How to Find Time for Breakfast

The best way to make sure that you eat right all day long is to eat a good breakfast. Although you may not feel hungry in the morning, your body needs fuel after going without it all night. A good breakfast helps you perform better at school or work and will keep you from visiting the snack machine or buying a calorie-laden coffee drink.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

1. Try making breakfast the night before. Oatmeal can be prepared in a slow cooker overnight or you can cut up fresh fruit before going to bed and add it to yogurt the next morning. You can bake muffins the night before and reheat them in the morning.

2. Make breakfast portable. Hard-boiled eggs, peanut-butter toast, granola bars or a protein shake can be carried in a purse, book bag or briefcase and eaten after you get to school or work.

3. Eat non-breakfast foods. Heat up last night's leftovers instead of making a traditional breakfast.

4. Drink your cereal. Use a large coffee mug with a top to hold milk and a whole grain cereal and drink it while you're getting dressed or during the commute. When the cereal is gone, finish the milk.

Tips & Warnings

• Make sure your breakfast is high in protein and fiber but low in carbohydrates, especially sugar. A little fat in your breakfast will help keep you feeling full so you can avoid eating fatty foods later.
• Breakfast eaters have been shown to live longer and are healthier than those who skip breakfast. They are also in better control of their emotions.
• You can't make up for skipping breakfast by eating late the night before.

Resources

• WebMD offers recipes for quick but healthy breakfasts.

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on 10/13/2008 If you're like me, you literally have 10m in the morning to get ready. So no time for a sitdown meal.