During the work week I have my morning routine stream-lined.

Alarm goes off…snooze.

Alarm goes off again…snooze.

Alarm goes off again…curse and get up.

Shower, and make myself look pretty (although most days I simply aim to not scare the neighbors children).

Walk Emma.

Coffee.

Pack lunch.

More coffee.

Breakfast!

My breakfast has been the same since I began working at the hospital.  I needed to find a meal that would hold me over for the longest stretch of time.  I eat breakfast around 8:30 am, and don’t take my lunch until around 3:30 pm.  I needed a breakfast that would keep me energized and full so that I wouldn’t be sitting in the break room at noon stuffing saltines down my throat.  That’s when this simple meal came to be:

Kim’s Champion Breakfast

1/4 cup Old Fashion Oats

1/4 cup Light Soy Milk

1/4 cup water

Raisins

Mix all ingredients together in a microwave safe bowl.  Cook on high for 1 minute 30 seconds.  Stir and cook for another 30 seconds.

When the oatmeal is finished cooking I add a spoonful (or so) of plain soy yogurt, pumpkin puree and a few chocolate chips.  Along with the oatmeal I always like to have fruit of some sort.  Usually it’s a citrus fruit.  This week oranges happened to be on sale (8 pounds for $5…I have oranges coming out my ears), so oranges it is!  And the final piece, which I tend to think is most important, raw almonds.  I only have about 10 with my meal, but they are so filling!  Dr. Oz isn’t kidding when he says almonds are the key to staying fuller, longer!

So that is it!  Nothing fancy.  Nothing extravagant.

Simple.  Delicious.  Filling.

Now it’s time to go scare the neighborhood children…um…I mean, walk Emma!