WRITTEN ON January 16th, 2010 BY Sandy AND STORED IN Breakfast, Motivation, Recipes, Uncategorized, Vegetarian

Eat what he says or else.. whahaha

Breakfast is definitely the most important meal of the day. I love it though so skipping it has never been a problem for me. Brunch is even better.. a bloody mary and a veggie egg benedict. pff. please. So good.. oh, or wait.. how about a breakfast burrito with hot sauce. I could eat breakfast anytime (as long as it’s the first meal of the day).. I’m not one of those breakfast for dinner people.

Anyway, I never got how people didn’t eat breakfast. It’s so unhealthy and eggs are great and good for you. Well, the white is the good part. That’s the protein. The yolk has 6g of fat in each egg and a bunch of cholesterol. So you are doing yourself a really huge favor by ordering an egg white omelette. I buy those cartons of egg whites in the grocery store. This way I don’t have to have someone telling me I’m wasting part of the egg.. blah blah.. it’s a lot easier to just pour into the pan too. You will need something to help it from sticking. Without the fat from the egg the proteins just stick.. Also, cook them on a low temp too.. they cook fast so don’t walk away. I like to add veggies to mine. I like bacon but turkey bacon hasn’t completely grown on me yet. I’m still only able to eat it if it’s burnt to a crisp and on those Starbuck’s breakfast sandwiches (340 calories 10g of fat).

So a veggie egg white omelette with some low fat cheese.. I also like fruit to go with that.. Today I had an orange around. I also will add a slice of toasted multigrain bread or substitute the bread for tomato and or cucumber slices.. today I had non-fat cottage cheese. Cottage cheese is definitely not for everyone and has become synonyms with diet food and all the things we hate about “dieting”.. Well, this is not a diet.. it’s healthy options on a day to day basis so that once in awhile when you’ve earned it from consistent exercise you can have that bacon eggs benedict. I found a brand of cottage cheese that actually tastes like nothing really, Knudsen. (I get it at Ralph’s here in California.) The non-fat is good and I’ll add something crunchy like almonds, granola, cereal and fruit. Sometimes a little honey. The last thing is.. don’t ruin your perfectly healthy meal with a coffee with cream and sugar. Good coffee is damn good and a little skim is all you need, if at all. I made this change 5 years ago and never looked back. The 1st day is shocking but after that you won’t miss it. (Except maybe that crunchy sugar at the bottom of a Dunkin Donuts iced coffee… loved that).

Thanks for reading..

(photos are by me)