High protein premade breakfast
First my routine in the morning:
5:45am alarm goes off
6:10am I am showered, shaved and dressed in the kitchen preparing breakfast and feeding the dogs.
6:25am Goal time to be out the door to work.
My breakfast consists of a cold latte, a slice of coffee cake and eggs. Since I am making a cold latte, I am just pulling a couple shots of espresso. This probably takes a minute of focused time broken down into 30 seconds to grind and tamp, and then 30 seconds to pull. Waiting for the espresso head to heat up, I am busy doing other things.
They eggs are the interesting part. Making scrabbled eggs or an omelet takes about 10 minutes in the morning. Some of this 10 minutes can be used to feed the dogs, make espresso, make lunch, but that would leave me only 5 minutes to eat.
I buy Egg Starts from Costco that are little cartons of egg whites with some beta carotene (orange from carrots) added to make them look like normal eggs. I am trying to keep my diet high in protein, so I eat a cartoon ever couple days. The cartoons are faster than cracking eggs, and they are just the egg whites so low fat and cholesterol.
What I did last weeked was bake 4 omelets in the oven while I was preparing lunch and dinner for the week. This was crazy simple. I sprayed a skillet with Pam, and filled it with one carton of eggs, 4 slices of good lunch ham chopped, and a light sprinkle of cheddar. Throw all this in the oven for 30 minutes, slide out of pan onto a plate to cool and start the next batch.
This week, instead of using a skillet, I used a pie pan. After the omelet cooled, I covered it with foil and put it in the fridge. This should be much better than last week. Last week I took the double omelet, cut them in half and put them in a gallon freeze bag in the fridge. The first two came out fine, but the last two came out wet. This is probably because they were not completely cool before going in the bag. The pie pan covered with foil will allow moisture to escape so the top of the omelet isn’t wet.
To reheat the omelet, I put them in the microwave for 2 minutes, add a side of frozen coffee cake, and back in for another minute.
Currently I am only concerned with getting enough calories and enough protein and I am less concerned about where those calories are coming from. In March, I will be changing up my diet to try to decrease body fat before going to Mexico in May. I will adjust my breakfast by eliminating the coffee cake and adjusting the omelet. The omelet will probably loose the cheese and the ham, and gain boiled cubed potatoes, spinach and maybe some fresh herbs. The potatoes will add considerably to prep time, so I might experiment with using drained veg-all.