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Lunch with Yogurt, Honey, Crumbled Cereal and Cut Fruit

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For today I thought I’d skip writing a formal post and try a picture, instead, of yesterday’s lunch – fruit with yogurt, honey and crumbled cereal:

Ingre­dients:

Plain, low-​​​​fat yogurt (I use Fage brand, 2% fat, 1⁄4 — 1/​​3 cup)

Honey, less than 1⁄2 teaspoon

Cereal (a fistful of your pref­erence – I like “Smart Start,” roughly 1⁄4 — 1/​​3 cup)

Fruit – whatever’s ripe and in the ‘fridge: in this case I included cut hon­eydew melon and a nec­tarine, grapes cut in halves and some blueberries

Easy to prepare:

1. Transfer yogurt to a cereal or soup bowl. I usually use a table­spoon to take 3–4 dollops.

2. Add the honey and use a tea­spoon to swirl it through the yogurt.

3. Crumble the cereal in your fist, above the bowl — so that the small pieces fall into the yogurt. Mix every­thing with the spoons.

(You may prefer granola, but I found that by breaking the cereal into bits

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A Recipe for Fresh, Low-Fat Blueberry Muffins

fresh muffins, Sunday morning

This morning I noticed we had too many blue­berries in the fridge. So while my husband went out for a run, I opened the windows wide (to cool the apartment), turned on the oven and made some fresh breakfast food.

fresh muffins, Sunday morning

It had been two decades or so since I’d baked any­thing like these. My rec­ol­lection, mainly from my sub­urban childhood, was that muffins involved a fair amount of work; we used to pull out a mix-​​​​master with beaters, a flour-​​​​sifter, and all sorts of stuff that then had to be cleaned. That was far too much work for me this morning.

So I sim­plified and halved an old recipe I’d hand-​​​​written sometime back in my Moosewood years. And I adjusted it so there’d be less sugar, and swapped whole milk for skim.

Prepa­ration time: 8 — 15 minutes, depending on your pro­fi­ciency in the kitchen; Baking time: 30 minutes

Ingre­dients (for 8 small muffins):

1⁄4 cup

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