Breakfast

[bounceswoosh]

Anyway... SadieKate mentioned maple syrup and peanut butter on waffles this weekend. My first thought, sounds kind of sticky. But I gave it a try. It's an interesting combination. I like it. Definitely needs juice with it though.

Hopefully it will have more sticking power.

V.

I eat my pancakes and waffles with maple syrup and peanut butter, too! My dad does it and I eventually caught on. But I wouldn't dare eat that as a regular meal.

I usually have a bowl of Mueslix, a bowl of instant oatmeal, or a bowl of vanilla yoghurt with grapenuts for breakfast, but to be honest, I'm usually hungry pretty soon thereafter. Waffles only happen on the weekends when DH makes 'em!

[Veronica]

Frozen Belgian waffles aren't bad. I'd rather make my own, but who has time on the week days. The waffle itself has 200 calories. We won't talk about how much peanut butter I put on. But I hey I burned over a 1000 calories on my ride yesterday.

I don't usually eat breakfast until about 7. I drink coffee from the time I get up - unless I'm working out, until then. I hope coffee never gets linked to any really bad diseases. And if it has been, don't tell me.

V.

[Libre_Ame]

sadie,

Betcha you'd love my maple-date-cream bars.

[Barb]

I have found that when brakfast is not sticking with me long enough that I am short on protein. A hard boiled egg or some cottage cheese added to my normal breakfast (oatmeal) really goes alot farther. The carbs don't stay with me.

[CorsairMac]

Veronica: I had the same problem with any carb breakfast. Now I eat scrambled egg-whites, 1/3 cup kidney beans and a grapefruit for breakfast and I can go until noon or later before I'm hungry. I was told by my Dr I don't process the glutons in carbs right which is why I felt "hungry" even to the point of my stomache growling about 1 1/2 - 2 hrs after I ate. Same problem with just fruit as a snack. She told me to eat a protein, a vegetable, and a fruit with every meal. Since I've done that, I don't have the snacky hungries anymore and I lost 50 lbs. I also have lots of energy and feel Great. I did have to start including some carbs into my meals but the legumes, 2 6" tortillas or 1 cup of cooked pasta seem to do the trick. I did try oatmeal recently and I was fine the first few days I ate it for breakfast, but then the hungries came back. I even tried adding legumes to my oatmeal and limiting the serving size from 1/2 cup to 1/3 cup but it was just too much gluton. I might be able to eat oatmeal once in a while, but not every day. Anyway, hope it helps!

[SadieKate]

My power food for big ride days:

7-grain (or more) cut cereal (not rolled like traditional oatmeal) with added sliced almonds and raisins. Might eat a hard-boiled egg if ride start time isn't until late in the morning.

I must have carbs or my glycogen stores poop out. I need a small amount of protein and lots of high fiber carbs. Your stomach takes longer to digest fiber so unprocessed cut-grain cereals are far more nutritional with even a bit more protein than regular oatmeal. Plus, you can have a lot of good stuff like flax seed in there. Add some nuts and fruit, and you've got a good ride day meal that is easily digestible and sticks to your ribs.

[DeniseGoldberg]

I'm looking for a good mix of carbs and protein in my breakfast cereal, along with what I consider to be a reasonable amount of fiber. So my usual breakfast bowl contains Kashi Go Lean and (Kellogg) All Bran Buds topped with fruit and 1% milk. The fruit depends on season - my preference is bananas and blueberries and strawberries, but the berries can be a problem in the off season. I've been told both that I'm a bit weird and that my off-season substitution is a lot weird, but I've found that grapes work well - so in the winter my cereal is often topped with banana slices and grapes.

If I want something else to top off all of that cereal and fruit, my choice is often a toasted frozen waffle topped with natural (grind-your-own) peanut butter.

It's funny, but I absolutely hated peanut butter when I was growing up - and I can't get enough of it now. Of course that could be the comparison with the processed packaged peanut butter and freshly ground nothing added peanut butter!

[SadieKate]

sadie,
Betcha you'd love my maple-date-cream bars.

You have a recipe? I'd make them under the guise of a treat for my hubby, but I have to tell you that I think maple cream donuts are disgusting. But, then I like brussel sprouts . I will try anything once . . . well, not bugs. I do try to keep an open mouth, err, mind, where food is the topic, as can be attested to by my hips.

SK