Break Your Fast With Breakfast Eat a healthy breakfast!

 

 

"Breakfast" means just that: break the overnight fast. Eating breakfast allows you to restock the energy stores and begin the day with a tank full of the right fuel. Sending yourself to work or your child to school without breakfast is like trying to use a cordless power tool without ever recharging the battery. If you want to rise and shine rather than limp along sluggishly at school all morning, make sure your day gets off to a nutritious start.

An ideal, nutritious breakfast contains a balance of complex carbohydrates and protein. Think grains, plus dairy, plus fruits. Examples of balanced breakfasts are:

1. granola cereal, yogurt, a sliced apple
2. Scrambled eggs, toast, orange juice
3. Veggie omelet, bran muffin, fruit with yogurt

 

4. Whole-grain pancakes or waffles topped with berries
and/or yogurt, milk
5. Whole-wheat zucchini pancakes topped with fruit, milk
6. French toast topped with fruit, orange juice or milk
7. Low-fat cheese melted on toast with a piece of fruit
8. Low-fat cream cheese on a whole-grain bagel, orange
juice
9. Peanut butter and banana on an English muffin, milk
10. Breakfast-on-the-run smoothie: make sure it contains a protein source, such as peanut butter, dairy, egg or soy.

 

Published 10/19/07