Breakfast Baby!

Hello!! I'm back. Took a little hiatus from writing during the holidays, but glad to be back here with you!

Breakfast. It's my favorite meal. I love breakfast (often for dinner)! We all know that breakfast is "the most important meal of the day," but maybe we don't all know why (other than our grandma's said so). I recently ended a 5-day fasting cleanse that caused me to think of fasting in a whole new way and caused me to appreciate the idea of breakfast infinitely more. (By the way, the fasting cleanse was an amazing experience on many levels. One that I would recommend!) In literal terms, we refer to it as breakfast, because we are "breaking" the nighttime fast that occurs when we sleep. The period of time when we sleep allows the body time to digest and process all the food we've taken in during our waking hours. While all of our functions are at rest, the body can use that energy to work on properly moving our food through our bodies. It's a miraculous idea when you really consider it and just another testament to how intentionally our bodies were created. I could spend hours talking about that, I won't. So, why then is breaking the fast so important? Because when we wake our blood sugars have dropped and the fires of our metabolisms needs to be kindled with food. Skipping breakfast in an attempt to lose weight is not a good plan. You're more likely to eat something high in sugar and too much food because you've allowed yourself to become too hungry and the body is looking for a rapid blood sugar hit. Don't skip it! Eat a good breakfast and enjoy it! In my next few posts I'm going to be talking about some of my current favorite breakfasts, give them a try and let me know what you think!

Quinoa Breakfast Scramble

I simply adore this breakfast. It's easy, fast, super satisfying, well balanced and, of course, gluten-free.

In a pan I combine about 1/4 cup precooked quinoa, one Applegate Farms Chicken and Maple sausage, one egg, and soft scramble. Sprinkle with a tiny bit of cheese, salt and pepper, and serve on a big bed of arugula. Half a slice of gluten-free toast with a little smear of almond butter, cup of Yerba Mate tea and I'm smiling. Love!