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A Berry Balanced Breakfast
Brilliant! I put fresh berries on a wonderful muesli cereal I found at Whole Foods, called Dorset (stick with the muesli flavor, the others have too much dried fruit). It's a little pricey, but it is made with real (intact) whole grains and no added sugar. It is good either cold or hot, but cold I put a few flakes on there (Flax Plus) to make it more crunchy. Add a few berries and soy milk = perfection.
A Berry Balanced Breakfast
the best way to eat berries is some heavy cream or buttermilk, a touch of sugar or honey and a spoon. doesn't get any better than that with a mug of coffee and some summer sun.
A Berry Balanced Breakfast
We've been making pre-gym smoothies with Greek yogurt, orange juice, and berries. Yum!!
A Berry Balanced Breakfast
oatmeal with fresh strawberries and brown sugar and a smidge of butter and a smidge of milk is a great motivator for a go-to-work morning.
A Berry Balanced Breakfast
This isn't so much of a healthy breakfast, as it is more of a mid-morning snack for me, but I have been using my strawberries to make strawberry mochi cake. Blueberry mochi cake works as well! You can view my recipe here: http://www.kirbiecravings.com/2009/05/strawberry-mochi-cake.html
A Berry Balanced Breakfast
1) I toss them in a fruit salad with bananas (and whatever other fruit I have on hand), and toss with some yogurt and agave, and a teaspoon of flax meal for a healthy fruit salad.
2) I do the same thing above, only over plain yogurt, and if I use bananas with the berries, I find I don't need sweeter.
3) Scatter berries over pancakes, waffles or French toast.
4) Cook the blueberries into pancake, muffins, etc.
5) Mini fruit tarts, using this simple tart shell method. (Since I don't have mini tart molds - for some crazy reason - I make then in a muffin pan, going up 1/3 of the height of the muffin molds.)
6) Make sorbet or ice cream (especially with the strawberries)
7) I am making a large batch of strawberry aqua fresca this afternoon.
8) Make smoothies. You can mix with yogurt, protein powder, ice cream, what ever. If I use a protein powder, my favorite combo is banana and strawberries, with pineapple juice and ice. Yum!
9) Add it to any cereal - hot or cold. I prefer them with cold cereal.
10) Cook or puree them into a sauce or coulis to top anything your heart desires.
11) The other night I just whipped up some shortcake biscuits in less than 15 minutes, and threw together some tasty berry shortcakes for three days straight with the sweet biscuits.
12. Make a crumble, cobbler or coffee cake.
Berries are one of the best brain foods around, so eat your berries! Enjoy!!
Cheers,
~ Paula
A Berry Balanced Breakfast
French toast!!! Good bakery bread, real maple syrup or a sprinkling of powdered sugar, and berries - whole or pureed into a sauce. Or stick with the Fage, add a splash of juice or milk, maybe another fruit (frozen bananas or peaches are my favorite) and make a smoothie.
A Berry Balanced Breakfast
I had Kashi Go Lean cereal with my first farmer's market strawberries this morning in an attempt to get my scale to cooperate.
A Berry Balanced Breakfast
fresh berries are the bomb mixed into Nancy's cultured cottage cheese [made with the same live cultures as yogurt]
A Berry Balanced Breakfast
holy coincidence, batman-i just ate raspberries, blueberries, and cherries for breakfast this morning! i love them plain, although on occasion i will add them to cheerios or yogurt. (not the cherries-those always stand alone)
A Berry Balanced Breakfast
I've been eating steel cut oats with a little squeeze of agave syrup with blackberries, strawberries, and almonds every morning. The other day I stirred in a spoonful of greek yogurt with honey and it was also good!
A Berry Balanced Breakfast
My trick is take some marscapone and add a bit of brown sugar or maple syrup (being Canadian you can guess our choice) and putting that in the middle of crepes with tons of the fresh berries. I also cook some of the berries down to make a coulis for the crepes. Yum!!
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Brilliant! I put fresh berries on a wonderful muesli cereal I found at Whole Foods, called Dorset (stick with the muesli flavor, the others have too much dried fruit). It's a little pricey, but it is made with real (intact) whole grains and no added sugar. It is good either cold or hot, but cold I put a few flakes on there (Flax Plus) to make it more crunchy. Add a few berries and soy milk = perfection.