Breakfast

Breakfast

Friends are often asking us for meal plans - ideas and lists of what we eat, so I thought I would make this post about breakfast.  As many of you know, Paul was a big bagel eater prior to our diet change.  He stopped every day at St. Louis Bread Company (Panera) for a coffee and blueberry bagel.  Well, the diet plan did NOT include bagels, so he had a big adjustment to make.  After some searching, he found a replacement....apples with almond butter.

He LOVES apples and almond butter.  He slices the apples and smears delicious Trader Joe's raw unsalted almond butter on the slices and eats them just about every morning. 
When he doesn't eat apples or *gasp* we are OUT of almond butter, he generally eats fruit:  grapefruit and cantaloupe are his favorite breakfast fruits.  When he eats fruit he will often have a Larabar (found in most grocery stores in the energy bar section) as a mid morning snack.  Larabars are made of fruit and nuts - that's all - there is a wide range of flavors.  Some we like, some we don't.  Our favs are cashew, lemon, and apple.

I am not completely dairy or grain free - but I do limit them greatly and choose only low fat dairy and whole grain options.  I will often have greek yogurt and granola in the morning when I am not having fruit or apples and almond butter. 

Occasionally we have poached or hard boiled eggs in the morning.  When we first started the new diet, we had eggs more frequently - I still think having some hard boiled eggs ready to go is a great option for breakfast or a mid morning snack.