Breakfast! The most IMPORTANT meal of the day!

Hello all,
I just got excited about breakfast this morning and wanted to share my excitement.  (Should be working on homework…but that can wait right??)

I love peanutbutter.  I could eat it every meal of every day.  But I suppose if I did that…there would be no room for other healthy things 🙁

Here’s my usual breakfast:




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• Whole grain toast (lately it’s been Pepperidge Farm)
• Peanutbutter
• Reduced sugar jelly (no fake sugars either!)
• aaaand a side of gummy vitamins!!

Calci-YUM!!



Since I’ve been getting my vitamins the delicious way..I rarely ever have a craving for gummy candy!


Well, I went out of town two weekends ago so decided not go to grocery shopping that week.  When I got back, I used up my last piece of bread but for some reason I was feeling lazy and not wanting to go to the store.  Do you ever do that?  For some reason you just keep putting it off and putting it off until you HAVE to eat at a restaurant or are forced to search the freezer for a potential meal?  Well I did that.

I kept thinking I would do it after work, but I was sooo hungry (or “hungry like the wolf” my friend would say…) after work, and it’s never good to go to the grocery store on an empty stomach.  Then on my days off, I would just stay home and do homework.

I started eating peanutbutter on sandwich thins…which was fine, but not as filling.  Then…I ran out of >>scary music<< PEANUTBUTTER!! 

And I got so busy/lazy that weekend that I STILL didn’t go to the store.  One morning I had a bowl of sugary cereal that I keep for my BF or for sugar cravings and my tummy was not pleased.  Another morning I found some turkey sausage in the freezer (I think my BF bought it a long time ago…don’t tell him!)  I was running out of veggies and fruit too…just some old carrots and a sad looking banana.

So when I FINALLY went grocery shopping I was soooo excited to eat my usual breakfast.  I think that makes me a breakfast nerd?

This made me really realize what a good choice I was making each morning.  The peanutbutter was filling as was the whole wheat toast.  One slice of the toast is 100 calories, and the serving of peanutbutter is almost 200 calories…which seems scary, but if it will keep me full and my food cravings down, I’m good with that!

On the mornings that I wasn’t full enough I was soooo hungry after work that as I was making lunch, I would munch on cookies.  (Emphasis on the plural form of cookie)  Maybe I was saving an extra 100 calories in my breakfast…but if each cookie was 100 calories, then I was more than making up for my lower calorie breakfast.

So, to my friends who skip breakfast or eat a wimpy breakfast bar and are shaky by lunchtime….consider this!  Jump start your metabolism with some delicious peanutbutter and filling whole wheat toast!  (Can I have my money now Jif? jk)



My good and hearty friend Mr. Jif Extra-Crunchy 🙂