Nail the Most Important Meal of the Day: 5 Breakfast Tips to Start Your Day Right!
Science and mom agree—breakfast is no joke. After the night’s fast, your morning meal wakes up your metabolism and delivers the energy you need to head out into the world at your best. Eating a healthy breakfast belongs on the top of your New Years Resolution list. Bonus points: it’s highly delicious, and totally doable.
Don’t Skip
Not only does breakfast impart the energy you need to start your day, but it is also linked to weight control (yay!) and high performance (double yay!). Tempted to skip a balanced morning meal and head out the door? You may pay the price in feeling physically or mentally drained, and who needs that? Plus, when you greet that donut platter at your morning meeting, they’ll beckon less—you’ll already have a satisfying meal in your belly, and your day started on a healthy and positive foot.
Make it Simple
If breakfast requires bells and whistles and a major production, it’s just not going to happen.  Master some super quick, painless breakfast options for busy mornings. Heat up fully cooked Jimmy Dean Delights®—applewood smoked chicken sausage patties and chorizo sausage links are favorites, but they’re all tasty, protein-packed, and weigh in at just 120 calories per serving. Serve with a whole wheat English muffin and some eggs (In a hurry? Nuke the eggs in a microwave-safe bowl; they’ll come out fluffy and perfect.) Voila: a weekend-worthy breakfast in weekday-rush time.
Think Outside the Bowl
Sure, cereal and oatmeal are easy as pie—but they can get old, fast. Make a simple breakfast wrap with egg whites and chicken sausage; throw in some feta or whatever cheese you love, and spinach or kale for green power—your day will be off to an enviably delicious start. Or whir up a smoothie with your milk of choice, a spoonful of peanut or almond butter, and whatever fruit you’ve stocked in your fridge and freezer. Breakfast accomplished.
Protein, Please
Research has shown that enjoying a protein-packed breakfast will keep you more satisfied, and for longer, than chowing down on a high-carbohydrate meal. Choose quality, wholesome protein options like eggs, Greek yogurt, nut butter, and chicken sausage. Bid those mid-morning stomach rumbles goodbye.
Eat In
Ok, eating while sprinting out the door is ok, too. But making your own morning meal will save money and calories. Another benefit to being the architect of your own breakfast is that you can make things exactly how you like them. It also means you know exactly what you’re eating: no hidden surprises, only stomach and soul-satisfying breakfast perfection. It’s going to be a good year, one breakfast at a time.