Rise & Shine It’s Breakfast Time!

Your body and brain need food to start the day.  Unless you have a midnight snack, which is not recommended, you have been without food for10 hours or more.

Eating breakfast has many benefits including:

• Preparing you to listen, think and remember.
• Helping you maintain a healthy body weight.
• Providing energy for the morning’s work or play.
• Putting you in a better mood.
• Helping you meet nutrition needs.

5 Minute Breakfast Ideas:

• Cold cereal with milk and fresh or dried fruit mixed in.
• Whole wheat toast with peanut butter and milk or fruit juice to drink.
• Cheese melted on wheat bread and canned fruit.
• Instant oatmeal made with milk and dried fruit mixed in.

Mornings are hectic and overscheduled already.  A healthy breakfast doesn’t have to take a lot of time.

Choose quick and easy breakfast foods including foods from 3 different food groups. 

 Breakfast on the Go:

• Cereal in a bag, a piece of fruit with milk to drink.
• Sliced cheese, whole grain cracker and a piece of fruit.
• Hard boiled egg and whole grain crackers and fruit juice.
• Peanut butter sandwich with dried fruit or applesauce in it or fruit on the side and milk.

Remember: All WIC approved foods are good for breakfast!

Get more breakfast information from:

Kids a Cookin': www.kidsacookin.ksu.edu
Clemson University: www.clemson.edu/
Kids Health Recipes: kidshealth.org/parent/recipes
United States Dept.of Agriculture Food & Nutrition: Sample Menus: www.fns.usda.gov/
University of Florida: Raising Healthy Children: Begin with Breakfast: http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/fy1153
Celebrate Healthy Eating: www.celebratehealthyeating.org