P1 breakfast ideas

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Registered: 04-27-2003
P1 breakfast ideas
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Thu, 02-26-2004 - 7:02am
Hi! I am starting SB on Monday. Any ideas for quick breakfasts? I pack up a 2 month old and a 2 year old every morning, so I don't have time to make eggs! Any suggestions would be helpful. Thank you!
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Registered: 10-01-2003
Thu, 02-26-2004 - 7:14am

Welcome,


Hope this helps:










Breakfast On the Go







(Published 2/3/04)

Do you have trouble finding the time to cook breakfast? Are you guilty of sometimes skipping this first meal of the day? If you answered yes to either of these questions, you're in danger of sabotaging your diet. Skipping breakfast can cause dangerous cravings to return and can encourage you to overeat throughout the day. Don't fall into this trap just because you can't spare five minutes to grab something quick from the refrigerator.

For those mornings when you just don't feel like cooking, try keeping the following on hand:

Phase 1:


  • Deviled or hard-boiled eggs
  • Celery sticks with natural peanut butter (trans-fat free)
  • Single serving nonfat or 1 percent cottage cheese cups
  • Precooked turkey bacon
  • Precut vegetables in plastic sandwich bags
  • Individual, low-fat cheese slices or low-fat cheese sticks
  • Sliced turkey or other low-fat meat
  • Tomato or vegetable juice cocktail in single-serving cans
  • Ready-made hummus
  • Plain fat-free yogurt

Phases 2 and 3—all of the above, plus:


  • Nonfat artificially sweetened yogurt—limit to 4 ounces daily
  • Whole-wheat bread or whole-wheat English muffins
  • Berries (prepared the night before)
  • Sugar-free bran muffins (without raisins)—choose a small muffin and check the ingredient label for the fat content

       

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Registered: 03-19-2003
Thu, 02-26-2004 - 8:58am
I like to have a yogurt (quick to eat)... or a slice or two of deli turkey & a V8 when I'm in a hurry.

Susan :)

 

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Registered: 01-08-2004
Thu, 02-26-2004 - 9:11am
if you like scrambled eggs, eggbeaters make it very quick to make eggs...they reheat well too, so if you made them the night before, that'll work as well.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 02-26-2004 - 10:31am
I make up a crustless quiche every weekend, it gives us eight slices, and we just heat it up real quick in the microwave before leaving for work. I have it with V-8 juice, but dh cannot stomach that, so he has apple juice (not allowed in Phase 1, but we are sliding into 2).

ingrid in tampa bay
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Registered: 02-26-2004
Thu, 02-26-2004 - 3:46pm
Tampacountess:

Sometimes if I need something to go in a hurry (even for breakfast, which I don't typically eat) I will put some nuts in a little plastic container and "drink" the nuts out of the container when I am in my car so I don't get oil or salt all over my hands. I know if seems kind of wierd, but it works for me. I used to do this with cashews a LOT, then I switched to pecans. I also try to make sure I have a bottled water so that I can wash it down and a piece of sugarless gum. This really fills me up! - Kim

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Registered: 01-03-2004
Fri, 03-05-2004 - 3:53pm
If you are in a hurry for breakfast the quiche cups are great. The recipe in the book makes 12 cups = 6 servings. They freeze and reheat in about 2 minutes. I make a batch and seperate them into 6 bags and stick them in the freezer.

I am not that fond of the recipe in the book so I adjusted mine a little bit.

I like them w./ham, broccoli & chedder cheese

This week I tried turkey bacon (I used 2 slices for the whole batch), broccoli and monterey jack cheese. That combo was great!