Healthy Breakfast
Ideas: How to Eat the Day's Most Important Meal Properly … and Satisfyingly
(Includes Recipes)
Is your morning breakfast ritual depleting your energy? Try these
delicious, energizing Body Ecology healthy breakfast ideas!
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So you've started eating better and want healthy breakfast ideas?
Breakfast is one of the most neglected meals of the day when it comes to
our health. With busy lives and long commutes to work, convenient processed
foods like Pop Tarts, donuts and fast food have become par for the course.
Add a little coffee or orange juice and you have the typical American breakfast.
Full of sugar...acid producing...energy draining. The first meal of the day
has become one of the most harmful for your health and it's no better if you
skip it.
The Body Ecology Program was created to build your energy and vitality, while
healing your digestive system so that you can achieve and maintain vibrant
health. But what happens when you can no longer grab breakfast from a vending
machine or fast food window?
Body Ecology has many healthy breakfast ideas that are quick and easy to
prepare. This article will outline some tips for a healthy breakfast along
with menu suggestions that will have you enjoying the most important meal
of the day.
Tips for Your Healthy Breakfast
- Plan your menu in advance. Whenever you are creating a new habit,
one of the keys to success is planning. Create a menu plan for all of your
meals for the week. This will help you shop for the foods you'll need and
make the most of leftovers from the night before that can be used for a
healthy breakfast meal.
Planning your menu in advance will also allow you to soak your nuts, seeds
or Body
Ecology grain-like seeds the night before, so you are ready to prepare
them for the next day.
- Have an all-alkaline breakfast. During the night when you are sleeping,
toxic bodies tend to become more acidic. Acidic blood sets the stage for
illness and disease. When you wake up, having a more alkaline breakfast
helps balance this acidic condition.
- Hydrate - When sleeping, you become also become quite dehydrated.
Drinking water and having a healthy breakfast meal with high water content
is an excellent way to re-hydrate your body to begin your day.
- Have a balanced and slightly more expansive meal. During the night,
your body becomes contracted (stored energy that is closed and tight), so
you will want to have a meal that is expansive (open, active and relaxed
energy). To learn more about the Body Ecology principle of expansion and
contraction read: A
Review of the 7 Key Healthy Eating Principles.
- Eat your vegetables. Everyone from experts to moms agree that it's
important to eat your vegetables. On the Body Ecology program, land and
ocean vegetables are the star superfoods of every meal, including breakfast.
In fact, we recommend that 80% of each meal is made up of vegetables. Vegetables
meet all of the criteria for healthy breakfast tips: they are alkaline,
provide hydration and are balanced from an acid/alkaline perspective.
Unfortunately, eating vegetables for breakfast seems very foreign to most
people. It's certainly quite different from that all-carb processed-food
meal full of sugar so popular today.
You'll see that there are plenty of healthy breakfast ideas that will have
you eating your vegetables with delight each morning! Even more so when
you see your energy soar!
Healthy Breakfast Ideas
My favorite morning wake up call consists of 3 super stars on the healthy
breakfast ideas menu. If you are a light eater in the morning, one or all
of these may satisfy you.
If you are more active or have a bigger appetite, you could start your day
with these three hydrating "meals" and have something more substantial
mid-morning. Try them for yourself:
- Vitality SuperGreen - if you have no appetite in the morning or
are in a rush, the perfect morning pick-me up is Vitality
SuperGreen.
Vitality SuperGreen is our alkalizing green food blended with nutrients
and probiotics to nourish and heal your intestines. Just add filtered water
and it can give you a quick energy boost that replaces your need for acid-
producing coffee.
This is how I often prepare my Vitality SuperGreen:
- Green Smoothie - This Good
Morning Green Smoothie recipe will surely make you love your vegetables!
Try our green smoothie recipe before your morning exercise routine or on
your way to work, it's a great energizer!
- Young Coconut Kefir or CocoBiotic - Young
Coconut Kefir is an amazing probiotic liquid that you can make yourself.
We consistently receive raving reports on its benefits including helping
to stop sugar cravings, prevent bloating in the digestive tract, eliminate
joint pain and making
your skin more clear and pore-less. ...all while adding healthy microflora
to boost your immunity.
- While not identical to young coconut kefir since they contain different
microflora, a juice glass filled with the already-made and economical
CocoBiotic
is a great way to introduce the nutrients and benefits of coconut water
without having to hunt for and crack young green coconuts. It's convenient
and has a special blend of acidophilus and Saccharomyces boulardii (an amazing
beneficial yeast) that helps heal your gut.
- The S. bouldarii in Cocobiotic has been shown to be very effective for
the treatment of traveler's diarrhea, diarrhea caused by the pathogenic
e Coli bacteria (a common cause of death in infants worldwide), and clostridium
difficile, a common pathogen infecting the intestines of autistic children.
Clostridium difficile, a pathogenic bacteria, can also cause colitis in
the ileum -- the final and longest segment of the small intestine.
- Fruit - Typically an ideal morning meal, fruit is too sweet and
feeds
candida. However, there are four fruits on the Body Ecology program
that do not feed candida: lemons, limes, unsweetened black currants and
unsweetened cranberries. Unsweetened pomegranate and noni juice have
also been added for the early stages of The Body Ecology program.
