cut back on carbs. If you’re carb crazy, cutting back may help you shed unwanted pounds. Instead of pizza crust, try a cauliflower pizza crust recipe.
research has found that kids (and grown-ups) who eat breakfast are able to concentrate better and maintain a healthy body weight. Breakfast eaters also tend to consume more healthful fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and low-fat and fat-free dairy.
Source: Food Insight, March 2011
But how do you find the time? Keep healthy ingredients on hand, and get up a few minutes earlier each morning. If you aren’t a morning person, prepare your breakfast the night before, or pack something you can take with you on the road or to work.
20 Quick & Healthy
breakfast ideas
According to a 2011 survey, 93 percent of Americans agree that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, yet fewer than half (44 percent) make the time for it.
20 Quick and Healthy Breakfast Ideas |
1. Raspberry orange pomegranate smoothie  |
2. Poppyseed bagel with fixins Poppyseed bagel with low-fat cream cheese, lox (smoked, cured salmon), red onion, dill, capers and sliced lemon |
3. Kashi® Heart to Heart cereal With fresh raspberries & 1% milk |
| 4. Quinoa porridge |
| 5. Whole wheat banana chocolate chip muffin |
6. Waffles with fixins’ Frozen, whole-wheat waffle, toasted and topped with peanut butter, banana slices and chopped walnuts |
| 7. Peanut butter yogurt dip |
| 8. The green monsta |
| 9. Egg sandwich with baby spinach |
| 10. Trail mix |
11. Toasted Ezekiel bread With cashew nut butter and sliced persimmon |
12. Multigrain Cheerios® With milk and a banana |
| 13. Peanut butter and jelly on an English muffin |
| 14. Old fashioned oats with kiwi, banana, mango and grapes |
| 15. Whole wheat French toast kabobs with fresh fruit |
16. Breakfast b2uschetta French baguette with scrambled eggs, thin layer of reduced-fat cream cheese, diced cherry tomatoes and fresh parsley |
17. Greek yogurt With fresh berries and a sprinkle of Post® Grape-Nuts |
18. Half bagel With reduced-fat cream cheese, 1 fried egg and sauteed peppers |
19. Pomegranate parfait Layer pomegranate Greek yogurt with Kashi® Go Lean cereal, pomegranate seeds and sliced almonds |
20. A slice of Ezekiel bread toasted With a sliced hard-boiled egg and a half a grapefruit |
Photography and recipes printed with permission from KeepYourDietReal.com.
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