Breakfast Quiche

Today I made a revised version of the Weight Watcher's recipe for breakfast quiche.

They are 3 points plus for 2!

1 serving is 2 quiche, recipe makes 6 servings

I used:
1/2 green pepper
1/2 red bell pepper
1/2 can of mushrooms, chopped
1 medium green onion, thinly sliced
12 grape tomatoes, halved
6 eggs, beaten (11 ppv)
1 TB dried parsley
1/2 tsp crushed red pepper flakes
Salt and Pepper to taste
1/2 cup 2% milk reduced fat sharp cheddar cheese to top (5 ppv)

Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and spray a 12 cup muffin pan with non-stick cooking spray.

Cut bell peppers, mushrooms and green onion into small pieces.  Halve all the grape tomatoes.  In a large measuring cup beat 6 eggs.  Add parsley, red pepper flake and salt and pepper and combine well.

Pour equal amounts into each muffin cup of the egg mixture.  Add vegetables to egg mixtures in the muffin pan.  Top each muffin cup with an equal amount of reduced fat shredded cheddar cheese.

Bake for 7-10 minutes until eggs are set.

I topped mine with 1/4 cup of fat free salsa and 1 TB of plain nonfat Greek yogurt.

These make a great easy breakfast that you can eat all week.  Switch it up and add spinach, garlic, broccoli or whatever other vegetables you have on hand.  You could even add turkey sausage or crisp bacon, but you would have to reconfigure points.

I had my quiche with 1 slice of Aunt Millie's Light Potato Bread (1 ppv) topped with 5 sprays of I can't believe it's not butter with olive oil (0) and half of a large grapefruit.

4 point breakfast

A low point plus value hearty breakfast.

It's amazing what vegetables become when you add a little salt and pepper and cook them slowly in a pan.  My breakfast this morning was simple, and amazing.

1/2 red bell pepper sliced (0 ppv)
1/2 green bell pepper sliced (0 ppv)
1/2 small onion sliced thinly (0 ppv)
5 sprays of olive oil cooking spray (0 ppv)
2 large portabella mushrooms (0 ppv)
2 large eggs, over easy (4 ppv)
Salsa verde, 4 TB (0 ppv)

I sauteed the peppers and onion with 3 sprays of olive oil cooking spray, salt and pepper. Once they were cooked I removed them from the pan and added 2 large portabella mushrooms, stems removed and sprayed them with the remaining 2 sprays of olive oil cooking spray, salt and pepper.  Cook for about 4 minutes on each side then top the pepper and onion mixture.  Add two over easy eggs and top with salsa verde.

4 points!

This morning an amazing thing happened!

We have been doing a token system with Makayla to encourage her to do chores and things for herself (Thank you Melissa and Doug for making a great one!), so while she was dressing herself in her bedroom I made us both breakfast.  Normally I don't have time to eat before she goes to school because I am running around like crazy getting her ready, but with some incentive she has been able to do a lot more for herself!

Anyways I made myself 1/2 c. of quick oats prepared with water, 1 packet of Stevia in the Raw, and 1/2 c. of frozen blueberries for 4 points total.  Makayla had Organic Honey Nut Cheerios with Rice Milk.

As I said I don't normally eat before she goes to school with her, but I was able to this morning and we sat at the kitchen table together and ate and talked, it was so nice!  Even nicer was not hearing Spongebob turned on immediately after she woke up.  In fact, she never turned the TV on at all.

Changing your menu not only helps you lose weight, it can change the way you handle food all together.