Brunch Recipes (Most Popular)
Very yummy! Serve as a shortcake with fresh fruit (berries or peaches), a big dollop of fat free greek yogurt, and a sprinkle of sliced almonds on top!
These whole grain waffles are full of nutrition and are the great way to get full to start an active weekend. My husband will ride 40+ miles today and I'll run a 10K.
Serve with Turkey bacon and Strawberry Syrup.
This a great breakfast for the week. make ahead fridge warm up in microwave.
This is a low carb salad when you need something "green" with your meal! Very easy and can substitute blueberries for any berry:strawberry, cranberry, raspberry you name it! You can make a single serving for yourself or enough to last the week!
You can easily change the cinnamon to another flavoring and add your choice of fruits or nuts to customize. Adding a whole cup of frozen blueberries only adds about 8 calories per muffin.
2 servings
I use a high-fibre whole grain bread. You can reduce calories with another bread choice.
The leftover egg mixture may be drizzled over sandwiches during cooking or can be scrambled to eat with your French toast.
For 4 smaller servings you could also make as traditional French toast, adding the cream cheese and fruit on top after cooking.
Other cheeses and fruit may be tried to come up with your own favourite recipe. If you require a protein boost, you could add your favourite protein powder to the milk mixture (I would increase amount of milk used) or even sprinkle the protein powder on top in place of or with the powdered sugar.
Optional ingredients not included in nutritional information.
I call this "Breakfast Cake" - it's like a loose oatmeal cake, that you eat warm, with milk, like cereal.
Lower Calorie Baked Oatmeal
Cream together:
4 egg-beaters
1 cup sugar
1 cup Splenda
1 cup Smart Balance butter
Add:
2 T baking powder
1 t salt
2 cups skim milk
6 cups oats
2 T chopped nuts (optional - adds ___ calories)
2 T brown sugar
1 t cinnamon
Turn batter in to ungreased 9x13 inch cake pan.
Sprinkle with brown sugar and cinnamon.
Bake 20 minutes at 350. Serve warm with milk.
These are pumpkin muffins with a healthy, hearty twist...the addition of Vermont, pure maple syrup and flax meal.
Tasty and healthy version of a classic summer bread.
See tips below for making your own almond meal!
145 calories each, but they are dense and kinda big so they"re really filling
They freeze well also. I make a large batch and freeze them. Then I can just pop one in the microwave for a minute for my kids or myself in the morning.
Lovely hoummous (85g per 1/4)
Can add lots of lovely things - roast pepper, onion, olives etc etc