{"id":413,"date":"2015-01-30T15:01:13","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T22:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/?p=413"},"modified":"2015-02-06T22:28:14","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T05:28:14","slug":"i-eat-this-multivitamin-in-a-bowl-every-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/i-eat-this-multivitamin-in-a-bowl-every-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"I Eat This Multivitamin in a Bowl Every Breakfast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever get sick of breakfast? I used to all the time, until I discovered the perfect meal. It\u2019s super filling and healthy too. The recipe is simple: yogurt, trail mix, and fresh fruit. There\u2019s endless combinations within those ingredients, so I\u2019ve been able to eat it every day for years. Here\u2019s my current selection:<\/p>\n

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I start with plain yogurt, preferably Greek-style with no additives, and add my own flavors. I stir in one teaspoon of honey, and sometimes a drop of vanilla extract. It takes the sour edge off and makes it pleasantly sweet for about half the sugar content of store-bought flavored yogurt.<\/p>\n

Once the base is pleasantly whipped, I add the trail mix. I used to buy pre-made trail mix, but I\u2019ve been trying to cut hidden sugars from my diet, so the dried fruit had to go. I decided to cut the peanuts as well, because they\u2019re the cheap filler of the nut world. I\u2019m now buying stuff in bulk and mixing my own \u2013 currently sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, almonds, cashews, and crushed pecans.<\/p>\n

Once the mix is stirred in, I sprinkle on a bit of flax seed (it all sifts to the bottom if you put it directly in the trail mix). I don\u2019t have a huge need for extra fiber in my diet, but if it ever becomes a concern I\u2019ve thought of tossing some rolled oats in there. I decided on that instead of granola because granola is just toasted rolled outs with nuts, dried fruit, and added sugars that I don\u2019t need. So why yogurt as a base instead of oatmeal? Because one time, when I ran out of yogurt, I tried this recipe with oatmeal and it made me gag. Also, I found myself hungry after only a few hours.<\/p>\n

For the final touch, I throw the fresh fruit on top. This part I change out more often than the yogurt or trail mix for variety, because the fruit you choose has a bigger influence on the flavor than the other ingredients. Today I\u2019m tossing in a whole banana, because bananas are good.<\/p>\n

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The greatest thing about this breakfast is it\u2019s so satisfying I can often hold out until dinner. It satisfies my taste buds too, like I\u2019m starting off my day with dessert, and yet everything in it is good for you. Eating the same breakfast every day also saves my willpower for more important decisions. Once I\u2019ve gathered the stuff I need, mixing it all together has become as automatic as making tea. No more angsting over breakfast \u2013 it\u2019s now my favorite meal of the day.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"reddit\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ever get sick of breakfast? I used to all the time, until I discovered the perfect meal. It\u2019s super filling and healthy too. The recipe is simple: yogurt, trail mix, and fresh fruit. There\u2019s endless combinations within those ingredients, so I\u2019ve been able to eat it every day for years. Here\u2019s my current selection: by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[23,22],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-living","tag-health","tag-recipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions\/432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}