Breakfast: The Cold Plate Edition

I only wish I could look that sexy.

I take breakfast pretty seriously… when I have it.  Since I’m at a cozy desk job right now, and have been for a while, I really get to take advantage of sitting and eating.  The downside?  I am NOT a morning person and can barely get to work on time, which means there is rarely a warm breakfast in the mix.

I will admit that’s one of my favorite things to look forward to on the weekends, but sometimes you just want midweek.  Through various ingenious ways, as you’ve read in this post, I’ve managed to weasel my way around all the obstacles and land with a warm breakfast in hand.

But this post isn’t about that.  This post is about embracing the cold breakfast.

I’ll be honest.  I mainly wanted to do this because I’ve been gymless lately and I’m starting to get to the point of becoming worried about weight gain.  Well, not enough to really curb my eating habits, but it’s a thought that rolls around in my head.  One of my roommates is on a carbless diet, which for me means I notice EXACTLY how many carbs I consume now.  And it’s a lot.  So I decided to go with breadless breakfasts this week and thus I give you:

The Cold Breakfast Plate!!

It’s a bit of a stretch because there’s obviously fruit in that picture, which means carbs.  But I am super proud because my meat of choice would have been a dried salami or prosciutto, but I stopped myself.  Let’s face it.  This almost turned into a decadent antipasto.  I am not ashamed to eat that for breakfast.

What I did pair with my delicious mug of coffee though was the following:

• One banana, sliced for the sake of not looking mammoth and phallic (or a mammoth phallus).
• Frozen Blueberries that I warmed (cheat).  They were just the runts in a bag I needed to get rid of, but happen to pair very well with…
• Brie!!!!  Take a moment to sigh with longing.  This was an herbed Brie also.
• Fresh Mozzarella.
• Exactly 6 Reduced Fat Triscuits
• 2 pieces of Peppered Turkey, rolled up
• 1 Tomato sliced, drizzled with Olive Oil, and sprinkled with salt
• 1 Hard Boiled Egg, sliced, and daintily placed in the middle

I would be lying if I said I only looked at this glorious picture once today.  It just brings me so much joy to have such a small feast here at work on my least favorite day of the week.  While this is definitely not the healthiest route (see all the cheese on that plate), it’s not terrible either.  I tried to limit myself to 3 small pieces of cheese of each type.  I know very well that can probably take down a block of cheese no problem in an hour.  This type of plate is also my favorite kind because it’s food to pick at.  So it took about an hour for me to eat it all, in between rolling calls, which made it that much more satisfying.

So if you’re a snacker like me, I highly recommend packing this little picnic up to munch on all morning at the office.  I will be doing it all week… if the Brie holds out.