Here's a great breakfast or meal replacement- smoothies. I'm traditionally not a smoothie fan (nor do I have an appreciation for Jamba Juice), but I watched a recent episode of Good Eats talking about how Alton lost weight, and I decided to give it a try. I didn't really follow his recipe, more used it as inspiration- but it turned out great! I have had smoothies for the past couple of nights and this morning for breakfast. I think I'm going to keep doing this for breakfast during the week- it's super filling (for a while) and quite tasty.
His recipe:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/a...ipe/index.html
Mine: not so much of a recipe, but a "dump stuff in the blender" kind of thing. I used frozen blueberries, strawberries, banana, raspberries, cherries, blackberries, pineapple, white peaches, yellow peaches, and honeydew as the fruits. Liquids were pomegranate juice and a bit of milk. I also added blueberry flax seed meal.
The yellow & white peaches, pineapple, strawberries, honeydew, and blueberries come in a "spectrum" blend from Costco. I added more blueberries (love them) and froze my own bananas per AB's instructions. I also bought a pack of red fruits from Trader Joe's that I now love- strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, and cherries. These really help round out the smoothie to me- my first attempt was without these (just the Costco blend + blueberries) and it was way too sweet. The blueberry flax seed meal is also at Trader Joe's- a couple of tablespoons. This also helped tone down the sweet, I think, although I could neither taste nor feel the stuff in the smoothie. I don't really taste the banana in it considering how strong all the other fruits are
but it does help the texture.
Basically lots and lots of fiber, anti-oxidents from the purples & reds, lots of different nutrients from the varied fruit colors, and generally just good all around. This type of smoothie can also help with blood pressure, glucose levels, heart disease, and other not-so-fun stuff. My husband is diabetic and I attempted to get him to try it but he doesn't like fruit as much as I do. Oh well. I'm sure you could add lots of other additives, change up the fruits, etc. But yum.