National Breakfast Week
This next week coming up is National Breakfast Week. You did know we had National Breakfast Week, didn’t you?
Some of the things that I am concerned about as a mother is not passing on my horrific food habits on to my kids. Sadly, that doesn’t always work. But one thing that is really important to me is to teach them to eat breakfast every morning. I am pretty firm in my belief that it is very important to give your metabolism a kick start after overnight starvation. I have a love/hate relationship with the fact that breakfasts are served in the schools now - I loved it Monday morning when I woke up tremendously late, but sometimes I am pretty sure that when I feed my kids breakfast at home, and there is a delicious treat being served at school, they are eating twice. Ugh.
So what’s the solution? I think it is to serve a good, tasty and maybe even fun breakfast at home. I love my heart shaped pancake maker, and my kids just love cherry smoothies (CherryPharm is totally delish) - mix up some cherry juice with some plain yogurt, add a half of a banana, some frozen blueberries and a teaspoon of honey. It’s one of their favorite meals.
This recipe for a tropical fruit parfait comes from the vitaminwater folks and looks quite tasty too:
1 cup coarsely chopped fresh pineapple
1/4 tsp. ground cinnamon
1 cup low-fat banana yogurt
1 tbsp. rolled oats
1 cup chopped strawberries
1 tbsp. sliced almonds
in small bowl, combine pineapple with cinnamon. evenly spoon into 2 tall glasses or to-go cups. evenly top with yogurt and oats, and then with strawberries, and almonds. Serve immediately. Pair with vitaminwater: energy to jumpstart your morning and hydrate your skin!!
So, along with my kids, breakfast is important to me too. My usual breakfast is a bowl of low sugar instant oatmeal (apples and cinnamon - yum). But I like a good smoothie or a parfait just like the rest of them.
For more information on National Breakfast week, check out the links here and here and here.
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POSTED IN: Christina, Eating Habits, Health Tips, Nutrition
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