Breakfast and Breakfast Cereal (Page 2)

Steph883 - 2007-01-06 6:22 PM I stick to oatmeal. I hate milk. I've tried rice milk and soy milk with cereal, can't do it. (I think it's the texture, not sure) I have eaten dry cereal from the box, or grabbed a baggie for the road.

if you haven't already, you might want to give almond milk a try - its pretty smooth.

i love eating eggs for breakfast w/toast or a flour tortilla but when i don't have time i just go for the toast w/peanut putter and pumpkin butter (when its in season). i'm not a fan of cold cereal - we make irish oatmeal (steel cut) in our house and bulk it up with raisins, dried apricots, dried cranberries, apples whatever we have around. yum!

never heard of it... Is it in the dairy section?

I used to eat kashi go lean cereal, but now, on cereal days, I devour Optimum Slim with skim milk and a banana

(still love my Kashi go Lean froz waffles with PB, though, about 3x a week )

Usually I have Fibre 1 with a bit of honey and some fruit (either banana, blue/black/rasp berries) thrown in. Other days, I'll have some instant oatmeal or cream of wheat and for the treat days some frozen waffles with PB and Nutella. Yum.

Oh yeah, on Sunday's my wife takes a half dozen egg yolks with some sugar and beats them until it's nice and creamy. We have this raw with some toast. Hey, sounds weird I know but it's absolutely awesome. It's like eating custard with toast!

Sounds yummy, though I had salmonella once and was in the hospital for 13 days.  Got them from Kroger eggs, and I don't eat much eggs anymore, and none from Kroger (yeah, it was a fluke, could have gotten bad eggs anywhere).  Make sure you have very fresh eggs, and handle them properly.

It's wierd, eggs scare me now, though I eat Sushi and Steak Tartar.

Noted. The thing is that both my wife and I have been eating this since we were kids and knock on wood, haven't had any issues yet. (crossing finger, toes and eyes)

Growing up swimming, and doing Judo and such, I was always the little skinny kid, and I had a hard time keeping weight (I wish that was now...)  I was, um, forced to drink a protien shake daily that usually had a raw egg or two in it.

Stop! You're really starting to make me question our Sunday morning ritual. I love that stuff and now I'm going to look at it all funny and think twice before eating it. Man!

just PM'd ya, but in case other wanted to know too,

check out http://www.bluediamond.com/retail/breeze/index.cfm and click on product locator, select almond breeze milk and enter your zip and you'll get a list of stores

If you have a crockpot/slow cooker, try this - a recipe I got from fellow BTer, mosc11:

2 cups brown rice (long grain slow cooking kind) - you can also substitute or use a combo of barley or steel cut oats

5 cups liquid (I use 2 cups juice, apple or cranberry (I’m sure anything BUT OJ would work) and 3 cups water.  You could use all water but I don’t think I would use all juice)

2 cups cut up apples (I have just used apples, just used pears and used a combination of the two)

2 cups dried fruit (whatever floats your boat on this, raisins, cranberries, dates, apricots blah blah blah)

1 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp vanilla extract

1 tsp nutmeg (not necessary but I like it)

you throw it all in your crock-pot on low about 6 hours.  Try the recipe first when you can watch it so you don’t have a burnt up mess when you wake up and no breakfast, if you do, just turn around and go back to bed.

Anyway, it comes out as a delicious hearty oatmeal type thing.  I do a big batch and keep it in Tupperware in the fridge and then heat up a bowl at a time.  I put honey and crushed almonds in mine but I have also heated it up and poured some vanilla soy milk or yogurt over it.  It has lots of fiber, low in fat and high on taste. 

I have a serious addiction to Grape Nuts, so I try to stay away from them.  I can polish off a whole box and a carton of vanilla soymilk in one weekend.  Not good!

These days, my breakfast is broken up: a slice of raisin toast with almond butter and tea before workout, and a fruit/greens smoothie afterwards.  On the weekends, my hubby and I go out for brunch and usually eat some version of tofu scramble, often in a tortilla with beans and lots of salsa.  Yum yum!

Kashi Go Lean with skim milk nearly every morning.  I typically follow that up at 10 with a Chewy Granola bar or a Natures Own granola bar. 

I do keep a box of Cocoa Krispies or Cinnamon Toast Crunch and pop tarts handy for the weekends or late night!