To want a breakfast buffet at home

Frozen pains au chocolat and croissants cook very quickly in an air fryer, doing them the night before would mean they were horrible at breakfast.

I've never tried it, but you can do cooked breakfast in slow cooker https://www.slowcookerclub.com/slow-cooker-full-english-breakfast/

And you could buy pre-packed fruit salad, and frozen / part baked almond croissants from Tesco

I reckon you could put together quite a fancy breakfast buffet without too much effort

Once a year, I end up basically living in a cheap ish hotel for one week. I adore it. It’s mainly because I can go get breakfast in the lobby every morning.

i love it so much I find myself daydreaming about how I could live in the small space with efficient shelving. I would never actually do it, but I really love the breakfast buffet.

When the kids were pre-schoolers and used to get up at the crack of dawn, once a week or so in the school summer holidays, we'd go to the play park in the local town for about 7am when it was pretty empty, spend an hour or so there and then walk to the Premier Inn where they would both eat for free if I had breakfast. I couldn't cope with going to the park at any other time as it would be full of "hooligans" (by which I mean children of about 5 & 6 who were massive compared to my 2 & 3yo).
The DC are now teens and still love a Premier Inn breakfast. The chances these days of them getting out of bed for a trip there before they stop serving is low!

We do this about once a month. It's a beefeater attached to our local premier inn. 4 of us eat for £21.98. Can't go wrong.

Iceland have 3 bags of frozen croissants/pain au chocolate/pain au raisin for £5 .....got some ready in my freezer 😍

Premier inn breakfasts are great and 2 kids eat free with every adult so it's only a tenner!

Turkish breakfast is the absolute best. If you have a city or town with a Turkish cafe nearby you might be able to get it back in the UK. Otherwise most of it can be prepared the night before for hotel style breakfast buffet purposes.

Thimble sized glasses duely noted, OP. Perhaps a glass jar for the Alpen as well as the juice.

Awesome 🙌

That sounds phenomenal

You're brave attempting a full breakfast buffet before a new job! I'd need a good nap and access to my own loo afterwards...

Sure I saw my SIL attempt some version of this with bacon, eggs, sausages etc in a slow cooker overnight. Didn't sound that appetising tbh...

Yes I've heard that - hence on my shopping list. However, I hear the whole fruit (including skin and pith) is even better when whizzed up in a very good blender. Working up to that one. 🌹

Apparently Pomegranate juice is beneficial re prevention of dementia @Newestname002
I read that somewhere.
It's very expensive here in Ireland though.,

Not quite the same as someone preparing it for you, but I'm a fan of a cooked breakfast in the mornings. I've found that if I bake a whole pack of sausages and keep the leftovers in the fridge, I can stick a cooked sausage, a tomato and two rashers of bacon in the frypan, add an egg when I turn the bacon and the whole plate is ready quite quickly. Normally no toast or fried bread as I'm gluten-free and also function better when I keep my carbs down (though don't always stick to it).

What about this one?

https://www.naturitas.co.uk/p/food/sweets/jams-and-preserves/organic-apple-compote-700-g-naturitas-essentials?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw5cOwBhCiARIsAJ5njuYVR4hMHe99GIgcTDA2NUzAIXPywWq98wfIE4QqdSA8rbdFCVnZeIoaAjIhEALw_wcB

Where do you find apple compote in the UK ? Desperate here, in France this is life, here it is either baby food or loosing a kidney for a tiny pot in Waitrose.

I'm out for brunch at the moment and still drooling over the thought of a breakfast buffet.

Hope the travelodge is a good one.

The ibis near me does a breakfast too good to go bag with buffet leftovers in.

Try true 100% pomegranate juice (not "juice drink"). I dilute it so it's one third still water to two thirds juice - it's still plenty strong enough and has a fruity slightly tannin aftertaste. 🌹

I love the idea of going for a cooked breakfast. Sadly the places within a short distance from me, whilst great at a lot of the full cooked breakfast components have really inferior sausages, which detracts from the experience for me. However, one has started offering eggs Benedict or Eggs Royale, which is a real, if occasional, treat. 🌹

I love breakfast, best meal of the day!
A holiday in a hotel with a good breakfast buffet is almost as good as the holiday itself!! I still We stayed in a hotel in London that had orange segments with all the pith removed completely - absolutely amazing, I've never eaten so many oranges in my life!!

If I was ridiculously rich I'd employ a chef to prepare a fabulous breakfasts - fruit platters, mini Croissants & pain au chocolate, fresh pancakes & waffles etc. I'd also need a house with a swimming pool to subsequently burn off all the breakfast calories I'd be constantly consuming 😅

We just did this today on the way to holidays! It’s 10.95 per adult but all under 16s are free!

Oh yeah and the frozen pastries - all the supermarkets do those. They are good

It doesn't have to be loads of work on the morning......

1. Bulk make scotch pancake batter and freeze
2. Take out jar night before to defrost - takes very little effort tp fry a few next morning.... have you got kids you could recruit to it? My 7 year old cooks mine for me...
3. Use airfryer to do sausages and boiled eggs with minimal fuss (again, can a DC help)
4. Buy bags of posh granola and tubs of yeo valley yoghurt (DC can set up)
5. Buy punnets of berries
6. Have you got a breadmaker? If not, get one. Fresh warm bread waiting for you in morning.

I'd pay my DC to get up and prep it 15 mins before i go down.....

@UnmitigatedAssholen

I used to go and stay for two or three nights at a health spa (sadly closed down since Covid) and really be pampered.

One of the many things I liked about it was breakfast (my favourite meal). Buffet with softly scrambled eggs, baked ham off the bone, properly cooked mushrooms, finely sliced juicy smoked salmon, home made yoghurts plain or fruited, bowls of stewed or baked fruit, lovely fresh bread, pot of tea or hot cocoa, lovely butter, lovely fruit juices etc etc I felt I'd earned it as I woke early, had a bit of a swim or sauna or whirlpool bath. Then gentle exercises or massage, or other treatment from mid morning after I'd read the paper. I do miss that place!! 🌹