Low calorie but filling breakfast?

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  • sarawilgos1988
    sarawilgos1988 Posts: 11 Member
    Quinoa Muffins

    1 cup quinoa (cooked it equals about 3 cups)
    6 egg whites
    2 cups shredded cheese
    1-2 cups chopped fresh spinach
    (if you like, you can saute some other veggies to add to this: tomatoes, mushrooms, onions, peppers, etc.)
    salt/pepper/other herbs and spices as you like

    Cook the quinoa, then add the other other ingredients to it and mix well. Spoon into greased muffin tins and bake at 350* for about 20 minutes until the tops start to get browned and crunchy. It makes between 12-15 depending on how many veggies you put in them.

    I made them with tomatoes, spinach, mushrooms, and colby jack cheese and they're about 110 calories per "muffin."

    I am soooooo trying these!!
  • fitsummer2014
    fitsummer2014 Posts: 4
    2 eggwhite with veggies plus some fruit..
  • bdunk011
    bdunk011 Posts: 5
    2 egg whites
    Spinach
    1/2 medium banana
    Light flax seed spread
    1 slice of 100% wheat toast

    For breakfast I always fry up two egg whites with a serving of spinach (spinach is so low cal you can even double up) to make an omelet and then I toast a slice of whole wheat bread with flax seed low fat butter and then half a banana. All that is only 240 calories and it keeps me full for four hours. It's always my go to,I never let myself run out of these ingredients.
  • msbunnie68
    msbunnie68 Posts: 1,894 Member
    vegemite toast. x 2 pieces

    baked egg (egg/green onions/cheese into a ramekin and bake in oven)

    baked beans on toast

    omelet (1 egg beaten, capsicum+onion+mushrooms+basil gently sauteed. cook omelet in small pan, flip, put sauteed ingredients on one half, add a little cheese. fold over. Serve.

    make a batch of savoury muffins - cheese & tomato; egg and cheese and tomato, zucchini, zucchini & mushroom etc etc etc. Use a basic savoury muffin mix. To make them fit your 300 cal limit you have set, plug it all into recipe builder first and work out how many muffins to make.

    edit: poached eggs and toast

    tomato eggs (2 tomatoes chopped, onion, chilli gently cook in small pan, make 2 holes, break eggs in, cover and gently simmer til eggs are set.

    french toast.

    I like savoury breakfasts too.
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  • chrisdavey
    chrisdavey Posts: 9,834 Member
    I don't think 300 cals of just about any food combination is going to be very filling. Is there a reason for such a small breakfast?

    Actually, I'm wrong. Now I think of it, you can have about 750g of pumpkin.
  • nixxthirteen
    nixxthirteen Posts: 280 Member
    Lately I really dig oatmeal with a couple grams of chopped nuts and a diced apple mixed in, and then a rice cake with either a spoonful of greek yogurt on it or a laughing cow cheese wedge and some cayenne pepper.

    Chicken bacon and some scrambled egg whites and sauteed veggies on rice cakes is another, less sweet, favourite :).
  • cpsf73
    cpsf73 Posts: 27
    I like having 2 over easy eggs and a side of fruit, yogurt, nuts, or a small salad.
  • nurseinpink
    nurseinpink Posts: 1
    What is a good calorie goal for breakfast?
  • Ke11er
    Ke11er Posts: 147 Member
    What do you like to eat at other times of the day? Just eat that in the morning and it's breakfast for you! We enjoy hummus scooped up with chunks of colorful bell peppers, celery, baby carrots, slices of cucumber, pita chips, or pretzel crisps...buy your favorite brand or easily make your own to have on hand for breakfast. For quick convenience we buy Morningstar veggie burgers and Hilary's Green Chili and Cumin Adzuki Bean Burgers (come frozen) and pop onto an English Muffin or Sandwich thin for a quick savory breakfast, or you could make your own black bean burgers up ahead in batches. Use plain Greek yogurt to mix up your favorite Ranch dip for veggies. A bowl of your favorite lentil soup, leftovers from dinner etc., ignore the clock and eat what you like.
  • MissBounceUK
    MissBounceUK Posts: 75 Member
    I'm currently enjoying baked beans on toast each morning. 2 slices of Weight Watchers brown danish bread toasted (no butter), topped with Heinz low salt/low sugar baked beans. Yummy and only 243 cals all in.
  • Spooky_Scully
    Spooky_Scully Posts: 73 Member
    I'm always ravenous in the morning, but find I get throughout the afternoon and evening without feeling to hungry. So for me, eggs with breakfast are an absolute saviour. I soft boil 2 of them, with a piece of grainy toast cut into soldiers (about 300cals - not including my coffee!). Otherwise, they are amazing scrambled with a few extra egg whites, with baby spinach or mushrooms. Or popped between an english muffin with some light cheese, peri-peri and avocado. Or you can make a big crustless quiche (or little mini ones) and cut a slice a day - calorie count depends on what you pop in it!
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    Man I'm starting to think that I'm an oddball, all that stuff would never fill me up for more than a couple hours. The only thing that's filled me up until lunch lately was 2 sausages, 1 scrambled egg, and 4 120 calories pancakes...

    But anyway, bump if anyone got any suggestions, I'm getting desperate and sick of using up half my calories in the morning.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    I'm definitely a savory over sweet breakfast person, and I often have a 2 egg frittata (less hands on than an omelet and I'm lazy in the morning) with lots of vegetables (sometimes I add eggwhites to make sure I have enough egg to cover the vegetables, but usually not), with a spray of olive oil. That's about or under 200 calories, depending on the vegetable choices and amounts, which gives you calories to work with for yogurt/cottage cheese or fruit or both while still remaining around 300.

    I tend to like breakfast to be more like 350-400, so often add smoked salmon or some leftover meat from dinner, but obviously that part's not vegetarian.
  • chrisdavey
    chrisdavey Posts: 9,834 Member
    What is a good calorie goal for breakfast?

    Depends on your daily intake and regular times of eating. Some 0%, some 100%.

    If you eat breakfast, enough cals to fill you up until your next meal and not too much to blow out your daily target. You need to experiment to find out what that is.
  • msbunnie68
    msbunnie68 Posts: 1,894 Member
    What is a good calorie goal for breakfast?

    Depends on your daily intake and regular times of eating. Some 0%, some 100%.

    If you eat breakfast, enough cals to fill you up until your next meal and not too much to blow out your daily target. You need to experiment to find out what that is.

    This. Totally depends on your eating style.

    Mine is:

    6-7am breakfast
    10am morning tea
    12- lunch
    3-4 afternoon tea
    6-7 dinner
    8-9 snack if I want

    so I break my 3 meals into kilojoules 1250 breakfast /1500 lunch/ 2000 dinner. The rest of my kJs are spent in tea coffee juices and my morning tea and afternoon tea (usually yogurt, fruits, minimuffins, cheese n crackers) with a little set aside for a snack (chocolate/yummy cookies/dessert) or a glass of wine.

    this is what works for me. I have morning tea as I am in kindergarten and we eat fruit with our children at morning tea time to model good social eating, I have afternoon tea because even at my age I am ravenous after school :D

    EDIT to add: 1250kJ = 299 cal 1500kJ = 359 cal 2000 kJ = 478 cals

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