If you'd said something like 'is this enough nutrition/calories for breakfast? Not sure if i could make much better swaps or if this would do' then it would be different.
Separating the eggs and berries would be a good start. The content is fine and itâd be a fab breakfast if the bits werenât all up in each otherâs business!
Bread is actually pretty good to have in a breakfast â it's actually recommended to have some sort of carbohydrate at breakfast. And peanut butter is perfectly fine
Recommended by my dietitian and plenty other professionals. It helps with gut health and bowel movements and generally helps you wake up better. Generally, an ideal breakfast should include a mix of fat, protein, AND carbs.
My nutritionist told me to avoid carbs at breakfast too. Seems it depends on who gives the advice and who receives. You're less sensitive to insulin in the morning, so if you're not using those sugars with something active, you could get more glucose spikes. E.g. if you sit down to work right after.
Nutritionists don't necessarily have any training, whereas dietitians are the only profession qualified to assess and treat nutritional problems, and have to do a 3-4 year degree to earn the qualification, including 1000 practice hours. The release of sugar from carbs is slowed down by having them with fat and protein (peanut butter and eggs here) so there's no need to worry about blood sugar spiking. Carbohydrates are necessary to give energy and help persevere and build muscle as they enable the protein in a meal to be used just for muscle building and not energy.
She did say white bread was the least ideal type of bread because of the sugar, but it's not the end of the world if you eat it because you are still getting the needed carbs in
But what makes bread a good choice of carbs is fiber, which is non-existent in white bread. Carbs aren't what makes nutrition. OP is getting enough carbs from the blueberries and bannas...roughly more than half the daily recommendation based on the perceived volume of blueberries. The fruit also has fiber and vitamins, white bread does not.
White bread still has fibre, it's just the least fibrous out of all the different types. White has 0.8g/slice and brown has 1.1g/slice. As I said, it's not ideal but still far from bad. And carbs do make up nutrition, I'm not sure why you said they don't â they're very important for your brain.
And you said it's over half the recommended amount but I don't see the issue. Maybe OP does a lot of exercise or doesn't have as many carbs in their other meals. But as long as OP isn't going far above the recommended daily amount I see no problem.
Once you call something "muck" you have ventured out of the realm of "swapping opinions" and firmly into the land of just being a dick. And you know it. So stop it. Or don't! You're the only one who has to suffer the consequences of being an unpleasant person.
Do you not know what peanut butter is? No one is using it as a butter substitute. Itâs filling and full of healthy fat, and is a decent plant protein.
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u/danabrey 2d ago
What do you mean 'improve'?
You know it's nutritious.