I'm So Bored!!!! (With Breakfast)

It's true. For someone who loves breakfast-- and certainly don't get me started on how awesome brunch is-- I am BORED.

The recent Big Life Things have meant that I now have more time for a proper breakfast. To be clear, I've been better about eating it since my Au Naturale conversion because don't you know that breakfast is the most important meal of the day?? But while I used to have just enough time to inhale a piece of whole wheat bread topped with almond butter and a banana before rushing out the door, I can now make eggs (pasture raised, natch).

So I make eggs. And more eggs. And even more eggs.

A few weeks ago I got antsy and started craving cereal so I started eating cereal. Hey, I thought, at least with the milk I'm getting more calcium in my diet. Then the cereal ran out. So I went back to eggs.

After getting bored again, I bought mushrooms from the mushroom guy at the winter Farmer's Market to try to make the eggs more interesting. Then I got sick of mushrooms.

So it's time to find something new. While I have lots of breakfast recipes (perhaps if you're good little kiddos I will post the ever popular cottage cheese pancake recipe) and more time than before, I don't want to spend all morning making breakfast for myself. Also because I am not even remotely close to being a "morning person", having to use enough brain energy to do something totally creative every day before the coffee kicks in is bound to result in failure.

But my biggest dilemma is that most recipes I've found either involve, you guessed it, EGGS, or are super carb heavy. For those of you who might remember the story of trying to kick my carbaholic habit,  I don't really love that option, either. So my key to preparing breakfast creatively is to find the creativity within itself: the creativity in ingredients.

So far, I've compiled just a few good ingredients that can be arranged in quick, varying ways:

Berries
Yogurt
Lox
Granola

So for example, I could make either a smoothie or a parfait with the fruit. But I know I need to add more or else I'll get bored. Again.  Here's where I turn it to you, loyal readers. Any favorites? Other suggestions? I will be happy to give you a shout out. What breakfast foods make you super happy in the morning? I'll give you all the credit via regular update with reviews, ratings, or even just recipe alerts. It's been a while since I posted one of those. I owe you at least that. Alright? Now get to it.

WATCH THIS NOW!!!

I know I haven't blogged in a long time, and I realize that posting a video link is kind of a cop-out. But if there is anything you should learn from my Au Naturale quest, learn this.

I've waxed poetic, or at the very leat mentioned, that food labeling can be deceiving when it comes to where or how your food is raised; not the least of which in the misleading advertising around where your eggs come from. The food industry, in it's never-ending quest to capitalize on trends, is using buzz-words that lead unknowing consumers to think they are buying one thing when they are really buying another. My eyes could fall out of their sockets the number of times I've rolled them in response to some store or restaurant that pats itself on the back by making you think they are selling the most humane and organic stuff, when really they're just selling something slightly better, but with an asterisk.

I love this video because it's short, sweet, and to the point. Still think that "cage free", "free range" and "pastured" chickens and eggs are all the same thing? Please watch this. In only 5 minutes you will learn exactly how mislead you have been by food industry marketing. Then go out and learn more about from where your food comes, and that your best intentions, through no fault of your own, may not be achieving the goal you desire.

http://video.pbs.org/video/2233336974