Best 5 High-Protein Breakfast Ideas Perfect for Diabetics

Best 5 High-Protein Breakfast Ideas Perfect for Diabetics- The wrong breakfast sets you up for a day of craving low energy and blood sugar chaos in fact for those with diabetes eating the wrong breakfast can lead to a disaster for your blood sugar and your health overall.

Now in this blog post I’m going to explain to you why starting your day with the wrong breakfast can throw your blood sugar off track and leave you struggling all day. I’ll introduce a very simple approach to building a diabetes friendly breakfast that supports a stable blood sugar and consistent energy level throughout your day.

And then I’m going to share with you five very easy and delicious breakfast ideas that you can start eating right away to help keep your blood sugar level down. Let’s dive into five really easy breakfast ideas that you can start eating right away. So some of these might be things you’ve had before and some of them might be brand new ideas. The first one is a breakfast bowl that includes egg and avocado.

1. Egg and Avocado Breakfast Bowl

So the concept here is that at the base of your bowl, you have the option of making the base vegetables like salad greens, which could be spinach or arugula. It could be raw or cooked form or you can make your base a healthy whole grain. This could be brown rice a quinoa and then you want to end up adding some other vegetables on top which is going to boost up the fiber content maybe.

Choose Your Eggs

It’s diced onion, tomato squash, really any vegetable that you like, then you’re going to add some eggs and you can cook them in the style. You prefer soft boiled poached eggs. Some people like a scrambled egg on top and that’s going to be your main protein source.

Healthy Fats from Avocado

After then as well we’re going to add on some sliced avocado that’s going to provide our body with really essential healthy fats and monounsaturated polyunsaturated fatty acids which is ultimately going to add a lot of flavor and give us a really dense source of healthy energy. And it helps us slow our digestion which is going to improve our satiety. It’s going to help us sustain that energy for a long time after the meal and help us stay full.

So often with these kinds of breakfast bowls a lot of the texture is really soft. So I always like to suggest to people what I like to do for myself is add something crunchy on top, maybe it’s toasted sesame seeds or some pumpkin seeds. Something like that add some crunch it’ll add some healthy nutrients like magnesium omega-3 fatty acids.

Add Crunch & Flavor

So ultimately you’re going to have your source of fiber, protein, healthy fats and maybe you’re going to have one or more of each of these items. Now if you like a lot of spice if you have absolute adoration for a lot of flavor. This is an easy way to add spicy herbs and spices on top so you can add chili pepper flakes sauce Asian spicy flavors like togarashi really anything you like you can be really creative.

2. Greek Yogurt Parfait with Berries & Chia Seeds

The Creamy, Crunchy Combo

So let’s talk about our second breakfast idea. This is going to be a yogurt parfait using Greek yogurt as your base topping it with berries and chia seeds. So let’s break down our healthy trifacta here Greek yogurt is a very potent source of protein. And it also provides us with something called probiotics which are healthy bacteria that are important for our gut digestion.

Low-Sugar, High-Fiber Fruits

When you’re choosing your yogurt it’s really important to choose an unflavored variety so that we’re cutting down on the added sugar so you take your base of yogurt and then you add on top of it a high fiber fruit. So maybe this is the berries: blackberries, raspberries, strawberries and blueberries you really pick the variety you like.

All of these are going to be potent sources of antioxidants they’re going to add natural sweetness and they’re going to help you Stave off high spikes in your blood sugar. Because these are considered low gly index fruits. Fruits are not actually going to spike your blood sugar that high because they have so much fiber inside of them and then to add on top you’ll put some chia seeds.

Superfood Add-On

These are really a superfood chia seeds provide us with a natural source of omega-3 fatty acids. They are super powerful in the amount of fiber and they provide us with some proteins. So these are tiny little powerful seeds that provide us so much benefit so the combination is you have this creamy crunchy juicy parfait for breakfast. That’s going to provide you with the healthy Trifecta all right.

3. Vegetable Omelette with Whole Grain Toast

Your Protein & Fiber Powerhouse

Here it’s best to make a vegetable omelette aside from a piece of whole grain toast. So let’s break down our healthy trifacta components for our protein base we’re going to use eggs now. Some of you might not be egg eaters and that’s okay you can change this up by making it into a vegetable Scramble with Toof. So our protein is either eggs or tofu and then we’re going to add in lots of options for our fiber source.

