MY BREAKFAST SECRET

While visiting NYC this past week, I picked up fruit and greens at Danny's Deli on 47th St. just off Broadway every morning before heading out for the day. To the fruit and greens I added my oat mixture brought from home in a ziplock bag. A shake of cinnamon did wonders. The fruit and greens added moisture and sweetness. What a great power-packed breakfast for launching a day (and night) on the town!

I learned about the wonder of OATS from Ann Crile Esselstyn, author of THE PREVENT AND REVERSE HEART DISEASE COOKBOOK with her daughter Jane Esselstyn. In her 8 Principles for Becoming Plant Perfect, Ann urges eating oats as Principle #1:  "Eat oats (Old Fashioned) for breakfast, any way you can as oatmeal, as cold cereal as we do with alternative milk and fruit or in waffles or pancakes or just put your cereal bowl with oats, banana and alternative milk and a tablespoon of flax seed into your waffle iron and you have your oat breakfast in waffle form. Oats help lower cholesterol and also reduce artery inflammation. Find the breakfast with oats you love then eat it EVERY DAY!"