Breakfast

An egg takes seconds to cook in a pan or in the microwave. You could have it with toast or make your own egg McMuffins, with a couple slices of thinly sliced ham.

Have you tried yoghurt (low fat/greek/fruit flavoured) on your preferred cereal?

Breakfast is my weakness to. Boiled eggs last a few days in the fridge (shells on) and i like them cold in summer (Aussie, summer here at the moment.) It makes an easy and quick breakfast. I will grab an egg or 2 to take to work before my start time (teacher - always there early) and make a smoothie for the 40 min roadtrip.

A quick mason / quick brekky is some yoghurt, frozen berries, topped with a bit of museli. I use a bircher mix that has some dried fruit in it. Packages well the night before and no prep in the morning - just eat it.

I cook eggs in the microwave (or hard boil them), eat a yogurt cup and sometimes a protein or granola bar, and I'm good for hours (which is great considering i get up at 3 am for work and don't usually get a break until 10 am or after). A homemade egg muffin is easy too, buy come Canadian bacon and cook it while your egg cooks, toast an English muffin, put it all together. Oatmeal is fast (i can't drink milk so i either use water or almond milk). Or you can scramble some eggs, add veggies and cheese, pour into a muffin tin, bake them in the oven the day before, then throw one or two in the microwave in the morning.

You could also just eat leftovers from supper the night before, which is something i do quite often.

One of my favorites is egg whites with either salsa, reduced fat cheese, or both. Egg whites are low in calories but very high in protein. So you can have a lot of them and stay full for a while. And with salsa and cheese it tastes delicious. My go to is 5 egg whites, 1/4 cup of reduced fat cheddar, and some salsa. Around 180 calories and lots of protein.

I prepare a veggie mixture on the weekend that includes equal parts of zucchini (1 medium), red bell pepper (1/2 large), sweet onion (1/2 medium) and mushroom (6-8) and 1/2 part tomato (1 medium plum). I use 2T olive oil to saute with salt, pepper and Cajun seasoning. I then use some in omelet on weekend and store rest in frig for use during the week. In the morning beat 1 egg with a T of skim milk & salt & pepper. Add 1/2 cup of the veggie mix and when cooked add 1T shredded mexican cheese blend and wrap in a low carb wheat wrap with 1T salsa. Roll it up & head out the door.

I bake liquid egg whites in muffin tins. Just spray the muffin cups with non stick cooking spray and then measure out about 2 tbsp of the egg whites out of the carton. You could add whatever to want to them. Bake at 350 degrees for about 10 minutes. They are good hot or cold

You can make freezer burritos or breakfast sandwiches. Take an hour on the weekend to assemble them and just reheat in the morning. I like doing ham, cheese and egg on English muffins or something Mexican with egg, black beans, etc and serve with salsa.

Breakfast is the hardest meal of the day, isn't it? Who has time?! I've started cooking eggs the night before to put on an English muffin in the morning. I can eat it in the car without being too messy. Overnight oatmeal is another really good one, but harder to eat on the go. I eat a lot of Morningstar Farms products - I love to eat their burgers for breakfast. Just pop a patty in the microwave and put it on bread, in a wrap, or directly on a plate. A decent amount of protein to hold me over, and yummy, too.