Designing a Winning Breakfast

February 25, 2009 · Posted in Catherine's Story, Daily Probiotics, Protein for Breakfast, Replace Trans Fats

healthy breakfast granola and yogurt Last year, I started going to the gym on a regular basis. At first I would go in the afternoon, but then I tried going to the gym in the morning and something really clicked. When I work out in the morning, I feeling of calm and relaxation lingers all day. But there was something missing — I haven’t really created a good pre-workout breakfast routine.

Lately I started thinking that it would be really good to design a healthy, delicious breakfast to eat every morning before my workout instead of just grabbing whatever on the way to the gym.

My perfect breakfast would:

Feature yogurt so that I can make probiotics a daily instead of “sometimes” habit (yogurt is also a great source of protein).
Contain nuts and/or flax, both good sources of Omega 3 healthy fats and proteins.
Be delicious enough to eat every day without getting boring.

So the perfect solution for me seems to be muesli or granola with plain yogurt. I can make the muesli/granola from scratch (cheaper, and I know what has gone into it) and keep it in the freezer so that I only have to make it once every couple of weeks.

Here are a couple of recipes I’m going to try:

This power breakfast habit is going to be my tweak for March