These are going to be non-starchy vegetables: bell peppers, onions, spinach , and tomato mushrooms. You really name the variety you can have as many vegetables as you like here. There’s no reason to be shy because all of them are going to provide us with that fiber. We need as well as very important vitamins, minerals , phytonutrients , antioxidants etc.

Boost It with Healthy Fats

Then on top you can drizzle some olive oil or maybe you want to add some avocado to this or you want to put some toasted seeds on the top as your source of healthy fats. So all of the vegetables and the Egg component with a little bit of healthy fat does already take care of your Healthy Trifecta.

Add Some Crunch

But for balancing out the texture a lot of people like to have something crunchy. So this could be a little piece of toast like a sprouted toast, a whole grain toast with many seeds in it. Something that provides us a good amount of fiber but also balances the texture okay.

4. Savory Cottage Cheese Bowl with Veggies

A Protein-Packed Breakfast

So this is going to be cottage cheese with cucumber and cherry tomatoes. So cottage cheese is one of those things I feel like that doesn’t get enough of a positive reputation. But in fact it’s a very potent source of protein. There’s also lots of calcium just like there is in yogurt. So I find it as a very great choice for providing us with a lot of protein and an easy way to get more protein into our day.

Fresh Veggie Toppings

That’s not so sweet flavored cottage cheese can be kind of savory. So the idea here is to turn a cottage cheese Bowl into something Savory with cucumber slices and cherry tomatoes. It could also be with diced onion or peppers. Whatever you really like, all of this is going to balance out that protein with good sources of fiber on top of this. You can drizzle some balsamic vinegar, some olive oil, maybe black pepper or some other herbs.

Optional Additions

So you’ll bring a lot of flavor into this and it’s going to be really flavorful and balanced in its nutrition with tons of vitamins, tons of minerals in those vegetables as well as herbs and spices. And then if you wanted you could also add some toasted seeds or chopped nuts onto this too to really boost up the healthy fat.

5. Quinoa Breakfast Bowl (Quinoa Oatmeal)

A Twist on Traditional Oatmeal

Let’s ready for our fifth breakfast idea for those with diabetes. Now I think that oatmeal can be a really healthy option. But if we really wanted to boost up the nutrition I like to suggest that folks make something I call quinoa oatmeal. So the idea here is you cooking quinoa instead of oats.

Add Fruits

But in the same style that you would make homemade oatmeal. So if you take quinoa you boil it inside of a milk or a milk alternative you can add some sweetened flavor like cinnamon and some honey and then the nice thing is that quinoa adds a little bit of protein. It has plenty of fiber and it has a little bit less of a sugar Spike than oatmeal typically does but I am not saying oatmeal is unhealthy.

Finish with Crunch

I think it’s all about the way that you make it. So on top of the quinoa once it’s cooked you can add some sliced berries and you can add some other diced fruit like kiwi or mango. If you like some of those sour flavors a lot of the tropical fruits add a lot of tanginess to them and then on top you can put some crunchy bits like coconut flakes toasted almond slices.

Portable & Meal-Prep Friendly

Things to add a lot of healthy fat to balance out all of our nutrition. Here the nice thing is that this breakfast is really portable. It’s really filling. You can bring it with you to work. Easy to grab and go. It’s easy to cook a big batch in the morning, save some for the afternoon. However you want to do it, all of these breakfast ideas are really designed to give you enough energy for several hours to take you through to your lunch or maybe some of you only eat two meals a day.

This is going to be your main first meal and then it’s going to carry you into your dinner. They’re all delicious and rooted in the healthy Trifecta to support stable blood sugar and consistent energy throughout the day. Now it’s your turn to comment below in the comment box.

Conclusion:-

Tell me what you usually eat for breakfast. Make sure you share your really fabulous ideas, especially your Healthy Trifecta ideas for how to make breakfast meals. So tell us what you like to make for breakfast and then once you feel confident in your breakfast game you’re probably ready to start thinking about lunch.