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highplainsdem

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5. My typical breakfast is a cup of cottage cheese (26 grams of protein) with blueberries or black grapes, followed
Mon Feb 12, 2024, 10:07 AM
Feb 2024

by cereal (often oatmeal) with milk - real milk - and a banana, then half a cup of orange juice and at least half a cup of milk (I take my vitamins with the OJ and milk I drink). And I'll have black coffee, too.

Lots of protein, lots of potassium (also important for muscles, including the heart), fairly healthy carbs with the sweetness from fruit. Takes little time to prepare and eat, and I don't feel hungry again for several hours.

I usually don't take the time to cook eggs or meat for breakfast unless I have company.

I buy Daisy brand cottage cheese because it has only 3 ingredients - cultured skim milk, cream and salt - rather than stabilizers like guar gum, which you'll find in cheaper brands with less protein.

Editing to add that the milk adds at least 8 grams of protein, so that's 34 grams of protein to start the day. I don't count the incomplete proteins in cereal.

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