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What to eat for breakfast
burntheladle
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As a kid, I never really ate proper "breakfast" foods, my parents never insisted I eat cereal or toast so I got into the habit of eating last nights leftovers for breakfast.
I'm living with my boyfriend now, and we're both really busy so we're trying to cut down the number of nights we cook to about 4 a week by eating leftovers the next night or freezing them to have later. Unfortunately, this means I can't really eat them for breakfast anymore.
So now I need to learn to like breakfast foods.
I'm lactose intolerant, so I can't have cereal with milk. I tried cornflakes with yoghurt the other day, and it was so ... bland. I guess when since I'm used to eating stirfry or lovely soups for breakfast, cereal is a bit bleagh. I am going to give the yoghurt + cereal thing another try with some musli with fruit bits or something, to see if that improves it.
Toast is good, but I can only eat about two pieces before it's either taking to long (slow eater), or I get full (but then I get hungry again pretty quickly). I don't mind eating it, but it seems like eating it every day would get old fast.
What other breakfast options are there? Fruit, I guess. Ways to make breakfast interesting? It's alright on weekends, when I have time to fry up some potato or make waffles or something, but there's not really time before the bus on weekdays.
TL;DR - How do I make breakfast an enjoyable meal instead of something I just scoff down so I don't fall over before lunchtime.
I'm living with my boyfriend now, and we're both really busy so we're trying to cut down the number of nights we cook to about 4 a week by eating leftovers the next night or freezing them to have later. Unfortunately, this means I can't really eat them for breakfast anymore.
So now I need to learn to like breakfast foods.
I'm lactose intolerant, so I can't have cereal with milk. I tried cornflakes with yoghurt the other day, and it was so ... bland. I guess when since I'm used to eating stirfry or lovely soups for breakfast, cereal is a bit bleagh. I am going to give the yoghurt + cereal thing another try with some musli with fruit bits or something, to see if that improves it.
Toast is good, but I can only eat about two pieces before it's either taking to long (slow eater), or I get full (but then I get hungry again pretty quickly). I don't mind eating it, but it seems like eating it every day would get old fast.
What other breakfast options are there? Fruit, I guess. Ways to make breakfast interesting? It's alright on weekends, when I have time to fry up some potato or make waffles or something, but there's not really time before the bus on weekdays.
TL;DR - How do I make breakfast an enjoyable meal instead of something I just scoff down so I don't fall over before lunchtime.
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Cornflakes are a pretty crappy cereal, so you should look at your options. There's one brand , which I get the feeling you won't find outside the UK, called Dorset Cereals. Some of their stuff is fantastic (the ones loaded with berries essentially).
And surely, yoghurt is no better for you than milk?
If you have 5 minutes or so, make some eggs. Like Tube says, omelettes are awesome. Poached, sunny side up, scrambled etc. are also all good alternatives. Heck, you could even pre boil a whole pot of eggs the night before and go crazy with hard boiled. Protein is just really satisfying in the morning, I don't know why.
I also have my own personal favorite / recipe I call Eggs'n'Toast.
Get a pan, put in on the stove and butter it up. Get a slice of bread and take a big bite out of the center. Throw the bread on the pan and crack an egg into the hole. Cook until the whites solidify enough for you to flip the toast over, cook some more, and serve when the insides are as cooked as you like it. It works best with big slices of whole grain wheat bread, but any bread will do. Toast and eggs in one go, for the efficiency ninjas out there.
I'm lactose intolerant as well, though not quite as much as my mom or one of my siblings.
I don't know if they sell it in Australia or not, but you might be able to look into finding the equivalent of something like Lactaid as far dealing with the lactose issue and milk goes - tastes a little weird compared to "real" milk, but probably better than having your cornflakes dunked in yogurt. There's also tablets you can take before having dairy products, iirc.
Again, i'm in the US, so not very familiar with Australian grocery stores....Over here we have frozen waffles you can stick in the toaster for a couple minutes...Maybe get something like that instead of making them from scratch during the week?