You can get the benefits of fruit by adding these fruit juices to your Young
Coconut Kefir or the probiotic liquids, CocoBiotic or Dong Quai, in the
morning. Add a little stevia for sweetness and you have an excellent energy
booster that is full of vitamins and minerals.
- Soup - Soup
is NOT just a lunch or dinner meal! It is nourishing, warming and hydrating...just
what your body needs first thing in the morning, especially during winter
months. Soup made into a creamy "porridge" using one or several
of our grain-like seeds (quinoa,
millet
or buckwheat) may also be filling and feel very nourishing on those cold
mornings.
- Vegetables, Cultured Vegetables and Ocean Vegetables - The easiest
way to make sure that your healthy breakfast meal includes 80% vegetables
is to use leftovers from the night before.
- Cultured vegetables
are an excellent part of EVERY meal (especially if you eat animal protein),
so start your day right with ½ cup of them to provide your body with
nutrients that are multiplied by 100 times from the action of healthy microflora!
Healthy Breakfast Ideas for People with Highly Active Mornings
These meals include concentrated, contracting food, so they may be better
for mid-day than for breakfast. However, they are a great choice for creating
energy if you have very active mornings:
- Eggs - Eggs
help strengthen your thyroid, which is often weak in many people today...even
children and teens. One therapeutic way to prepare eggs is to sauté
them "over easy" (a soft, runny yolk) in organic, unrefined coconut
oil. Then, eat mostly just the yolks. The cooked egg white (protein) is
more difficult to digest and is often not as well tolerated as the yolk.
Contrary to popular belief, it is the egg yolk that is the healthiest, most
nutritious part of the egg. For another great healthy breakfast idea, try
this soft
scrambled egg recipe.
- Fish or Meat -Many people eat fish or meat for breakfast. When
it comes to breakfast, these foods tend to be best for the winter months.
Make sure you choose healthy sources of fish
and meat.
Combine these meals with lightly steamed vegetables and/or cultured vegetables.
Having a glass of CocoBiotic with unsweetened cranberry or black currant juice
sweetened with Stevia and taken one half hour before you eat your animal protein
meal will keep you from feeling too contracted.
Milk Kefir - Kefir
means "feel good" in Turkish and has been used for centuries to
create energy and health. A wonderful alkalizing meal, milk kefir should be
added only when your intestines lining is not inflamed so that the casein
protein will not "leak" through the wounded gut lining. We introduce
it during stage
2 of the Body Ecology program.
Here's a recipe for milk kefir smoothies that is sure to be loved by adults
and children alike:
- ½ cup of homemade raw milk kefir
- 1 - 2 oz. unsweetened black currant juice
- Stevia liquid concentrate to desired taste
- 1 teaspoon unrefined flaxseed or pumpkinseed oil
Blend these ingredients together.
This smoothie is excellent for children and adults alike who need a quick
breakfast before they rush off to school or work in the morning. We have been
told by many parents that the calming nutrients in raw milk kefir has helped
their children with ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). Kefir
can curb cravings for sugar and improve bowel function. We recommend drinking
milk kefir on an empty stomach, making it an ideal breakfast meal.
Body Ecology Grain-like Seeds - Since most of us are used to having
grains for breakfast, these meals may be a good transition for your healthy
Body Ecology breakfasts. Simply select one of our 4 gluten free Body
Ecology grain-like seeds and cook them with either sweet or savory flavorings.
The convenient & economical Cocobiotic probiotic liquid is an
excellent way to help start your day. It has a special blend of acidophilus
and Saccharomyces boulardii (an amazing beneficial yeast) that helps
heal your gut, among many other benefits!
Learn
More about the Convenient & Delicious CocoBiotic Now
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Here are some ideas.
- Sweet:
- Quinoa Flakes or Cream of Buckwheat - this makes a delicious,
gluten free replacement for oatmeal.
- Cook Quinoa
Flakes or Cream
of Buckwheat
as directed and add:
- 1 tsp. Organic non-alcohol vanilla flavoring
- Cinnamon and Stevia to taste
You can also add raw butter, ghee or organic
unrefined coconut oil, but skip the milk!
Remember to balance your grain with vegetables, cultured vegetables or ocean
vegetables. If you've had a green smoothie and Vitality SuperGreen before
your grain dish, you won't need to have so many vegetables with your grain
meal.
- Savory:
- Millet Breakfast Meal - this "gruel" or "porridge"
is excellent for correcting constipation.
- In a pressure cooker, cook 1 cup pre-soaked millet
with 7 cups of water.
- Add Celtic
Sea Salt
- Add your favorite vegetables (leftovers can be used), such as carrots,
onions, or leftover ocean veggies from the night before
- Add a strip of the ocean vegetable kombu to the pot before cooking.
Cook it under pressure for about 30 minutes.
With just a few changes in your habits and armed with healthy breakfast ideas,
you'll soon break free from processed foods to enjoy a high-energy day.
Nothing tastes better than your good health!
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