Quick and easy healthy breakfasts

gecko81

So with all this warm weather its just too hot for the usual porridge. And everywhere I look, I'm being told that breakfast cereals of all shapes and sizes are pure evil in the form of sugar and to a lesser degree, salt. Bread also gets a bad rap, but lets face it, its next to impossible to avoid bread completely, but for the sake of being healthy lets try to avoid bread also. So I'm looking for ideas for easy, quick alternatives for a healthy breakfast.

So far I've been recommended:

- eggs, in all forms
- fruit and yogurt

This morning I had 2 plain eggs scrambled with knob of butter and salt and pepper. It was nice enough and kept me full right through to lunch.

Jezek

Good bread,butter and jams, tomato and cucumber, olives, halloumi and cheeses, fruits, eggs

Animord

I have never understood why we are only allowed to eat the meat of a pig or grains in various forms for breakfast.

Eat what ever you like - leftovers from the night before - I used to eat a lot of fish for breakfast but at the moment I am very keen on a cabbage salad I found on a vegan website.

Fruit, eggs, steak, ham and cheese, the list is endless, what do you like to eat best?

Dizzyblonde

There's lots of inspiration in the What Did You Have For Breakfast Thread in the Cooking & Recipes forum.

gecko81

Animord wrote: »

Fruit, eggs, steak, ham and cheese, the list is endless, what do you like to eat best?

Truth is, I've never really been a big breakfast person and therefore never made a huge effort, so just breads or cereal.

Although I know breads or cereal are not the worst thing in the world, I just feel like I could make breakfast more interesting and hopefully more healthy while I'm at it.

I'm thinking perhaps I can prepare lots of chopped fresh fruit in advance and have with yogurt along with some oatmeal and/or seeds

cosmic

I'd suggest making up a batch of your own muesli using whatever oats / flakes / nuts / seeds / dried fruit you like best.

Bacchus

Personal fav at the moment is a nice bread, toasted, with Almond butter spread over it and sliced banana on top. Yum

anewme

assembled in 2 minutes......some proper Greek Youghurt (Liberte or Fage) spooned over a mandarin orange (broke up into segments) bit of melon, 3 or 4 hazelnuts or walnuts (crumbled) and drizzled with a spoonful of honey...........................divine.................and so healthy

can actually be any fruits but these are my favourites at the moment

gecko81

anewme wrote: »

assembled in 2 minutes......some proper Greek Youghurt (Liberte or Fage) spooned over a mandarin orange (broke up into segments) bit of melon, 3 or 4 hazelnuts or walnuts (crumbled) and drizzled with a spoonful of honey...........................divine.................and so healthy

can actually be any fruits but these are my favourites at the moment

Sounds delish!! Definitely on the list of things to try. Do u chop up your fruit to last a few days?

Day Lewin

A cup of any yogurt (whatever you like, or have) with a good spoonful of muesli or granola stirred into it, plus a dollop of mashed or chopped fruit, or raisins, or even jam to sweeten it up a little if needed.
Light, wholesome and sustaining.

or Soup, that's another one that isn't too heavy for a morning tummy. I don't think bread is a crime, so I would dip a few fingers of toast in it. Or you could just have a few noodles or leftover rice in it, to make it filling.

pwurple

I'm s porridge gal as well, and it's defo too hot for it now.

My brekkie of choice at the moment is wholemeal toast with an avocado or a poached egg.

I have a piece of fruit as well... Apple or something.

Never really got into the yoghurt fruit thing. Find those far too sweet for me in the morning.

gecko81

katemarch wrote: »

A cup of any yogurt (whatever you like, or have) with a good spoonful of muesli or granola stirred into it, plus a dollop of mashed or chopped fruit, or raisins, or even jam to sweeten it up a little if needed.
Light, wholesome and sustaining.

or Soup, that's another one that isn't too heavy for a morning tummy. I don't think bread is a crime, so I would dip a few fingers of toast in it. Or you could just have a few noodles or leftover rice in it, to make it filling.

Tried the fruit and nuts and oats with yogurt this morning. Was very nice and filling but def think I need to prep this brekkie in advance!!

gecko81

pwurple wrote: »

I'm s porridge gal as well, and it's defo too hot for it now.

My brekkie of choice at the moment is wholemeal toast with an avocado or a poached egg.

I have a piece of fruit as well... Apple or something.

Never really got into the yoghurt fruit thing. Find those far too sweet for me in the morning.

Going to try avocado tomorrow morning. Do you just slice it or mash?? Ever have the egg with the avacado?

the beer revolu

gecko81 wrote: »

Going to try avocado tomorrow morning. Do you just slice it or mash?? Ever have the egg with the avacado?

However you like.
I like it eaten from the half she'll with a teaspoon. Vinaigrette in the hollow from the stone is optional.

duploelabs

Try putting a fistful of salt on a baking tray, halfing an avocado, taking out the stone, cracking an egg into the hollow, place the avocado on the salt so it holds the egg in place in the holoow, season and a few drops of Tabasco, oven at 180 and in 7.5 mins you're good to go

gecko81

duploelabs wrote: »

Try putting a fistful of salt on a baking tray, halfing an avocado, taking out the stone, cracking an egg into the hollow, place the avocado on the salt so it holds the egg in place in the holoow, season and a few drops of Tabasco, oven at 180 and in 7.5 mins you're good to go

Sounds delish! Brekkie tomorrow!!

dylbert

Have poridge with cold milk, add nuts, seeds, fruit, yoghurt, whatever you fancy.

pwurple

gecko81 wrote: »

Going to try avocado tomorrow morning. Do you just slice it or mash?? Ever have the egg with the avacado?

