Let’s start by eliminating dry cereal with milk, a really wimpy breakfast that doesn’t carry you for more than a couple of hours. Here are some easy ideas:
For cold weather:
- Oatmeal with one fried egg on top, with a light sprinkle of good sea salt.
- Oatmeal with a handful of almonds and hazelnuts, a little salt or soy sauce.
- Left-over dinner, such as cooked fish, chicken or steak, quickly sautéed in a little butter with left-over vegetables, rye crackers
- For the vegetarians or the adventurous: cooked beans or chili, reheated, in a whole wheat wrap with some cucumbers and tomatoes
- Obviously, eggs any style, with rye crackers, maybe some nitrite-free sausage or bacon.
- Miso soup with brown rice eel-avocado sushi and pickles
- Canned salmon and egg omelet with sauerkraut
For warm weather:
- Smoked salmon or whitefish on wholegrain toast, with butter or cream cheese, onion slices, pickles (a real New York weekend breakfast)
- One poached egg atop one slice of toasted sprouted wholegrain bread, which has been sprinkled with about a tablespoon of really good extra virgin olive oil, plus a little good sea salt and freshly ground pepper on top.
- Rye crackers with almond butter
- A bowful of soaked and roasted nuts, including almonds, pecans, walnuts, cashews, sunflower seeds. Add some soaked raisins for a sweet touch.
- Kippers, with chopped raw tomatoes, onions, and cucumbers
- Canned tuna fish with 3 tablespoons chopped celery, same of onions, 1 tablespoon good quality mayonnaise, sea salt to taste, on rye crisps
I trust you’ll find something to eat here!
Annemarie Colbin, Ph.D.
ANNEMARIE COLBIN, Ph.D., CHES, is an award-winning leader in the field of natural health She founded Natural Gourmet Institute for Health and Culinary Arts (TM) in New York City in 1977, and is adjunct professor of nutrition at the city’s Empire State College. She is the author of four books, including
The Book of Whole Meals (Autumn Press, 1979; Ballantine Books, 1983),
The Natural Gourmet (Ballantine Books, 1989, 1991), and
Food and Healing (Ballantine Books, 1986, 1996). Her website is:
www.foodandhealing.com