Everyone wants to embrace a gimmick. My daily breakfast consists of half a cup of overnight oats (rolled Quaker), two thirds cup of almond milk with two tablespoons of flax seeds (ground in a spice grinder), two tablespoons of chia seeds, a good handful of organic blueberries, a handful of organic strawberries, 1 tsp of vanilla extract, a handful of raw almonds, and 1 tablespoon of raw honey. Black coffee and 8 oz of low sodium V8.
Everything off the supermarket shelf, and I bet it's healthier than 99.9% of what everyone else is eating. Just good nourishing food, and no gimmicks.
Sounds lovely, although I am a bigger guy and that would probably make me hungry in an hour! I eat quite a lot of food, so I am forced to have larger volumes of lower calorie foods or I simply cannot control myself and will end up binge eating.
A good breakfast I found for me these days is "protein toast", which essentially is just regular french toast/pain perdu/eggy bread but using only egg whites and without any cooking oil/butter. 4-6 slices fills my plate and my belly and only about 500-700 calories eaten with some fruit and sugar free/fibre syrup. One nice thing about this option is that I can do a few weeks worth at a time and freeze it, and reheat it in my toaster on the defrost setting. Tastes almost the same as having it fresh and takes 2 minutes.
If I don't feel for that, I'll have maybe 1.5 cups of oats with sugar free almond milk, sweetener, with whey mixed in or with a high protein/greek yoghourt and fruit. Or maybe just some meat/jerky with seasoned popcorn and berries.
Another thing I've been having a lot lately is "protein icecream" which is essentially just a whey protein shake using unsweetened almond milk and sweetener, blended with ice, frozen berries, and/or frozen greek yoghourt and with guar/xanthan gum to thicken. It tastes exactly like you would expect, a semi-sweet fruity protein shake that is the consistency of soft serve. It is a chore to even finish one or two servings of it (imagine eating 1-2L of thick icecream/pudding at only 250-500 calories). Sometimes I experiment with the flavours, I usually use a vanilla or unflavoured whey/casein with fruit but I will often times substitute the fruit for greek yoghourt that I've frozen and put in freeze dried instant coffee and powdered peanut butter if I'm having it in the morning.
That sounds like a recipe for instant vomit.
