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When I am selecting food for breakfast every morning, the complex carbohydrate have to be something high fibre, one portion of good low fat or fat free protein, and some fresh fruits/vegetable packed with minerals, vitamins specifically phytochemicals and antioxidents.
Of course being a working women, my mornings are busy checking
all the emails compiled during the night from all over the world, organizing
the meetings and the days schedule. Racing the clock to reach office by 9:15,
yet ensuring everyone leave home with stomach full of balanced and healthy
breakfast for the day.
Layer these in a wide glass or bowl with the top
layer always fruits. Children generally like the colorful fresh presentation, appreciate easy one bowl meal to eat before they climb the school buses
and you run out of doors for office.
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| Mango Parafait |
Parfait- A perfect healthy and balanced breakfast option every morning
People on the go, and busy in the mornings always
tend to compromise on their breakfast and skip it. Some think missing
the breakfast aids in weight loss, these are completely fad and bad health
habits. In order to get our metabolism going, we must eat something within
half-hour of waking up. It is the healthiest of practice to eat a full balanced and healthy
breakfast every morning before kicking off your workday.
Now the questions is what makes a breakfast; A breakfast that contains a good and healthy selection of complex carbohydrate, protein and some fruit or vegetable is all we need to make it nutritious and balanced.
Now the questions is what makes a breakfast; A breakfast that contains a good and healthy selection of complex carbohydrate, protein and some fruit or vegetable is all we need to make it nutritious and balanced.
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| Strawberry Parfait |
When I am selecting food for breakfast every morning, the complex carbohydrate have to be something high fibre, one portion of good low fat or fat free protein, and some fresh fruits/vegetable packed with minerals, vitamins specifically phytochemicals and antioxidents.
Of course being a working women, my mornings are busy checking
all the emails compiled during the night from all over the world, organizing
the meetings and the days schedule. Racing the clock to reach office by 9:15,
yet ensuring everyone leave home with stomach full of balanced and healthy
breakfast for the day. 
Fruit and yogurt parfait is an answer.
It is quick and easy,
Parfait is a French word meaning “Perfect”, and traditionally used by most part of the world for a frozen desert made with cream, icecream, preserved fruits. I have eaten many variations of Parfait around the world, and my favourite are the United States and Canada, parfait that are made with yogurt layered with nuts or fresh fruits and when served at breakfast also includes some wholesome cereal.
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It is quick and easy,
nutritious, and all in one bowl meal and keeps all of us going until lunch time without
need for a snack or thinking about food. It has become
an all time favourite at my home, their
presentation attracts the most picky eaters specially children and adolescent
and people in hurry to be out the doors, they can grab and go a cup/bowl of freshly prepared parfait.
Parfait is a French word meaning “Perfect”, and traditionally used by most part of the world for a frozen desert made with cream, icecream, preserved fruits. I have eaten many variations of Parfait around the world, and my favourite are the United States and Canada, parfait that are made with yogurt layered with nuts or fresh fruits and when served at breakfast also includes some wholesome cereal.
Pakistan is blessed with the bounty of nature in the form of a wide
variety of colourful, sweet, juicy fruits. There are a good selection of mostly organically produced fruits available year round, and they dont event travel overly long distances to reach you. Including seasonal produce is an
important aspect of eating
healthy. So, ideally choose fruits that are in season in your region, are fresh and ripe and not processed, frozen, preserved or imported.
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| Peach Parafait |
These breakfast parfait can be simply made with any most seasonal fruits zero/low fat yogurt, whole wheat cereal and some added fibre if you want
- Fresh
Seasonal Fruits: ½ Cup Season Fresh Fruits like strawberries or blue berry,
rashberry, mulberry, banana, mangoes, peaches. I personally prefer using the
fruits in season. However, I don’t use melons, or any citrus fruits the texture
and taste wont compliment yougurt, beside citrus makes the parafait watery and
very tangy.
- Yogurt;
use low or zero fat yogurt, I use locally available Adams or Nestle Acti Plus which
works very well providing the protein and the very much required Probiotics. Avoid fruit flavoured yogut or the ones
with jams or preserves in it, they only add that unwanted sugar in your meals
and the empty calories.
- Complex
Carbohydrate; you can select a couple of table-spoons of any whole grain cereal
e.g museli, granola, wholewheat flakes, wheabix, cooked and cooled oats (I use
steel cut oats), bulgar wheat (dalia).
- Fibre: add a teaspoon of any fibre that can be flax seed meal (I use
that), physilum husk- Isphagol, or Wheat Bran.
- Nuts: I often toss a few slivers of almonds, or dried rasins, blue berries, raisins, cranberries as well.
- Nuts: I often toss a few slivers of almonds, or dried rasins, blue berries, raisins, cranberries as well.
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| Cherry Parfait |
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| Lychee Parfait topped with dried cranberries and blueberries |
