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Breakfast Makeover: Tartines

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One of my goals for this month is doing a breakfast makeover. I'm tired of eating cereal every morning, just to feel hungry again by 9am. Because I still need something quick and easy in the mornings, I thought I'd start with toast. On my breakfast Pinterest board I found a pin from A Cup of Jo that featured breakfast tartines.  I decided to try a few of those ideas to make toast a little more interesting, in hopes it would do a better job of filling me up. Over the past few weeks, I tried 3 out of the 4 tartines: the avocado-feta tartine, the nutella-almond tartine, and the strawberry tartine.

{my favorite} Nutella + almonds + sea salt. Is anyone really surprised here? Anytime I can have dessert but call it a meal I'm on board. The "recipe" (if you can really call it that) also called for a drizzle of olive oil. I tried that, but found that I didn't love the olive oil taste with the nutella taste. The verdict? Delicious, but I still felt hungry before lunch. {kept me full} avocado + feta + sunflower seeds. This was on the opposite spectrum from the Nutella toast, as it was completly on the savory side. I found the avocado-feta combo to be pretty genius--the flavors balance each other out perfectly. The sunflower seeds add a tasty little crunch too. The verdict? This one kept me happily full until lunch time, score! The only down side was the prep time (not terrible, but I was eating dry cereal before...) and the endless battle of keeping half an avocado from browning. {meh} strawberries + cheese. This one called for creamy, dreamy mascarpone cheese, but all I had was some ricotta. I sweetened it up with honey, but I'm afraid it just didn't do the trick. If I try this one again, I'll go for the real deal with mascarpone or at the very least some cream cheese. I love ricotta in my stuffed shells, but not so much for breakfast. The verdict? To me, ricotta is not so hot(-tah) for breakfast. I'm so glad I found some non-cereal options, but my pursuit of better breakfast is an ongoing one. What do you eat for breakfast and, more importantly, does it keep you full?

 Labels: breakfast, food, pinterest, see it like it do it


