Recipe

I love breakfast. 

Before I started to eat the way I do now, I used to love to have toast with jam or just butter, or a bagel with with cream cheese and green olives, or pancakes with bacon or sausages. But now, those things are just like a big plate of skull and crossbones, screaming, "Danger, Will Robinson!!" 

I still love breakfast, though, and I do not miss eating wheat. Wheat'll kill you, and I am not making that up. My husband and I have cut down to two meals a day, because we feel too full for more than that. We have a late breakfast and and early supper, and that's enough. I don't need to snack on anything throughout the day; I don't even want to. I'm losing weight, slowly, but that is not my purpose. I'm just trying not to ingest anymore poison that is now being passed off as "more healthy grains".

A friend started being gluten-free because she was watching my progess, and she was getting tired of always having eggs for breakfast .... eggs fried, eggs in an omelet, poached eggs, hard-boiled eggs. Breakfast can be so much more than that, if you stock the right ingredients.

One thing we eat for beakfast is a yummy hot cereal, especially in the winter. It varies depending on what we've got on hand, but here's the basic recipe:

Hot Cereal

 1/4 c flax meal or coconut flour or whatever flour you've got that is not wheat flour, even a mixture is good

1/4 c pumpkin (I used canned, but any kind is good)

big spoonful peanut butter

nutmeg

cinnamon

walnuts or pecans

strawberries, or rasperries, or apples, or blueberries, enough to make you happy (or use a mixture!)

Splenda, agave nectar, sugar or maple syrup (if you're not going sugar free like me) to taste

1/4 c water, adjust it as you see fit

Stir it up and put it in the microwave for one minute, till it's really hot, then stir it well to get the pumpkin and the peanut butter mixed. It's fast and easy and quite yummy.

Even if you have cereal several times a week, this recipe has enough leeway to give you some variety. 

     Childe Eating Porridge, Frans Hals

Comments

[Hillary White]

Thank you for the recipe! Sounds delicious and will be great to give me some energy post workout! =)

[Conny]

Beth,

I love to cook and really appreciate your posted healthy recipes! I have everything for cereal but pumpkin, will get today, and try out tom am!! Thanx! Conny NE

[Brandi]

Sounds yummy I'll have to try it.