Many people underestimate the importance of starting your day with a healthy breakfast. The first meal of the day should be eaten within 30 minutes of getting up in the morning. It should be also filled with healthy foods that help kick start your metabolism and stabilize your blood sugar levels.

Choosing a nutritious breakfast can help to keep you feeling full through the morning, which reduces the temptation to snack on sugary or sweet foods until lunch time. Here are some clean and healthy breakfast ideas you might try:

Fruit Smoothie

If you don’t have time to sit down and eat a cooked breakfast in the morning, why not whip up a healthy fruit smoothie? You can get creative and blend up your favorite fruits and drink it on the go. Experiment with which fruit combinations work best for your tastes.  You can also add yogurt, some coconut milk, or a little natural protein powder to your smoothie if you want.

Oatmeal Muffins

Baking oatmeal muffins is much easier than many people imagine. It only takes a few minutes to mix some ingredients together, put the mixture into a muffin tray and bake them.  You can flavor your oatmeal muffins with blueberries or bananas, or any other fruit you enjoy.

In 30 minutes or so, your healthy oatmeal muffins are ready to enjoy. What’s more, each batch you bake should make enough breakfast muffins for the rest of the week.

Wash your muffins down with a healthy glass of turmeric water. Turmeric helps to boost your metabolism and lemon kick starts your liver for the day.

Eggs

Research published by the National Institute of Health shows that people who ate 2 boiled eggs for breakfast each morning were more likely to lose weight than those people who ate a bagel breakfast.

Besides, eggs are low in calories, high in protein, and are packed with nutrients, vitamins and minerals, so they’re a great way to start your day. Whole eggs are also a great source of dietary vitamin D. Get creative and find some ways to enjoy eggs for breakfast.

Omelets

Omelets are the ideal way to combine the benefits of starting your day with eggs along with your choice of fillings.  Mixing eggs with your favorite healthy fillings gives you the opportunity to personalize your omelets to suit your individual tastes. Add shredded spinach, mushrooms, avocado, peppers, tomatoes, scallions, or any other healthy filling you enjoy into your omelet. It only takes a few minutes to cook your omelet in a fry pan

Huevos Rancheros

If you’re after a healthy, portable breakfast to eat on the run, why not make huevos rancheros? Hard-boil an egg and cut it into slices. Place the egg slices with some bacon or lean ham into a whole-wheat tortilla and top it with some grated cheese and some salsa. Wrap the tortilla around the ingredients and your healthy breakfast is ready to go.

Breakfast Bruschetta

Drizzle a little olive oil on some thick sliced multi-grain bread and set it on the grill to toast it lightly. Meanwhile, chop up some tomatoes and fresh basil and toss them together with a little olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Put your tomato mixture on your toasted bread and it’s breakfast time!

Homemade Muesli

Making your own muesli cereal is much easier than most people think. When you create your own healthy muesli mixture, you know exactly what’s in your bowl. You also have the advantage of customizing the ingredients to suit your own preferences. Simply mix together some rolled oats, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, chopped almonds, pistacchios, shredded coconut, dried apricots, raisins, and honey. You can serve your mixture with yogurt or fruit.

Homemade Granola

You can turn your homemade muesli into granola quickly by toasting the ingredients. Combine your preferred granola ingredients into a bowl, making sure they’re all lightly and evenlycovered with honey to bind them into little clumps. Then spread the combined mixture onto a baking sheet and baking in the oven on low-to-medium heat for 15 to 20 minutes.

Fruit Parfait

Grab a large drinking glass and start creating healthy breakfast parfait layers. For example, start with a dollop of yogurt, drizzle some honey over it, then layer on some blueberries, chopped strawberries, grapes, chopped almonds, or any other fruit you love. Repeat the layers until your glass is full. Then grab a spoon and enjoy your healthy fruit parfait breakfast.

There are so many different ways to enjoy a healthy breakfast without resorting to boring cereal. Be creative and experiment with different flavor combinations and you’ll be enjoying breakfast more than ever before.

Zoe Parkinson used to either skip breakfast or have a coffee and a pastry on the way to work. Her eating habits for the rest of the day were pretty poor too. Until one day she said enough is enough and changed her lifestyle and the way she looked at food. Zoe hasn’t looked back, she looks and feels fantastic and is keen to share her lifestyle changes with others.