What's your favorite healthy breakfast choice?

crystalfisher89
crystalfisher89 Posts: 196 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I'm trying to get out of my box of multi-grain Cherrios and milk or chocolate protein powder mixed with oatmeal (the latter is VERY tasty- I just ate it too frequently so I'm getting tired of it...). I want to add more protein, but don't like to eat much meat in the morning. I'm a fruit, yogurt, or complex carb kinda gal. :)

Feel free to share your recipes if it requires cooking- hopefully not in the morning. I'm the kind of person that rolls out of bed and gets showered just in time to run out the door to work. :D

Thanks in advance!
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  • magerum
    magerum Posts: 12,589 Member
    Water
  • MapleFlavouredMaiden
    MapleFlavouredMaiden Posts: 595 Member
    Water? For real bro? I like food. Mostly oatmeal with protein, cocoa powder, and peanut butter. Breakfast burritos with homemade pork sausage. Refried bean, bacon and, egg burritos. Homeade granola with greek yogurt...
  • runnergrlfl
    runnergrlfl Posts: 82 Member
    It only takes 5-10 minutes to scramble up some eggs. I do this almost daily, then reheat at at the office and eat.
    Pre-dice some veggies that you like and toss them all in a container.

    In the morning toss them in a skillet, sautee.
    While the veggies cook, crack & mix your eggs. Add them to the skillet. Scramble.
    Add cheese, black beans, salsa, sour cream, etc
  • crystalfisher89
    crystalfisher89 Posts: 196 Member
    Water

    I like food with my water :laugh: . I drink roughly a gallon of water a day, but I couldn't just start my day out with only water.
  • MapleFlavouredMaiden
    MapleFlavouredMaiden Posts: 595 Member
    It only takes 5-10 minutes to scramble up some eggs. I do this almost daily, then reheat at at the office and eat.
    Pre-dice some veggies that you like and toss them all in a container.

    In the morning toss them in a skillet, sautee.
    While the veggies cook, crack & mix your eggs. Add them to the skillet. Scramble.
    Add cheese, black beans, salsa, sour cream, etc

    Yummm!
  • mapenguinkeeper
    mapenguinkeeper Posts: 191
    thin, crispy toast topped with cottage cheese and avocado OR topped w/spicy tomato marmalade and avocado. DELISH.
  • Lives2Travel
    Lives2Travel Posts: 682 Member
    I rotate between 2 meals:

    Greek yogurt with blueberries and low fat granola.

    Homemade breakfast sandwich consisting of a toasted Thomas' bagel thin, egg white patty (usually homemade, but I keep the frozen ones around in case I don't have time), 2 slices of Canadian bacon and a piece of Sargento thin sliced 2% fat Colby-Jack cheese.

    Both run 225 calories. Oh and coffee.... always coffee.
  • bkyoun
    bkyoun Posts: 371 Member
    Steel cut oatmeal
  • carashirley
    carashirley Posts: 169 Member
    3 slices Natural uncured bacon & 2 cage free eggs cooked with a tablespoon of coconut oil! Sometimes I throw some onion, bell pepper, tomato & mushrooms in with it!

    I'm Paleo btw!
  • jfauci
    jfauci Posts: 531 Member
    I eat Dannon Light and Fit Greek yogurt every day for breakfast. I don't eat unitl about 10 AM, and I need something that I can eat quickly between meetings. It's delish and fills me up for a while.
  • DeliriumCanBeFun
    DeliriumCanBeFun Posts: 313 Member
    I've been making "cookies" that I can bring to work to have breakfast when I'm ready, and they are so good! Mix 3 mashed bananas and 1 cup oatmeal, shape into cookies and bake for 15 minutes at 350 degrees. You can add 1/2 cup of mix-ins...this week it's sunflower seeds and mini dark chocolate chips
  • SiouxsieSnowflake
    SiouxsieSnowflake Posts: 4
    Leftover Chinese food.
  • WendyTerry420
    WendyTerry420 Posts: 13,274 Member
    My favorite is definitely sausage gravy with biscuits.
  • markink81
    markink81 Posts: 73 Member
    My favorite is 227 grams of Fage yogurt mixed with 1/2 an apple plus a spoon of watered down Trutein cinabun whey protein.
  • amonpas
    amonpas Posts: 10 Member
    Try Baked Blueberry & Peach Oatmeal. This is from Taste of Home . Make on the weekend and have enough to just microwave during the week. I enjoy this
  • AmyRhubarb
    AmyRhubarb Posts: 6,890 Member
    My go-to breakfasts -

    Two eggs
    Sourdough or wheat toast with butter
    Black coffee
    Fruit (lately it's grapes, berries, banana, grapefruit or whatever I've got on hand)

    Oatmeal
    1/3 cup greek yogurt
    1 Tbs honey
    Fresh fruit (berries and/or bananas are my fave)
    Walnuts
    Cinnamon

