Weekly Assignment: Boost Your Breakfast
February 14 - This week's assignment: During the 28-day Action Plan, you infused your diet with fruits and vegetables. But you may still be carb loading for the most important meal of your day.
Bagels, cereal, and other go-to morning foods can lead to weight gain and low energy, not only because of their excesses but because of what they're missing. Protein keeps your blood-sugar levels steady, reducing cravings all day, and can even kick up your metabolism a notch.
Breakfasts with protein power:
+ Whole-grain toast with 2 tablespoons of almond butter and some grapefruit
+ Organic yogurt with 1/2 cup berries and 1/4 cup nuts
+ Smoothie with 1/2 banana, 1 cup berries, 1 to 2 tablespoons whey protein powder, and 8 ounces almond milk
+ One or two poached eggs and a sweet potato
+ Miso soup with 1/2 cup brown rice and 1/2 cup tofu cubes
+ Get more healthy breakfast ideas from WholeLiving.com
What are your healthy breakfast strategies? Share them below.
For more healthy strategies, return to the Action Plan group page.
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Permalink Reply by Maria Soto on -
for me the fruit smoothies have worked so far during the week, these are the ones I usually have: (but I have at least once a week or once every other week- a small cup of coffee with a small plain donut from my neighborhood bakery)
1 banana (this will sweeten my smoothie)
cup of strawberries
handful of blue berries
handful of almonds
almond milk / or water / or coconut water
or
low-fat vanilla or plain yogurt
fresh fruit (any kind)
walnuts or pecans or almond or a mix of these
but I like the options here and will start making some of these, so I can have a variety for I have realized that having the same thing every morning can become frustrating after a while, no matter how great it tastes.
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Permalink Reply by Laurie on -
I sometimes use nuts in my smoothie drinks in the morning. I always soak them for at least 8 hours and then rinse them before use. When I can actually plan ahead, I will "sprout"* the nuts by soaking them for 8 hours and then letting them sit out in a sprouter box or colander for 24 hours. They need to be rinsed periodically throughout this 24 hour period. Almonds and sunflower seeds are delicious this way.
"sprouting" the nuts takes them back to a live food state. It is said that they are much more digestible, full of nutrition, and have more enzymes. It's a live raw food.
*sprouted nuts do not look like bean sprouts or other kind of seed sprouts. They will not have little green stems growing from them.
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Permalink Reply by Irna Rusch on
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Thanks for the tip on how to sprout nuts Laurie, I have always wanted to try this.
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Permalink Reply by Stacey A Main on
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I have started buying berries, bananas and other fruits, puree them then store them in the freezer. As the week goes by I dig into my fruit stash and either make smoothies or add the frozen fruit to yogurt. I don't worry about fruit going bad.
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Permalink Reply by lisa petrucci on -
i luv bananas in the morning with almonds
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Permalink Reply by Erin on -
i have been buying acai berry smoothie packs and adding them to almond milk and bananas. they are frozen and i credit them to dramatically clearing up my skin. any other thoughts and suggestions on how to get the acai berry added to smoothies that is more cost effective? I am paying $7 for 4. i have only seen bottles of acai juice (it seems). thank you!
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Permalink Reply by Margaret Helm-Duell on -
you could get organic Acai berry powder to add to your smoothies. Acai is expensive no matter how you get it, but the powder might save a little.
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Permalink Reply by Erin on
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hey - sorry for the delay, i rarely check my sbcglobal email. i buy sambazon acai smoothie packs. found them $2 cheaper at whole foods than at my local grocer - so i am happy! plus they actually had coupons this past week. so i am sticking with what works. :)
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