What's for breakfast...

Coffee

today started healthy eating 2012, so i had some nonfat plain fage yogurt with blackberries and some chai. i think i'll need to have a full year of eating like this to bring my cholesterol back to normal range after what i ate this weekend.

I can't cook in a microwave. Never could. Used it strictly for popcorn, and as a giant overpriced breadbox.
Oh yeah...softpretzel.

Coffee, fage 0%, granola pretty much every morning. It usually goes downhill from there.

I'm not sure how anything could "go downhill" from Fage 0%.

eggs, pork product, v8 fusion. if it's saturday, some greens as well for good measure. obviously i'm talking about collards folks.

that's funny. i eat all my greens during the week and then barely look at them on the weekends.

Nutrition wise, its pretty easy.

But I dunno, perhaps you are some sort of Tasty Yogurt Enforcer who only enjoys kefir or pequea valley and you think fage is the bottom of the barrell? Not sure.

mmm, i love kefir. i was thinking about trying to make my own kefir grains. i think it's kind of involved, though.

12:30 and I'm just eating "breakfast" a peanut butter on wheat bread sandwich. One of my "things to do in the new year" NOT a resolution, is to eat breakfast in the morning, not 5 hours after I wake up. So far, not doing so well. Oh well, I have til the end of January to make the transition...

I'm not really a yogurt fan unless some type of fruit & sweetener are added.
And by then it's got all these carbs that I don't want.

Yeah I eat a pretty late breakfast, usually takes me about 2 hours in the morning even be hungry so I often don't even wind up eating until 10-10:30.

Me too. 2 cups of coffee first thing. Then 10 - 10:30 I'm hungry. When I was in an office I would just get a snack, now I usually just have lunch around then and a snack in the afternoon.

homemade breakfast sandwich every morning for me. eggs (or whites), whole wheat english muffin, and some kind of tasty cheese like jalapeno cheddar.

If I have even one cup in the morning I usually lose my appetite for most of the day.

I'm trying something crazy this year - eating breakfast every day. I don't think I've done this consistently since high school - which was 20 years ago.

So today - 8 oz of low-sodium V8 before I left the house - then the below when I got to work
small whole wheat bagel (and I mean small) with 2 tbsp of natural peanut butter
handful of dried fruit
medium DD coffee with skim milk and splenda

i believe breakfast to be generally unnecessary in the morning. i do enjoy breakfast foods for dinner, though.

takes me a few hours to get hungry in the morning too.... but Fage Total with a lil' honey is the bomb.

I make my own kefir. The grains multiply as time goes on, so if you would like some, let me know. I just gave some to my mom but in a few weeks or so, I should have more to share. It's not really involved at all.

*I meant to respond to meredith but somehow didn't reply to her post.

sara, that would be amazing! thanks so much. just let me know when you have enough to share :)

I've considered making my own kefir before, is it difficult? What kind of milk to you use to start with?

No problem!

i think you use yogurt, but sara would know for sure :)

kefir? fage? you people are just making up words now.

both are amazing, but neither contain meat or alcohol, so you probably wouldn't like them.

It is SO easy. I actually got my grains from someone, but that person started off getting kefir grains from Cultures for Health: http://www.culturesforhealth.com/starter-cultures/kefir-cultures.html. You want to get the milk kefir grains, not the starter culture.

I use regular 1% milk from the store, but you can use any kind of milk--organic, raw. I never made it with skim milk. It is REALLY good with whole milk, but generally I just use 1% because that's what I have.

Since I already have my kefir going, when one batch is done (I make about a cup at a time), I strain the grains and add a new cup of milk. In warm weather this gives me kefir every day; in cooler weather it's ready every couple of days (though I have warmed it up and therefore speeded up production by putting it in my oven with the light on for about an hour and then wrapping it with a towel).

Since the grains keep multiplying, you can just keep them and make larger batches/faster batches, but a cup every day or so is fine for me, which is why I give away the grains when I get too many.

Also, the Cultures for Health site, while a little expensive, seems to have good products. I know my kefir grains originated from there, and I also got a kombucha scoby that is working very well. I've had lots of success with both.

Yogurt and kefir are different. I went to the yogurt-making class that Greensgrow offered and from experience, making the 2 are different (and kefir is easier once you get the grains).

ah, good to know!

Sara, my darling, between the kefir-making (which now I am intrigued to learn how to make, since I just bought Lifeway @ BJ's), your gluten-free cooking skillz, you need to hire yourself out for lessons! :-)

I get up extra early to make hot breakfast for the family every day (Mommy guilt for being a working Mom!). Usually breakfast sandwiches, hot cereal and fruit, omlettes or whatever I feel like making. I finally got my awesome juicer down so we have a yummy blend of carrott, celery and apple to go along with breakfast. I am going to be looking up more juice recipes. That thing is freakin awesome!

Top that with pistachios and/or toasted almonds. Really, really good.

Awww, thanks!

Interesting, thanks for the info. It doesn't seem complicated at all and alot cheaper the shelling out $4 a quart at the grocery store.

It gets interesting when you start trying to juice things that God never intended to be juiced.

I had Greek Yogurt with mixed in homemade blueberry jam and homemade muesli.

Oh, I'm going to have some with your delicious apricot jam.

Whatever I order at Paradise Diner. Their Bacon, egg and cheese on a croissant is really good though it's really bad for you.

Gosh you still working on that? Stop over tomorrow, and I'll give you something new!

Later for lunch, I went home and made eggs with coconut milk and Jamaican curry.

I had to google kefir.