One meal often over looked is breakfast, it’s the most important meal of the day by a long way, and can set you up for either a good, productive day or a day of no concentration and tiredness. Plus it’s the only meal that you can eat all different foodstuffs under the guise of one meal. I try never to miss it, and when I do, I normally feel pretty rough.
There is not really any excuse for you to miss breakfast, however busy you are. Even places like Starbucks do a little pot of porridge, you can grab with your morning coffee. Or better still those pots of Grasshopper porridge that you can make on the go, and take with you to work. Plus they taste great.
As promisedI have teamed up with my GF at http://francescasfitkitchen.blogspot.com/ to create some Nutrition tips and recipes for you.
The foundation of any good breakfast is some slow acting carbs. Porridge is the king.
Porridge
I always start breakfast with porridge. It is a brilliant food to fuel your furnace and essentially break your fasting. Rolled oats, full of fiber (please no instant, processed Ready break!), beats any so-called "nutritious" cereal that I have ever come across, hands down.
I cook my porridge as follows:
• 1 cup of oats to 1 cup of hot water straight from the kettle
Being such a blank canvas, you can add all sorts to your porridge, allowing your tastebuds not to get bored and keeping your stomach satisfied. I keep a mixture of protein rich nuts and seeds and detoxifying dried berries in airtight containers for quick, tasty add-ons. Porridge loves almost anything it goes with so give these ideas a try;
Cinnamon (a metabolism booster) and grated apple
Swap your cereal for this super food, and your body, as well as your training routine, will reap the rewards of a real breakfast instantly!
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