To think this is a suitable breakfast?

[ARareKindaBear]

For years I have not eaten breakfast, I never have appetite in a morning so just drink coffee and wait until lunch to eat.

Recently however I’ve discovered honey Greek yogurt and I’ve become a bit obsessed with it! So I’ve been eating 100g of Greek honey yogurt mixed with 5g of chopped mixed nuts every morning for breakfast. I love it!

My mum has now decided I clearly have an eating disorder as that isn’t a suitable breakfast apparently - I think it’s quite healthy?! No crappy sugars that you would get with cereal, protein, fibre in the nuts? Honey is good for you too surely?

AIBU to think a) it’s healthy and b) it’s better than nothing?!

I do Intermittent Fasting.

I make up a smoothie like this and enough for 5 days, then portion it out and add kefir. God it's gorgeous, and keeps me going for a long time.

Oats,
Spinach and kale (I just throw the prepared pack from Aldi in the freezer and grab a handful for the mix)
Protein powder
Walnuts
Mixed berries
Water.

Whizz up and transfer to those clip lock mugs, into the fridge, each mug gives two servings.

It might not suit everyone, but it's so easy to grab and gulp. All done on a Saturday for the week

Yeah you need the proper Greek yoghurt not Greek style. But that’s really good for you. Nuts are great too.

If you are trying to knock your bourbon evening habit on the head I’d try and ditch the honey as it’s a quick glucose/sugar hit which we are more sensitive to on an empty stomach. And that can cause crashes later in the day and lead to us craving more sugary foods.

I’m trying just savoury foods for breakfast to get off the sugar rollercoaster and it’s really working.

What does your mum think is a healthy breakfast??

ditch the honey as it’s a quick glucose/sugar

Honey is slower release so also has lower GI index than bog standard sugar.

Such blasphemy people comparing honey to ordinary sugar🙈

I’m so fussy about yoghurt, find normal stuff too tangy and don’t like the texture - this thread has explained why I like some greek yoghurts and not others, it must be the Greek style ones I’ve not liked! Lightbulb moment…

Its a brill breakfast x

Yum

If anyone fancies occasional change I loved yeo valley kefir yogurt. Bit thinner, but delicious.

@ScottBakula I had this one and loved it. Very easy to use. You can also by cultures for different types of yogurts.
I did "soft cheese spread". So basically yogurt then salted it to taste, added herbs, black pepper and strained. Very nice

What's the difference? Is it the type of milk used?

They both seem to have no added ingredients.

@yadeciN , I keep meaning to try the cheese and forgetting to order extra milk from my milk man , I have just put in a order for a extra two pints !

I've googled and can't see that there's any real difference (in the UK) between greek and greek style yoghurt.
Maybe the straining process is different?

Try it. It's great. Some flavour it after straining but I wanted the herbs etc to sit in it for longer. Works either way.

Sounds perfectly fine to me. I love Greek yoghurt with blueberries

If Asda is your supermarket of choice, they sell their own extra special Greek yoghurt for £2.25 for 500g. It might be worth giving that a try.
Fage was always expensive but have reduced the size of their tubs lately.
I buy Tesco Finest and a 500g pot does 3 breakfasts. The Fage small pots used to be 170g so that feels like a reasonable portion.

M&S Authentic Greek Yoghurt has 5g of protein and 8.6g of sugar per 100g
M&S Greek Style Yoghurt has 4.1g of protein and 4.8g of sugar per 100g.

So not much different.

Sorry, actually I was looking at the wrong Authentic Greek one (it had added vanilla) - the plain one is 6.4g protein and 3.9g sugar.

It's fine. Away from here where people worry about honey, most people are putting some weetabix in a bowl or some spread on toast and that's it

I think it's the straining process so greek style needs added milk powder to be thick?

Interesting. So different in terms of authenticity but not really any difference nutritionally.

In that case the OP doesn't need to worry if it's greek or greek-style. Both are a healthy breakfast.

I agree the Greek style type always taste a bit bitter to me.

As well as Fage Waitrose 1 and Tesco finest are a nice creamy type.

It's very specific.. are you measuring 5g of nuts? And 100g out a tub?

As long as your not meticulously measuring it out to the gram then yes it's totally better than nothing.

Yup. That's why I stick to Fage 5% - although I eat so much of it (for the protein/calorie balance) I'm thinking of buying a yoghurt maker.

A lot of the "healthy" yoghurt brands in the supermarket have a load of crap in them that you don't need. I am an assiduous reader of labels.

I always assumed the difference between Greek and "Greek style" yoghurt was that often Greek yoghurt is made from sheep's milk rather than cow's milk?

But I could be wrong. Must ask my Greek colleague when he's back from a stint working in Greece.

I was working in Cyprus a couple of months ago, and revelled in the choices of yoghurt in an ordinary supermarket! And the taste & "mouth feel" was amazing.