High Protein Breakfast Ideas
 

Quite a few of us are focusing on eating a high protein / complex carb breakfast, and I thought it would be great to have a thread to list breakfast options!

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I am so pitiful that I made a chart of how much protein things contain :O

I figured out that if I have
1 C of oatmeal (6 g protein)
2 T peanut butter (9 g protein)
2 T walnuts (2 g protein)
2 T ground flax seed (2 g protein)

that makes 19g of protein so I am pretty good with that.

I also figured out if I have
2 slices toast (4 g each = 8 g protein)
2 T peanut butter each (9 g each = 18 g protein)
I have 26 g protein so that is even better

And if I have
1 C quinoa with butter it's 22 g protein

I also have wierd ideas about what's tasty so I figured out my squash/garbanzo bean dip is about
8 g protein per serving
If I have two open pieces of toast with 2 servings dip I'll have 24 g protein

Not quite as high I as need but better than I was and I am trying to build slowly.

:O :O can you see I am overanalyzing this. It's hard cuz I don't like meat and I don't do dairy so I have nuts, seeds, grains and eggs left. Well, I can only eat so many eggs so. . . . .

Here's a website with protein grams if you don't have them on cans/jars/packages http://www.nutritiondata.com/

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:popcorn

just want to make sure I remember about this.. :)

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i eat an egg wrap every morning on the way to the gym....DH makes them for me, but the "approximate" ingredients are:

1 egg
1-2 Tbsp organic salsa
1-2 Tbsp shredded cheddar
wrapped in an organic whole wheat tortilla

yummy good, and a great start to my morning :mrgreen

ps- tulipmama, i keep wanting to post something telling you that i :heart your new avie!

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:popcorn

SonshineMama--could you post your squash/garbanzo bean dip(and could I make it work with sweet potatoes, do you think?)?

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:popcorn How much protien is in popcorn anyway?

I'm eating spinach dip right off my finger...too bad the finger doesn't count towards my protien.

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a little turkey sausage instead of cheese and teh breakfast wrap is about what I eat. Failing that, two boiled eggs, one piece of whole grain/whole wheat toast w/some peanut butter.
It will keep me until about one pm which is good cause I can feed the girls, nurse Ri and get her down to her nap without snapping (much) or feeling like I will faint, which happens if I just eat oatmeal and walnuts or something. I must need high, high protein.

High Protein Breakfast Ideas
 

I was wondering that last night while I was eating popcorn..lol

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How about these pancakes:

6 eggs
1.5 cups cottage cheese
1/2 cup flour (I use whole wheat.)

Blend in blender then cook like normal pancakes. They are really yummy, taste almost like sourdough.

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:yum

we just eat eggs in their various states- boiled, devilled, boiled and chopped up with butter, salt, and pepper (with whole wheat toast), scrambled, fried, etc... sometimes ds will eat yogurt and cottage cheese too.

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Mmmm...The egg wrap is going to be my new breakfast. I love breakfast tacos and never think to make them :doh Some eggs, sausage, cheddar cheese and salsa wrapped in a tortilla...mmmm...

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:popcorn

I'm always starving an hour after breakfast. The egg wrap sounds great, but I don't know if I could do salsa in the morning.

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oatmeal with raisens and nuts is what I have been eating.

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What kind of oatmeal do you use? Do you make it with water or milk? Any sweetener? Can it be done in the microwave?

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That sounds awesome!! I think it's something my four year old would go for, I have a hard, hard time getting her to eat protein in the morning and she crashes and yo-yos all day long if she doesn't! How many does that make?