My $25 good food challenge: Who says I can’t have a sweet potato for breakfast?
by Grace
Filed under Fit at Forty, On Health & Beauty
No one. Where is it written that eggs are breakfast food, that french toast can only be eaten in the morning and that oatmeal is the breakfast of champions? Nowhere. So I was feeling very mavericky yesterday morning when I woke up thinking “I want a sweet potato for breakfast!” I purchased a couple of them during week two of my challenge and still had a couple left over. Sweet potatoes are packed with vitamin A, are a great source of beta carotene and most importantly for me this week, are NOT oatmeal.
On Wednesday morning as I sat down to eat yet another bowl of oatmeal, I thought, “I can NOTeat another bowl of oatmeal.” You see, sadly, unlike my longstanding relationship with chicken, I have no addiction to, or affinity for, oatmeal. Especially when it’s not drowning in brown sugar, cinnamon or the fake little chunks of apple or peach they add to those handy pre-packaged individual-serving size- bags. No, now that I’m getting my oatmeal au naturale, it’s become an acquired taste I have yet to acquire. But the sweet potato, that was something I could work with, and work with it I did. A little bit of seasoning and a pat of butter, and that little root vegetable became the highlight of my chickenless-by my own doing-beanfilled week.
Next week, I’m putting off the grocery shopping until Monday and preparing my meals (at least the ones involving chicken) on a daily basis in the hopes of keeping the I-must-eat-all-this-chicken-at-once monster at bay. Wish me luck!
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Grace is a blogger and Women at Forty’s Senior Editor. She shares her weight loss challenges and experiences weekly in our Health & Beauty – Fit at Forty section.
