What's for Breakfast?

I almost always have a bowl of cereal and a glass of store-bought strawberry or blueberry kefir I take my probiotics & prebiotics with. I had some weird lingering gastric issues recently, so I've added prunes, figs, dates and homemade spiced nuts to the mix.
Here's a TMI for everyone. Since I had my gallbladder out in 2012, if I eat sausage for breakfast I had better be poised to bolt for the nearest "facility." I've not had any constipation issues that a sausage patty can't take care of in mere minutes. :D.

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If you get time, I'd like to see your recipe for fiber cake.
I do not actually have a recipe, @John Brunner . I do simple stuff, and this fiber cake is no exception. I start with a cheap cake mix (any flavor), and add foods with fiber, depending on what I have on hand each time.

I add seeds like chia, pumpkin, sunflower, or sesame, and flax seed that has been ground up. I add psyllium husks, acacia powder, or almond meal.
I add whatever fruits I have, like apple, banana, berries, or raisins.

Sometimes, I soak lentils overnight and then run them through the blender along with eggs, yogurt, kefir, or just plain water or milk. Or I add oatmeal or muesli.
The lentils are perfect with chocolate cake, and once they are baked, you do not even taste them. I soak about a cupful and then rinse them and blend .
You can also add canned beans, instead of lentils. I have even added blended spinach to the chocolate cake and you can’t tell it is there.

With chocolate cake, I add chocolate chips. In yellow cake, I add more fruit and raisins or cranberries. Everything depends on what I have handy, so I do not put all of this in every time, I just make sure that I add fiber foods to the mix. This should about double the size of cake, so I bake it in 2 cake pans for about 50 minutes at 350-375.

The basic idea is just to have a dessert that you can enjoy, or have for breakfast, and it have healthy foods and fiber in it. Just experiment with adding a little oatmeal to the cake mix first, like a cup or so, and then you can try other foods that sound good.
I forgot to mention vegetables, but carrots, squash, or sweet potatoes are all great to add in with yellow cake mixes, too. I do add a large spoonful of baking powder, because what comes in the cake mix is not enough by the time you have added al of the extras in.
 
I do not actually have a recipe, @John Brunner . I do simple stuff, and this fiber cake is no exception. I start with a cheap cake mix (any flavor), and add foods with fiber, depending on what I have on hand each time.

I add seeds like chia, pumpkin, sunflower, or sesame, and flax seed that has been ground up. I add psyllium husks, acacia powder, or almond meal.
I add whatever fruits I have, like apple, banana, berries, or raisins.

Sometimes, I soak lentils overnight and then run them through the blender along with eggs, yogurt, kefir, or just plain water or milk. Or I add oatmeal or muesli.
The lentils are perfect with chocolate cake, and once they are baked, you do not even taste them. I soak about a cupful and then rinse them and blend .
You can also add canned beans, instead of lentils. I have even added blended spinach to the chocolate cake and you can’t tell it is there.

With chocolate cake, I add chocolate chips. In yellow cake, I add more fruit and raisins or cranberries. Everything depends on what I have handy, so I do not put all of this in every time, I just make sure that I add fiber foods to the mix. This should about double the size of cake, so I bake it in 2 cake pans for about 50 minutes at 350-375.

The basic idea is just to have a dessert that you can enjoy, or have for breakfast, and it have healthy foods and fiber in it. Just experiment with adding a little oatmeal to the cake mix first, like a cup or so, and then you can try other foods that sound good.
I forgot to mention vegetables, but carrots, squash, or sweet potatoes are all great to add in with yellow cake mixes, too. I do add a large spoonful of baking powder, because what comes in the cake mix is not enough by the time you have added al of the extras in.

My darned kidney stones have me caught between High Fiber and High Oxalate. Lots of cereals are high in oxalate. I cannot find a high fiber one that is not oxalate-high, so I settled on a medium fiber one. Oatmeal is the same way. I was doing steel cut oats for the longest time and discovered that oats are high in oxalate unless they are precooked (quick-cooking oats have a reduced level of oxalate and instant oats have almost none.) Almonds and many other nuts have lots of oxalate (I soak walnuts and pecans then dehydrate them to get the oxalate level down), as does chocolate, cocoa, chicory and many different types of beans (navy beans are real high.) Then there are the fruits and veggies...
 
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