Stuck in a breakfast rut? If your standard eggs, oatmeal, toast, and other typical morning fare is making you yawn, it's probably time to liven things up. Adding splashes of color to your breakfast awakens the senses and boosts nutrition, too.
Incorporating colorful fruits and vegetables (we're not talking Froot Loops here!) is often an easy, healthy way to make breakfast more interesting to the eyes as well as the tastebuds. It can be as simple as studding a bowl of yogurt with more seasonal fruits like mixed citrus or topping toast with juicy tomatoes or bright green avocado and red pepper flakes.
It might mean looking around your kitchen for a minute and playing with ideas like putting salad on your oatmeal. If you usually drink pink berry smoothies, switch things up and make a green one, and vice versa. Or try a meze-style breakfast that incorporates lots of colors, textures, and flavors.
What colorful foods are you eating for breakfast this week?
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Love this idea! We've begun frying peach slices in coconut oil to go with our eggs. Even better was when my housemate was from India. He used to make us dahl (curry) for dinner. In the mornings I'd have to be up by 5 am and pound ice off my car in the freezing rain (we lived in Kittery, Maine). I'd run in to have some of that curry before work. How great to have yellow bright spicy dahl before work to warm me up.
I eat breakfast at work - I buy the fancy Dorset Cereals porridge sachets and cook them in the microwave. They have raspberries, date, pumpkin seed and barley flakes in and they're lovely. I can't stomach anything too sweet or heavy that early in the morning so something fairly bland and oaty is good. I can't even stomach my favourite avocado toast before 9am.
Yum! I'm trying to cut down on grains/wheat, so I've started adding sautéed greens to my breakfasts to bulk them up. I love spinach, just wilted in coconut oil, along-side a fried egg. I also recently made a simple frittata with radish greens. It was super delicious and filling! Here's that recipe - http://foodrefuge.blogspot.com/2013/02/bitter-greens-frittata.html
Thanks for this great post!
Im obsessing on quinoa and leek cakes with steamed spinach and pico de gallo for breakfast this week. Totally filling and gorgeous to look at.
Thanks doll,
The Glamorous Housewife
I vote blue and red! I I make blue corn pancakes in with a mixed berry syrup and all-natural red velvet pancakes. Both amazingly delicious, light and fluffy, and easy to make. Bonus: both recipes are gluten-free.
www.freshnessgf.com/blue-corn-pancakes-with-mixed-berry-syrup/
www.freshnessgf.com/all-natural-red-velvet-pancakes/
i routinely make avocado mash for my boyfriend and i. 1 avocado + a pinch each of salt, pepper, red pepper flakes and garlic powder + 2 slices of whole wheat toast each. very few breakfasts come close to this simple guy.
we also jazz up our home fries by adding in as much colour as we can. in one pan, we'll get our potatoes going and in another, we'll cook up colourful peppers, edamames, tomatoes, spinach, whatever you have around. add in some garlic power, salt and pepper and paprika. when the veg is just about done cooking, put in a can of beans. we like white beans because of the colouring, but once again whatever you have around is good. then toss with your cooked potatoes and you're set.
I LOVE these baked eggs over greens with garlicky yogurt and spiced butter; it's a great way to eat leftover cooked greens for breakfast. And this savory oatmeal with curry, greens, and caramelized onions is another favorite breakfast of mine. And I agree that you can't go wrong with avocados for breakfast!