Mediterranean Diet Recipes for Breakfast

If you're looking for Mediterranean diet recipes for breakfast, you'll need to focus on the Mediterranean diet pyramid for the answers. Basically the diet calls for large amounts of fruits and vegetables, moderate amounts of breads and whole grains, small amounts of dairy and even smaller amounts of eggs. Since the Mediterranean diet calls for limiting consumption of eggs to three to four a week - including that used in baking, such as in bread - almost no pork and very limited refined sugar, you'll have to stop eating standard American breakfast fare, such as omelets, sausage and bacon, biscuits and hash browns. Try these breakfast Mediterranean diet recipes instead.

Yogurt with Granola
Ingredients:

• 1 cup low fat, low sugar plain or vanilla yogurt
• ¼ cup almonds
• ¼ cup rolled oats
• ½ cup fresh berries

Simply sprinkle the oats, almonds and berries over the yogurt and enjoy!

Fruit and Cheese Plate
Make yourself a platter of fresh fruits and cheeses, ensuring the ratio is three fruit pieces to every piece of cheese. Choose a quality cheese you will savor and nibble at the fruit and cheese in tandem; you will find the flavors meld beautifully and will satisfy your hunger. Try an aged cheddar with pieces of granny smith apple; pair half a cantaloupe with a lovely swiss cheese; try a jarlsberg cheese with some grapes.

Yogurt with Fruit
Ingredients:

• 1 cup low fat, plain yogurt
• 1 tablespoon raw honey
• ½ cup fresh fruit of your choice

Mix the honey in with the yogurt. Sprinkle fruit over yogurt.

Broiled Grapefruit with Whole Grain Toast
Ingredients:

• 1 grapefruit
• 1 slice of whole grain toast
• 1 tablespoon low-sugar whole fruit preserves or natural peanut butter

Slice the grapefruit in half. Toast it under the broiler on high for 3-4 minutes, until top of grapefruit begins to caramelize.  Meanwhile, toast the slice of bread in the toaster and slather it with whole fruit preserves or natural peanut butter.