Breakfast ideas (apart from toast or cereal).

sb44

Hawthorn wrote: »

Yes! Make crumpets. Absolutely, easy peasy, and last for a couple of days.

On cold days, mine like hot cakes too (not especially healthy, but delicious and warming and fine for a treat now and then)

Here is the recipe I use. Very little work involved - the majority of the time it's just 'standing'
http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/home-made-crumpets,1587,RC.html

I think I will have to give these a go when I have bought some egg rings.

When recipes call for strong white flour, can you use white bread flour? (Or am I being thick and they are the same thing).

LameWolf

On the rare occasions I can face breakfast, a couple of things I like are:

Mashed banana mixed with cinnamon on toast.

Fresh grapefruit cut in half, sprinkled with demerara sugar and gently grilled.

sb44

tiff wrote: »

I love peanut butter, but I find its quite expensive now and I prefer the natural one too.

I think I'm going to go for a choice of porridge, toast with whatever topping, beans on toast, pancakes and will try the hm crumpets too.

If you like crunchy peanut butter then the Sainsburys basics one at 69p is quite nice, very moist and crunchy.

Reverbe

while I was at school I had the same brekky every single day - bowl of Alpen and slice of Marmite toast..I'm with tiff... doesnt do you any harm to have the same things most of the time and tbh it is having a lot of choices that can tend to really increase costs. How about toast but with sweet and savoury options. Porridge is also cheap and filling and can be spruced up in different cheap ways.

sb44

My 9 year old loves Marmite on toast, yuck!

xx_Jo_xx

In my house my little one (who is 7 next week) has a variety for breakfast and more often than not, its been whatever was on special offer when we went shopping!

He will either have cereal with milk, or pancakes (which pop in the toaster), or toast. Depending on the cereal, I will add fruit to it, or give him a piece of fruit for after.

Its a shame they dont like weetabix. My son used to dislike it, but i gave it to him once with chocolate milkshake on it (after seeing an advert on the tv where the student girl put strawberry milkshake on it) and he loved it!! The chocolate nesquik was also bought when on special offer! :rotfl:

Then I started adding banana to it and then creeped away gradually from the chocolate milkshake! now its really versatile and he can have it hot, cold, with an assortment of toppings and buying own brand weetabix makes it really inexpensive.

You can do the same with their porridge. Stir in sliced banana and honey, like someone else suggested, cinnamon and raisin.

Make it in the microwave too, which will save you some time.

Ive started making up pancakes at the weekend and freezing them - and then toasting them straight from frozen. Saves me a fortune.

Ive made banana pancakes this week, but havent tried them in the toaster as yet - so am not sure how these ones will be, but plain pancakes and raisin pancakes were fine!

xx

tiff

For anyone that is interested, this is the recipe for baked oatmeal that I mentioned earlier, I'm going to have a go at this to see what its like

Baked Oatmeal Recipe

1/4 cup vegetable oil or melted butter
3/4 cup sugar (this is what the recipe calls for--I use about 1/2 cup)
1 egg
3 cups old fashioned rolled oats (not the instant or quick-cooking kind)
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1 1/4 cups milk (or soy milk, or other liquid of choice)

Beat the oil or butter and sugar together, then add the egg and mix. Add the remaining ingredients, being aware that the recipe may not take all the liquid it calls for. The batter should have the consistency of a runny cake batter. Pour the batter into a 9X9 greased cake pan. Bake at 350º for ~ half an hour, or until firm and golden brown. Suggested toppings are raisins and brown sugar, or honey, or maple syrup, or fresh fruit and cream, nuts, etc. Use your imagination. This is frugal (depending on your toppings), and has protein and whole grain nutrition. It makes the house smell WONDERFUL on winter mornings.
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Steve-o

tiff wrote: »

Have tried different things with porridge, they had apple sauce stirred into it yesterday with a bit of cinnamon. DS requested porridge this morning which he just wanted plain. Will definitely soak it the night before, as DH doesnt leave much time for breakfast so he could micro his.

If porridge can be made in a slow cooker (), he could have his breakfast ready for when he got up. That would give him time to wash the pot out too.

denise_h_2

How about eggy bread - bread dipped in beaten egg and fried. Served with ketchup

Ems!

How about smoothies? I find they are filling enough for me if you make with youghurt, but as they are essentially a thick drink, children may feel a bit cheated and want "real" food!

I make all sorts of variations depending what we have in, today I did:-

2 bananas (30p)
about half a tub of mixed frozen berries (75p)
about 10 icecubes (free!)
an apple (20p)
a few dollops of natual youghurt (50p)
some milk ( just keep adding till it seems the right consistency (25p)


So it probably cost about £2 and this was enough for 2 large glasses this am and enough left for 2 small glassses for tomorrow - I just pour into glasses , cover them and fridge them for the next day. When I do them like this with dairy in they might seperate a bit but are fine after a stir. probbaly costs a bit much to do all the time but ok for a change. Also can be cheaper but less filling if you substitute yog and milk for water and/or fruit juice.