My Typical (breakfast) Menu {right now}

This is for you Annemarie!  But I did think it was a good idea to put here in case I've "forgotten" in a few months how I was doing it. 

Right now I get 29 points.  Given my height, age, weight, activity level and everything else, Weight Watchers has deemed that I need 29 points a day to loose weight and still remain healthy.  So, what am I eating for those 29 points?  Sometimes I feel like a LOT! 

On a side note, I haven't followed the plan today or yesterday.  I've been sick with a fever, chills, dizziness and just today a sore throat so I'm eating what I can when I can and not worrying about the points.  I figure this is one of those times it's best to listen to your body and not worry about how many points are in a glass of orange juice!  Speaking of which, once I wrote out the breakfast menu, I realized I needed to go lay down.  So, tomorrow, Lunch and maybe dinner too.  We'll have to play it by ear.

So, I have about 4 different breakfasts that I like to eat.  Because really, does anyone ever want to eat the same thing?  Nope!  Not me anyhow.  So these are my choices:

For Breakfast.  I've color coded the different breakfasts. 

For all my breakfasts I have a cup of hazelnut brewed coffee (Dunkin Donuts roast brewed at home) with 2 TBSP of Carnation Low-Fat Non Dairy Creamer (0 points!) and then I've been using Truvia.  It's not my favorite but it doesn't add any points like real sugar does.  I used to measure my TBSP of Creamer but I don't anymore.  I know what color I like my coffee and just go by that.  If it did add up to a point, I wouldn't mind, it would have come out of my 35 additional or my earned activity points anyhow.

2 Slices of Jennie-O Turkey Bacon - 1 point, fried with just a little bit of spray Pam.  I cook these until they are pretty crisp - otherwise they are chewy.  And chewy bacon is, well.... yuckY!  One pound of bacon lasts me about a month.  I'm the only one that eats it and I just use a few slices at a time. 
1 egg and 1 egg white - 2 points - sometimes mixed together, sometimes just added together to the pan.  It depends on whether I want a starch with it or cheese.  If having a starch, I'll leave the egg yolk unbroken and eat with the toast or potatoes.  If I'm having with cheese, I'll mix them together.  For cheese I add 1 TBSP shredded Mozzerella - 1 point.  If I have any in the house, I could also have 1/2 cup of eggbeaters for only 1 point.  This is a good option if you want bacon and eggs but know you are going out that evening.
2 slices of Johnnie Foodmaster light wheat bread - 1 point.  I'm lucky, this is the cheap store name bread at my local grocery store.  I'm sure that if my local grocery store offers this than others must too!  2 slices of this bread is only 1 point.  SCORE!
If we have mashed potatoes the night before, I may opt to have poor-man's home fries.  So, after I cook the bacon, add a little more spray Pam and then throw in 1/2 cup of mashed potatoes - 2 points.  Make sure you didn't add milk and butter the night before!  Personally, I love to add a little bit of Spinach and Herb dip from Tastefully Simple to my mashed potatoes.  Great flavor and no added calories!

So that's just one breakfast and already a ton of options in that.  It could be as low as 3 points for that breakfast or as much as 6!  And eggs are great because they stay with you longer.  Those proteins really help keep you going!

So for an easy option for breakfast, I also choose the stand-by.  Cereal.  My options are many.  All are 2 points for 1 cup.  And I have all of my cereal with 1/2 cup of 1% milk for 1 point.  So, right now I have in my pantry...
Multi-Grain Cheerios
Kashi Go-Lean 
Kashi Honey Sunshine
Fiber One
The Kashi Honey Sunshine and the Fiber One aren't open.  I make sure that I buy when it's on sale and when I have a coupon.

A breakfast I'm enjoying a lot right now is my Oatmeal.  I do buy the Weight Watcher Blueberry Harvest Oatmeal which is 2 points.  But I'm sure there are plenty of other oatmeal choices out there too.  I have my Blueberry Harvest Oatmeal with boiling water.  And I make it very, very thick.  I do this because I add to it a container of Chobani Greek Plain yogurt.  I imagine that any greek yogurt would do.  The plain Chobani is 2 points and I imagine that others are comperable.  My weight watcher leader mentioned adding the greek yogurt to the oatmeal and while you are probably thinking, yuck!  Let me tell you... I love it!  It's one of my favorites!  The greek yogurt makes the oatmeal creamy and very rich.  It is important to make your oatmeal extremely hot or you'll end up with cold oatmeal and that's yucky!  And I don't recommend heating the yogurt.  Well, I guess you could but.... ahh... I'm not gonna!

OK, so one breakfast I have not yet given up is Pancake Sunday.  Every Sunday, Patrick makes the family pancakes.  He uses Biquick Light and we figure that if he makes the pancakes about 3 to 3 1/2 inches in diameter they come out to be about 2 points each.  YUP!  2 points EACH!  But here's the best part.  My syrup is FREE!  What?  How?  because I found this low calorie, sugar free syrup and it's 1/4 cup for no points.  And you know what.  I never, never, never use 1/4 cup of syrup.  OK.  This syrup is expensive.  At $3.99 for a bottle, it's an expensive option.  BUT!  Only I use it and the one container I've purchased has lasted me.  I have the same bottle I bought in September.  Early September.  And I've got about 1/4 of a bottle left.  So in the long run, I'm thinking this is still a great deal.

Another breakfast option I like is my FiberOne blueberry muffin - 3 points (I make my own!) fand a weight watcher yogurt - 1 point.  Or on weigh in days, I have a Fiber Plus bar - 2 points and a banana - 2 points after I get weighed. 

Hmmm, let me think.  I think those are my basic breakfasts.  Yup. those are the most popular ones I eat.  As you can see, there is plenty to choose from.  I try to keep my breakfast to 6 points or under.  And I can do that even on pancake day! 

I'll type up a little something about lunch and dinner tomorrow.  Hopefully this will help out not only Annemarie but also others.  And I'll use this guide as a way to remember when I'm bored with what I'm eating.