Thursday, April 28, 2011

Healthy Breakfast Make-Over

I've been thinking a lot about the food I feed my family lately. Our three year old is on a dairy free, gluten-less, sugar-less, and food dye-less diet. When you start reading labels, you realize just how much dairy, gluten, sugar, and food dyes are in our food! After months on our new diet, I realized there was still one meal that hadn't gotten the healthy make-over yet: breakfast. It's easier (especially for my husband who is usually in charge of breakfast) just to open a silver foil wrapper or pour something colorful and fun into a bowl. This just doesn't cut it anymore!

Here are a few steps I'm taking to make breakfast healthier:
  1. Cook ahead of time. Instead of buying boxes of waffles and pancakes, I make extra batches and freeze them.
  2. Speaking of pancakes, we now make dairy free/gluten free pancakes (using a box mix and almond milk, adding ground flax seed). How do they taste? Actually, not bad! Especially since I add a handful of blueberries to the mix.
  3. No more blue yogurt for us. We now get plain organic yogurt and let our oldest mix what he wants in the yogurt! Strawberries and blueberries are his favorites so far.
  4. Speaking of fruit, both boys eat fruit at breakfast now. My youngest has prunes every morning (I highly recommend them to help keep everything regular the most natural way!) and our oldest either has fruit in his yogurt, pancakes, or his most favorite--a grapefruit!
How are you cooking healthier for your family? 
Posted by Sandra at 6:23 AM
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2 comments:

  1. I love that you're adding fruit to breakfast. I think it's the easiest meal to add fruit to.

    We try to cook and bake without butter or margarine at all. Olive oil is in most of our cooking when some kind oil is needed. I'm really also trying to make sure our family is eating 5 fruits and vegetables a day. Meal planning is helping us out. We always strive for at least two vegetables with dinner!

    Thanks for the tips!

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  2. I have a great recipe for oatmeal pancakes that my boys love. I also try to incorporate fruit and "non-blue" yogurt. (Love that phrase!) We do eggs, too, and whole grain or whole wheat breads.

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