5 Ways to "Jazz Up" Your Cereal

Same time. Same morning. Same cereal.

BOOR-ING!

Why eat the SAME thing EVERY morning when you can eat the SAME thing EVERY morning, but jazzed up? J Doesn’t make sense? As a one of my best friends always says, there’s a method to my madness (usually it’s his madness, though…).

Try one of the following suggestions to change up your morning cereal routine:

Add fruit – banana slices, chopped apples, fresh or frozen berries, etc. Or dried fruit – raisins, cherries (my personal favorite), cranberries, etc.

Add nuts – slivered or whole almonds, walnuts, pecans cashews.

Try a different milk – soy, almond, rice, hemp---you can find every milk under the sun these days.

Mix two different cereals – a fairly simple cereal based on grains, such as wheat, corn, rice, or bran will mix well with a sweater cereal. This way, you still can eat your favorite cereal, but cut down on the sugar, and keep the milk white. J

Make it hot – oatmeal, grits, buckwheat, or even brown rice taste delicious with fruits, nuts, and milk.

So, how will you jazz up your cereal?

The Best "Leftover" Salad for Work or School Lunches

Do you have one or all of the following?         

- A leftover salad from last night’s dinner

-A few tuperwares

-Canned fish, leftover chicken, steak, or tofu

Chances are, you don’t want to eat the same thing for lunch EVERY DAY OF YOUR LIFE. Am I right? Who knows? All I know is that I sure don’t want to. I mean, I have to be completely honest: There’s nothing better in my book than a good peanut butter and honey sandwich. But hey, what if I run out of peanut butter? What do I do then?

So, in an attempt to jazz up work or school lunches, why not try a “leftover” salad for a change? Now, what is, exactly, a “leftover” salad? It's a salad that is, (drum roll, please…) MADE WITH LEFTOVERS! WOW! How crazy is that?

Any meal that makes use of leftovers may not sound too exciting, but what is exciting is this: Less prep-work. Less stress. More nutrition. Now who wouldn’t want that?

So what goes into a leftover salad? Well, let’s think back a moment…what do you remember having for dinner? Did you fix some vegetables? Maybe some chicken or fish?

Simply throw a few handfuls bagged lettuce or spinach and cut up veggies in a large tuperware and slice some leftover meat or put some canned salmon or tuna on top. You could also slice up tofu  instead of meat. Then pack a small tuperware with salad dressing that can be tossed on at lunchtime.

Ideally, at dinnertime, make some extra salad and leave the dressing off. Then save it for lunch the next day. You can also throw on some rice, small-shaped pasta, olives, nuts, dried fruit, or PRETTY MUCH ANYTHING IN YOUR PANTRY OR FRIDGE!

Have fun making your “leftover” salad creations!