HEALTHY BREAKFAST MENU
(Keywords: healthy breakfast menu, healthy breakfast foods, easy breakfast recipes, healthy breakfast recipes, quick breakfast ideas, diabetic breakfast, low calorie breakfast, vegetarian breakfast recipes, low carb breakfast recipes, breakfast cereal) For me "healthy" isn't negotiable. Boring perhaps, but I have so many patients in their eighties, with all their marbles intact and having a ball that I too want to reach a happy-healthy-eighty. Don't you? Yes, yes, the best laid plans of mice and men... but healthy breakfast foods swing the percentages in your favour. But does it also have to be boring? Absolutely not! Every breakfast for me is a feast of delicious flavours and tempting tidbits. For starters your needs on a working day - for most of us, during the week - are quite different to a sedentary weekend. Plus, others may disagree, I think there needs to be a day now and then when we let our hair down, and indulge ourselves just a little. Do it every day, and you'll turn into a belly-up beached whale! Sunday is probably the day to Take-a-break from your healthy breakfast recipes. Have an egg perhaps, a mushroom, even a waffle...
WORKING DAY HEALTHY BREAKFAST MENU
SILVER TEA
What's the first thing you do in the morning? Hopefully not light a cigarette!, but almost certainly a sweet pee. That fluid needs to be replaced so that your tissues remain well hydrated.Do you know what "silver tea" is? I learnt from my gran, and she certainly lived to a very happy, healthy eighty. A cup of warm water, perhaps with a slither of lemon. Whatever, it needs to be long and wet. For me it's two very large mugs of very weak black tea with a slice of any tart (preferably) fruit that we have in the house. Lemon, plum, grapefruit, your favourite.
ORANGE JUICE FACTS
Bought OJ is definitely not on the healthy breakfast menu, but if you have the time and energy to squeeze your own, that's great. What's the difference?
ORANGE JUICE FACTS ...
FRUIT
There's so much research now confirming that raw fruit is full of anti-oxidants; it's really an anti-cancer food, and it's a non-negotiable. Plus it fits beautifully in with working person's need for quick breakfast ideas. What can be more delicious than half a dozen bright red strawberries, a quarter of cantaloupe, a bunch of grapes, whatever's in season. An absolute must, and the brighter the colours the better the research seems to be confirming.
INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT STRAWBERRIES
CARB
You get enough carbohydrate really in your fruit, but I think 3-4 spoons of an oats-based muesli is a good option. Oats is one of the super foods rated most highly for lowering cholesterol. Add a handful of raisins to sweeten it, your Omega-3 from two or three walnuts and some crushed linseed, and perhaps some pumpkin seeds. Good for the prostate. Crushed sunflower seeds... I buy a cheap zero-sugar muesli, and every weekend spend ten minutes making up a large container with various healthy tasty goodies. Then it's quick and ready for Monday morning. Soak with boiling water, and leave to stand. Perhaps nuke it for one minute. Then it's much more digestible. Most likely you are looking for low carb breakfast recipes and a muesli is quick and easy and fits perfectly into our healthy breakfast menu. Absolutely avoid the high sugar all-brans, cocoa pops and the like. They instantly put pounds on all the wrong places. And don't get your kids started on them either. The soluble fibre in our apple diet is far more effective against constipation than bran. Plus bran adsorbes calcium, not good for the bones.
APPLE DIET ...
AN ASIDE...
I wonder how long it's going to be before the first American sues his parents for having allowed him to become an obese nine-year old? The sooner a test case comes before the courts the better, as far as I'm concerned. By nine the size of your fat cells has been determined. Allow your child to become fat by the age of 9 and you have condemned him/her to a life-long struggle with obesity. Pure negligence on the part of parents, with a not-dissimilar effect on longevity to encourage/ allowing him to become a smoker at age 9.
PROTEIN
Another non-negotiable is a little protein. Meat is a definite no-no, only once a day unless you want to be in the high cancer risk group, but there are many good options. Protein is what stops you from being starving at 11 o'clock, and starting to snack... a quick route to the extra pounds that none of us need (if you have enough to own a computer and internet-connectivity).I'll admit to being odd. My first choice is hummus, homemade without the garlic. It's really delicious, you can in only four minutes, literally, make a batch of this authentic hummus recipe that will last half a week in the fridge, and keep you going for a whole morning. It does for me, and I can promise you that at the Chiropractic Coalface one needs it...
AUTHENTIC HUMMUS RECIPE
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Other good protein options for your Healthy Breakfast Menu are yoghurt, stick with the low-fat, dairy is high in the cholesterol that clogs your arteries, a piece of fish left over from last night, an egg twice a week max, a cheese sandwich... PS. I've been up for nearly three hours now, finished my two large mugs of tea and have just ground the beans for the first indulgence of this bright sunny summer morning. A cup of coffee, ah!
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SUNDAY HEALTHY BREAKFAST MENU
While I'm totally committed to the healthy breakfast menu, I'm not suggesting the wastes of Siberia. Food is part of the fun of life, and a little indulgence is in order and the gentle family breakfast, with the TV turned off! is one good way to do it. How much indulgence? Well, if your Body Mass Index is over 30 then you've already grossly over-indulged, and it's strictly Siberia for you until you get it under thirty!
Calculate your BMI ... if you dare! Over 35 and there's a massive stroke on the way.
SMOOTHIE
MUESLI
Start with a breakfast smoothie and then let your hair down a bit, but do consider our
SAUTEED MUSHROOM RECIPE ...
Incredible anti-cancer food that should have a permanent place on your low carb breakfast recipes. Done in butter of course, not margarine or corn oil, provided your total cholesterol is below 200 (5.1). Otherwise it's
EXERCISE AND CHOLESTEROL ...
for you! Straight after breakfast.
Why so fiendishly against margarine? HYDROGENATED FOODS ...
SCRAMBLED EGGS and Parsley benefits
Together with ONE scrambled egg, liberally sprinkled with parsley benefits, on ONE slice of wholewheat toast with a scrape of butter, and perhaps a tomato and onion mix, and you have the perfect Sunday healthy breakfast menu.
PARSLEY BENEFITS ...
"I can’t remember the last time I wasn’t at least kind of tired.
Time for a decent breakfast? Or, when did you last take at least a straight two week holiday where you slept in only one bed?
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