Breakfast on the go!

[mosaic]

Hey everyone!

I always eat my breakfast in the car on the way to work, since I leave the house at the crack of dawn. Generally, this means I warm up and take with me one of those giant poppyseed muffins from Costco. I recently learned just how unhealthy those fat-laden things are. Since I'm trying to lose weight and become more healthy, I'm

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[louderback]

How about some of those soup in a cup dishes. Most of them can be drunk from the container without need of utensils. *Some* of them must be healthy.

I can toast a wheat mini-bagel in 1 minute flat. A couple of those with a spread of something nutritious could be quite filling and offers some fiber too.

[mosaic]

I'm not sure how I feel about soup first thing in the morning, but the bagel is a good idea! Thanks!

[ardentdelirium]

there are breakfast versions, although I can't remember the brand name right now--they're oatmeals, I think, probably to be found in the cereal aisle or the natural foods cereal aisle

[usedsoup]

i do the soup-at-hand thing on the way to work. but i like the 70-calorie chicken noodle one, but since the OP doesn't eat meat, that wouldn't work. and i know for a fact that brocoli cheese in the morning is kind of unpleasant. haha.

/bringing nothing to the table.

[xchristinax]

Bake your own muffins! They'll provide breakfast for at least a week! Here are two recipes I love

[mosaic]

I really should bake my own, huh? I usually make some large meal like a pot of soup or a lasanga over the weekend so I can take lunches to work. I should start doing the same for my breakfast!

Thanks for the recipes, too!

[xchristinax]

Yea... the banana bread is pretty buttery but the buttermilk muffins are very hearty and delicious. I know it's funny to call a milk-sugar-flour-oil recipe "hearty" but that's what they are. I usually pop them in the microwave for 20 seconds to heat them up before eating them.

[mosaic]

I have a couple of different buttermilk muffin recipes that I love, and I agree that they are very hearty!

[wish_you_would]

Please don't tell the OP what you think is unhealthy. They asked for help not your opinion. Some of us don't have a choice on whether we eat sitting down or on the run.

[mosaic]

Thanks for sticking up for me. :)

[xchristinax]

There is nothing unhealthy about eating while driving as opposed to eating while sitting at your kitchen table. Honestly. What's next - eating out of a big bowl is unhealthy because you want to fill it up and eat more?? FOOD is healthy or unhealthy. Not the circumstances surrounding its consumption.

[zaydia]

I'm on the south beach diet, and there are a few things I can suggest.

One is making "egg muffins" basically fritattas in muffin form. Another is a piece of fruit and some yogurt when you get into the office.

http://www.kalynskitchen.com has a lot of south beach diet friendly recipes. click breakfast on the left to see the breakfast recipes.

[meredithsg]

I second the mini fritatta - we have them for lunch all the time

[mosaic]

Thanks so much for the info and the link!!

[mschaos]

you can make your own muffins (pumpkin is awesome and high fiber and low fat

[mschaos]

this is what I use too and it is vegan (and everyone I know gobbles them up)

I also double the recipe and add a can of pumpkin instead of the extra bananas - yummy!

http://crueltyfreekitchen.blogspot.com/2008/03/banana-ginger-bread-with-recipe.html

[mosaic]

That sounds really good! Thanks for the recipe!