It might be OK to have a fry-up in the morning from time to time but that unhealthy approach could soon catch up with you.
There are loads of options for a nutritious breakfast, with the much-recommended slow-energy-release porridge being just one of them.
Why waste an opportunity to start your day with something delicious, and also really healthy, when there are plenty of places to buy yourself a better brekkie for your bod?
Ditch that full English and tuck into one of these beauties…
Granger & Co London
Start the day Aussie-style at one of Sydney-sider chef, Bill Granger’s, airy London restaurants. The emphasis is on fresh, healthy ingredients, and you’ll find dishes such as sweetcorn fritters with roast tomato and spinach or rye bircher muesli, with a selection of smoothies.
The Singl-end, Glasgow
Yes, you can find a ‘full Scottish’ here if that’s what you need after a heavy sesh, but also lighter Turkish eggs with Greek yoghurt, cumin and smoked paprika butter, organic porridge, which you can have with non-dairy milk, or grilled halloumi with smashed avo and poached eggs.
Ezra and Gil, Manchester
This Manc institution is inevitably packed at the weekends. Try smashed pumpkin on toast; their open-faced omelette with pea shoots, garlic mushrooms, herbs and goats cheese; or ‘apple pie’ porridge with apple compote, coconut milk, blueberries and pumpkin seeds.
Why skipping breakfast doesn’t help you keep slim
If you’re dodging breakfast as a way of saving calories, think again, says British Heart Foundation dietitian Victoria Taylor. You may well find that you make up for it by eating more over the rest of the day.
‘If you eat planned, regular meals, you’re less likely to go down the route of snacking on cakes, pastries, crisps and biscuits. If you eat nothing during the morning, by lunchtime you’ll be very hungry, so chances are you’ll help yourself to unhealthy food, a big portion or a treat as a reward – or worse still, a combination of all three.’
For breakfast, she recommends porridge and muesli with low-fat milk, topped with fruit or wholegrain cereals low in salt and sugar.
Bixing it up
Think Weetabix is just for breakfast? Well, wait! Any-Which-Way-A-Bix, a new free digital recipe book, helps you rethink the classic morning serve-up.
How about Mac’n-Cheese-a-bix, or the thinking-outside-the-box Chicken-a-bix (an iron-packed recipe that coats chicken in crunchy crumbled Weetabix).
There are lots of ideas – and of course, there’s plenty of breakfast inspo too – plus each recipe has a per-portion price, checked at supermarkets, so you know exactly what it’s costing.
The Protein-ball-a-bix, for example, work out at just 52p per portion.
So go beyond breakfast, on a budget, and enjoy a bix of adventurous cooking.
View some Weetabix recipes and download the free book at weetabix.com
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