Food & Drinks

Breakfast your slim


Around eleven o'clock, everyone here starts walking towards the fridge , to then return to the laptop with a rice cake, cracker, or a handful of nuts. I call it the midday snack. Too late for breakfast, too early for lunch. But did you know that you can tackle that snack moment at the end of the morning quite well? If you have a good protein-rich breakfast before starting your day, you should easily be able to go a few hours without snacking. There is even a secret ingredient that helps curb snacking. Mushrooms give you a fuller feeling and ensure that you reach for snacks. less often. Researchers from the University of Minnesota say this in an article published in the journal ‘Appetite’. ‘Previous studies already suggested that mushrooms are much more filling than, for example, meat,’ says Professor Joanne Slavin. ‘Our research now shows that it is also more nutritious to swap meat for mushrooms in some meals.’

How do you discover that? Give 17 women and 15 men either mushrooms or minced meat to eat for ten days. The portions were based on the amount of protein they contained. The researchers found that the group with mushrooms for breakfast felt hungry less quickly.

By swapping your slice of bacon for a handful of mushrooms in your omelet, you get both less hungry and consume fewer calories. ‘This study provides additional evidence that mushrooms can help with weight management. Moreover, they also contain vitamin D, something that is rarely found in food and that we quickly become deficient in,’ says Slavin.

For one good filling breakfast

(also easy to make the night before)

  • Handful of chestnut mushrooms
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 handful of spinach
  • 2 tbsp crumbled goat cheese
  • 1/2 avocado
  • fresh parsley

1. Whisk the eggs in a bowl and heat some olive oil in the pan.

2. In a separate pan, sauté the mushrooms with some pepper and salt.

3. Place the mushrooms and spinach on one half of the omelet and fold the omelet over.

4. Slice the avocado.

5. Top the omelet with the avocado, feta, and fresh parsley.

6. Season with pepper and salt if desired.