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Food for Fitness: Breakfast Omelet

posted by ChickSpeak
Sunday, June 13, 2010 at 7:45pm CDT

Breakfast has always been my favorite meal of the day, simply because breakfast foods are the best in flavor and variety in my opinion.You probably roll your eyes when you hear “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day” because you have heard it chanted towards you like a mantra for years. “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.”

Perhaps you do eat breakfast or maybe you do not. Either way, I wish that you would realize the importance of eating food almost as soon as you awake.

While you sleep hopefully around eight hours a night, your body goes into starvation mode during this time. When your body does this, it does not burn many calories causing you hold on to weight you might otherwise want to lose. This begins a little bit before you wake up, and will continue until you eat something.

Once you eat your body is refueled and able to burn calories (energy) more efficiently. This causes you to feel more alert and gives you the ability to concentrate better on the tasks laid out before you.

At breakfast, you should ingest more calories than you do at any other meal simply because you have all day to burn them.

The other day I woke up desiring an omelet. So I cracked open the fridge to see what ingredients we have decorating the shelves.

The ingredients I grabbed were a few eggs, some arugula, an onion, and the milk.

I took three eggs and cracked them in half careful to not break the yoke or let it get in the bowl, I just wanted the egg whites. Then I whisked in about a ¼ of a cup of milk into the whites.

From there I heated my pan and sautéed the onions and arugula with some salt and pepper. This smells amazing. The arugula is complimented by the onions and pepper and fills the kitchen with a gourmet scent.

I poured my whites concoction on top of my sautéed goodness and let them fry. I was mindful of the heat. You never want to cook eggs on a high heat unless you want them stick to the pan. Cook them on a low to medium heat.

I paired this omelet with some miniature buckwheat fresh blueberry pancakes. This was a nice balance of sweet and heat.

Eggs are a great for you. I chose to use the egg whites because they are lower in calories than the yoke with around 17 calories per large egg. They have about 3.6 grams of protein and are very low in fat.

Arugula is fat free, high in potassium, vitamin A, and calcium. It also has a peppery bite to it that gives it better flavor than its competitor spinach. Onions are low in fat and calories. They have benefits applied towards cardiovascular health and cancer prevention, and they add a wonderful taste to any omelet.

You can add green peppers and tomatoes to you omelet it you like for some color and flavor as well. I prefer to keep it simple, however.

Although you know it as well as your own name, I hope that you either are or become a full believer that breakfast is indeed the most important meal of the day.

Bon appétit!

Fatima Meadows attends Appalachian State University. Cooking is her therapy, and trying new foods and combinations of foods is the great adventure of her life. She most enjoys preparing new dishes and sharing them with her fiancé, Jon.