Quick Healthy
Breakfast Ideas

Use these quick healthy breakfast ideas to get you off to a running start in the morning:

On-the-Go Breakfast Ideas

• Apple + string cheese + hard boiled egg
• Trail bar + nonfat/lowfat yogurt
• Small baggie of lowfat granola + apple + lowfat string cheese
• Instant oatmeal: Stop at a coffee shop and get a cup of hot water. Add packet of instant oatmeal and stir. Add sliced banana.(Bananas are usually available in coffee shops!).
• Homemade Banana Muffin + hard boiled egg + small carton OJ

Healthy Breakfast Meals for Bread/Toast Lovers

• Peanut butter toast: Spread natural peanut butter on toasted whole grain bread. Top with sliced bananas.
• Almond butter toast: Spread almond butter on toasted whole wheat English muffin. Top with apple slices. Sprinkle with cinnamon.
• Whole wheat toaster grain waffle + natural peanut butter + apple butter. Dot with raisins.
• Whole wheat English muffin + lowfat cream cheese or goat cheese + lox (smoked salmon) + onion slices + tomato slices.
• Melt lowfat mozzarella on whole grain bread. Top with tomato slices.

Breakfast Ideas for Cold Cereal* Lovers

• Whole grain cold cereal + skim milk + sliced banana
• Lowfat granola mixed into plain lowfat yogurt. Stir in strawberries or blueberries.
• Breakfast parfait: In a parfait glass, layer lowfat flavored yogurt, whole grain cold cereal, and berries. Alternate layers. Sprinkle ground flaxseeds on the top.

* Choose a cereal with:

• at least 5 grams fiber
• less than 3 grams sugar per 100 calories
• no high fructose corn syrup
• no hydrogenated oil

Some of my favorite quick healthy breakfast cereals:

• Barbara's or Kellogg's Shredded Wheat
• Kashi Cereals: Go Lean, Heart to Heart, Seven Whole Grain, Good Friends
• Nature's Path Heritage Cereals
• Nature's Path Optimum
• Post Shredded Wheat and Bran
• US Mills Uncle Sam's
• Ezekiel multigrain cereals
• Health Valley Lowfat Granola

• Top cooked oatmeal with slivered almonds. Mix in fresh or frozen peach slices. Top with a dollop of plain nonfat yogurt.
• Stir flavored protein powder into cooked oatmeal (vanilla and cinnamon flavors work well). Sprinkle with raisins and walnuts.
• Stir natural peanut butter into cooked oatmeal. Top with sliced bananas.
• Stir sliced apples, cinnamon, and raisins into cooked oatmeal.

Here's a list of everything that mixes well with oatmeal:

• Fresh or frozen blueberries, blackberries, strawberries or raspberries
• Fresh or frozen cherries
• Sliced or diced apples
• Applesauce
• Pear slices
• Fresh or frozen peaches
• Dried fruit: raisins, dried blueberries, dried cranberries, dried figs
• Fresh or dried dates
• Pineapple
• Sliced kiwi
• Sliced bananas
• All natural fruit spread
• Pumpkin butter
• Apple butter
• Cinnamon
• Nutmeg
• Pumpkin pie spice
• Apple pie spice
• Ground ginger
• Vanilla extract
• Nuts: sliced almonds, chopped macadamia nuts, chopped walnuts, chopped pecans
• Natural peanut butter or almond butter

Breakfast Menu Ideas For Egg Lovers

• "Deviled Eggs:" Remove yolk from hard boiled egg. Fill with hummus. Eat with 1 apple.
• Poached egg + whole grain toast. Eat with 1/2 grapefruit.
• Egg white omelet + vegetables + lowfat cheese. Wrap in whole wheat tortilla.
• Scrambled egg + spinach + scallions. Wrap in whole wheat wrap. Eat with berries.
• Homemade "Egg McMuffin:" Toast whole wheat English muffin. Top with turkey sausage and scrambled egg whites. Eat with fresh mixed fruit or Dole fruit cup.

Miscellaneous Breakfast Ideas

• Egg white french toast. Sprinkle with crushed walnuts. Stir frozen blueberries into 100% pure maple syrup, heat in microwave, then serve over french toast.
• Mix lowfat cottage cheese + lowfat fruit flavored yogurt. Sprinkle with berries and slivered almonds.
• Lowfat cottage cheese + fresh, frozen, or canned (in own juice) peaches or pineapple. Sprinkle with crushed walnuts.
• Lowfat cottage cheese + salsa. Serve atop a toasted whole wheat English muffin.
• Fruit smoothies: Basic Recipe= Blend 1 cup water or skim milk + 1 scoop protein powder + frozen berries.
• Hi Protein latte: Blend 1 cup water + 1 scoop vanilla protein powder + 1 Tablespoon instant coffee + ice (or frozen cubes of your favorite coffee). Add sugar free syrups if you like (sugar free caramel syrup, vanilla, etc). Eat with a piece of fruit.

These suggested healthy breakfast ideas are well balanced nutritionally, but you'll have to decide on portions!

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