Tuesday Talk

 

It's Tuesday, and on Tuesdays we talk!

I want to talk about breakfast, because I am a creature of habit and have the same breakfast Mon-Fri. It's easy, fast, and despite it coming up on a year of having this for breakfast daily, I'm still not sick of it (and neither is husband, who has a short attention span).

So for breakfast each morning I blend:

2 cups almond milk
4 tbsp hemp hearts
1 tbsp of cocoa powder
2 thawed bananas

Then I split it in half and breakfast is served. It fulfills the hunger, isn't heavy at all and has nothing in it that causes sketchy stomach business. As someone with a super sensitive stomach, I'm all about avoiding sketchy stomach stuff. The hemp hearts also have a nice amount of protein -- I believe 3 tbsp. has 10 g, so we are a bit below that at 2tbsp of hemp hearts each.





Doesn't look too pretty, but it's the only photo I have of it.

But then I see these things on pinterest, where all these really motivated people are making stuff for the week ahead, like breakfast cookies or those little egg mixtures in muffin tins and I think maybe ... maybe it's time to think ahead (beyond putting bananas in the fridge to thaw out overnight). Maybe I should change things up, and have different smoothies or make eggs in a muffin tin or whip up some breakfast cookies.
Who has the time for this?? I seriously want to know. Do they have extra breakfast making hours added into their days? It reminds me of sitcoms, like Full House, where they did so much in the morning. Did they wake up at 4am to get all of that stuff done? I used to have a boss who woke up at 4am and he said it was the most productive part of his day (from 4-7) because no one else was awake and he could work in peace. But what about sleeping? Y'see, he didn't really sleep. I need a solid 9 hours to even feel rested. And really - whether you're doing stuff at 4am or doing it at 11pm, what's the difference? So that's my dilemma. Do I attempt to force myself to be an early riser and get stuff done in the morning, and find time on weekends to meal prep for the week or do I carry on with my 'fly by the seat of your pants' life where we still manage to eat dinner every night, only buy lunch sometimes and always have a breakfast smoothie? Something I need to figure out before we bring kids into the mix. Who knows, maybe kids would force me to be more organized.

but hey, there's always next week!