[Closed] healthy brekkie options

Porridge + cinnamon + honey + nuts/seeds/dried fruit.

End of thread 😉

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Try swopping out the honey for a variety of fresh berries.

Go to local caff. Procure a sausage, bacon and egg sanger. Eat.

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Bacon,sausage,egg, plum tomatoes,baked beans, black pudding.. on toast. Big pot of tea ..not exactly sure of the healthy part and it will take longer than a couple of mins ..but get up earlier to make & eat it before heading out of the door ..

Try swopping out the honey for [s]a variety of fresh berries[/s] porridge, no added sugar muesli or eggs.

That's the healthy, convenient options. Honest.

Poached eggs on toast.

Plain porridge is probably the easiest cheapest option.

Buy a large bag of normal porridge oats. Keep them at work, Semi skimmed milk, and, let's face it, you'll have to cheer up such a grim dish with something, fruit or jam or something.

Yep, looks like porridge with something to spice it up looks like the option of choice.. will give it a go, but suspect that I'll be bored of that in a few weeks.

Overnight Oats. Creamy porridgey puddingey goodness in the morning. 😀

5 minutes one evening to make enough for mon-fri. Stick it in the fridge, job done!

Overnight Oats

Jumbo porridge oats + fresh ginger + cinnamon + half a banana + chopped nuts of your choice + milk (or coconut milk)

Boiled eggs can be made the night before and eat them with brown toast

I'm going through a Mexican phase at the mo.

Scrambled eggs with any combination of the following; proper ham, avocado or chunky guacamole, shrooms, cherry toms, jarred roasted red peppers. spring onions, salsa, fresh chillis (or chipotle paste), humus.

Prep it the night before by throwing everything in a bowl in the fridge.

Bang on.

Scrambled eggs and tinned mackerel is my current favourite

2 boiled, poached or scrambled eggs half a pint of full fat milk

I work from home so I guess it counts...
Kegeree - cold rice, chopped hard boiled eggs and shredded smoked haddock all fried up to steaming hot (preferably with a bit of toast)

Chop half an apple into small cubes
Add boiling water to a half cup of porridge oats
Stir in chopped apple
Add a spinkle of salt
Stir and leave for 5 mins

Consume
Finish the other half apple to cleanse palate.

Boiled or lukewarm water with Porridge oats and sweet condense milk. No need to cook whatsoever.

Or the above adding others stuff like ... cinnamon, double cream, chocolate, dry fruit, jam, etc ...

Or simply daal curry (cooked from previous night) with chapati with a glass of sweet tea.

Some great suggestions on this thread, which I'm going to shamelessly steal

I asked a similar question a couple of weeks back......

http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/office-cookery

Whatever you cooked the evening before, on/with toast.

Unless you plan to put it in a bowl and take it to work and there is insufficient to do both.

dark rye Ryvita with hummous when I get to work
and lots of black coffee

that's my breakfast Monday to Friday

I just make a big tub of "bircher" muesli that see's me through the whole week:

Whole rolled oats
Apple Juice
Yogurt
Add pretty much anything else to it that you like: grated apple, berries, dried fruit, nuts, honey etc

Leave to soak overnight, take to work in tupperware each morning.

200g of just the oats/juice/yogurt combo is about 300 cals, and keeps you full until lunch, no bother.

Where do you get your oats?
Tried the own brand Waitrose Bircher muesli which is lovely.
The Tesco own brand Bircher was £2 cheaper and disgusting pap.

My go to breakfast is a small pot of Quark or Skyr, a chopped banana and a drizzle of honey. Protein, carbs and a tiny wee bit of fat (which I get plenty of later in the day) - sometimes add a dod of peanut butter. Tasty and filling.

I keep honey, nut butter and bananas at work and take the quark/skyr with me each morning.

equal qtys of oats and milk in a tupperware pot (other varieties with sealing lid available), with a handful of raisins, chopped up banana, splash of apple juice, and some natural yoghurt. Bit of honey if you need it sweetened.

Or mini quiches. 2-3 eggs mixed up in a bowl, add in some filling (i use soya beans and ham or salmon or bacon and maybe a bit of cheese if I'm not being TOO good) Mix up well, and pour into silicone cup cake moulds [url= https://www.ebay.co.uk/i/262362620785?chn=ps&dispctrl=1&adgroupid=48716125379&rlsatarget=pla-382120633635&abcId=1129946&adtype=pla&merchantid=109712317&poi=&googleloc=9045837&device=c&campaignid=974960635&crdt=0 ]like these [/url] and then microwave until set. Put in the fridge and you can then lift out of the cases and eat with your hands the next day.

