Eating a healthy breakfast is the key to maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Breakfast gets your metabolism going in the morning, fuels your mind as well as body for the day and keeps you from eating a whole pizza at lunch because by noon you are starving!<\/p>\n
Your mother always said, \u201cBreakfast is the most important meal of the day,\u201d and she was right! But like many of our Mom\u2019s\u2026 she stated this as she was dishing up a giant stack of pancakes and a rasher of bacon! So what you eat is just as important as when you eat it.<\/p>\n
A healthy breakfast can also really set the tone for your eating habits the rest of the day. If you have already broken your healthy eating pattern in the am by skipping breakfast or digging into the donut box, the motivation to keep it up the rest of the day is going to be hard to muster up.<\/p>\n
So keep breakfast healthy with whole grain cereal with fresh berries (pick a cereal with low sugar and high protein \u2013 I like Kashi<\/a>! I love their frozen whole grain waffles too), a bowl of oatmeal topped with a few raw almonds and a dollop of low fat or fat free yogurt, load up on fresh fruits, scrambled egg whites with veggies \u2013 or if your on the run, grab a yogurt and a some nuts, or blend up a quick smoothie to drink on your way to work.<\/p>\n There are a ton of great frozen fruits available to toss in your smoothie. Trader Joes <\/a>has a great Tropical Fruit Trio (mango, pineapple, papaya tossed in passion fruit juice) and Costco has giant bags of frozen NW berries that are super flavorful and super reasonably priced.<\/p>\n You can totally get creative with your smoothies too! I\u2019ve created a recipe with the Trader Joe\u2019s Tropical Fruit Trio, non-fat yogurt and some agave nectar\u2014which is a low-glycemic sweetener (you can always use honey or a packet of no-cal sweeter too). I\u2019ve also added some flax seed and a protein powder boost option\u2026 but go ahead — add some banana, OJ etc \u2013 or whatever strikes your fancy. It will jump-start your day!<\/p>\n Most of the time, people don\u2019t eat breakfast because they don\u2019t give themselves enough time to make something before they have to be out the door.\u00a0 So just give breakfast a little more planning time and you\u2019ll be out the door every morning on the right foot for 2011!<\/p>\n \n Kathy\u2019s Jump-Start Smoothie<\/strong> Makes 1 serving<\/p>\n 1\/2 cup frozen fruits \u2013 such as Trader Joe\u2019s Tropical Fruit Trio Place ingredients in the order above and blend until smooth. Enjoy your healthy start to a great day!<\/p>\n \u00a9 2011 Kathy Casey Food Studios\u00ae<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eating a healthy breakfast is the key to maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Breakfast gets your metabolism going in the morning, fuels your mind as well as body for the day and keeps you from eating a whole pizza at lunch because by noon you are starving! Your mother always said, \u201cBreakfast is the most important […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11760],"tags":[2018,1450,1182,1184,18,2019,2016,2020,2021,730,1608,1643,2022,2023,2024,1353,2025,1029,2026,2027,11865,11860,2028,2029,2030,969,1927,11870,2031,1682,2032,11857,11859,2033,2034,2035,2017,2036,2037,2038,2039,1701],"class_list":["post-1352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dishing-with-kathy-casey-blog","tag-agave-nectar","tag-almonds","tag-banana","tag-berries","tag-breakfast","tag-cereal","tag-costco-nw-berries","tag-egg-whites","tag-fat-free","tag-flax-seed","tag-frozen","tag-fruits","tag-grain","tag-healthy-breakfast","tag-high-protein","tag-ice","tag-ice-cubes","tag-juice","tag-kashi","tag-kathys-jump-start-smoothie","tag-komo-radio","tag-lifestyle","tag-low-sugar","tag-low-fat","tag-metabolism","tag-mother","tag-orange-juice","tag-other","tag-passion-fruit","tag-plain-yogurt","tag-protein-powder","tag-recent","tag-recipes","tag-scrambled-eggs","tag-smoothie","tag-sweetener","tag-trader-joes-tropical-fruit-trio","tag-trader-joes","tag-veggies","tag-vita-mix","tag-waffles","tag-yogurt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThis recipe is a great basic smoothie recipe\u2026 there are lots of things you can get creative with. Add a tablespoon of protein powder, a banana, change up the frozen fruits, add a dash of OJ or fat-free milk if you like your smoothie less thick or if you have a \u201cchallenged blender.” And if you love smoothies- be sure to get yourself a good blender. I love my Vita Mix<\/a>!<\/p>\n
\n1\/2 cup fat-free or low-fat plain yogurt
\n2 Tbsp agave nectar (or sub honey or a packet of no-cal sweetener)
\n1\/2 cup ice cubes
\n1\/2 \u2013 1 teaspoon flax seed (the more seeds \u2013 the more \u201ctexture\u201d)<\/p>\n