Breakfast Dilema

Rawhead

Hello folks,

I manage to maintain a healthy breakfast routine (porridge+boiled egg) most days of the week. The problem is that a recent change in my work schedule has left me with literally no time to have my usual breakfast on some mornings.
If I am lucky I can sit down in a cafe.
On other mornings I have to grab a sandwich from a deli counter and eat it on the go.

What would you advise me to eat in both situations that is somewhat healthy and nutritious?

Thanks folks

Doolee

How about getting ready the night before? Boil 2 eggs and next morning shell them and whack them between two slices of sourdough bread, or a good quality bread, wrap it up so you can eat it on the go. Could be done in the same time it takes someone in Centra or wherever to make your sambo?

Or, you can get flask mugs you could take your porridge with you (soak oats in hot water night before and then only take about 30 secs in microwave next morning-also easier on digestion) and eat that on the go too?

I know its tricky but breakfast is so important IMO and its so easy to get caught up in the convenience of cafes and sandwich bars if you get into that habit.:)

EileenG

If I get stuck without out decent food, I tend to grab a tub of cottage cheese or greek yogurt and have that instead.

metamorphosis

Yeah - i tend to grab a 300gm tub of tesco cottage cheese - 1.04 for it. They have a new chives one out too (although not as nice as the aldi chives and onion cottage cheese)

Also - you can get in most supermarkets a natural yogurt about 125gms for 1.44. It's in a glass carton rather than plastic. So when i get home i wash the glass carton. You can stock up on 1kg tub of greek yogurt from lidl for 2e and then i put the greek yogurt in the glass carton and throw it in my bag - handy to have as a snack. And its very thick and filling so fills you up more.

figroll

What about some of these :

...sorry, i couldn't resist.

I second the hard boiled eggs, those with some sea salt on rye or sour dough.. yum. Or make pancakes with porridge oats and cinnamon on a sunday and have them throughout the week with your favourite healty topping (peanut butter?). Delish!

metamorphosis

+1 to the oat pancakes with melted peanut butter (and greek yogurt too)

xgtdec

I find prep the night before is the best way of getting the most out of your time, my average breakfast is 90g of porridge and 5-8 eggs with a banana and yoghurt, ya dont want to have get hat together every morning so every night i leave the porridge in a bowl on the counter, beside that i have another bowl for eggs and another for the banana and yoghurt, i pour the milk on the porridge and microwave(2 minutes) in that 2 minutes i seperate the eggs and mix in the other bowl, porridge done and eggs in, halfway through porridge i mix the eggs and put back in the microwave, finish porridge and mix banana and yogurt in the 3rd bowl, eggs done but have banana and yoghurt first while eggs cool, then have vitamins and fish oils and then eggs.

Sounds like a hell of a lot of work but with prep the night before its a 15-20 minute breakfast........maybe plan on a saturday for the week and see how you get on!

Doolee

xgtdec wrote: »

I find prep the night before is the best way of getting the most out of your time, my average breakfast is 90g of porridge and 5-8 eggs with a banana and yoghurt, ya dont want to have get hat together every morning so every night i leave the porridge in a bowl on the counter, beside that i have another bowl for eggs and another for the banana and yoghurt, i pour the milk on the porridge and microwave(2 minutes) in that 2 minutes i seperate the eggs and mix in the other bowl, porridge done and eggs in, halfway through porridge i mix the eggs and put back in the microwave, finish porridge and mix banana and yogurt in the 3rd bowl, eggs done but have banana and yoghurt first while eggs cool, then have vitamins and fish oils and then eggs.

Holy mother! Thats a lot of food! Lucky sod...wish I was a man sometimes. I'd be really good at eating loads.

justbringit89

metamorphosis wrote: »

+1 to the oat pancakes with melted peanut butter (and greek yogurt too)

I was under the impression that oat pancakes were fairly unhealthy?? No?

What is better for example..a bowl of porridge or oat pancakes? For someone trying to lose weight and at the gym 3-4 times a week?

xgtdec

Doolee wrote: »

Holy mother! Thats a lot of food! Lucky sod...wish I was a man sometimes. I'd be really good at eating loads.

My Trainer burns it for me......i suppose i have you to thank for that:p

metamorphosis

justbringit89 wrote: »

I was under the impression that oat pancakes were fairly unhealthy?? No?

What is better for example..a bowl of porridge or oat pancakes? For someone trying to lose weight and at the gym 3-4 times a week?

Oat pancakes are literally your oats, an egg and water or milk and cooked like a traditional pancake - no different to eating a regular bowl of porridge except that you have the egg extra, which for me is even better as for a slight protein kick given my current nutritional goals. Just be sure to ccok them in something that has a high heating point on the pan (butter, ghee, coconut oil - not sunflower oil or other seed oils)

metamorphosis

metamorphosis wrote: »

Oat pancakes are literally your oats, an egg and water or milk and cooked like a traditional pancake - no different to eating a regular bowl of porridge except that you have the egg extra, which for me is even better as for a slight protein kick given my current nutritional goals. Just be sure to ccok them in something that has a high heating point on the pan (butter, ghee, coconut oil - not sunflower oil or other seed oils)

Oh I used sunflower oil for my first batch, what's the issue?

They're quite nice, I might make them for a few brekkys

metamorphosis

bluewolf wrote: »

Oh I used sunflower oil for my first batch, what's the issue?

They're quite nice, I might make them for a few brekkys

Sunflower oil is very very unstable at high tempitures and all too easily prone to oxidation as a result. (also lots of O6 - but that's not the issue at hand here)


Butter, lard, coconut oil are very good fats to use instead as they are much more stable at cooking temps