what a quick and easy breakfast on the program?
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What a quick and easy breakfast on the program?
What’s a good, quick and easy breakfast on the paleo diet? I have got my old man on it and he is doing fairly well! But I need to get him off cornflakes for breakfast!!
Dennis Y
Our Italian breakfast
Hi Dennis,
Yes you do need to get your dad off those cornflakes!
Some of us find breakfast one of the hardest meals to change. We want the sweet grainscereal and milk and think this is a normal breakfast. It’s funny because not so long ago baconand eggs were a breakfast staple in the West and no one had a sweet breakfast.
Eating in Asia is a great example of savoury breakfasts, no one would even consider a sweetbreakfast there.
Once your dad has changed from a sugary breakfast to a savoury breakfast he won’t evenblink an eyelid at having leftovers from the night before for breakfast. This will take some timethough for the changeover to occur.
Ian and my favourite breakfast now is bacon (here in Italy we buy Pancetta), cooked tomato, eggs, mushrooms cooked in coconut oil and some rocket with a little lemon juice. Yum yum!
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A very good idea if there is no nitrate free bacon available then get the butcher to slice somepork belly into thin slices just like he would to make bacon. This will get just as crispy as baconwith out the nasties and add a bit of Celtic salt and voila! The only thing is it won’t last as longin the fridge uncured so you will need to freeze daily portions and bring them out of the freezerfor breakfast in the morning.
Ian and I look forward to to our breakfast very much now, but I do remember it was hard gettingout of the “I need something sweet for breakfast” addictive mind set. We used to eat fruit forbreakfast back in the old days thinking this was great for our health! We were so wrong.
Actually one of the reasons we desire sugar in the morning comes directly from what we ate fordinner. If our bodies are running on glucose from a high carbohydrate diet then we will be‘hungry’ for a blood sugar spike after fasting the whole night. When we eat low carb with meatand fat for dinner then our desire for that sweet breakfast will vanish as we no longer have themorning need for a blood sugar spike.
Another one of our favourites breakfasts is fried onion, zucchini and tomatoes, a sprinkle of dried basil with a couple of fried eggs, always cooked in coconut oil. Yummo! We always put plenty of CelticSalt on any of these breakfasts.
If these dishes take to long to cook for you dad then maybe he could try:
Scrambled eggs cooked with plenty of coconut oil so it is filling and keeps him full till lunchtime. Add some chopped parsley and Celtic salt.
A smoothie with 1 desertspoon of coconut oil, a little coconut milk (AYAM brand has no additives), 2 raw eggs and a few berries (frozen berries makes it easy) and put into a blender. You will need to warm the mix with a little warm water otherwise thecoconut oil will go hard and won’t mix in. A transition breakfast for the sweet tooth but you will need to adjust quantities for taste.
The problem is Ian and I love our breakfast so much we don’t vary it very often in factpractically never and so I don’t have many suggestions!
When we are away and we can’t get our normal breakfast, we will eat some boiled eggs to getus by till lunch. Eating some protein and fat for breakfast makes it so easy to not snack tilllunchtime. In fact some days we don’t bother eating lunch at all.
There are a lot of websites with paleo diet recipes where you might find more recipes that suitbut I do find its good to go cold turkey on the sweet stuff and just get the whole sweet tooththing over and done with!
Good work with you dad, good on you!
Cassie
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