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Learning to Love Your Breakfast

Let's talk about your breakfast. It's not fulfilling you, is it? Your self loathing is sinking in with each unhappy bite of oatmeal, accompanied by the bitter aftertaste of an artificial sweetener, or is that your own caustic hatred of this low-cal "heart healthy" breakfast you're tasting? You need a better breakfast...but you have your impossibly high standards: It should be quick and easy to make, and compact enough to eat on the run. It should be under 300 calories. It should be something socially acceptable to eat in public. Filling enough to keep you from running to the office cafeteria to grab a spare banana and maybe a muscle milk, but not so filling that you have to run out of your morning meeting to release the, um, fiber. Guess what? You're a picky little snot. But you're not alone. I recently crafted this breakfast muffin recipe that my husband and I have come to swear by (and also my dog, who fished one out of the trash when my hormonal brain f