I am a breakfast person and find it easy to believe that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Without breakfast I simply wouldn't be able to function in the morning (I am most definitely not a morning person!). I know some people - like one of my daughters - find eating breakfast a struggle and need to be up and going for a while before they can face food. Not me!
I am very spoiled, because Tevye brings me a cup of tea and a bowl of cereal in bed every morning. Being married to an early bird has its advantages! (It also has disadvantages - it can be a struggle to stop our body clocks getting completely out of sync.) As my regular breakfast is cereal I try to get the biggest nutritional punch from it that I can. I switch between a good quality granola, Bircher muesli from Waitrose, and bran flakes, usually with milk but sometimes with vanilla flavoured yoghurt, and always with a portion of fruit added. This is usually a chopped banana, a handful of sultanas, or frozen berries. Simple but filling and with a light mid-morning snack keeps me going until lunchtime.
Agree with you about breakfast, we tend to have 'healthy' cereals or porridge. Mine is sometimes more fruit than cereal:- prunes, blueberries, dried apricots,fresh fruit in season, I adore raspberries.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I have to have a calcium tablet each day so it is easy to crush it in the bowl before adding cereal and always plain organic yogurt.
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ReplyDeleteMy breakfasts tend to be things I can make on autopilot since neither of us are morning people and really Dom usually wouldn't eat breakfast at all if I don't make it. My typical breakfast is a bowl of oatmeal made with milk instead of water. I add some frozen blueberries, fresh strawberries, or boil some cinnamon apples-- often a combination of fruits like apples and blueberries. Sometimes I add nuts too.
ReplyDeleteIf it's not oatmeal, it's eggs and toast-- most often an omelet-- or whole wheat bagel with cream cheese and lox. These always in the first trimester when I can't stomach the oatmeal and need a lot more protein.
I love the idea of yogurt and granola but have a hard time finding a granola I really like. Most of them taste too gritty to me. I've tried making my own and am not really satisfied with that either. I know there's a perfect recipe out there somewhere and hope to find it some day.