Stuck in traditional American breakfast mode? Breakfast can sound a lot like dinner or lunch. There is no reason to be tied to heavy grains or bacon and eggs. Traditional societies have many breakfast options including everything from soup and broths to beans, nuts, and vegetables. And, children often need to bulk up especially if school or camp does not provide a really good lunch or enough time to wolf it all down. Adults should really be light on breakfast or have breakfast after morning exercise. If keeping it cozy in the winter and light in the summer appeal to you here are a few favorites of ours:
(Please note, it is important to pair nuts for protein and fat with the fruity sweeter or heavier grainy breakfasts; always use a very whole grain high fiber bread / cereal option)
Heavy / Winter / Long Day Ahead
- Black Eyed Peas (recipe along right side of blog) (http://www.nutrimommy.com/)
- Potatoes & Onions sliced / baked with rosemary and olive oil (serve with organic ketchup)
- Butternut squash waffles (choc chips optional, 1/2 cup tapioca flour, 1/2 cup buckwheat flour, 1 1/2 tsp baking soda, 1/2 chick pea flour, 16 ounces butternut squash puree, 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract, 2 tablespoons honey, 1/2 cup water)
- Miso broth with nori and brown rice
- Nutty Rice Pudding (especially good use of leftover brown rice)
- Fried Rice with Lots of vegetables (pineapple fried rice along sidebar of blog http://www.nutrimommy.com/)
- Lentil Patties with Sauteed Onions http://www.nutrimommy.com/search/label/lentil%20burgers
- Baked Beans
- Sesame Crusted Baked Tofu
- Tofu Scramble with salt and pepper (use organic firm tofu; ketchup optional)
- Chick Peas warm whole or blended as a spread on toast
- Black Beans
- Breakfast Burrito (refried beans or black beans; fresh chopped tomato; chopped greens cooked)Potato Pancakes (start with mashed potato w/ baby lima beans recipe on blog sidebar) (http://www.nutrimommy.com/)
- Baked Sweet Potato
- Sweet Potato Sauteed with Black beans (small cubes steamed, then sauteed together with Caribbean seasoning)
- Oatmeal
- Peanut Butter Granola (lots of nuts)
- Mushrooms (big portabella roasted, sauteed with olive oil; can go on a GF english muffin as a burger)
- Any Soup
- Any Leftover Dinner
Medium to Light / Summer / Pre-Exercise:
- All-Green Vegetable Juice
- Cauliflower Pancakes (mix cauliflower into mashed potato recipe)
- Sliced Tomato & Cucumber
- Corn & Potato Chowder http://www.nutrimommy.com/search/label/corn%20and%20potato%20chowder
- Quinoa Tabbouleh (lots of thinly sliced cucumber and parsley)http://www.nutrimommy.com/2008/04/taste-of-tabbouleh.html
- Miso broth; Vegetable broth
- Apple Crisp (http://www.nutrimommy.com/search/label/apple%20crisp)
- Breakfast pizza (tortilla, plum tomatoes, spinach, olive oil or white pizza with basil cashew cream see lasagna recipe http://www.nutrimommy.com/search/label/lasagna )
- Vega & Amazing Grass (this is what I drink most days)
- Fruit & Nut Salad (lots of berries, almonds, walnuts, sesame seeds)http://www.nutrimommy.com/2010/09/land-crabs-migrated-and-so-did-we.html
- Grapefruit and Asparagus Salad ( sidebar http://www.nutrimommy.com/)
- Homemade Blackberry jam on Toast (http://www.nutrimommy.com/search/label/Blackberry%20Jam )
- Toasted Middle Eastern Whole Grain Flat Bread with Lots of Rosemary & Olive Oil (cut in triangles) (we went through big stage of this; now we try GF with a tortilla)
- Smoothie with peanut butter, flax seeds, raw walnut butter, pro-biotic powder, fresh fruit
- Blueberry or Peach "Cobbler" (our simple way, top fruit with crunchy Nature's Path Corn Flakes and Maple Syrup and bake)
- Slice banana dipped in 1/2 peanut butter 1/2 silken tofu with honey blended
- Cantaloupe or Honeydew Sliced / Side of Nuts
- Honeydew Slush (Luke's suggestion; very sweet) I tried to provide guidance or a link to a recipe or discussion of the ingredients for each suggestion. Please e-mail me with questions: nutrimommyblog@aol.com
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