What’s For Breakfast? Part 1

Breakfast table with cereal, toast, coffee and orange juice

Breakfast seems to be a meal that many people struggle with when transitioning to a healthy eating lifestyle. Culturally, we are a country who will choose toast and spreads or cereal and milk, plus a tea or coffee to start our day. Nutritionally, this is pretty poor fair to break a 12 hour fast. Often high in simple refined carbohydrates, sugars, colours, flavours and preservatives, plus caffeine from your beverage of choice, these traditional breakfasts can leave us foggy headed, hungry and low in energy. Despite the marketing ploys, these breakfast choices are often very low in insoluble fibre, proteins …read more