Healthy Breakfast

Submitted by crimfan on Thu, 04/15/2010 - 8:25am

I've been trying to eat earlier in the day compared to my usual habits, which means consistently eating breakfast. (Coffee is non-negotiable, regardless of whether it's healthy or not.)

There are a number of classics that are good, of course, but they tend to be really high calorie and a bit of a pain to cook. Here seems to be my best relatively low-cal, high fiber, easy to prepare breakfast:

Old-fashioned oats (or some kind of multigrain cereal), 1/2 to 3/4 cup
twice as much boiling water as you have cereal
1/4 cup dried apricots
1 tbsp walnut oil
pinch of salt
1 tbsp Chinese five spice

Put boiling water on the ingredients, lid and put on very low. It's done in about five minutes.

Comments

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 04/28/2010 - 2:45pm.

I didn't know chinese five spice powder can be used for oatmeal! Obviously this is one healthy simple to make breakfast treat, but since I haven't tried using the spice for oats, I am left clueless until I make this for myself. And i definitely would. Tomorrow morning after getting a bag of dried apricots from the supermarket.

Submitted by crimfan on Mon, 05/03/2010 - 1:38pm.

Sure, why not? It's got plenty of flavors that fit great in, say, oatmeal raisin cookies.