Breakfast ideas (apart from toast or cereal).

ubamother

i take oats, milk and a wee bit of sugar to work every morning - shove in a microwave for 2 mins and it's ready. If you don't have a micro at work, you could make the porridge and pop in a food flask.
If you have a toaster you could make lots of french toast with sandwich bread, freeze it and pop in a toaster bag to reheat in the toaster. - pre-made and frozen cheese toasties are good too - but only if you have a toaster!

Primrose

If you buy some cheap fruit (apples, pears, clementines,grapes ) but not bananas because they go black quickly, and chop them up into a fruit salad with a little orange juice, they will keep in the fridge for a few days. Just take a couple of spoonfuls out every day (without the juice) into a arton and keep a bag of cornflakes in the office. Mix together when ready to eat, so that the cornflakes (or other cereal) don't have a chance to go soggy.

motherhen2234

I make what I call my yogurt pots. I make these so I actually eat breakfast (as i used to skip it) and as its reasonably good GI to help my diet. Plus its actually pretty cheap at less than 20p a portion. The following makes 4 portions for me.

1 Tub of Sainsbury's basics natural yogurt
1 tin Sainsbury's basic fruit cocktail
2 cups of asda basic museli (similar price and nutrition to sainsburys but I prefer the taste)

Drain the fruit and mix it all together. Divide into 4 small Tupperware pots and keep in the fridge. For the one day I don't have one its usually because i'm off to a meeting straight from home so I have a smoothie or some porridge before I go.

jexygirl

SB 44! do you have the rice pudding recipe! I would love to see it as I have a tub of ground rice I need to use!
As for breakfast Ideas, the only one I have as I suck and cant face breakfast, is what we do with stalkers (the deer type!) or people who are leaving before 8am, which is the night before, we take out some frozen croissants, carve them in half, butter and then put ham and cheese in them for a continental style take away - wrapped in foil ( made into a handbag style shape ofc!) They stay cold in a fridge and are perfectly defrosted by the time they want to eat apparently!
Jex

BitterAndTwisted

I've got some cottage cheese containers which I use to cart muesli to work in. I nick some milk form the tea/coffee-fridge and eat that at my desk. If I'm feeling particularly lavish I've been known to have a couple of fingers of cheese or a hard-boiled egg

Butterfly_Brain

HM museli bars - use the asda smart price one.
Banana and a yoghurt (Farmfoods are doing 5 Nom corner yoghurts for £1 at the moment)
Pitta or bagel with boiled eggs or tuna

I love mother hen's suggestion and am going to give it a go

Norman_Bean

No time to read all replies as supposed to be making lunch

But my suggestion is Muffins - can be savoury or sweet and you can make a batch and freeze then, get them out as you need them

HTH

Norman x

motherhen2234

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

I love mother hen's suggestion and am going to give it a go

I've done it for nearly a year now and i've found it pretty easy to stick to eating these. I think its the lazy factor in me lol!

sb44

jexygirl wrote: »

SB 44! do you have the rice pudding recipe! I would love to see it as I have a tub of ground rice I need to use!
As for breakfast Ideas, the only one I have as I suck and cant face breakfast, is what we do with stalkers (the deer type!) or people who are leaving before 8am, which is the night before, we take out some frozen croissants, carve them in half, butter and then put ham and cheese in them for a continental style take away - wrapped in foil ( made into a handbag style shape ofc!) They stay cold in a fridge and are perfectly defrosted by the time they want to eat apparently!
Jex

Sorry, I have only just found your post and that was by accident!

I never know what posts I have put on what forum, so I always miss if I have had a reply or anything! If anyone can tell me how to make sure I don't miss anything in forums I have posted on that would be great.

You wouldn't think I had been a member here for about 10 years or so, doh!

Ok Jex, here is the recipe from the packet of Whitworths Dessert Rice that I use.

The recipe is entitled 'Dessert Rice' ie rice pudding.

50g (2oz) dessert rice
600ml (1pt) semi skimmed milk
25g (1oz) castor sugar (If you have a grinder just use granulated and grind it down)
15g (½oz) butter (optional)
ground nutmeg

I also add a few drops of vanilla flavouring.

I use some of the butter to rub the inside of the slow cooker so that the rice pud doesn't stick.

Put everything in the slow cooker and give it a stir and cook it on high for about 2 to 2½ hours.

I remove the lid and give it a stir every 30 to 45mins.

It is very moreish, I love it, especially when it is cold.

grrmich

Homemade breakfast bars (very easy to make)

1 x 397g can of condensed milk
250g rolled oats (not instant) (I use the tesco value oats)
75g shredded coconut
100g dried cranberries
125g mixed seeds (pumkin, sunflower etc)
125g natural unsalted peanuts

1. preheat oven 130 C or gas mark 1/2. Oil a 23x33x4cm baking tin.
2. Warm condensed milk in large pan
3. Meanwhile mix all other ingredients together then add the warmed condensed milk using a rubber or wooden spatula to fold.
4. Spread mixture into tin and press down using spatula or fingers.
5. Bake for 1 hour, then leave to cool for 15 mins. Cut four accross and down to make 16 bars.

I subsitute the cranberries for other dried fruit very often, and have also taken to using the blocks of dried coconut milk and grate it to add to the mixture. These bars are delicious and full of health!