A good breakfast

[Andy Hamilton]

I am getting quite bored with my breakfasts during the week. It is either beans on toast or a bowl of cerial.

Any suggestions on what I could have? It has to be quick to make, well 10 mins tops.

[chadspad]

What about trying like the advert shows - Weetabix with various toppings? Fruit and cream or honey & nuts etc

[Luath]

Homemade yoghurt ( make a large batch to last several days, or the night before at a push, use a thermos for it) with seds, fruit, nuts, etc.
Eggs?
Porridge - can make the night before.
Homemade cereal for a change.
Fruit smoothie or a milkshake - milk/honey, banana and an egg is a good one

[Camile]

Croissants !

or toast with bread and cheese ! of course the cheese has to be dipped in a bowl of coffee!

[2steps]

cheese on toast
fruit
english muffins and jam
egg on toast
boiled eggs
poached egg

[Shirley]

left over curried chickpeas is a favourite breakfast of mine...

Hummous on toast

pancakes with fruit or whatever you want in them...

Scotch pancakes

Buttery rowies (aka butteries!) - these are DELICIOUS but very fattening.

[chadspad]

Crumpets with cheese and tomato on

Omelette

[Muddypause]

It has to be quick to make, well 10 mins tops.

No, y'see that's your mistake. Work must wait, it is very important to spend quality time over breakfast. It is the time that you reacquaint yourself with the world, and set yourself up for the rest of the day.

A decent breakfast can make a huge difference to how you feel for the rest of the day. A rushed few minutes stuffing cereal down your throat is no way to treat yourself; have some respect!

Also, the ambience that you create can be as important as the food you eat - breakfast can be a meditation or it can be a time for meaningful chat, or listening to good music (turn that radio off).

And never never associate with people who have business meetings over breakfast - what a terrible order of values such people must have.

[Stonehead]

It has to be quick to make, well 10 mins tops.

No, y'see that's your mistake. Work must wait, it is very important to spend quality time over breakfast. It is the time that you reacquaint yourself with the world, and set yourself up for the rest of the day.

A decent breakfast can make a huge difference to how you feel for the rest of the day. A rushed few minutes stuffing cereal down your throat is no way to treat yourself; have some respect!

I couldn't agree more. The long slow cook of decent porridge with continual stirring; the careful preparation and cooking of a herb and cheese omelette; mixing batter for drop-scones, frying them, and then eating them with jam, honey, lemon-and-sugar; all are my idea of heaven. And if you haven't the time - make it. Go to bed earlier and get up earlier. Breakfast matters.

But best of all for us is Saturday morning. Saturday morning is pull-out-the-stops day for breakfast.

Take last Saturday - making the dough for soda biscuits and baking them; crumbling up sausage meat and slow frying it with onions, cayenne pepper and garlic before adding flour then milk to make sausage gravy; making perfect scrambled eggs; and dry frying a couple of fresh tomatoes. Then serving out a couple of split soda biscuits per person, topping with sausage gravy, with scrambled egg and fried tomato on the side.

Enjoy that at a leisurely pace, accompanied by fresh apple juice from your own apples and a couple of small cups of espresso. Perfect - and made all the better as I'd put in 90 minutes work before starting on breakfast.

[ina]

Ok, at weekends I sometimes enjoy a leisurely, proper breakfast... not too early, more a brunch. (Stoney can testify that - I put away my share of his excellent pancakes after the barbie!) But during the week it's a cup of coffee at 5:30, and back to bed with that. Just after 7 (takes me that long to wake up properly!), a glass of fruitjuice, and then to work. At 10 I have my breakfast - piece of fruit mostly, sometimes yoghurt - if nothing else prevents me like today (unannounced internal audit - ggggrrrrr - but that's another story). I couldn't eat all that stuff so early in the day, particularly if I have to work and move about after it. I also find that eating breakfast makes me terribly hungry (gets the digestive juices flowing), and I eat twice as much for lunch. Those of you who've seen me can understand why that isn't so great...

[Wombat]

[quote="Muddypause
And never never associate with people who have business meetings over breakfast - what a terrible order of values such people must have.[/quote]

*Sigh* Every Friday when I am in Sydney. Well, that's it..............I suppose I am kicked out of the fold.........

Nev

[Millymollymandy]

I couldn't eat all that stuff so early in the day, particularly if I have to work and move about after it. I also find that eating breakfast makes me terribly hungry (gets the digestive juices flowing), and I eat twice as much for lunch. Those of you who've seen me can understand why that isn't so great...

Ina I am exactly the same! That's why Bed and Breakfasts are wasted on me. I do love the traditional breakfast though I eat it for dinner.

The only time we ever eat breakfast now is when friends come to stay then we have a French breakfast of croissants and jam and cafe au lait, but it is always about 11am and we have it in place of lunch.

[The Chili Monster]

Like Ina and MMM, I find breakfast just makes me hungrier than if I hadn't bother. Plus, my guts never seem to wake up until about 10 am and so I find myself forcing food down my neck rather than enjoying it.

[Milims]

How about you take at least 1 banana, some ginger in syrup, oat meal, sesame seeds and honey, add then to milk and whizz in a blender to make a really fast and yummy neutricious milk shake that fills you up til lunch time!!!

[Shirley]

Milims... that sounds lovely.