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Healthy Breakfast Ideas

By Ann Hattes
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For your buffet oatmeal bar at home, set out add-ons for the hot cereal such as dried fruit like raisins, cranberries, banana chips; nuts; spices like ground cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves; bacon bits; and crushed graham crackers.

Give family and friends a hearty jumpstart to their day with almost no fussing on your part. Whether for a daily family breakfast or when entertaining house guests, consider an oatmeal buffet bar of favorite flavors of BetterOats (www.betteroats.com). Imagine such unique flavors as pomegranate, dark chocolate, chai spiced, blueberry muffin and cinnamon plum spiced.

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Organic raw pomegranate includes not only oats and flaxseed, but barley, quinoa, rye and wheat. Maple and brown sugar Oat Fit is only 100 calories, and peaches and cream comes with real peach pieces. Available in 23 flavors, BetterOats made with 100% whole grains, are a good source of ALA Omega-3, dietary fiber and naturally cholesterol free.

The mix and match flavors of BetterOats are easily made in the microwave. Each pouch of cereal serves as a measuring cup for water, making them a healthy snack and an easy breakfast to take on the road and fix quickly in a motel room. For your buffet oatmeal bar at home, set out add-ons for the hot cereal such as dried fruit like raisins, cranberries, banana chips; nuts; spices like ground cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves; bacon bits; and crushed graham crackers.

Dr. Mike Moreno wrote the bestseller The 17 Day Diet with four cycles of the plan, Accelerate, Activate, Achieve, and Arrive. Accelerate, the rapid weight loss portion, helps flush sugar and fat storage from your system. Activate, the metabolic restart portion, alternates low and high calorie days to help shed body fat. Achieve is the phase that involves learning to control portions and introduces new fitness routines. Arrive, a combination of the first three cycles helps keep good habits up for good with weekends to enjoy favorite foods.

Moreno’s The 17 Day Diet Cookbook (Free Press, a Division of Simon & Schuster) includes 80 easy-to-prepare recipes for healthy weight loss. Most can be prepared in 30 minutes or less. The book is divided into sections, each devoted to one of the first three cycles in the 17-day diet, featuring delicious breakfasts, lunches, dinners and snacks. More than a dieter’s cookbook, it’s a healthy food lover’s cookbook, filled with smart and tasty recipes that will leave everyone satisfied. Dr. Moreno states that “skipping breakfast is not a good idea, as people who skip breakfast are more likely to overeat at other times throughout the day and gain weight.” Give his Snappy Eggs and Mushroom Spinach Frittata a try.

 


Recipes:

Mushroom Spinach Frittata

Snappy Eggs

 

Ann Hattes has over 25 years experience writing about both travel and food for publications both in the US and internationally. A senior living in Wisconsin, she’s a member of the International Food, Wine and Travel Writers Association and the Midwest Travel Writers Association.

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