Okey dokey then guys. My newest obsession (well I've thought this for a while really) is breakfast. Now we all know "breakfast is the most important meal of the day... blah.... because.... blah blah and it might just be good for you... *continue blah*..." I'm not so fussed on that, I just really like breakfast.
So in the last year I've gone from not eating breakfast, to having macaroni cheese for breaky (ah those were the days) to having a gigantic one, then just to having an average sized breakfast. I think I should say that I'm not a big an of cereal, and I like sleep to much to bother sitting down to eat breakfast - mornings are extreme multitasking.
So I have a few fail safe breakfasts that are quick and easy which I thought I'd tell you all (plus, they're pretty healthy so if you're like me and you don't like to start off your day badly they're pretty good.) Oh and you don't actually know how to cook to do them so don't feel scared.
1. Eggs.
OK eggs are great. And don't tell me they're not. Because they are. Eat them for breakfast - they make you feel full for the rest of the day. Eat them how you want them to be eaten. I boil them generally (five minutes for the perfect egg) and you eat it by itself or with toast. On a weekend I might fry them and have it with humus or pesto. I've always been terrible at poaching so I won't recommend that but basically eggs are good for you. And they taste delicious. So you should eat them.
(In the mornings I get a saucepan, boil water, then chuck the egg in which takes me about two minutes in total, so you can other things while you're waiting for your breakfast. Even my gran does them in the microwave for 30 seconds and bam! she has an egg. And don't go "ew, microwaves" because it is seriously just another way of cooking.)
2. Juices.
Since I'm getting into the summer spirit, I feel like juices are a great thing. They are completely brilliant and it's easy enough to turn them into a good way of getting a serve of dairy and fruit. (Apparently we're meant to eat 3 serves of dairy a day. I think I struggle to get one...) But my point of writing about juices is that I assume that you think what I thought, being that juices are for professional cafes to do and they're really hard to make. It's OK. I'm here to tell you they're not.
What you have to do it chuck a whole bunch of stuff into a blender (you don't even have to have a professional one, my friend does it with a bowl and and a hand held beater) and you've got yourself a juice. Just remember that you've got to add some kind of liquid in it to make it actually turn into a juice rather than a kind of paste thingy. As a general rule, I stick to three basic things. (eg. Banana, apple juice - I just get that from a bottle from the supermarket - and ginger, or strawberry, carrot and cinnamon together.) It's sort of fail safe, because it generally tastes pretty good. Don't be scared of juicing vegetables because they work just fine as well. By the way, frozen fruit works fine - that's what I always use for berries and things.
Although, if I have a juice I'll always have something else with it because it doesn't properly fill me up. Also generally it takes more time than I have when I have to get out the door so I only do them on weekends.
(PS. The juice in the photo is banana, nectarine and orange juice.)
3. Yoghurt.
Yoghurt is my most reached for food in the morning. Now, I'm one of those people who likes Greek yoghurt (also called natural yoghurt) but I use flavoured yoghurt too (I just don't like the ones that are really sweet - I had a honey flavoured one once. Ugh. It was disgusting.) Sometimes I'll eat them plainly but that's pretty rarely. I like to chop up fruits and chuck them in (any fruit we have really) to make a summery sort of thing or when it's winter/autumn (or anytime really, because this is my favourite breakfast) have nuts (walnuts, almonds, etc.), sultanas (or any other dried fruit), desiccated coconut, and sometimes (mainly in the depths of winter) I'll add some rolled oats to it. (This is what is shown in the photograph.)
Basically it changed whatever my mood is, I'll combine my winter-y yoghurt with fruit, or I'll add other things such as pumpkin seeds. But it just tastes good and is good for you and keeps you full for the rest of the day :D
Yay for breakfast! Helping for life! (get it? FriLife - For life. Ok basically it just sounded cool and I had to come up with something relevant. OK I'll shush now.)
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