When you wake up in the morning with the appetite of a lumberjack and you’re hankering for a man-size breakfast, here are some quick tips on breaking your fast right.
Think fruit first
Have some melon or grapefruit, then move to the less healthy stuff – you’ll get your vitamins and fiber, and you’ll eat less of what could ail you.
Don’t be yellow when cooking eggs
It’s the egg yolks that are bad, not the whites. You won’t taste any difference, and you’ll be saving ten grams of fat and 426 milligrams of cholesterol. Use the same recipe for French toast.
Hash it out with hash browns
For healthy hash browns, pick up a pack of frozen hash-brown potato patties. DO not read the cooking instructions (trust us). Instead, do this: Brown them in a non stick skillet coated with cooking spray. Use medium heat and give them about 12 minutes per side to make them crispy. Fat savings: about ten grams per serving over homemade has browns fried in oil.
Copy the Canadians when makin’ bacon
When you absolutely need bacon, have some Canadian bacon. You can eat twice as much for less than half the fat. Two medium slices (about 1 1/2 ounces) has just 4 grams of fat, compared to 9.4 for three slices (3/4 ounce) of regular bacon.
Forget frying the flapjacks
Pop a pancake in your toaster instead of frying it in a pan. Aunt Jemima Low-fat pancakes are frozen and ready for toasting. They have just ½ gram of fat per three-hot cake serving, instead of the 6 that come with the kind you make from batter.
Watch that stuffin’ in your muffin
Bran muffins sound innocent, but many are astoundingly high in fat. Some contain up to 12 grams, almost as much as a hamburger. An exception to this rule: low-fat muffins, such as those made by Hostess.