Dig In To These Great Breakfast Ideas - By: Virginia Butters

Diet breakfast recipes can help you start your nutritional day off on the right foot. Instead of skipping breakfast and making up the difference in snacks the rest of the day, take the time to eat a healthy meal in the morning. With a little planning, it can also be one of the most delicious and energizing meals you eat all day.

Enjoying a healthy breakfast can give you an edge on controlling hunger later in the day. When you have breakfast, you replenish stores of glucose which diminish between the last meal of the day when we awake the following morning. These stores of glucose provide us with immediate access to energy, and making sure they're preserved leads to a refreshed feeling in the morning. Studies have shown that people who eat breakfast tend to be more physically active throughout the day than people who do not.

Skipping breakfast amounts to fasting, which can raise insulin levels and in turn increase fat storage, causing weight gain. This means that if you're trying to lose weight, skipping breakfast is one of the worst things you can do. If you skip breakfast, you're also more likely to overeat during later meals.

As part of a healthy diet, breakfast recipes should be balanced, containing carbohydrates, proteins, and fiber. This combination will provide you with long-lasting energy. When you're on a diet, breakfast recipes that feature healthy foods can help you stay on track all day. Dieticians have observed that people who eat nutritious breakfasts tend to make healthier food choices throughout the day, and have an easier time resisting high-fat, high-sugar snacks.

Here's a diet breakfast recipe guaranteed to awaken your tastebuds, refresh your body, and give you the energy boost you need to get you through the morning without succumbing to a trip to the vending machines. If you prepare it the night before, having a delicious, nutritious breakfast ready in the morning is as easy as opening the refrigerator door. This recipe makes enough for two servings.

Diet Breakfast Recipe: Good Morning Breakfast Blend

Ingredients:

*1 tablespoon lime juice
*1 tablespoon honey
*3 tablespoons low-fat vanilla yogurt
*2 ripe bananas
*1 cup blueberries
*1 peach, cored and diced
*1 cup grapes, any variety
*1/2 cup walnuts

Combine the first three ingredients in a large bowl and whisk together thoroughly. Fold in the fruit and nuts with a spoon. Serve immediately, or refrigerate overnight.

Here's another excellent breakfast recipe for those watching their weight. Not only are these muffins moist, delicious, and totally nutritious, they're endlessly customizable. You can make them with any flavor of yogurt you like! They're great for breakfast, make a wonderfully light lunch dessert, and come in handy as a tasty, satisfying mid-afternoon snack.

Since you need two containers of yogurt to make these muffins, why not mix and match? Peach and raspberry, lemon and raspberry, strawberry and blueberry, blueberry and lemon...they're all delicious. Experiment and find your own favorite flavor combinations!

Tangy Yogurt-Bran Muffins

*1 egg OR 1/4 cup applesauce mixed with 1 teaspoon baking soda
*1/4 cup oil
*2 6 oz. containers of fat-free yogurt
*1 1/2 cups flour
*1 cup high fiber cereal, crushed (use a blender or put it in a plastic bag and crush with a rolling pin)
*1/4 - 1/3 cup brown sugar, packed
*1 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
*1/2 teaspoon salt
*1 teaspoon cinnamon (optional)

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. In a medium bowl, beat the egg (or just place the applesauce mixture in the bowl). Blend in the oil and yogurt. Stir in all the dry ingredients until just moistened. Grease muffin tins and fill 3/4 full. Bake 18-20 minutes until golden brown. Makes a dozen delicious, fairly healthy muffins!

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