Plan Breakfast
Your Healthy Breakfast Is Important
Breakfast Is The Good Start For Your Day
Breakfast, like any other meal of the day, needs proper planning. No longer is it planned independently of the other meals. The three meals should be planned as a unit and balanced against the daily body requirement with enough allowance for good health.
A light breakfast must necessarily be followed be a substantial meal, while a heavy breakfast must be followed by a light lunch. If both breakfast and lunch are light, then a heavy dinner is needed. Meal Planning is important for this reason.
Like all meals, breakfast must be planned to include food nutrients not provided for or inadequately found in the two other meals to complete the essential body requirements for the day.
Too often, skimpy breakfasts are because of the lack of time. Considering that one-fourth to one-third of the days requirements is served at breakfast, the need for planning ahead is doubly justified. With practice, you can get in the habit of getting the right foods to get moving with while not losing any time because you are in a hurry. The noticeable changes will be few at first, but over time the good habits of the right foods in the morning will make a big difference.
Breakfast is meant to break the fast of several hours.
The factors affecting the nature of the breakfast menu will depend upon age, sex, weight, health, and kind of activities of the individual family members. Other factors to consider are the amount of time allotted for its preparation by one or several family members, or by a hired helper and how light, moderate, or heavy other meals during the day are intended to be. Family custom may have to contend with all of these, although strictly speaking, this must not prevail upon the more important factors. You must have a good breakfast in order to get your day off to a good start. And, you must eat the right foods. Eating the right foods for breakfast will get your body primed for fat burning the energy needs of the beginning of the day.
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Many Foods Will Satisfy The Breakfast Needs
Breakfast should always include a raw fruit or juice because this contains more vitamins and minerals than cooked ones. Fresh ripe fruits have a rich mellow aroma that can stimulate even the most delicate appetite. It should be taken as the first course of the meal for the same reason.
Fresh eggs are good breakfast food because they are rich in complete protein, fat, iron, calcium, phosphorus, vitamins A & B, and niacin. They are also easy to prepare and digest. They can be fried, poached, soft-cooked, hard-cooked, scrambled, or prepared as an omelet.
Rice and other cereals are the main fuel contributors in breakfast. Rice is cooked plain or sautéed in small amount of oil and garlic. Corn broiled and lightly buttered is a practical American way that can be adopted anywhere where corn is available.
Milk is the almost complete food and is welcome at any meal. At breakfast, milk is popular as a beverage or taken with coffee, chocolate, oatmeal, and other cereals. Milk should be bought from sanitary and reliable sources. Fresh milk is safer if pasteurized before serving.
Breakfast breads may be in the form of rolls, buns, loaf bread, biscuits, waffles, or hot cakes. Breads can be toasted and served with butter or fruit jam like strawberry. Waffles, hotcakes, and French toast are good for heavy and substantial breakfast. Rolls with butter and jam, jelly, or marmalade are suitable for heavy breakfast, too, especially if taken with a heavy protein dish and chocolate. Not too much sugar, of course. Stuffed biscuits or flat bread with a little meat or protein will be a choice as well.
Get Your Day Off To A Good Start
Everyone should know that breakfast is the start of the day. Whether on a a diet or just having a regular breakfast, it's important to have something, anything. If you can not make a good breakfast or a planned one, then you should at least grab something on the go. A sweet bun or a couple of bananas will at least get the day off to a good start.
Here's a sample planner that may help you to get an idea for your breakfast menus.
