BREAKFAST: Most Important Meal of the Day! MAKE IT EASY!!!

Now I know you have all been told many times that BREAKFAST is the most IMPORTANT meal of the day, and yet is often the most rushed, skimpiest one, especially compared to dinner! 


You often are rushing to get out the door to work, to get kids to school on time, and perhaps you end up on empty by lunch, and frankly, you may never catch up! BREAKFAST is what you or your children are using as fuel clear into the afternoon. And IF you are starting it with refined sugary cereals, the norm of the SAD (standard American diet) you or the kids end up w/low blood sugar, may become so unfocused due to the drop, and some even become irritable. So begin to have a paradigm shift in your thinking, and remember BREAKFAST, broken into two words, means Break Fast. You've been a whole night without eating, and need to 1) start your metabolism going, which has slowed down and 2) fuel nutritiously for the next 4-5 hours, with a SUSTAINABLE meal. 


So we often get duped into thinking "enriched," whole grains added cereals by the big companies like General Mills/Kelloggs are really COMPLEX CARBOHYDRATES! You'd have to show me one that is. I haven't found ONE  that is yet...smile.  So if you're going to use a boxed cereal with Rice milk/Almond milk/Coconut milk (twice as much calcium as regular milk w/out the hormones, antibiotics and mucous building factor...yes, YIPEEEE) then try some true complex carb cereals that MAKE THE GRADE...from Whole Foods, PCC, Trader Joes, Health food store or section of your grocery store. They have EQUIVALENTS to ANY cereal you or your kids eat. They just will have more unrefined grains and sugars, and not all the fake COLORS! Oh, we could do a WHOLE segment just on what red dyes, etc. do AKA years of studying Dr. Feingold and watching my own son when he was eating artificially dyed foods. Also, the Quaker type pre fab oatmeals in packets are often refined and sugary. TRY buying OAT BRAN, add your good milks and a smidge of maple syrup, even peaches, etc. for a fun breakfast, and it's FAST! Also, yogurt with some healthy granola with walnuts mixed in is an alternative as well as a whey or brown rice protein shake with frozen fresh berries. And the gluten free waffles found in many stores are great with almond butter spread on them while warm over the butter or Spelt toast with Almond Butter and a smidge of honey. And I like Barbara's PUFFINS cereal. YUM!


But we know the best would be a breakfast with wholesome scrambled eggs, maybe some sliced round potatoes, onions w/spices, but who has time to cook that in the morning. YOU DO! See the picture of Trader Joe's NEW addition of the most wonderful 2 1/2 minute Breakfast. (Breakfast Scramble!)  I LOVE it! It is reasonable, tasty, (DO NOT OVER MICROWAVE) and will be a welcome addition to a STURDY breakfast other than your complex carb breakfast days. 
If you use breakfast meats with this type breakfast, please consider them nitrate free, free range, and things like turkey sausages which taste great if you get the right brand, such as SHELTONS. I make a quick omelette for Lloyd, with a little mozzarella cheese and veggies prepped from the night before, with some chopped organic turkey sliced lunch meat.

So TRY the new TRADER'S Breakfast item if you have a store near you, and give some consideration that Breakfast starts your day right and keeps you going. I will soon give you a picture collage of the most popular regular cereals with their healthier counterparts side by side. ENJOY the week, and remember, what you feed yourself is important, but what you feed your children will determine their day! So work a few healthy alternatives in.  And will some of you comment on your quick but healthy breakfasts you enjoy. Me, I eat soup often for breakfast, but then I AM a health food NUT!!! LOL Thanks again for re-thinking.....YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT...but don't forget, we aim for ALOT of the GOOD, a LITTLE of the BAD.


P. S.   Try to think of a PYRAMID, with the wide base being BREAKFAST and the middle lunch and the top SMALL triangle, DINNER! Most Americans eat totally the opposite. Why make supper your main meal, to just watch television and go to bed w/in hours of eating. Doesn't it make sense to have a good complex carbohydrate or protein meal in the morning, and have it fuel you for hours when you most need a meal's benefits??? CHEERS and G'nite...and HAPPY BREAKFASTING! ;-)