I slice it or eat with a spoon. Bit of pepper and a squeeze of lemon or lime if I'm feeling fancy!

Never tried it with an egg, does sound tasty, but possibly a bit heavy for me in the morning. Might do me as a lunch?

Tom75

Healthy breakfast?
What time do you eat breakfast?
How many calories do you need to the next meal (lunch, dinner, supper or snack - no, no crisps, no biscuit and no chips and gravy), how many meals a day you eat, at what time.
Tasty yes, but healthy for one person, can be deadly for other person if used for long period of time.

The Hill Billy

The OP is looking for ideas on different foods for breakfast, not a lecture on diet & nutrition. If you have ideas for healthy options for breakfast feel free to pop them in this thread.

tHB

cosmic

I sometimes make this to have as a post-run evening quick snack (before dinner... I get very greedy on run days!)
http://www.theburlapbag.com/2013/02/basic-raw-oats-recipe/
Have yet to do it for breakfast but I love that there are so many possibilities for add-ins!

Tom75

1. Cottage cheese with spring onion and radish on country bread. Black tea or milk, with honey.

2. Country bread, butter, tomato, spring onion, salt, pepper.

3. Country bread, butter, cucumber, salt.

4. Muesli

5. Scrambled eggs on bacon, bread (on the end - try add some cheese and if you like few slices of tomato and mix it on pan)

6. Roll, butter, cheese (continental not cheddar) add. - Continental mean Dutch

7. Greek salad

the beer revolu

Tom75 wrote: »

(continental not cheddar)

Why?
There are as many rubbish, mass produced "Continental" cheeses as there are rubbish cheddars.
There are also as many fantastic cheddars from Ireland and England as there are fine "Continental" cheeses.

Aside: Why did cheddar never manage to get an EU Geographical Indication? (like Parmesan, Champagne or the Waterford Bla)

Tom75

It's not about cheddar, it's about proposition for breakfast. I've been trying cheddar from good few stores, and I found it very greasy and taste like a soap. But that's only my opinion, compare to Dutch cheeses (creamy,milky, gently), which I prefer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dutch_cheeses

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cheeses

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese

Cheddar Geographical Indication - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_cheeses

duploelabs

what stores did you go to?

the beer revolu

Tom75 wrote: »

Cheddar Geographical Indication - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_cheeses

While that states that West Country Farmhouse Cheddar is protected, I can make a cheese in Cork and call it Cheddar. I can't make a cheese in Cork and call it Parmasen. I wonder why Cheddar let their name be so freely used?

fat laura

A favourite filling breakie for me at the minute is Herby Salmon filled omlettes. (3 eggs, loads chopped up dill, basil and parsley, onion, smoked salmon)

Banana pancakes are good too (2 eggs and a banana blitzed and cooked like pancakes).

A nice quick breakie is 2 ricecakes with peanut butter and chopped up banana.

Woodbrook80

I'm looking for clean breakfast recipes thanks
Would natural yoghurt be considered clean thx

The Hill Billy

What do you mean by 'clean'?

Dizzyblonde

Woodbrook80 wrote: »

I'm looking for clean breakfast recipes thanks
Would natural yoghurt be considered clean thx

I see you've started a thread in the Nutrition & Diet forum, and that's where you're more likely to get useful information if you're following the 'clean eating' plan. We don't concern ourselves with such matters here - we're lovers of food in general

wmpdd3

I love porridge but not in the Summer, so I either make porridge bread or AMerican pancakes.

Porridge bread is a tub of natural yoghurt, a tub of porridge, a spoon of baking powder, a spoon of oil and half a tub made up of linsead / seeds / nuts fruit etc mix and bake in a loaf tin for 1 hour.

We eat it sliced with loads of butter, or I make french bread with it if its a few days old.

I make the AMerican pancakes from the cooking club and have those with loads of toppings esp lemon curd.

Carawaystick

the beer revolu wrote: »

While that states that West Country Farmhouse Cheddar is protected, I can make a cheese in Cork and call it Cheddar. I can't make a cheese in Cork and call it Parmasen. I wonder why Cheddar let their name be so freely used?

I'd say a suspicion of the EU held english people back on protecting the name.
Then you have the stilton issue, where traditional stilton cheese weremade with raw milk, but the pgi stilton is made with pasteurised milk, and "real" stilton now has to be called Stichilton or something else.



Back on topic
Cous cous or bulghar can be made up before you go to bed, using your dried grape of choice, and nuts or seeds, for a more breakfasty taste, than is usual.


Polenta, a porridge substitute
can be fried or reheated. works best if cut into pieces about the size of a funsize chocolate bar.


Tortilla, eggs spuds and onions, cooked the night before, cold from the fridge.