Breakfast challenge

[Spectre]

Hi folks,
I'm in the UK and I have a challenge for you.
It's for a breakfast to replace the carb-stuffed cereal & coffee breakfast I shouldn't be eating any more. My lifestyle is busy and I currently don't cook at all - my partner Vicki does it all, but I can't impose on her to cook breakfasts every day and besides I don't like cooked breakfasts.
I need a breakfast meal which is not cooked, can be made in seconds (i.e. out of the packet and on to a plate/into a bowl), is filling, tasty, cheap and widely available (in the UK).
I.e. carb-free version of Branflakes and milk plus a cup of lovely caffeine-rich coffee.
If I can find something I like, I'll have it every day like I currently do with the cereal.
I'm going to drop dead soon if I don't sort myself out. Can you help?
Thanks in advance. :joy

[pammie]

can you boil eggs? boil up a dozen at one time and leave them in the fridge.

assortment of cheeses and cold cuts

pre made and bagged salads

mock danish, cooks in 2 minutes in the microwave and can be made ahead of time and eaten cold

celery with cream cheese

half a tomato with olive oil and mozzerella

[Spectre]

Hi Pammie,
actually yes I love boiled eggs, cheese and cold meats.
And I could survive on a breakfast of those.
But they aren't really my idea of a breakfast. I guess it's my sweet tooth but I consider Branflakes with sprinkling of Crunchy Nut Cornflakes to sweeten and milk as a 'sweet' and cold cuts and cheeses as a savoury meal.
Plus I want to avoid eggs for beakfast since I'll brobably be having a couple for lunch and a couple for dinner, too.
I'm starting off here with fairly Atkins-unfriendly taste buds.
I'll have real problems with salads (which I consider to be for rabbits) unless they are swamped in salad cream and especially celery which I detest. And tomatos which I don't like. And I don't particularly like fish, either. So a some of the menus which you fine folk spend so much time putting together don't appeal to me.

If only there were a zero carb. corkflakes which cost the same as normal cornflakes. mmm I'd still be stuck with the milk.
I wonder how many other people have come from a McDonalds and Pizza Hut oriented diet to attempt Atkins only to find that they end up eating steak, eggs and cheese for the first 2 days - get sick of steak, eggs and cheese - and then fall foul of the rice pudding the kids leftover?! :no

[saoirse]

I haven't seen any prepared products that you can pop onto a plate or bowl that are Atkin's friendly. With Atkin's you have to make a conscious decision to do the right things i.e. eating whole natural foods and staying away from "frankenfood"(foods that have been processed so that they really aren't foods anymore). I read your other post about what you eat for breakfast and there were some good suggestions for you as what you can have such as leftovers. You don't have to have a "typical" breakfast. Pammie has some excellent ideas for you. You have to be prepared or you may slip back into your old ways. If you aren't a morning person get it ready the night before.

[JoanOH]

I make flax cereal and love it. Like you, I need to have something that tastes like breakfast! I do cook, but I don't care for eggs. Here's my recipe, or you can find Book's recipe up in the recipe section.

1 cup flax seed (or you can use flax meal)
1 cup unprocessed wheat bran
1/2 cup vanilla whey protein
1 tbsp Splenda
1/2 tbsp Cinnamon
1/4 tsp salt

Put all ingredients in a blender and grind it up. Put in a ziplock bag or other airtight container and store in fridge.

To make the cereal, simply place 2-3 tbsp of the mixture in a bowl, add enough water to make a very thin mixture (stir well!), microwave for 45 seconds, and stir again. Some folks like to add butter and cream to the mixture once it's cooked; I prefer mine "as is".

It tastes a bit like thin Cream of Wheat. It will take one or two times to get used to the texture -- it's different. But by the third time you'll (hopefully) love the stuff! Warning: 2-3 tbsp is the limit of flax/fiber per day and to go over that can cause constipation!

Joan J

[Spectre]

Ok, sounds interesting. Never heard of flax. I'll have to see where we can get it in this country.
Thanks

[Edit : can't get flax in the UK unless you buy it from expensive specialist suppliers. So thanks for the suggestion but it's a no-goer, I'm afraid.]