Other than that....My favorite has always just been a couple eggs scrambled with cheese, a couple pieces of toast, and a couple of those frozen pre-cooked sausages zapped in the microwave. You could also consider bagels, toasted with some cream cheese and some ham/turkey/bacon/other favorite meat.
Find another cereal that looks appealing besides plain boring cornflakes, just stay away from the ultra-sugar varieties - or at least cut up a banana or some strawberries on top of the cornflakes.
Instant oatmeal doesn't take long at all - just boil up some water in a kettle.
Porridge is traditionally made with water only. I personally prefer to make it with Milk because I'm a big fat milky fatty, but yeah, water is perfectly acceptable.
seriously, you can even get an omlette microwave safe dish and just nuke it in two minutes if you're in that much of a rush.
Yogurt is actually really good to eat if you're lactose-intolerant.
I personally prefer the Silk Light Soy Milk (Vanilla flavor) since it's delicious and tastes exactly like milk, plus it only has 50 calories.
Boiled eggs can be stored in shell for 5-14 days (I get about 6 days myself, but it depends on your fridge, if you cracked the shell and how much you boil them). A single egg can add some good protein to a carb-heavy breakfast and for a lot of people, will help them feel fuller, longer. Depends on your body, try some things out and see how you react.
Vegetables + egg in an omelette style is also quite filling.
Peanut butter (when you look for a good one that has just peanuts in the ingredients and not a bunch of sugar and garbage) can be a great source of good fats, which again can help feeling fuller longer.
Fruit in plain yogurt is great because fruit will sweeten it without having to buy sugared yogurt.
For me, eating just bread with sugar in the morning (by sugar I mean jam, or most fruit yogurts, most cereals, etc) makes me hungry again really quick. But if I cut out the sugar, add some fruit and a good fat like peanut butter, nuts/seeds in museli, or some cheese - lactose free I guess for you - then I stay full a lot longer.
I think everyone else has made good comments already just wanted to add something about what you mentioned about getting hungry again quickly.
if i have time to laze about oatmeal is good, i agree about the steel cut oats as better.
hell even having an apple or a banana is easy and good for you
My go-to is cereal and milk, which you can recreate with soy milk. At the moment, I also have some nice grapefruit, some freezer waffles (that I spread preserves on), and a lot of yogurt. Keeping a rotating variety of foods on hand will help you feel, silly as it may sound, excited about breakfast. On occasion, I'll get bananas or tangerines, as well as a different type of cereal every time. Eggs are good for a variety of different uses--omelettes are easy, scrambled eggs are even easier, pre-boiled eggs are the easiest, and I actually found a microwave container that will poach your eggs. I would simply suggest keeping an eye out for new things.
Fry up some bacon
Toast bagel
cut up lettuce
1-2 slices of tomato
Butter the bagel, combine the bagel, lettuce, and tomato.
You can also add egg to the mix if that's your thing.
I used to not eat breakfast very often, when I did, that's what I made. Now that I'm trying to be more healthy, I'm eating breakfast again(since I'm not snaking at night as much, so I'm actually hungry in the morning), so I've expanded to oatmeal, cereal, and sometimes just normal buttered bagels, but the BLT bagel is still my favorite.
Uh, I said yogurt as an example of how I have a variety of breakfast foods on hand, which is the main thrust of my post.
its also good for upset stomachs fr the same reason.
bagels are always good, you can freeze them when fresh and they last for a long while, just microwave to thaw briefly than throw in the toaster. add anything from cream cheese to peanut butter or whatever you want
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Bagels are good too. Toasted onion bagel with butter? Mmm. Cream cheese too, but you'd have to avoid that.
If you have a little time to cook, fry a couple eggs sunny side up or over easy and make some toast while you're at it. Dip toast corners into egg yolk and eat. Tasty. Goes well with bacon. I put a little salsa on my eggs, too.
Breakfast burritos are easy and you can prepare them in advance, just freeze them and pop them in the microwave at alater date. Scramble eggs, cook some breakfast sausage or other preferred meat, warm some tortillas and roll the eggs and meat together with a good, chunky salsa. You can make them even better by frying up hash browns (or whatever you call shredded, fried potatoes) and throwing those in there.