Virtuous breakfast
Not so virtuous breakfast
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I'm just spitballing here, because the truth is, I have no time to post thoughtfully right now, yet if I stay away I miss you all, and want to get back in community. Life gets busy sometimes, and I'm grateful for it. Less time to brood on my own dark thoughts when I just have to get cracking doing. In this reality, however, breakfast can be a crap shoot. I'd love any ideas you might have for quick, labor light, nutritious canvas on which to paint my day.
I have oatmeal for breakfast, cooked not instant, with butter, fruit (generally blueberries or strawberries or peaches or bananas, sometimes dried fruit if I don't have fresh on hand), honey, cinnamon, chia seeds, and hemp seeds. honey and cinnamon combination helps with cholesterol (besides general health benefits from the cinnamon, local honey also helps against allergies) and chia and hemp seeds for micronutrients. every morning except Sundays when we have a late brunch of eggs, toast, and bacon.
ReplyDeleteThursdays I have cereal because I have to leave early for SHARE which is quick and labor light and my choice is a muesli kind. currently CostCo's Seven Sundays wild and free mix to which I usually add fresh fruit, chia and hemp seeds.
I'm no help, with my 365-days-a-year 2toast/cheddarcheese/applejuice breakfast! I hope you get some good ideas :)
ReplyDeleteI'm a porridge person, all through the year, summer and winter. Organic rolled oats with water, 2 m in the microwave, add whatever fruit is in season and in my kitchen - currently all sorts of berries and overripe nectarines - maybe a splash of yogurt or cottage cheese, some milk, that's it. Next, I beg for a bite of the man's toast and have several cups of milky black tea. That keeps me going until lunch.
ReplyDeleteSabine, for some reason I'm unable to comment on your blog as I'm not on "the team." I've enjoyed reading it, though!
Deletelately I have been trying keto- it has been interesting and do-able. No carbs, less hunger- Pork chop for breakfast- good to go until about 2:00 pm. More energy, less brain fog and irritability (if that is even possible in these times)
ReplyDeleteGranola with yogurt, although usually I just eat toast with honey, I'm not woman who eats healthy.
ReplyDeleteCorn flakes and toast. Every day. Our culinary horizons are limited by a disinterest in eating. The caprese salad looks good, though. Your puzzle is very pretty.
ReplyDeleteRoger and I have a breakfast routine. One morning, he has oatmeal, nuts, and fruit, and I have my homemade granola with yogurt, apples and raisins. The next morning we both have oatmeal. Then we're back to oatmeal and granola.
ReplyDeleteOur grocery chain produces a loaf of cranberry pistachio bread and I have one slice, toasted and buttered, for breakfast.
ReplyDeleteOatmeal with cinnamon, slivered almonds and maybe blueberries. OR Cashew yogurt with hemp or chia seeds, half a banana, maybe blueberries, all blended. Top with nuts and cinnamon. No need to blend, if you don’t want to. ADD cheese, leftover dinner meat, or previously hard boiled egg for more protein. Olivia
ReplyDeleteWell, two biscotti isn't THAT bad. :)
ReplyDelete8 oz of cooked Japanese sweet potato; 1/2 cup fruit (choice of strawberries, peaches, mango, sweet dark cherries); 2 cups non-dairy milk (choice of oat milk, soy milk (good source of protein), rice milk); teaspoon each of fenugreek, anise, fennel seed; and 1/2 teaspoon of salt. Blended to the consistency of pudding. Put in a bowl and eaten with a Chinese soup spoon. Yummmmm!
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1/2 to 3/4 cup of roasted and lightly salted peanuts. Yummmm! Entirely satisfying and filling.
Correction: 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon of fenugreek, anise and fennel seed.
DeleteI mix plain cheerios with some honey nut cheerios and have a bowl with milk each morning. Boring!
ReplyDeleteA complex setting the table and toasting routine .... fruit in season or out, with sugar free bread, the latter being very dense and satisfying, and, weirdly enough, vegetable juice.
ReplyDeleteIt's Mary G ... the iPad signs me in as "anonymous".
I do love a toasted cheese with tomatoes.
ReplyDeleteI'm reading good things about cottage cheese these days, so I bought a tub and am eating it with lots of fruit and berries.
ReplyDeleteI'm eating 4 heaping spoonfuls of oatmeal topped with walnuts and mixed seasonal berries covered with almond milk and a bit of vanilla soy milk. (I microwave the entire thing for 2 minutes and it is just warm.) Cranberry juice mixed with cold water and a cup of coffee (half coffee and half almond milk) completes my morning meal.
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