ISO healthy breakfast ideas for my dh.

[Leslie w]

My husband leaves for work very early and so I usually pack him breakfast and lunch. Recently he's been more receptive to healthy eating so I'm using this as a good opportunity to get rid of his Pop Tarts, candy bar, white bread and cookie diet. I'm packing healthy sandwiches and soups, yogurt, fresh fruits and veggies but now I'm running out of breakfast ideas. I've made the CL Broccoli and Sausage Calzones several times which he loves. Anyone have any other good make ahead breakfast ideas? He has a microwave at work.

[JulieM]

You could put hot water and oats in a wide mouth thermos and it would cook and be ready and still steaming hot a bit later. I love it with dried cranberries and walnuts. Healthy muffins with a fruit salad would also be yummy.

[SusanT]

My husband loves my homemade granola and will eat handfuls as snacks. It also makes a great breakfast with milk or yogurt. If you think he'd like it, I'll post the recipe.

[ama47369]

SusanT-

I would love to see your recipe, when you get a chance.

TIA,

Amanda

[SQ]

Would he go for biscuits or scones? We had banana biscuits (CL) yesterday for breakfast. We also love blueberry biscuits (and scones) and raisin scones. There have been many of these in CL over the years. Let me know if anything in particular interests you and I'll type them up.

[Jogren]

You could make a breakfast burrito the night before. There is a good one from CL that I make a lot called Bueno Breakfast Burrito from the Jan or Feb 2000 issue. Basically it is one egg and one egg white scrambled with a little finely chopped red pepper, finely chopped green onion, finely chopped cilantro and salt and pepper. Spread light cream cheese on a flour tortilla and microwave for 5-10 seconds. Put egg inside and top with a bit of bottled salsa. Fold it up burrito-style, let it cool, then wrap with plastic wrap. He could then microwave it at work.

[SusanT]

This is my own adaptation of the CL Crunchy Granola with Dried fruit

Low fat granola:

1 cup boiling water
1/4 c packed brown sugar
6 to 8 ounces dried fruit (blueberries, crasins, dried cherries, or rasins)
3 cups regular oats
1 cup chopped nuts (your choice)
2 tablespoons nonfat dry milk
1 tsp ground cinnamon

Prehat oven to 300. Combine the first 4 ingredients in a bowl, and let stand 1/2 hour. Add in oats and other reminaing ingredients and add to dried fruit mixture (the oats will be wet). Bake at 300 for 1 hour stirring every 15 minutes. Cool to room temperature.

Feel free to vary the nuts and fruits to your tastes. Some of our favorite combinations are blueberries and cherries with pecans or almonds or blueberries and crasins with almonds.

Keep a close eye on this while baking. It can go from perfect to scorched very quickly.

Enjoy!

[ama47369]

Susan,

Thank you for posting your recipe, it looks delicious!

:) Amanda

[SusanT]

I made a double batch yesterday - it should last us a couple of days :)

[Beth]

I was thinking of breakfast sandwiches, cereal and fruit (even dried fruit), muffins and scones, and then I remebered the tortilla strata we made not too long ago. It was very good and my DH took leftovers to work for lunch, so it could fill the bill for either meal. There have been some others posted if you are interested in that route, but here's one to get you started:


* Exported from MasterCook *

Breakfast Tortilla Strata

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Serving Size : 6 Preparation Time :0:00
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Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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1 cup picante sauce -- (I used Pace Thick N Chnuky)
1 can black beans -- rinsed and drained well (I used the whole can)
10 6-inch corn tortillas -- cut into 1" strips
cooking spray
1 cup preshredded reduced fat Mexican Blend
cheese -- (4 oz) (I used regular, made up for the yogurt)
1 cup nonfat plain yogurt -- or lowfat sour cream
1 cup nonfat milk
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 large eggs
2 large egg whites
1/4 cup green onions -- thinly sliced (about 2-3)

Combine the picante sauce and black beans in a bowl and set aside. Spray 11 x 7 inch baking dish with cooking spray.

Place 1/3 of tortilla strips in bottom of sprayed pan. Sprinkle about 1/3 cup cheese on top. Spread about one cup or 1/2 of the black bean mixture over tortillas. Repeat with another 1/3 tortillas, 1/3 cup cheese and remaining black beans. Top with remaining tortillas.

Combine yogurt (or sour cream), milk, salt, eggs and egg whites in a bowl and blend with a whisk (or fork). Pour over tortillas. Sprinkle with remaining cheese and green onions. Cover and refrigerate 8 hours or overnight.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Remove strata from refrigerator and let stand at room temp about 10 minutes.

Bake covered for 20 minutes. Uncover and bake an additional 15-20 minutes or until lightly browned.


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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 246 Calories; 3g Fat (10.9% calories from fat); 14g Protein; 42g Carbohydrate; 7g Dietary Fiber; 63mg Cholesterol; 305mg Sodium. Exchanges: 2 1/2 Grain(Starch); 1 Lean Meat; 0 Vegetable; 0 Non-Fat Milk; 1/2 Fat.


Nutr. Assoc. : 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

[Leanne]

Leslie W - Are we married to the same man? ;)

My DH just started to be willing to eat yogurt in the morning - his past breakfasts were either a York Peppermint Pattie & a diet coke, or a Pop Tart. It makes my stomach hurt to think about it!