granola. They have an oatfit kind too for 100 cal per packet, and sugar free ones if you like them.

Oatmeal- 160 cal, 4 tsp granola- 38, total- 198. I eat the about 50% of my calories for lunch, so this keeps me full until then with little calories. If I do get a little hungry I eat a 70-80 cal cheese stick for a snack or a hard boiled egg for 80 cal.

I also have 2 cups ice water on my drive into work and eat my breakfast at work. The water beforehand seems to help keep me full too.

HealthierMamasita

Here is the 100 calorie cinnamon pancake recipe:
http://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-detail.asp?recipe=101304

They are actually 92 calories for each pancake/waffle for 1/3 cup of the batter(cook b4 eating )


If you use less than 1/3 of a cup batter (like 1/4, or 1/6) you can have two for 100 calories! Smaller, but more!

Barelmy

I like homemade baked beans on toast. You could bake a big field mushroom and tomato (spray with a low-cal oil spray, on high in the oven for fifteen minutes) too, for about fifty more calories.

My recipe for baked beans; http://vegan20eleven.blogspot.com/2011/01/baked-beans-on-toast.html
Try to fry the onions in 1 tablespoon or less of oil. This makes 4-5 portions for me, for about 132 calories each - BUT, I add two tablespoons of flaxseed, for the Omegas, so it will be lower if you don't.

Original recipe; http://www.cookyourselfthin.co.uk/article/gizzi-erksine-recipes-baked-beans-on-toast.html
Includes bacon and a thicker bread than I use, but still under 300 calories total.

halphord

I would recommend oatmeal, or a fruit smoothie using OJ, yogurt, bananas and frozen berries!

kacarter1017

Oatmeal with fruit and milk

Cbandelier

I sometimes have 1/2 cup of greek yogurt (full-fat, plain) with 1/2 cup blueberries and 1/3 cup of low-fat granola cereal. It is about 270 cals, filling, delicious and satisfying.

ceejay000

I eat a whole wheat English muffin with almond butter and non-fat Greek yogurt with a little bit of honey each morning. I don't know exactly how many calories you want to eat for breakfast, but I find that the mornings I eat the Greek yogurt, I last much longer before I feel hungry.