New Year, New Thing
So I hear you made a NY’s Resolution...
One basic thing
I don’t know about you all, but I swear I am never going to make a resolution again but every year I fall prey to the pressure to be a better me. And as January 1st rolls around I get SO goal oriented. It could be the previous night’s (NYEve) drinks catching up with me and putting me in a mindset that it ripe for goal setting. OR it is that I really love the thrill of thinking that this is the year, this is my moment, this is IT (I envision myself like Charlie Brown before he attempts to kick the football the Lucy is so generously holding)! Then realism set in around February 1st, I simply resolve to just try to be a better, smarter me.
This year shall be different! This year I will conquer my ONE simple goal! This is MY year to follow my goals!
Hey Ma! Look at me! I’m simplifying...
I’ve come to notice in my 30 years of resolution making that I set some lofty goals for myself. One year I was going to travel the world, solve world hunger and find a boyfriend. For the record, i only achieved one of those and even then it only lasted about 6 months.
So I have resolved myself to ONE resolution. Are you ready…
Eat better breakfasts.
Silly right? Almost idiotic, childish, and overly simplistic. Simple is where I am AT! Sitting here I can think of about 100 other things that I would LOVE to tackle in my 2016 Resolutions, i.e., drink more water, read more books, take Tai Chi, take an art class, learn a language, begin using an organizational binder, swim the Gulf of Mexico, grow an Avocado plant, build a treehouse, make pallet furniture, become a notary public, learn how to make sushi, eat less meat, eat more veggies, learn more carpentry skills, learn how to knit, blah, blah, blah - blabbity blah blah. So as you can see I am really struggling to just keep it to ONE. Can you relate?
So by better breakfast, what do I mean? How about no Pop Tarts, no Captain Crunch, and no Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs to start with? I mean I am no health guru but I know that starting my day with all that sugar is A) not good for me and B) not good for me. This means replacing my sugar with something. So I’m posting 3 of my favorite recipes here and I will provide a list of some website to find more.
My new favorite,
Mini Egg Casseroles or Muffin Tin Scrambled Eggs- 8 strips of turkey bacon (cooked then crumbled)
or
- 7 slices of Canadian Bacon (diced then cooked)
- 12 eggs
- 1/4 cup chopped onion
- 1/2 cup chopped green bell pepper, or Field Grown Red, Green, & Yellow Peppers
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper
- ¼ teaspoon garlic powder
- ¼ teaspon dry mustard
- ½ cup shredded Cheddar cheese
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease 12 muffin cups, or line with paper muffin liners.
Cook bacon however you do, microwave, skillet, oven. Just don’t put RAW meat in these.
Beat eggs in a large bowl. Stir in onion, green pepper, salt, pepper, and garlic powder. Mix in your meat of choice and Cheddar cheese. Spoon by 1/3 cupfuls into muffin cups.
Bake in preheated oven until a knife inserted near the center comes out clean, 20 to 25 minutes.
Yogurt Smoothies
½ cup Blueberries
- ½ cup vanilla or blueberry Kefir Yogurt,
- 1 whole banana
- 1 cup 1% milk smoothie)
Blend well in your blender (you can add ice to make it more frosty and thicken a bit)
Cream Cheese, fruit and waffle Breakfast Sandwich
(Photo credit to: Link)
- 2 toasted waffles (I prefer whole grain or blueberry)
- 1 cup of sliced berries
- 1 Tbsp whipped cream cheese
Spread tbsp of cream cheese onto both waffles place berries on top and place berried/cream cheese sides together. Tada!
I know the last recipe sounds so basic and easy but honestly sometimes it's just about thinking outside the waffle!
So now that I've got you thinking how this could work for you, you can search the web to find more. Some sites I visit regularly for healthy food ideas and good feedback about whether the recipes work are:
We might ask ourselves (in February when we are doubting ourselves), what’s the point of all this morning work? I mean we are taking a good portion of our morning for food planning! What are the benefits to my simple plan? I will only tell you of the benefits that I have noticed in myself thus far:
- Decreased daily appetite (throughout the whole day)
- When I start with less sugar and go for more protein based morning nutrients my cravings for all the yummy bad stuff is minimized.
- MORE EnErGy!!!
- (this one sounds crazy but bear with me) Better brain functioning. I haven’t been forgetting so much and I have been retaining thoughts better too. I think this is due to more energy and just a better stream of calories to pull from.
Here’s to our endeavor to better ourselves! Simplify and seize our goals in 2016! (We will make it and Lucy won’t even get the chance to pull away the football before we get there!) Bon Apetit!
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