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Health & Fitness

Breakfast Birds Nest

Here's a great healthy summer recipe to help gobble up those garden tomatoes and get in a low carb breakfast!

Breakfast Bird Nests

You know that curbing your carbs will help you lose weight and tone up, so try this low carb breakfast. It’s a great way to eat some veggies with breakfast and if your garden is overflowing with tomatoes why not use them up!

Servings: 4

Here’s what you need…

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  •     4 large, round tomatoes
  •     1 teaspoon olive oil
  •     1 clove garlic, minced
  •     1 small onion, finely chopped
  •     3 slices organic, nitrate-free turkey bacon, chopped
  •     dash of dried oregano, plus more for garnish
  •     optional dash of salt (added salt is not in nutritional analysis)
  •     dash of pepper
  •     4 organic, omega-3, free range eggs
  1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
  2. Wash tomatoes, slice off the tops and scoop out the insides. Place tomatoes on a pan, and bake for 5 minutes.
  3. In a skillet, heat the oil over medium heat. Add garlic. Add onion. Add   chopped bacon. Saute for 5 minutes, until mostly cooked. Add the spices and mix well.
  4. Turn oven to broil. Fill each tomato with the bacon mixture, leaving about 1/2 inch of space at the top of each tomato. Crack an egg into each tomato then sprinkle with oregano. Place in the oven under broiler for 5 minutes. Remove from oven once the top has set, and you’ll have perfectly done over easy eggs.
  5. For well done eggs: change oven temperature back to 400 degrees F, and continue to bake for an additional 10 minutes.

Nutritional Analysis: One serving equals: 98 calories, 5g fat, 162mg sodium, 3g carbohydrate, .6g fiber, and 9g protein.

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