3 Breakfast Recipes...

So to continue along my post from last night, I thought I would post 3 recipes that I've been making lately for breakfast. I've always been an egg lover and from previous posts you may have seen different ways I've served eggs to Huddo and to myself and Troy but in adapting the '6 Meals A Day' lifestyle I've switched things up accordingly and now do eggs in my 'meal 2' and this generally falls around Huddo's morning tea time so he has 2 hard boiled eggs for his morning tea with his cup of milk.

RECIPE 1: IMMUNITY BOOSTING MUSELI (for grown ups)
Most days Troy and I are having oats with a cup of berries, tablespoon of flaxseed oil and 50mL of Almond milk (Troy has Trim Milk and no flaxseed oil) But once a week as you saw in the previous post I make up a batch of 'Immunity Boosting Museli'. This was a recipe I got from Oxygen Magazine (April/May 2012 Issue) and I now just interchange different ingredients in it from week to week.

The original recipe is (in brackets are some substitutes/variations I've used)
These quantities make 2 serves. (adjust accordingly to how many serves you'd like, I make enough for 4-5 generally)

Ingredients:
1/2 cup oats
1 cup of non-fat plain greek yoghurt
1 tablespoon ground flaxseeds (I've been using Pura Veda for something different the last couple of weeks, have used Chia seeds)
1 tablespoon crushed/chopped almonds
1 tsp cinnamon (I also use 1/2 teaspoon of ground ginger and 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg)
1 cup fresh mixed berries
1 tablespoon 100% maple syrup (I don't use maple syrup to avoid the sugar I use Xylitol)

Method:
1. Stir oats into yoghurt
2. Mix in ground flaxseeds and crushed almonds.
3. Stir in cinnamon and mix.
4. Toss berries and stir in syrup. Refrigerate overnight.

Some info on this recipe when made with original ingredients-
Cals: 242, Total fats: 5g, Saturated fat: 0.5g, Trans fat: 0g, Sodium 36mg, Carbs: 36g, Sugar: 18g (by switching in the xylitol you lower this big time) Protein 16g, Iron: 1mg.

RECIPE 2: BANANA RICE (for little people....and grown ups too if you like the sound of it :) )
For my Huddo...well he has decided he's not into porridge this winter so for a nice warm carby brekky for him I have been making him

1 cup of cooked brown rice, 1 banana mashed and splash of full cream milk and heated in the microwave (I have a massive bowl of brown rice on the go in the fridge these days so even tho the rice is cooked it's generally cold) for 25 seconds. It's currently his favourite breakfast.

RECIPE 3: PROTEIN PANCAKES (for grown ups)
for a kiddy version please see my post from earlier in the year. (I use a different protein powder for Hudson)

Ingredients:
150g Gluten-free self raising flour (yep I go with the better tummy options these days)
pinch of salt
300ml of Almond milk
1 egg
2 scoops of your protein powder of choice
1/4 flaxseed meal

Method:
1) Sift flour into a bowl and add remaining ingredients and whisk well.
2) Cook in a fry pan on high heat. I cook these using Nuttelex Olive Lite. Remember best time to flip a pancake is when there are some serious bubbles occurring.

This mix should give you about 8-11 pancakes.

For anyone who suffers with a bit of a funny tummy, something that I've personally been doing first thing when I get up is having a glass (250ml) of warm-hot water with the juice of half a lemon squeezed into it. By drinking this it assists with clearing the mucus in the digestive tract that can build up through the night so that by the time you have your first meal for the day things are bit clearer through there and function a bit better. (Anyone who is a fan of the Blood Type Diet this is particularly beneficial for Type A's.) The difference I've found with this is amazing.

Hope you all had a great start to the week. :)

What stuff this Mummy has been up to lately...

The days just seems to be flying by and what do you know.....I'm now only 2 months away from celebrating my Huddo's 2nd birthday. Even though we aren't having a party this year I'm already deep in research for making him an extra special birthday cake and today Troy and I scoped out the Target Toy Sale to get ideas as to what we will get him for pressies. Decisions decisions.

I've been staying well and truly on track with my fitness goals and hitting new highs each week, whether it is running a distance in a better time, lifting heavier weights in a strength training session or being able to run at a faster pace on the treadmill for my sprint intervals. (got up to 17km/hr for 1 minute on Friday on my 5th sprint interval....I nearly died, cried and squealed all at the same time!)

The saying generally is with fitness and transformations that 20% of the result is from training, 80% is from nutrition. Troy has been working really hard also and we have well and truly adapted the '6 Meals a day' lifestyle. The organisational skills I've had to step up have been huge to keep on top of the food for this little family of three and as well as keeping on track with the health side as always I'm mindful of waste and being economical. I'm actually in the process of a little experiment and planning to share tips into the costs of planning of how all three of us are eating our own catered meal plans but keeping cost and time effective.

To give you a peek into the world of 'food prep' in my house...things look a little like this:

This is an example of a breakfast that I make for Troy and I and there was 5 portions there for 3 days worth for Troy and 2 days for me. I have been doing this will so many meals because ultimately everything I do I aim to be so efficient as my favourite thing to do is play with my Huddo. He's really getting into puzzles and so many activities that I pretty much am his main play mate. Things aren't all sunshine and rainbows by any means though, we are starting to see glimpses of the 'terrible twos' and tantrums seem to be getting more frequent. But all the more reason to be organised so that I have the time to be with my little man and keep him busy and well distracted. :)