I'm going through a phase of shredded wheat and warm milk, wee touch of sugar(mibbe no so wee! 😆 ).

Beats a greggs sausage roll on the health steaks anyhow! 😆

Mine is fruit salad and yoghurt. Too high in sugar but apart from that good

There’s nothing wrong with sugar if you eat it in moderation. Especially if it’s in the form of vitamin and fibre packed fruit.

Hmmmmmmmmm consensus is changing over that as evidence comes in about the harm sugar especially fructose does. That breakfast contains probably a days allowance of sugar or more.
sugar is really pretty harmful stuff.

Surprised no one has mentioned Breakfast Beer yet?

If I didn't have to drive to work if give it a go!

Calorie balance (energy in vs energy out) is far more critical than macronutrient balance when it comes to managing body composition (but obviously for optimal living you want a balance of all three macros)

My caveat was “in moderation”. Clearly you don’t want to be hoovering up heaps of refined sugars when you’re sitting on your ass all day inactive. This will inevitably cause a calorie surplus (which is very easy to do).

It’s even less of an issue if your exercising regularly. You need sugar to fuel the body and to help it recover - which I’m sure you know. All carbs are converted to sugar ultimately. I consumed hundreds of grams of sugar last weekend. But I cycled 70km and ran 23km in the same period.

If you’re regularly active (which I’m assuming you are as this is a cycling forum) then fruit and yoghurt seems like a decent brekkie to me (although I prefer higher protein equivalents like quark/skyr).

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Go to local caff. Procure a sausage, bacon and egg sanger. Eat.

If the answer isn't bacon, then the question is wrong. 🙂

Avocado & Salmon on toast is a good one. Good fats and protein.

*scans through thread looking for breakfast guru binners*

For me it's 1 slice Burgen's toasted with smashed avocado* topped with 2 poached eggs. Yummy!

*Avocado, chillies, garlic, lime juice all mashed up with a fork.

I often have frozen raspberries, a half banana , half a pint of milk a tablespoon of yoghurt and a scoop of protein vanilla powder in the blender. Gorgeous !

Thanks for all the ideas - this is going to keep me going for a good while.

Omelette in a wrap.
Scrambled eggs in pitta.
Porridge (1:1:1 quaker oats:milk:water) with a squirt of syrup. Always Quaker. And 2:40 in the microwave.

I've made Bircher porridge, prefer warm.

Also make crepes and American pancakes on a regular basis. Crepes best with Parma ham.

this morning I had a bowl of porridge with honey.
healthy......yes
but compared to a nice bacon and egg butty, pretty crap. 😀

but compared to a nice bacon and egg butty, pretty crap.

Bacon and egg butties are great. Especially dripping with fat. Nothing can quite beat the taste of a full fry-up though. The cheaper 40% MRM/bread w/fat pork sausages, not the dry, slightly ammonia-tasting 120% meaty kind. Crispy bacon of course, preferably streaky and smokey. Deep-fried black pudding. Fried bread topped with fried egg. Fried mushrooms. Some of those hash browns, glistening with taste, soft inside yet with some slightly- burned crispy-bits on the outside. Food of the Gods.

Nothing comes close. Except maybe leftover pizza with extra cheese and piles of pepperoni. Simply reheat in the oven. Smother with garlic and herb dipping-sauce.

Pitting a humble, hearty-yet-syrupy porridge against the above-mentioned gastronomic out-of-body experiences = the odd cup of coffee vs mainlining heroin. Meditation vs high-energy, high-speed, risk-taking sports. A safe and loving marriage at home vs a series of wild affairs in dangerous countries involving innocent lives.

Choose wisely, but we (may) only live once, so horse for courses, better die fast and young, or middle-aged and fat, etc.

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Coffee.

Bacon roll on Fridays.

Is it possible that low fat/sugar cereal (like shredded wheat) is healthier than porridge due to all of the stuff that it gets fortified with?

Reporting back :-
If I had time and infinite health I’d be on Malvern rider’s gastronomic out of body experience, but as it stands in my version of reality -> Overnight oats with fruit FTW
Cheers guys

At work - I do 2 bananas an apple a handful of oats a natural yogurt and a half pint of multi vitamin juice Blitzed with my hand blender.

At home it's poached or scrambled eggs on homemade wholemeal with either avacado/salmon/steamed spinach

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/the-running-blog/2016/jan/19/high-carb-or-high-fat-the-running-diet-debate

Scrambled eggs and tinned mackerel is my current favourite

I bet you’re popular at work 😯

cigarettes and a beautiful woman.

no votes for egg on a stick yet?

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