Breakfast ideas for when you have no idea.

If you’re like me you wake up, snooze a little, get up groggily and pad into the kitchen. It’s not a time for my best breakfast ideas. Or any ideas for that matter. That’s why I go for the same old, same old breakfast. Usually something with a mule-like sugar kick and loads of carbs. Delicious, don’t get me wrong, I love the sugary, carby cereals. Fortunately (or is that unfortunately?) there’s lots of breakfast cereal brands out there to fill the gap. It’s now 7.48pm on a Monday night… …Perfect breakfast ideas time. So here’s some of my favourites: Liquid... [Read more...]

The best breakfast cereal in the world?

As an avid breakfast cereal eater I’ve set my mind to listing the best in the market. There are many moods of breakfast. Sometimes I crave all natural cereals, sometimes sugary cereals, sometimes high fibre ones and sometimes just plain old wheat-bix. (There’s never a time that I don’t eat breakfast. Not from a virtuous ‘the most important meal of the day’ mind, more that, like I said, I love breakfast cereals). So, I’ve listed the best breakfast cereals by category. Best for kids: Weetbix or any whole gain wheat biscuit type cereal. Kids can burn the carbs... [Read more...]

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...]

THE GLYCEMIC INDEX AND YOU

So, what exactly is everyone talking about when they mention this GI or glycemic index thing? Well, basically a glycemic index is a measure of the way in which carbohydrates or carbs, affect a person’s blood glucose levels. But how does low or high glycemic index food work and why is a lower one preferred? High glycemic index foods break down very quickly and release a larger quantity of sugar or glucose into the bloodstream at once. That is why you get a huge sugar rush from your favorite chocolate bar but in an hour’s time feel hungry again (not to mention a little tired). On the opposite... [Read more...]

Where is Your Diet On the Glycemic Index?

Wikipedia describes the Glycemic Index as: “The glycemic index, glycaemic index, or GI is a measure of the effects of carbohydrates on blood sugar levels. Carbohydrates that break down quickly during digestion, releasing glucose rapidly into the bloodstream, have a high GI; carbohydrates that break down more slowly, releasing glucose more gradually into the bloodstream, have a low GI. For most people, foods with a low GI have significant health benefits.” One of those significant health benefits of low GI foods, like super low GI SuperStart, is how they help satisfy your hunger for longer.... [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...]