What to eat for breakfast? I hear it over and over again. “I’m sick of eggs!” When you’re used to eating lots of carbs for breakfast every day, let’s face it, we were raised on cereal for breakfast and got quite use to it; switching to eggs every day, can become boooooooring. Also, you have to be careful of not developing an allergy. Eating the same foods over and over again, which is recommended by Tim Ferriss, makes it easy to stick to your diet because you don’t have to put much thought into it, but, you can develop an allergy or food sensitivity by doing that. Here are 3 Healthy, Quick & Easy Breakfast Recipes For The 4 Hour Body diet to help curb your boredom, and prevent allergies from arising…
Protein Shake – My Never get sick again smoothie recipe is a winner for health, but it has honey and is made with apple juice so it may not be suitable during the week when you’re being super disciplined. If you want to switch out the raw honey for stevia, use an unsweetened protein powder and almond milk or water instead of apple juice, it may still taste pretty good, you’ll be getting more nutrients than you could possible eat in a meal, and you would be able to incorporate it into your weekly fat-shed 4 Hour Body Diet. There are no eggs in this one. You will be getting your protein from tofu and protein powder. Pea protein is a great all natural source other than whey protein as well. Check out this great video for a good 4 Hour Body protein shake recipe and more great info about the slow carb diet as well at healthnutnation.com. She recommends having a Vitamix Blender which I totally agree with. I have a Blendtec that I absolutely love, use every day, and is comparable to a Vitamix.
Protein pancakes – I wrote an article about 3 delicious and healthy protein pancake recipes that are 4 Hour Body worthy, delicious and easy to make. These all do have eggs in them however, but you can’t taste the eggs so this will help with the boredom you may be going through, but not the allergy part.
Black Bean and Scallion Pancake with Smoked Salmon – You could add an egg to this, but that kinda defeats the whole purpose of this post. If you’re not sick of eggs, you could add a poached egg on top but this is just as good without it. Make the black bean pancakes according the the recipe below, add smoked salmon and some rich, creamy whipped cottage cheese topping, and voila! Yummy breakfast in 10 min. that is suitable for your 4 Hour Body, Slow-Carb/Low-Carb diet, that does not have eggs! I would eat this with a side or asparagus drizzled with lemon butter and a pinch of salt.
- 1/2 cup dried black beans
- 3 green onions - remove and discard green, coarsely chop the white part
- 2 tblsp chicken broth
- 1 egg
- 1 tblsp whipped cottage cheese (or whip your own in the blender)
- smoked salmon - 4 oz
- salt and pepper - to taste
- 4 tblsp butter or avocado oil
- Rinse and add black beans to a bowl and cover in water to soak overnight.
- When ready to prepare, blend black beans, 1 tsp. salt, egg, and green onions in a food processor or immersion blender until they form a paste. Blend while slowly adding chicken broth until it becomes a batter.
- Add 2 tbs. of butter or oil to a hot skillet and heat to medium-high until it shimmers. Put half of the batter into the skillet, forming a large pancake. Make sure it's even and not too thick. Cook until browned and bubbly, then flip and finish cooking (about 2-3 minutes per side). Place pancake on a plate, add remaining oil to skillet, and repeat process with the rest of the batter.
- Spread the whipped cottage cheese onto each pancake and divide the smoked salmon in two and layer each half on each of the pancakes.
- Serve with a side of asparagus or cucumbers.
