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Good morning and welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition's new midweek

segment called Ask a Nutritionist. I am Brittany Vincent, a registered and licensed dietitian at

Nutrition and Weight and Wellness. And on today's show, we will be answering two questions

we've received from our Dishing Up Nutrition listeners. So the first one isn't so much a

question, but it is breakfast ideas. We get this question or this topic suggestion a lot with our

clients, our class participants, and I know that there's been more than one dishing up nutrition listener that has requested

this topic.

So it is a good one because, you know, I think that people get stuck in a rut really easily

with breakfast.

And in America, we're really conditioned to want sweet things for breakfast,

unfortunately. You know, think about it. cereal, donuts, rolls, muffins, they're all very

sugary things. It's like wanting dessert for breakfast, really. So let's start out with eggs. You know, that is the obvious answer, right? And I think a lot of people just get

tired of eating eggs every single day. But what I would encourage you to do is switch it up.

Maybe cook them different ways, have different combinations.

So here's some ideas. An egg bake is wonderful because you can add a variety of different

vegetables in there. You could add hash browns. You could add diced up sweet potato. That's a

great dish to make. Just kind of clean up out to your

refrigerator with all the leftover vegetables at the end of the week. And then you could add cheese.

And if you're dairy-free, then just eliminate that cheese. And then when it comes time for breakfast,

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