Jump-start your Best Life Weight Loss Challenge with how you start your days—Bob recommends these breakfast options!

MONDAY

Best Life Cheerios® Mix Topped with Fruit and Almonds
1/2 cup Cheerios
2/3 cup Weetabix® Crispy Flakes & Fiber
1/4 cup All-Bran® Original
2 Tbsp. almonds
1 cup of strawberries, sliced in half (or 3/4 cup any fruit of your choice)
1 cup nonfat milk

Assemble Best Life Cheerios Mix: Cheerios, Weetabix Crispy Flakes & Fiber and All-Bran Original. Top with almonds and strawberries. Serve with nonfat milk.


TUESDAY

Crispbread with Almond Butter and Pear

2 1/2 slices Wasa® Fiber Rye or Multigrain
1 Tbsp. almond butter
Sliced pear
1 cup nonfat milk

Spread almond butter on Wasa bread. Add slices of pear. Serve with nonfat milk and the rest of the pear that doesn't fit on the Wasa bread.


WEDNESDAY

Strawberry-Orange-Vanilla Smoothie with Toast and Nut Butter
1 cup 8th Continent® Vanilla Soymilk
1/2 ripe banana
1/2 cup calcium-fortified orange juice
3/4 cup frozen strawberries
1 slide whole wheat toast
1 tsp. butter

Make smoothie by blending together vanilla soymilk, banana, orange juice and strawberries. Serve with buttered whole wheat toast.


THURSDAY

Yogurt, Fruit, Nuts and Fiber One®

1 6-ounce container of Yoplait® Original Fat-Free Fruit Flavors (170 calories)
1/4 cup low-fat plain yogurt
3/4 cup blueberries
1/3 cup Fiber One
2 Tbsp. walnuts

Combine all ingredients.


FRIDAY

Great Measure Cereal and Grapefruit

1 cup Cascadian Farm® Great Measure Cereal
2 Tbsp. almonds
1 cup nonfat milk
1/2 grapefruit

Combine cereal with almonds and milk. Serve with grapefruit.


SATURDAY

Flatbread Wrap with Egg and Mushroom

1 large egg
1 cup sliced mushrooms
Flatout® Flatbread Wrap (Multigrain)
2 1/2 tsp. olive oil
1 tsp. fresh dill (if desired)
Salt and pepper to taste
2 Tbsp. salsa
1 cup nonfat milk

Heat 1 teaspoon olive oil. Scramble egg, adding salt and pepper to taste. Heat remaining 1 1/2 teaspoons olive oil. Sauté mushrooms until wilted. Add dill if desired. Place egg and mushrooms in a Flatout Flatbread Wrap. Add salsa, roll and serve with nonfat milk.


 
SUNDAY

Oprah's Fruit and Yogurt Breakfast with Toast and Peanut Butter

1 6-ounce container Yoplait Light Key Lime Pie Yogurt
1/3 cup blueberries
1/3 cup chopped mango
2 Tbsp. walnuts
1 slice 100 percent whole wheat toast
2 tsp. peanut butter

Combine yogurt with blueberries, mango and walnuts. Serve with whole wheat toast and peanut butter.

You finished Week 2! For more variety, eat well with the first week of breakfast recipes.

Published 01/01/2006