Deciding on breakfast items has been hard.
Before I was vegan, I'd cook up a couple eggs for myself every morning and that was swell. When I stopped being vegan, I decided to start eating cereal again. But cereal is horrifically unhealthy with mountains of sugar, so I changed it to rice cakes and peanut butter.
Rice cakes and peanut butter is decent, but a little bit sad sometimes, and all that peanut butter can be repetitive. Also hard to spread it without getting way too many calories. Eventually, I switched to bagels with fake cream cheese, but my grocery store doesn't always stock whole wheat, and the vegan cream cheese is not very substantive outside of sugar. Also the whole wheat ones taste kinda bad. Sometimes I would try to sub in oatmeal, but most store-bought oatmeal is full of sugar, and the stuff that is sugar-free is way too bitter for me, even with oat milk. In fact, even the low sugar variety still tastes bad to me. I tried a brief foray of oats, but I had the same problem for the most part. Boring, bland, bitter, just not appealing at all, even with fruit.
This is definitely a case of my brain being cooked, at least to some extent. I think part of the problem is that I'm asking myself to change to much too fast. Even eating the full sugar granola with dried fruits would be healthier than the bagels I normally eat. So I'm going to start buying exactly that. (: It's also nice because it'll save me a little bit on time and electricity, since I'm no longer toasting bread. Oh yeah, and it's shelf stable.
Rice cakes and peanut butter is decent, but a little bit sad sometimes, and all that peanut butter can be repetitive. Also hard to spread it without getting way too many calories. Eventually, I switched to bagels with fake cream cheese, but my grocery store doesn't always stock whole wheat, and the vegan cream cheese is not very substantive outside of sugar. Also the whole wheat ones taste kinda bad. Sometimes I would try to sub in oatmeal, but most store-bought oatmeal is full of sugar, and the stuff that is sugar-free is way too bitter for me, even with oat milk. In fact, even the low sugar variety still tastes bad to me. I tried a brief foray of oats, but I had the same problem for the most part. Boring, bland, bitter, just not appealing at all, even with fruit.
This is definitely a case of my brain being cooked, at least to some extent. I think part of the problem is that I'm asking myself to change to much too fast. Even eating the full sugar granola with dried fruits would be healthier than the bagels I normally eat. So I'm going to start buying exactly that. (: It's also nice because it'll save me a little bit on time and electricity, since I'm no longer toasting bread. Oh yeah, and it's shelf stable.
