Breakfast Ideas

We all know breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and usually I have a smoothie, but on days where I have more time, am eating later, am super hungry or just want something different, I sometimes find myself struggling for some ideas! Hopefully this post can bring you some inspiration of what to eat too! 

I love porridge, and I love fruit so this for me is a lovely combination. For this porridge, I made it on the stove, with one cup cold water and a splash of milk. I just heat it up and keep stirring until its at the consistency I like. Then I topped it with slice bananas, blueberries and a strawberry. 

I really try to get my five a day, so a fruit salad is an easy way to get most of your five a day in the first meal. I just slice up all these fruits and put it in a bowl. You could squeeze it with lemon and keep it in the fridge for up to three days if you want to make a big batch, the lemon should stop your fruit going brown. You could use it mixed with granola and yoghurt too.

It's really important to drink water when you wake up, one to kick start your metabolism, but also, you've been asleep for (hopefully) 8 hours and you need to drink! I have a big glass of water here with frozen mixed berries for added flavour. I also have a cup of english breakfast tea with almond milk. Here I have porridge I made by just topping oats with almond milk, blitzed in the microwave for two minutes, and stirred in some raw cocoa powder in.

Pancakes are a really nice brunch or weekend breakfast food, I just used a basic American pancake recipe, which was just about a cup of plain flour, half a teaspoon of salt, 1 teaspoon of baking powder and caster sugar, a cup of milk, 1 egg and some butter/oil for frying. These are really nice, but not very sweet, so you could mash up a banana, add more sugar, or use your toppings to sweeten your pancakes. I used icing sugar and half a banana. 

A fun experimental breakfast I made for Lauren and I was cloud eggs. That particular day they were all over social media, and I like cooking so I gave it a go. You just separate the egg white and yolk, whisk up the whites until they are stiff, like a meringue, then put onto a piece of non stick baking parchment on a tray in two mounds (or one mound for every egg you use), and cook it for 4 minutes, or until firm. Then carefully add the raw yolk into the little dip in the white, and cook for a further 3 minutes. I served ours on a slice of toast, half an avocado, and a sprinkle of paprika. They were really nice!

I hope the pictures and recipes gave you a few new ideas for your breakfast!