Breakfast with benefits: how to make your first meal of the day healthier

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. The reasoning for it, it’s the first meal you have after spending hours asleep. Hence it is advisable to begin your day with a healthy meal. Admittedly, breakfast time is a complicated period, between figuring what you will wear, routes you’ll use to avoid traffic and the workload waiting for you in the office. It is chaos. So it only makes sense for one to grab the easiest and quickest thing they can find in the kitchen. More often than not, it compromises of a few slices of bread or cereal and a banana. Which are consumed in the car, because we all know how morning rush hour traffic is set up.

But a salvation has been found, below are a few tricks  that can help you turn your insanely sweet and carb loaded breakfast healthy. Best part is that they can be made ahead of time and stored in the fridge:

1.Replacing traditional cereal with granola or muesli- granola consists of baked grains, nuts and dried fruit. Muesli consists of rolled oats, nuts, seeds, and dried fruit. Both options are packed with fiber, protein and antioxidants that are amazing for your body in the morning. The two can be eaten with natural yogurt as the fruits provide the much needed sugar.

You can store the granola and muesli in mason gars and purchase travel size yogurt cups. Alas, you have yourself a healthy breakfast on the go.

2.Replacing the white bread with brown- brown bread comes in various forms containing different grains and fiber. A popular option is the 7 seeds brown bread. It contains Barley, Brown Rice, Corn, Millet, Oats, Rye, and Whole Wheat. These grains pack a healthy punch and will keep you fuller for longer. You can treat the brown bread just like any other bread that you are familiar with.

3. Out with the butter and margarine, in with the avocado spread- a great option for sprucing up your brown bread toast is by adding an avocado spread. The spread is quite easy, just mash up a ripe avocado and spread it on your freshly toasted bread. Viola. A healthy and delicious breakfast. Avocado is packed with healthy fats and nutrients.

4. Don’t just fry your eggs, make a muffin out of them- egg muffins are a cute and new way of enjoying your eggs and veggies all wrapped up in one. As the name suggests, the eggs are cooked in muffin tins and the best part is that they are baked and not fried. There are many variations to the recipe, you can take all the components of a Spanish omelet and instead of placing the mixture in a hot pan, pour in equal amounts into the muffin tin and bake until done. These freeze well, just individually wrap them in some kitchen serviettes plus parchment paper and pop them in the freezer. They’ll serve you for a good 2 weeks.

5. Try drinking tea instead of coffee- Coffee is literally the flue that propels us through the day so the concept of removing it from your breakfast is a bit daunting. But substituting tea for coffee can allocate you more energy during the day and not leave you on a serious caffeine high. Tea options are in the hundreds and you can purchase the flavored tea bags that don’t really require you to add sugar.

Before trying any new food options, it is important to take into consideration allergies. You may not be aware of an allergen until consuming a certain food item. With that said, happy eating.