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Good morning everyone. It’s been awhile since I posted here
on the Yankee Belle. Thanks, Julie, for asking me to fill in today.
I have a question for you. What’s for breakfast?
That’s a problem that is making me
crazy.
Do you know the children’s book If You Give a Moose a Muffin?
(You can watch it here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOPFVSiB5uQ)
That’s me at breakfast. Give me a muffin and I want another
one. Or a cookie. Or a donut. I need something carby with my coffee.
But carby with your coffee = weighty on the hips. Besides, I think breakfast carbs are probably
bad for you in inverse proportion to how good they taste.
So I need alternatives.
Oatmeal doesn’t work for me. Even the steel cut kind leaves
me hungrier than I was before I ate. Plus I crash about an hour later.
I like Icelandic or Greek yogurts - especially Siggis
because the protein grams are way higher than sugar grams. But I can’t eat it
every day.
So, what’s a teacher who is going to be stuck all day, with
nary a bathroom break, to do if she can’t eat muffins and donuts???
My daughter introduced me to her favorite vegan restaurant
here in Brooklyn where they make all kinds of amazingly healthy meals. My favorite
breakfast is what they call their Earth Cup. I feel healthy just looking at it.
They serve it with an optional topping of coconut kefir (which I always get
because I will eat anything coconut). Basically it’s sprouted buckwheat grouts,
fresh fruit, milk (they use rice mylk because it’s vegan), and sunflower
butter.
But that yummy Earth cup? It’s expensive!!! (Those 2 things
cost over $20) Certainly not something I can do every day, and they’re not even
open before I head to work.
I was overjoyed (Yes, really!), last week when I stumbled
upon a similar recipe at a cool website called The Simple Veganista.
Have you ever had overnight soaked
oats? You put everything in a cup and soak in the fridge overnight and in the
morning it’s all ready for you to just add some fresh fruit or a dab of yogurt.
Some recipes do call for you to cook it the night before and then chill. It
makes a really nice alternative on hot summer mornings.
I love this website because of a number of recipes
(Cranberry Walnut Chickpea Salad is AWESOME!), so I was excited to try
Overnight Buckwheat Steel Cut Oats.
You can find a whole host of oatmeals like this on this site
- http://gettingahealthybody.tumblr.com/post/30644434366/what-is-overnight-oats-overnight-oats-oo-is
Another cool website - Oh She Glows - has a raw version
(Overnight Buckwheat Parfait) that’s mixed with chia seeds. I think the
overnight raw version is closer to my beloved earth cup, minus the chia.
The addition of sunflower butter is the best part though even
though these recipes don’t include it. I love this because I have so many
students with severe nut allergies this year that I can’t have anything with
nuts in the classroom.
You can buy it at the store.
Or you can make your own - really easily and cheaply! You
buy plain, unsalted, SHELLED, sunflower seeds, roast them, then blend in your
blender until it’s a nut butter consistency. (You can read a really
enthusiastic recipe on how to make them here - http://thehealthyfoodie.com/natural-home-made-toasted-sunflower-seed-butter/)
So, what do
you eat for breakfast?