    If I've got a busy morning, I'll do overnight oats in a mason jar - same basic recipe, but you do most of it the night before
    1/2 c oats
    1/2 cup milk or milk substitute
    1/3 cup greek yogurt
    1/2 tsp cinnamon
    Put it all in the jar, cap tightly, give it a shake and put it in the fridge. Next morning, stir it up, add fruit, honey & nuts, grab a spoon and go. I love that it's totally portable or just a quick fix to eat at home.
  • Brandolin11
    Brandolin11 Posts: 492 Member
    I'm a fruit, yogurt, or complex carb kinda gal. :)

    Ever tried "Overnight Oats"? They're the BEST! And the variety of what you can do with them is endless....

    http://www.katheats.com/favorite-foods/overnightoats
  • Brandolin11
    Brandolin11 Posts: 492 Member
    AmyRhubarb - great minds like alike! (And post at the same time!) :)
  • avskk
    avskk Posts: 1,787 Member
    I'm pretty basic when I bother to eat breakfast. I usually combine an egg, some Laughing Cow, a light English muffin, and some variety of vegetable (tomato & onion slices, Recipe Ready blends, a few pepper strips, etc.) in various ways. Sometimes I have a little fried ham or turkey bacon; sometimes I leave off the cheese and swap in some avocado; sometimes it's a breakfast sandwich with a fried egg and sometimes it's a big scramble with a muffin half on the side.
  • Showcase_Brodown
    Showcase_Brodown Posts: 919 Member
    Black coffee. Breakfast of champions.
  • Spaghetti_Bender
    Spaghetti_Bender Posts: 509 Member
    It's either oatmeal mixed in with some peanut butter and a banana, or egg whites, turkey on a whole wheat wrap with Sriracha.
  • Carnivor0us
    Carnivor0us Posts: 1,752 Member
    A cup of heavy cream with some cocoa powder is quick and filling.
  • teresamwhite
    teresamwhite Posts: 947 Member
    Spray the inside of a coffee cup with cooking spray/olive oil/coconut oil/whatever...pour in a serving of egg whites/egg beaters and up to 1/2c chopped omelette fixins, and season. Pop an english muffin/bread/roll/whatever in the toaster. Nuke eggs for 2 minutes. Run a knife around the edges of the cooked egg, slide onto bread of choice, top with the other half and walk out the door. ( you can skip the bread and place a tortilla on the coffee cup during the last 15 seconds of cooking to warm it up and wrap the egg in the tortilla wrap-style, if you like, too.)

    Prepping ingredients the night before can make this literally a 2 minute breakfast.
  • Keiras_Mom
    Keiras_Mom Posts: 844 Member
    I don't cook, so be forewarned.

    My usual breakfasts are either:
    a) Everything bagel with cream cheese
    b) Plain NF Greek yogurt with SF sweetener
    or
    c) a Quest bar

    :flowerforyou:
  • UndressJess
    UndressJess Posts: 2 Member
    I usually eat 2 organic brown eggs fried over easy in 1/8 tsp of coconut oil with Cholula. I also have a half a grapefruit with stevia & cinnamon on top! This is 220 calories. :)
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    I just put 100g of peppers in the pan, cook them for 5 minutes, add crumbled turkey sausage then 2 scrambled eggs.
  • ka97
    ka97 Posts: 1,984 Member
    I like to make my breakfast the night before, then pack and eat it when I get to work. For me it's usually:
    -plain nonfat greek yogurt w/peanut butter and chocolate protein powder
    -plain nonfat greek yogurt w/sugar free blueberry preserves, blueberries, white chocolate protein powder, and walnuts (or raspberry preserves and raspberries)

    or sometimes:
    -nonfat cottage cheese w/ chopped apples, honey, walnuts, and cinnamon
    -la factory tortilla w/peanut butter, banana, and honey
    -sometimes kashi go lean w/berries and nonfat milk
  • RinnyLush
    RinnyLush Posts: 389 Member
    My boyfriend and I pre-make a batch of breakfast wraps every Sunday and keep them on a platter in the fridge. Every morning we throw two of them on the GF grill and eat them on the way to work. Easy, yummy, and nutritious! This week they consisted of a whole wheat wrap, egg, shredded carrot, broccoli, red pepper, and cheddar cheese. Yum! Although I think my favourite that we've done so far was egg, mushroom, spinach, red onion and feta cheese..... *drool*
  • cdanie13
    cdanie13 Posts: 108 Member
    Spray the inside of a coffee cup with cooking spray/olive oil/coconut oil/whatever...pour in a serving of egg whites/egg beaters and up to 1/2c chopped omelette fixins, and season. Pop an english muffin/bread/roll/whatever in the toaster. Nuke eggs for 2 minutes. Run a knife around the edges of the cooked egg, slide onto bread of choice, top with the other half and walk out the door. ( you can skip the bread and place a tortilla on the coffee cup during the last 15 seconds of cooking to warm it up and wrap the egg in the tortilla wrap-style, if you like, too.)

    Prepping ingredients the night before can make this literally a 2 minute breakfast.

    YUM!! Trying this!
  • subsonicbassist
    subsonicbassist Posts: 117 Member
    Black coffee, wait until noon to eat :)

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