Fast Breakfast Recipes

Breakfast used to mean ‘breaking the fast’. In other words eating your first food after many hours. In today’s world it just means fast. No-one has time for cooking or complicated breakfast recipes in the week, especially the working week. But, that’s no excuse for eating badly in the morning. I think most of us have heard breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It’s just that not many of us treat it importantly. Looking at the supermarket breakfast aisle we’re faced with a wall of cereals all making some sort of health claim. To be perfectly honest... [Read more...]

Creative Breakfast Ideas Involving Fruit

The American Dietetic Association stresses not only the importance of breakfast, but the quality of breakfast foods consumed. A nutritious breakfast will give you a healthy start to your day. Fruit is one important food that should be included in ones breakfast as it is packed full of vitamins and antioxidants. The following is a list of creative breakfast ideas involving fruit: 1. Spread peanut butter on a small pita and wrap it around a banana. Make sure you get your calcium with a large glass of cold milk. 2. Have a delicious waffle that is topped with berries and yogurt. 3. Fill a pita with... [Read more...]

Low GI French Toast

Ingredients (Serves 2) 4 slices whole-wheat/wholemeal bread 2 egg 100ml/¼cup soy milk 1 teaspoon vanilla essence (extract) 1 flat teaspoon cinnamon 200g canned peaches in fruit juice 1st Cut the bread into ¾ inch slices and remove the crusts. 2nd Mix all other ingredients except the peaches in a bowl and whisk with a fork. Dip the bread into the mixture and gently soak both sides, the mixture should be almost gone after dipping the forth piece. 3rd Cut the edges of a freezer bag (or any thick plasic food bag) to form 2 sheets of plastic. Place the bread on the plastic sheets and wrap them around... [Read more...]

Breakfast Recipes for weight-loss success

Here’s a delicious irony. I love the the fact that eating is the best strategy to losing weight. Diets, especially those that demand complete and instant change to routine, in many cases are counter-productive. That is, after the diet you put the weight straight back on. Maybe even more weight than you lost. Plus, diets are plain boring, hard-work, anti-social and expensive. Much better to eat your way to weight loss or weight management. Or to general health and wellbeing for that matter. And there’s no better place to start than at breakfast. If you had just one weight loss strategy... [Read more...]