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Healthy Breakfast Omelette
Are you looking for ways to increase your daily veg intake?
How about sneaking some vegetables in by making a Healthy Breakfast Omelette!
In this article we discuss all things eggs and give you some tips and tricks to pack your omelettes full of nutritious vegetables to help you hit your five a day.
Getting Your 'Five a Day'
Omelettes are a great and filling meal to start the day with.
Protein packed eggs are a sure way to keep you fuller for longer and help you avoid grabbing the chocolate and coffee mid-morning.
We're going to give you some great ideas on creating aHealthy Breakfast Omelette.
All of us are trying to lead healthier lifestyles whether it be with the goal to lose weight, or even generally feel better overall by simply consuming more of our five a day.
The problem with the five a day concept is that here at Lean Greens, we found it was almost near impossible to consume the recommended amount unless you started your day with some fruit or veg.
Now I know what you're thinking,vegetablesfor breakfast?!
I myself find it hard enough to even gulp down a slice of toast let alone the personal trainers and bodybuilders of the world eating stir-fry andfishfor breakfast.
Therefore a really quick and simple way of having any success at consuming your five a day is by creating a quick and easy healthy breakfast omelette but packing it full of your favourite veg!
We're going to show you how to create a delicious omelette with peppers, spring onions, chorizo and feta.
But first, let's do some myth busting!
Eggs - Are They Healthy?
Do Eggs Cause Cholesterol?
In the past it was thought that people should limit the number ofeggs they eat to three to four a week because they contain cholesterol - It is the egg yolks that have the cholesterol.
However, the misconceptions around eggs and cholesterol largely stemmed fromincorrect conclusionsdrawn from early research that dietary cholesterol contributed to raised blood cholesterol levels.
The British Heart Foundation states thateggs are in fact low in saturated fat and there is now no restriction on the number of eggs you should consume.
It is now moreimportant to be conscious of how you cook your eggsand what you eat them with.
How Many Eggs Can I Eat?
There are a lot of questions regarding thehealthiness of eggs and the impact they can have upon cholesterol.
For most people there is currently no limit on the number of eggs that you can eat in a week.
However, because the recommendation has changed over the years, it's often a common source of confusion.
In the past a restriction oneggs was recommended because we thought that foods high in cholesterol (including liver, kidneys and shellfish, as well as eggs) could have an impact oncholesterol levels in the body.
However, as research in this area has developed, so has our understanding of how foods that contain cholesterol affect people’s hearthealth.
For most people, the amount ofsaturated fat they eat has much more of an impact on their cholesterol than eating foods that contain cholesterol, like eggs and shellfish.
So unless you are advised otherwise by your doctor or dietician, if you like eggs, you can include them as part of abalanced and varied diet.
Upgrade Your Eggs
A word about eggs because eggs is something else you can upgrade.
Now my favourite eggs are from a lady who lives down the road who has, "Hand-gathered, free to roam, organically fed eggs.”
They taste incredible.
So if you ever have any trouble poaching eggs it’s probably because you’re using ones from the supermarket and they’re just not fresh enough.
To get the perfect poached eggs, they need to be really fresh.
You can do a little test to check the freshness of your eggs by placing them in a cup of water;
- If you pop a fresh egg in, and it sinksand sits horizontally on the bottom, it's really fresh
- If it tilts up halfway, then it's not so fresh
- If it sits up in a vertical position and floats, then it is really quite stale
If you don’t like eggs, try a different egg. It may be that you’ve been trying the wrong eggs!
Especially because fresh eggs have a massive difference in taste they will make a huge difference to your Healthy Breakfast Omelette!
Healthy Breakfast Omelette Ideas
Below are just a few different ways you can add some extra veggies into your morning omelette!
- Chorizo, Peppers, Spring Onion and Feta
- Roasted Veg - Three eggs, a little bit of feta cheese and I’ve got leftover roast Mediterranean veg from the other day. So just adding a bit of chorizo for a little bit of meat in there and it gives it a little bit of flavour.
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Asparagus - You could add this instead of roast veg some days, that’s quite nice in an omelette, just chop it up, stir fry it a little bit beforehand before you add your eggs.
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Spinach - This goes lovely in a omelette, you can either mix it in with the egg or you could just rest it on top, you can also have it as a salad.
- Mushrooms - You might spot during this article that mushrooms do not make an appearance.
That is because they are the Devil’s creation.
They are the one food I absolutely can’t stand and Tim loves them. So whenever we go anywhere, or out for breakfast or out for dinner Tim orders things with mushrooms in because I don’t have them in the house.