Breakfast ideas (apart from toast or cereal).

ifonlyitwaseasier

adelight wrote: »

Ahh the task of trying to explain my haphazard cooking measurements to someone : By cup I mean a 250ml glass.
The oats I use are "fine wholegrain oats" from lidl so just standard oats.

Leave 1 cup oats and 1.5 cups milk together in the fridge all day or night. Add a heaped tbsp of SR flour and 1 egg and beat like normal pancake mix, add extra milk until it's a thick gloopy batter. Spoon blobs on to a pan and fry! They take longer to fry than normal pancakes as they're really thick, like cakey-scotch pancakes. Best fried in butter but they dry fry well.
I'm sure it would work well as a thinner mixture, I just like a chewy pancake.

just to say i experimented with this and OMG how delish!!!!!

would def recommend them and i used normal oats with a dash of ground linseed, i made 14 in total and ate only 2! the rest are cooling and i'll keep out some for OH's brekkie tomorrow and freeze the rest

ty Adelight

ioiwe x

rosie383

I second that. Thanks Adelight. They sound like a really substantial breakfast. Once I've finished off my barm brack I'll have a go at these for my breakfast.

GreenManG0

I eat breakfast at work also and have two different options:
Mix up porridge oats, fried fruit, stem ginger and milk in a pot the night before and chill over night, ping it when im in work for tasty warm porrdige. It will keep out the firdge for a few hours.
Put some frozen berries in a pot topped with homemade granola. By the time i come to eat the berry juice has softened the granola and is tasty & filling.
Hope these give you some ideas!

mrs_motivated

JenniO wrote: »

River Cottage had a 'breakfast' programme, now on 4OD and you can check out their own website, but they made these fab looking breakfast energy bars, like flapjacks, with oats, nuts and seeds, dried fruit and honey. They looked great and you could make them on a Sunday and have them for the rest of the week! HTH.

I made those and they are gorgeous - a big hit with all the family who have had one of these for breakfast served alongside with banana and yoghurt

mlz1413

If you like soft bacon then a bacon sandwich is do-able in a mircowave.

Butter bread for sandwich & wrap in cling film. Put 2/3 rashers of bacon in some mircowavable cling film or pot - nuke bacon until hot all the way through and then put into sandwich, add sauce if desired and eat.

lowesy

Morning all :hello:,

As the title suggests really I'm looking for inspiration! I've never really liked traditional "breakfast food" anyway, but now I'm 20 weeks pregnant all I want to eat for breakfast is Haribo :eek: Went through a phase of crackers and Primula, but the thought of that makes me _pale_ atm. Neither of those are particularly OS either.

Any ideas at all? It needs to be portable so I can eat at work, as 7:30 is too early to eat but 8:30 seems to be fine *rolls eyes* and I start work at 8. I don't like milk (never have, not because of a pregnancy fad) and yoghurt makes me feel a bit _pale_ too! Also reckon I'll need some sort of carb otherwise I'll be starving again an hour later.

We've got microwaves at work, just in case anyone comes up with a suggestion to this nigh on impossible to solve dilemma :rotfl:

TIA xx

threemuttleys

what about making yourself some hm flapjacks or muffins? I got mega starving at 20 weeks and ate like a horse, so I always had something in my bag for emergencies, and a load of hm yummyness at home too

rachbc

Do you have/ could you get access to toaster? Opens up all sorts of possibilties - crumpets, teacakes, toast with various toppings.

Frittata/ spanish omlette if you'd prefer savoury made in advance the eve before and have cold or warm. Serve with beans for added carbs and fibre...

Breakfast bars if you prefer sweet - oats, fruit, nuts and seeds baking to a flapjack type bar - there is a great Nigella one that is mixed with condensed milk so some calcium in there too, or lovely lovely ones on Smittenkitchen.com

If traditional breakfast foods don't appeal then maybe crackers with cheese/cream cheese, ham, smoked slamon - in fact smoked salmon and cream cheese bagels? Yum! Bagels with anything - very filling.

HM muffins - if you put oats and fruit in than can be healthier

sarahsarah

The main thing I ate for breakfast when I was pregnant were things like hot cross buns, flapjacks, teacakes, scones, that kind of thing. And ready made smoothies to make it feel less unhealthy, but that's not very OS!

zzzLazyDaisy

Bit of a strange suggestion, but have you tried mugshots? It is an instant pasta that you tip in a mug, pour boiling water, and wait. Nothing like pot noodles, in case you are wondering. They do a creamy cheese version which is my favourite, but they do others if you don't fancy something with a creamy sauce.

EDIT - ok mugshots are not very OS! But you could make your own pasta dish and zap it in the microwave when you get to work.

Actually, thinking about it, do you like porridge? Easy to make ahead of time at home, and then zap a portion in the micro later