Breakfast really is the most important meal of the day. It’s no cliche. I wake up starving and might revert to stashing a box of crackers in my nightstand to nosh in the middle of the night like I did when I was pregnant. Bird and Deal get a proper breakfast every morning, and we don’t dash out the door with a frosted treat on the go.
I cook a hot breakfast a couple times a week that I call a “weekend breakfast” like Mac Daddy makes. I whip up some eggs or pancakes and veggie sausage patties or turkey bacon. Sometimes I make bagels with honey cream cheese or cheese toast. On particularly hectic mornings we all sit down to a bowl of cereal (high fiber, low sugar) with blueberries. Fruit and yogurt generally accompany every breakfast, and we have mango juice (diluted with water…shhh…don’t rat me out) once in a while. Smoothies are a family favorite too, and the combinations are endless. I always throw in some flax seed for an extra punch. One of our favorite smoothies is a jarring green that we call a Leprechaun Smoothie. Just toss some spinach, lime yogurt, a tish of limeade, milk, and orange juice into a blender. I’m telling you, it’s good stuff. I’m no fan of hiding fruits and vegetables in my sons’ meals, so we make a joke of eating spinach for breakfast. We squinch up our noses and go Ewwwwww…..
I do get into a breakfast rut. In the mornings I feel rushed and half awake and stumbling around with a grumbling belly. My kitchen mojo is still tucked into bed until lunch time so I find myself winging it. I’m hoping to get some breakfast inspiration tomorrow when I co-host a virtual breakfast with Kellogg. Join me in The Motherhood, one of my favorite online haunts. (Sidebar: Cooper and Emily, the founders of The Motherhood, are among the loveliest women I know.)
Join me and some other great bloggers for a live video feed and text-based chat to discuss the new 2010 Dietary Guidelines. We’re going to talk about breakfast and nutrition with Sarah Woodside, registered dietitian with Kellogg, and Liz Ward, registered dietitian, author and one of the Kellogg’s Breakfast Council members. Click to register and join the conversation. It’s free, but the information you’ll get is priceless.
So tell me, what did you have for breakfast today?
I didn’t think the words Kellogg and nutrition went together for breakfast. I made french toast and fruit for my girls for breakfast. I try to keep artificial coloring and lots of sugar out of the morning equation.