I have two breakfast styles: a full breakfast and a quick breakfast.
The full breakfast is a healthy nutritious breakfast that gets you going in the morning and keeps you full well until lunchtime. It consists of two hash brown patties, two strips of bacon, two eggs (usually prepared in an omelette with veggies [onion, mushroom, jalapeno or regular peppers]), a piece of fruit (often grapes, banana, or orange) and a cup of coffee. I can prepare this in exactly 22 minutes (the length of the hash browns). It’s almost as if it’s a flowing dance where the pieces are lined up in perfect succession. Start the hash browns and coffee and bacon, bacon is done when the hash browns need to be flipped and coffee needs to be stirred, cook up the omelette, prepare the coffee, plates, fruit and serve: voila a breakfast for a king. And it only takes one oven pan, one frying pan, one knife, and one cutting board.
My quick breakfast revolves around the all powerful toasted English Muffin. You can take it in so many ways depending on how much time you have or how much you want to eat. One problem with these breakfasts yes I’ve actually tracked the efficiency of different breakfasts on me, I’m a quasi-scientist after all is that they only give me around 3 hours of quick release energy (as in, I’m up and going real fast) and then give me really bad hunger pains if I don’t have a snack when appropriate. Some possibilities include:
– Quick cook an egg. Voila a simple egg sandwich. Great for all around energy. Add any meat for extra protein (quick fry a cold cut, super yummy).
– Mash up an avocado, add salsa or pepper if you fancy, and spread it on each side. Top with salt. One of my favorites.
– Peanut butter or Nutella (my favourite). Jam too, though I will admit I am not really a fan of jam on English muffins because the muffins tend to be sharper and crisper than toast.
– Cream cheese is great. Add a meat such as smoked salmon for bonus protein.
My observations conclude that eating pure carbohydrates such as cereal give me a super energy boost but leave me with crippling hunger pains within two hours. I am now experimenting with incorporating various cereals (I loved Muslix but since Kellogs makes it I can’t buy it anymore go Michael I buy my store’s cloned version) into the full breakfast.