What to Eat: Breakfast

A lot of you have been so excited and interested in the 21 day challenge! I'm stoked that I am getting more people excited about eating healthy. There is one question that keeps popping up, what do I eat?  Most of us don't think that there's no food outside of bread products. Guess what? There is. My next few posts are going to be focused on what to eat for breakfast, brunch, lunch, linner, and dinner. *Yes, linner is a made up word*

So Many of  you 

think that the only foods

 to eat for breakfast are cereal, toast, 

muffins, fruits, yogurt, and coffee.  Turns out, 

that there's plenty of delicious breakfast foods 

that are healthy for you and will help you lose weight! 

EGG MUFFIN

These are delicious little muffins that fill you up, 

easy to make, easy to keep, and keep you on 

the go!  There are a lot of variations you

can do with this recipe so play

around with it and have

fun!

If you like a more guided approach here's what I did:

Ingredients:

1 egg for every muffin tin you want to fill (You can use just egg whites, but try to put a few yokes in it.)

1 slice of turkey bacon for half of the muffin tins you want to fill

All the vegetables you want!

Mushrooms,

Green onions,

Tomatoes,

Peppers, 

Spinach

.... and so on :)

Instructions:

Pre-heat your oven to 350. Crack eggs in a large bowl and mix, cook bacon using pan or microwave. Chop up all veggies desired and put in bowl and mix. Now cut up bacon and mix into bowl.  Spray your muffin tins with olive oil so they don't stick (Pam is an alternative) then fill each tin 2/3 to 3/4 of the way full.  The egg muffins will rise.  Cook for about 20 min, but keep a close eye on them, you want them to be golden.  Then you can put them in your fridge, and heat in the morning for 30 seconds and bon apetite!

Here's some pictures from my muffin making to help you out:

I've used both Jenny O and Applegate, and I have found that

Applegate turkey bacon has more protein and less fat,

which makes a little bit better for you since you're

getting plenty of fat from the egg yokes!

Chop the spinach thoroughly or else 

it will be hard to pour into the tins.

Chop the green onions little tail off, then chop them until 

they start to get less firm and more grass like.

Depending on how much you put in 

your batter will be thicker or thinner, 

my batter here is pretty thick.

I love this Misto spray can, you fill it

 up with olive oil then pump 

and spray! Way better than Pam spray.

I use my favorite kitty measuring cups

to fill the muffin tins!

Ready to store in my fridge!

YUM!

Thanks for reading and look for more eating ideas coming up next: BRUNCH

Best,

Heather Larsen