Breakfast idea .. had to share

[luvtorun]

I was flipping through one of my cooking magazines last night and ran across this easy French toast recipe. I just finished eating it and it was heaven!!

The actual recipe calls for

2 T cream cheese, softened
2 thick slices of cinnamon-raisin bread
2 T strawberry jam
1 egg
1 T butter

Spread cream cheese on one side of bread, jam on the other, put them together. Dip both sides of bread in beaten egg in a shallow bowl. Melt butter and cook on both sides. Serve with syrup.


Now..... I had to clean this up a bit, so I used...


2 T LF cream cheese
2 slices of my regular WW bread
2 T of my MIL's strawberry/fig preserved made with Splenda - just use SF strawberry jam preserves
1/4 cup Egg Beaters
cooking spray.

I used SF syrup

On fitday here's how it looks...

Carb 47%
Pro 25%
Fat 28%

I added a 1/2 cup cottage cheese and a 1/2 cup pineapple along with my coffee creamer and my ratio for my entire breakfast is...

carb 51%
pro 30%
fat 19%

Right on target. So adding a high-protein, low-fat accompaniment to the french toast helps balance this out.

 

[finsgirl]

Nice, Jane! I was just on the egg beater site yesterday and saw some great recipes on there. A French Toast recipe was one of them. This sounds delicious! I LOVE the cottage cheese/pineapple addition especially!



Angie

 

[mogambo]

A variation on this that I do sometimes, is to put peanut butter in the middle, and a little jam, but not much. I don't use any, because the syrup is enough sugar.

I've also seen in a cookbook, a french toasted cheese sandwich! That sounds good too.

 

[martijean1]

MMM...One of my families favorites is peanut butter and banana french toast sanwiches..."lil bit 'o syrup...YUMMO!!

MJ in MN

 

[Timber99]

Another variation is to use ricotta cheese in the middle instead of hte cream cheese. After cooking, sprinkle with powdered sugar. Toss the syrup.

I tried this years ago from a magazine (Fitness, I think) and it was really yummy and sweet! It was great for a weekend meal and something different.

Like yours, it was a royal mess to clean up too!

Christine