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Tasty Mediterranean Diet Recipes for Breakfast

You may have heard of all the health benefits of the Mediterranean Diet. You may have read that the Mediterranean Diet is a tasty, healthy diet that allows you to lose weight while still eating delicious foods. You may just be interested in Mediterranean cuisine. Whatever the case, read on for Mediterranean diet recipes that are simple, healthy, and include ingredients that are available not just in Mediterranean regions.

Enjoy these Mediterranean breakfast recipes.

Turkish Bread Topped With Smoked Salmon and Hummus. (Serves 2)

Ingredients:

2 slices Turkish bread, sliced down the middle to form 2 squares. 2 Tabspns hummus 4 smoked salmon slices 1 avocado 1 medium tomato lettuce, a few leaves 1 cucumber chopped fresh dill chopped fresh chives 2 teaspns capers 1 teaspn virgin olive oil 2 lemon wedges salt and pepper

Method:

Toast Turkish bread if desired. Spread generous serve of hummus onto each slice. Top with all other salad ingredients, then smoked salmon slices. Garnish with fresh herbs and capers. Squeeze lemon juice over the top. Drizzle with a little virgin olive oil. Flavor with salt and pepper if desired.

Oily fish such as salmon is consumed on a regular basis on the Mediterranean Diet. The omega-3’s that are contained in these types of fish are excellent for heart health.

Mediterranean Style Omelet. (2 generous serves, or 4 with toast.)

Ingredients:

1 medium tomato, diced 1 bell pepper, any color 1/4 cup pitted Kalamata olives, chopped 2 cloves garlic 2 green onions, chopped 1 teaspn extra virgin olive oil 1 teaspn lemon juice 1 Tabspn fresh parsley, chopped 2 Tabspn skim milk 4 eggs 1 Tabspn fresh herbs, chopped, select whatever you prefer, eg: chives, oregano, rosemary, or basil 2 oz feta cheese, crumbled

Method:

Combine tomato, bell pepper, olives, garlic, green onions, olive oil, lemon juice, and parsley in a small bowl. Let sit for a few minutes. Combine eggs, milk, and herbs in another bowl, and whisk. Heat non-stick fry pan or specific omelet pan, and add half the combined egg mix. Reduce heat, cook for 1 or 2 minutes. When omelet has browned around the edges and the top has lost most of its moisture, add half of the vegetable mix, to one side only of the omelet. (Much like cutting a circle in 2.) Add half the feta cheese. Gently fold omelet over to cover the cheese and vegetables, creating a half circle.

Cover the pan and cook for about another minute. Turn off heat and allow omelet to sit a little longer until warmed through. Then gently slide onto plate.

Repeat above instructions with remaining ingredients. Can be served with Turkish bread drizzled with extra virgin olive oil, or a high grain crusty bread. (Remember traditional Mediterranean recipes would not be using butter on the toast or bread.)

Conclusion.

These easy Mediterranean recipes use Mediterranean foods that are easily available in most parts of the world. The fresh vegetables and herbs are typical ingredients for Mediterranean food recipes and will allow you a certain leeway in substituting your own favorites.

Don’t forget, that one of the reasons that the Mediterranean diet is so healthy is that Mediterranean recipes use extra virgin olive oil. This is the olive oil made from the first pressing of the olives and contains far more health bestowing anti-oxidants than the following pressings which result in virgin olive oil and olive oil.

Hope you enjoy these breakfast meal ideas for the Mediterranean Diet. We think you will agree it is the tastiest diet around!

Eliminating candida overgrowth from one’s body requires eliminating processed foods, sugar and white flour from your diet, but it is still possible to enjoy something sweet to end a meal or to enjoy with a cup of coffee or tea.

Restricting one’s diet in such a way that there is no allowance for desserts may mean that it is easier to fall off the wagon and go back to old ways of eating, which can be detrimental to a candida condition. Instead of only depending on your will power to overcome sweet cravings, choose candida-friendly dessert recipes that are big on taste and low on candida symptom triggers.

Once you have removed the sugar-laden foods from your diet, you may find that your taste buds change and the slightly sweet desserts that wouldn’t have cut it for you in the past will be more than satisfying as you live out your new healthy candida diet lifestyle.

Sugar’s Out, So What’s In?

While you may not be able to snack on candy bars and traditional cakes, this is actually a good thing, because this type of eating not only promotes candida overgrowth but it also causes weight gain, blood sugar spikes, and mood swings and can even lead to greater health problems such as high cholesterol, diabetes and heart disease.

Instead of these enemies of a healthy lifestyle, you can satisfy your sweet tooth with fresh fruits, which will taste even sweeter when the junk is out of your diet, as well as creamy dairy products and foods sweetened with Stevia.

Unlike other artificial sweeteners that have been known to cause health problems, Stevia is a plant-derived extract that is 300 times more sweet than sugar, so it only takes a little to achieve the sweetness you desire.

Below you will find a few candida dessert ideas designed to keep your body on track as you fight candida overgrowth:

For the cheesecake lover, try:

Cheesecake Pudding

Combine softened cream cheese with a little bit of whipped heavy whipping cream. Add Stevia and a splash of vanilla, or sugar-free flavored syrups to taste. DaVinci offers a line of excellent sugar-free syrups in a variety of flavors. Chill the pudding until ready to serve.

For the peanut butter lover, try:

Peanut Butter Smoothie

Blend together a couple of tablespoons of sugar-free natural peanut butter, 1 cup of whole milk sugar-free, plain yogurt, a few tablespoons of heavy whipping cream, a few ice cubes and Stevia or sugar-free flavored syrup. If you enjoy the peanut butter chocolate combination, you can blend in a couple of teaspoons of unsweetened cocoa powder. Serve immediately or freeze until slightly slushy to enjoy an ice cream-like treat.

For the fruit lover, try:

Strawberries and Cream

Pour heavy whipping cream over frozen or fresh strawberries and sprinkle with Stevia if you prefer your fruit a little sweeter.

The combinations and possible creations are endless, so spend some time in the kitchen with candida-friendly ingredients to concoct delicious desserts you can enjoy while sticking to your candida diet. You may even have to fight off non-candida diet friends and family from eating your new desserts.