{"id":23991,"date":"2012-01-23T07:05:36","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T12:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=23991"},"modified":"2015-12-29T02:56:10","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T07:56:10","slug":"be-carb-smart-in-the-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=23991","title":{"rendered":"Be Carb Smart in the Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Dannon-All-Natural.jpg\" rel=\"mfp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-24000 lazyload\" title=\"Dannon All Natural\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Dannon-All-Natural-262x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"262\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Even if you didn&#8217;t have diabetes you wouldn&#8217;t eat ice cream for breakfast, right?\u00a0 But when it comes to carbs, many of America&#8217;s common, quick breakfast foods &#8211; the ones we&#8217;ve been taught are healthy &#8211; are bigger carb offenders than ice cream.\u00a0 A serving of Ben and Jerry&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benjerry.com\/flavors\/our-flavors\/\" target=\"_blank\">vanilla<\/a> ice cream has 23 grams of carb.\u00a0 An eight ounce glass of Minute Maid orange juice has 26 grams of carb.\u00a0\u00a0 At Starbucks, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starbucks.com\/menu\/food\/bakery\/apple-bran-muffin?foodZone=9999\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Bran Muffin<\/a> which sounds healthy-ish has 64 grams of carb while the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starbucks.com\/menu\/food\/bakery\/apple-fritter?foodZone=9999\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Fritter<\/a> that&#8217;s covered in icing has 59 grams.\u00a0 If you have a grande cappuccino at Starbucks you need to add in another 12 grams of carb to your morning.\u00a0 A serving of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.specialk.com\/cereals\/original\" target=\"_blank\">Special K cereal<\/a> has 23 grams of carb, without the milk.\u00a0 Special K&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.specialk.com\/cereals\/granola\" target=\"_blank\">granola<\/a> has 39 grams of carb per serving without the milk.\u00a0 A container of Dannon &#8220;all natural&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dannon.com\/ourproducts.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">vanilla<\/a> yogurt has 25 grams of carb.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Breakfast is important.\u00a0 Loading up on carbs and sugar in the morning can make you feel sluggish by the time you get to work.\u00a0 Some good, quick breakfast ideas are: plain yogurt with no added sugar (great with blueberries and\/or nuts or nut butter), a slice of low-carb bread with cheese, a hard boiled egg, an avocado&#8230;\u00a0 And consider trying your coffee with a splash of milk, not a cup.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Do you have other healthy breakfast ideas?\u00a0 We&#8217;d love to hear them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if you didn&#8217;t have diabetes you wouldn&#8217;t eat ice cream for breakfast, right?  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A serving of Ben and Jerry&#8217;s vanilla ice cream has 23 grams of carb. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":24000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1449],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.9 (Yoast SEO v22.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Make Your Breakfast Low Carb<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Even if you didn&#039;t have diabetes you wouldn&#039;t eat ice cream for breakfast, right? 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