New Breakfast

Gillie

Quick question.

I want to try and start having a smoothie for my breakfast as a total morning meal.

The ingrediants so far are:
Strawberries
Bananas
Natural Yoghurt
Orange Juice
Spoon of Honey

Firstly what do you think of that?
Secondly should I be adding something like wheatgrass or any other supplement to it?

Objective is to lose some weight and build more muscle.

Cheers folks.

Vinnie K

a bowl of porridge would be a lot easier.

Laslo

My breakfast generally consists of a fruit smoothie and a slice of brown bread with 2 egg whites. Works for me.

Gillie

burntCornlake wrote:

a bowl of porridge would be a lot easier.

Small problem there!
I won't eat porridge! Childhood trauma!:D

siochain

Its very high glycemic, your going to get good sugar high and then crash and then be hungry soon afterwards.

PeakOutput

throw a scoop of porridge into the smoothie maker aswell

micheal bisping (ufc fighter) does this and its a way of getting porridge in if you dont like it

Boston

what's so great about porridge? I absolutely cannot stomach the stuff.

nesf

Boston wrote:

what's so great about porridge? I absolutely cannot stomach the stuff.

Complex slow burning carbs afaik. That and it's damn tasty.

PeakOutput

Boston wrote:

what's so great about porridge? I absolutely cannot stomach the stuff.

its alot easier to eat then cold muesli as i have found recently

but its just an extra food type to get into a meal

Boston

What about muesli cereal?

PeakOutput

Boston wrote:

What about muesli cereal?

id imagine they are different but no better or worse if you know what i mean

juanveron45

I would ditch the honey and maybe the orange juice and add a scoop of 2 of whey, you need your protein especially after training and after fasting all night

PeakOutput

juanveron45 wrote:

I would ditch the honey and maybe the orange juice and add a scoop of 2 of whey, you need your protein especially after training and after fasting all night

it would be fairly hard to get a smoothie like consistency with no orange juice tbh.............im just being practical

juanveron45

If he wants to go ahead with the orange juice he should naturally squeeze it from an orange himself as alot of orange juices on the market are nothing but sugar which is too hi glycemic

davyjose

burntCornlake wrote:

a bowl of porridge would be a lot easier.

I agree. There are a lot of nutrients in fruit that aren't in porridge. But have the smoothie as a mid-morning snack (as someone said, it's fairly hi-glyceamic and mightn't do you all morning).

Gillie

Thanks for all the replies!
I might try the whey idea. Where would I get that?

Had a smoothie this morning at 8:30 so i'll see how I feel by lunch time.
I want to start up a fitness log anyway so I won't go into too much detail here.

Would muesli be ok to eat instead of the porridge?

Cheers

ali.c

Gillie wrote:

Would muesli be ok to eat instead of the porridge?

Depends on the brand, best bet is to check the label, the ones with no added sugar are fine. Flanahans Hi8 museli is one of the better ones and yum too.

Just to be aware though that museli can be quite calorific, so depending on your daily kcals it is important to watch your portion size!

blow69

Yes i recently started using Flahavans Hi8 muesli and it's really nice and has no added sugar(it's sweetened with natural fruit juices)It does contain sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds which contain protein but there isn't that many seeds in it so i just add my own.

I have this along with a fruit smoothie and maybe a slice of brown bread.Is this ok for breakfast??? I'm assuming it is.

justsomebloke

it sounds like an overly carb heavy breakfast to me with a good bit of higher GI carbs in it to so personally I wouldn't have this sort of breakfast myself, (well except if I have a hangover). Truthfully I think that smoothies should be treated as a treat generally due to the high sugar content in them.
Instead of the smoothie and bread have an omellete/scrambled egg instead and get some protein into you aswell

Gillie

jsb wrote:

it sounds like an overly carb heavy breakfast to me with a good bit of higher GI carbs in it to so personally I wouldn't have this sort of breakfast myself, (well except if I have a hangover). Truthfully I think that smoothies should be treated as a treat generally due to the high sugar content in them.
Instead of the smoothie and bread have an omellete/scrambled egg instead and get some protein into you aswell

Well what fruits are recommended for a low sugar smoothie?

