Cooking with Kelly: Breakfast on the Go

I've done something very out of character. I'm trying to eat healthier, I'm working out and I've even signed up for a 5K. While I'm far from the chick who wakes up at 5 a.m. and thinks, "You know what's better than this pillow-top mattress and 1,000-thread-count sheets? A two-mile jog through the dark and mist," but I'm getting there.

As the nutritionists say, breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It breaks the fast of the evening and wakes your metabolism back up. But I don't always leave time for breakfast. It's all I can do to drag myself out of bed every morning and make myself somewhat presentable. So at the beginning of the week, I make my own oatmeal packets. When completed, my little meals are between 200 and 300 calories and just need some hot water or microwaving. I use a combination of old-fashioned oats and instant oatmeal for better texture, then fortify this meal wheat germ, which is an amazing diet food

(note that both raisins and wheat germ should be refrigerated after opening. I put the raisins into a reused glass jar). This is the set up I start with, and here are my favorite combinations:

Oatmeal cookie breakfast

1/2 cup old-fashioned oats

1/2 cup instant oatmeal

2 Tablespoons wheat germ

1/4 cup raisins

1/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon

2 Tablespoons Splenda

Chocolate oatmeal breakfast

1/2 cup old-fashioned oats

1/2 cup instant oatmeal

2 Tablespoons wheat germ

2 Tablespoons dark chocolate chips