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Sunday, September 27, 2009

Breakfast Foods Are The Most Important Foods in a Healthy Diet

By Jamis Hartley

Eating the right breakfast foods at the start of your day is a very important step that should not be excluded regardless of how busy or rushed you might be. Getting a good start in the morning will pay much better dividends in energy levels and possibly reduced waistline.

The ready made breakfast foods purchased at your local grocer are typically very high in sugar content. It might be fast and it certainly is easy, but it isn't going to last. Our bodies need energy and the sugar we love in the morning is so quickly burned off you will find yourself wanting more before the morning is through.

There are a lot of things to get done at the beginning of everyday. With two working parents and young kids doing their best to be on time for the bus, getting the balanced nutrition in our breakfast foods becomes a major challenge.

Realistically, it can be the last thing you think of it in the morning, if you do some planning. Doing a little pre-planning to make breakfast foods that will give your body the right balance of great taste and good nutrition is worth the effort.

Many of us don't do breakfast foods because we simply don't think of it. The best time to worry about breakfast, particularly if you're a busy household, isn't in the morning. Getting breakfast ready may be done on the weekend or the evening when you've got a few minutes to spare.

Involving the rest of the family in the pre-planning stages is a good idea too. Ask the kids what they would like to have for their Wednesday meal. Helping them understand what is healthy or not healthy will be much easier done in this setting than during the wild goings on of the morning. You could even have them participate in cooking a few things over the weekend. If they have helped cook it, they will likely be happy to eat it.

If the kids have some input into whats going to be on their plate they are a lot more likely to eat it. If they have a hand in making those breakfast foods, they are not only more likely to eat them, but also to take some lessons in pre-planning and a good healthy breakfast that may stick with them.

The weekend is a great time when the mornings are a little less hurried. So, why not add an extra dozen muffins to the oven and wrap them for Monday and Tuesday? When the evening meal rolls around and you're making that delicious coffee cake for dessert, make it from whole wheat flour and make two. Two pans don't take any longer to mix up than one, and offer you a good choice of breakfast foods for the weekdays when time is at a premium.

Give yourself an edge when it comes to breakfast foods by making them ahead of time and getting what you and your kids like, and what your body needs. The advantages you get from using good grains and avoiding processed cereals will be apparent in the extra energy that you feel at work or school. - 17273

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