Cheers

justsomebloke

it's not the fruit that is the problem, as a couple of other posters have said it is the juice and yoghurt that is the problem. So unless you can make a smoothie without these components I wouldn't generally go with a smoothie.

Truthfully just eat the feckin fruit it isn't going to kill you

Gillie

Eh I was taking the yoghurt for protein!?
Hence the smoothie. Is that a mistake?
Eating the fruit isn't a problem!

Ibjiba

Gillie wrote:

Eh I was taking the yoghurt for protein!?
Hence the smoothie. Is that a mistake?
Eating the fruit isn't a problem!

Absolutely correct. You need both sides for the optimal mix.

ali.c

I eat natural yogurts for a protein based snack. If i want to get a carb and protein meal i take a natural yogurt a bananna and some oats, chuck them into the blender and yum. It does resemble baby food but it tastes nice.

justsomebloke

I wouldn't be the biggest fan of using yoghurt as a main protein source in a meal due to the fact it is only approx 20% protein as is, so when you add other carb sources in aswell the % of protein goes well down as a whole

ali.c

jsb wrote:

I wouldn't be the biggest fan of using yoghurt as a main protein source in a meal due to the fact it is only approx 20% protein as is, so when you add other carb sources in aswell the % of protein goes well down as a whole

Heres nutrional info for 100g of glenisk natural organic low fat yogurt
66kcal
5.2g protein
6.8g carbs
2.0g fat

So protein is at around 37-38% is not too bad, granted it is not chicken but as i dont use protein supplements full complete protein sources are hard to come by, considering there is only so much chicken and tuna I can eat.
Also i would of thought that its eating highish carb meals in the morning is okay, porridge doesnt have a high % of protein either.

justsomebloke

If you could stomach it, some cottage cheese in the morning that would be ideal that or you could try some eggs.

but at around 31.5% that yoghurt is better then I thought it would be

Reyman

Gillie wrote:

Quick question.

I want to try and start having a smoothie for my breakfast as a total morning meal.

The ingrediants so far are:
Strawberries
Bananas
Natural Yoghurt
Orange Juice
Spoon of Honey


Cheers folks.

That's not a breakfast that's a 'Fructose Filler'

As the other posters have said get yourself some real food - porridge and a couple of eggs to follow!

nesf

ali.c wrote:

Heres nutrional info for 100g of glenisk natural organic low fat yogurt
66kcal
5.2g protein
6.8g carbs
2.0g fat

So protein is at around 37-38% is not too bad, granted it is not chicken but as i dont use protein supplements full complete protein sources are hard to come by, considering there is only so much chicken and tuna I can eat.
Also i would of thought that its eating highish carb meals in the morning is okay, porridge doesnt have a high % of protein either.

Glenisk stuff is very tasty, which is also a plus.

Gillie

Just bought some Kelkin Muesli and it informs me on the pack that it has a low GI!

Any good?

siochain

Gillie wrote:

Just bought some Kelkin Muesli and it informs me on the pack that it has a low GI!

Any good?

As far as I rember its one of the better brands. I make my own muesli with oats, mixed nuts, mixed seeds, raisins, ground flax seed, lecithin granules and sometimes grapes or fresh pineapple.


If I’m in a rush in the mornings mix the following with a hand blender

350 ml of either 'fresh light soya milk or skim milk'
1 scoop pro x whey mint choc
2 scoop jumbo oats
1 table spoon ground flax seed
1 table spoon lecithin granules

due to high fibre content dink lots of water afterwards.

justsomebloke

Gillie wrote:

Just bought some Kelkin Muesli and it informs me on the pack that it has a low GI!

Any good?

generally in my opinion life force has the best muesli and after that some of the kelkin ones, after that I generally try and avoid other brands due to additional additives

Cadrach

I prefer Kelkin to Lifeforce, because I think the Kelkin tastes nicer and has hazelnuts. They're both good brands though. An alternative would be to make your own mix.