[indydog]

I posted this in your induction post...

Spectre - part of this WOE is making significant changes to your diet. You need to change your mindset a little. Most breakfast options need to be precooked, therefore you'll want to precook things you like the night before, on Sundays for the week, etc. Millions of precooked options for breakfast - chicken salad, tuna, ham and cheese wraps, broccoli and cheese, other cooked veggies like cauliflower and cheese (kind of like a warm cereal). Also, flax meal is not something you need to precook. 1-2 string cheeses along with a no carb deli meat could work (roast beef?)

I have an extraordinarily busy schedule and find time to precook food for during the week. Get over your "yuk" perspective and you'll find things you like... or you can eat things you moderately like and lose weight. Your choice.

Good luck.

Indy

[Spectre]

Thanks everyone for your encouragement.
I'm well into week 2 and despite picking up a McDonalds for the kids and having cakes and delicious 'low fat' chocolate and cream mousses wafted cruelly under my nose, I've not strayed.
My breakfast of choice is 2 eggs scrambled on a slice of ham.
Quick and easy, tasty and filling. The only down side is that I'm having at least 2 eggs every day. Some days with the other meals it goes up to 5.

[ConnieO]

"It tastes a bit like thin Cream of Wheat. It will take one or two times to get used to the texture -- it's different. But by the third time you'll (hopefully) love the stuff! Warning: 2-3 tbsp is the limit of flax/fiber per day and to go over that can cause constipation!

Joan J

I would like to try this, but too much causes constipation?
I would have thought the opposite! ensive

[MotherOfGizmo]

"It tastes a bit like thin Cream of Wheat. It will take one or two times to get used to the texture -- it's different. But by the third time you'll (hopefully) love the stuff! Warning: 2-3 tbsp is the limit of flax/fiber per day and to go over that can cause constipation!

Joan J

I would like to try this, but too much causes constipation?
I would have thought the opposite! ensive

Actually, it can go either way--too much fiber can cause constipation but it can also cause the opposite. A healthy amount of fiber will "regulate" things!

[KS]

I agree. I'm sick of eggs for breakfast! My idea of a great summer breakfast is cereal (or muesli) with chopped up fruit and cold milk. I'm into my 2nd month of Atkins Induction and the weight is ssslllooowwwlly dropping off, but how I hate cooked eggs and bacon every day. So I've swapped to foods with a low GI - same idea as Atkins, eat foods which slowly release energy but instead, don't count the carbs - pick low GI's.

[Jme]

I am starting 8/25 and need some meal ideas

I am new and start tomorrow..and I was thinking of what I will eat during the day ...Can anyone help me with some ideas. The only thing I really don't care for is fish. :help

Thanks in Advance and I am exciting to get started.

Jamie

[book]

This is my usual pattern

either a bowl of flax* and a sausage patty, or the sausage and 2 eggs

lunch-salad with fresh spinach and mushrooms, maybe 2 chicken legs or other protein, full fat dressing

dinner-one of the 'one cup' veggies, often turnip or broccoli with added butter of course, with more protein, often roast or a pork chop


my snack is usually a little tuna salad, especially after my exercise.

*flax info here

http://www.atkinsdietbulletinboard.com/viewtopic.php?t=20019

[Luvschweetheart]

Joan J & your breakfast cereal

1 cup flax seed (or you can use flax meal)
1 cup unprocessed wheat bran
1/2 cup vanilla whey protein
1 tbsp Splenda
1/2 tbsp Cinnamon
1/4 tsp salt

Is this induction friendly?? I would hope so, sure would like something else beside eggs and bacon, ect...

[cpowers]

I don't know how old this thread is but....

I have a problem with breakfast and time also. I bought some frozen pre-cooked sausage patties (2 carbs) and this week I found frozen pre-cooked egg patties at Walmart (made from real eggs!)! (1 Carb each)

So I have been warming them up- it takes 1 minute for each. I add a little cheese and voila!