Healthy breakfasts start with nuts, soy

Familiar advice that bears repeating: A good breakfast is a great start for the day.

With a little planning you can easily bake healthful and wholesome muffins and pancakes to make those early mouthfuls appealing and worthwhile.

Nuts, including almonds, have increasingly been credited with nutritional virtues. Research suggests that, for example, combinations including almonds, fiber and soy protein can be "heart-healthy." The following recipes offer simple ways to include such combinations in your breakfast menus.

Almond-orange muffins

Oatmeal-almond pancakes