Healthy but filling breakfast ideas?

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I'm trying to lose weight but also improve my mental health as I've been struggling a lot recently, and I know that a good morning routine would be really helpful to me.

I'll be honest - I usually skip breakfast and then end up buying a danish or similar on the way in to work. Sometimes a banana but usually not.

When I've had cereal with milk in the morning it makes my stomach very dodgy shortly afterwards - so I'm ruling that out. Gluten is often a bit of a trigger for me (IBS), so I should probably not have too much bread etc, and the same for too much sugar.

I'm assuming something like eggs would be filling and healthy, but I'm a crap cook with no imagination and I have no idea where to start to be honest! Any ideas of quick but tasty things I can cook with a bit of flavour that will fill me up until lunch?

Can anyone help please?

Dh was told off by our practice nurse for having fruit in his porridge - you can't win!

I eat porridge, though find it tends not to fill me up for the morning (although ground seeds added helps a bit). It has the advantage that it freezes well.

Today I had tinned sardine sandwichI carry my breakfast to workon toast at weekends. Cheap and good for you.

Most bizarrely filling breakfast was the remains of a massive salad DP made once. He started off with the usual leaves, then added sprouted seeds, nuts, apples etc. to it. Not a starch in sight. I ate it thinking I'd have to go out for elevenses, then at lunchtime realised I'd no thoughts of food. Probably not the best thing mid-autumn, though.

Another vote for over night oats and added bits.
I make mine in washed out Sainsbury’s version on Doritos dip jars. I made five in a Sunday and add whatever on the day.

Boiled egg with salmon and chilli flakes with a black coffee - my all time favourite breakfast!

Can I get a yahyeet for all the milfs out here

I prefer my overnight oats with yoghurt, as if it had milk I would definitely want it warm!

Breakfast-wise my husband and I would do a cooked breakfast in our past lives when we had a very long commute: not a full English necessarily but we knew we would have to leave before 7.00 and wouldn't get to eat again until 1pm. So it could have been eggs in some form, Staffordshire oatcakes, kedgeree, crumpets, smoked salmon/mackerel...always some form of protein.

Nowadays our lives are much easier (15 minute walk to work for the win!) so we might have porridge, or fruit bread.

We always have 1-3 servings of fruit at breakfast as well. Make sure you properly hydrate on top of that as well (e.g. via green tea or water) as well as throughout the morning to curb snacking cravings.

Bacon, mushrooms & raw tomato.
1 egg omelette with finely chopped red pepper & bit of cheddar chucked in.
Bagel or breakfast muffin with cream cheese.

Cereal
Beans on toast
Veggie sausage and scrambled eggs
Waffles
Yoghurt
Porridge with fruit
Fruit salad

Home made breakfast wrap.

Fry a couple of pieces of lean bacon (fat removed) and mushrooms using Fry Light spray.
Cook a couple of poached eggs. I use an Asda egg poacher (little pot with an air vent). Takes 45 seconds in the microwave per egg and they come out quite flat (this is important).
Put the cooked bacon and mushroom on a Weightwatchers wrap.
Add the eggs on top
Put two Asda Light cheese slices on top.
Roll the whole lot up, tucking in the sides, and bake in the oven for a few minutes to melt the cheese.
Delish!!

I have (defrosted) frozen mixed berries with full fat Greek yoghurt and a sprinkle of granola (or chopped almonds if I've run out of granola). The granola is sometimes homemade and sometimes a Dorset cereals one. I put the berries in the microwave for 2 mins on half power.

In winter I have porridge some days made with half full fat milk and half water, with a few dates mixed in and chopped almonds on top.

I think the berries and yoghurt is more filling though.

I like porridge with fruit, made with dairy free milk. PB on a bagel. Yoghurt with nuts and honey.

I don't have time to cook eggs/bacon in the morning before work but I'll do it at the weekend. I might try some of these other ideas on here, although I cannot stomach fish for brekky!

My absolute favourite breakfast is mini oaty pancakes. One banana, one egg, two tablespoons of GF oats and a dash of (soy/ oat/whatever) milk. Whizz in a blender and cook. Aim for small pancakes the size of crumpets as they are s bigger to turn. Eat with fruit, yogurt and a drizzle of honey. They keep warm well, wrapped in foil.

Love these brekky ideas. I'm going to give the overnight oats a try with some fruit added in. Can bung them in the microwave when I get to work so they are nice and warm

Eggy porridge - 50g porridge, 200ml soya milk (unsweetened), add an egg and mix. Cook in the microwave - stir every minute or two, until you get the consistency you want. Top with fruit.

I’ve recently discovered a love of toasted sandwiches. I don’t like eating first thing in the morning so take a sandwich into work to toast around 10-11am. Typical fillings include cheese, tomato and ham, cheese and pickle banana with peanut butter and Nutella, focaccia with roasted vegetables and mozzarella. If you’re watching your weight reduce the fattening fillings and up the fruit and veg.

my dairy intolerant daughter stays full until lunchtime at school with a large avocado on toast, sometimes with scrambled eggs. I have poached eggs on toast. Oat milk is delicious - I now prefer it to the real stuff.

Poach a piece of frozen smoked haddock in a little water with lid on pan, then break an egg into the water and cook; sometimes I cook some frozen cubes of spinach to go with it. Very low carb and keeps me going til lunch.

Any chopped mixed fruit - currently adding home grown grapes which I cut fresh each morning - and top with low fat cottage cheese.

Jumbo porridge oats : mix with a teaspoon of ground ginger or cinnamon powder to taste, and water, cook in microwave and add thawed summer berry fruit mix.

Yahyeet?

Is it high protein thou?

Dh was told off by our practice nurse for having fruit in his porridge - you can't win

Why would the nurse tell someone of for eating fruit?

Berries help keep blood sugars level, bananas are full of potassium and other nutrients, all have fibre which negates the sugar content

Boiled egg, coffee.

Keep eggs at room temp. Put egg in cold water, being to boil, 3 mins boiling (tend to a few seconds over rather than under).

Apple slices and peanut butter (sugar free), rice cakes and cottage cheese with a bit of honey and blueberries are filling and tasty. Wheaty stuff makes me brain foggy and miserable so I only have one portion of bread, cake, pasta, pancake etc a day. For breakfast that could be a slice of toast and a couple of scrambled eggs.

No idea if it's healthy but avocado, tomato and halloumi get me well into lunchtime!

I always have breakfast, I don't have any kind of food issues at all though. I usually have one shredded wheat, or one weetabix,, sometimes porridge,but made with water.. the only milk I ever have,is just a drizzle on cereals, as don't like milk at all. After some cereal, i usually have a poached egg on toast,, or sardines on toast. then two cups of black tea,,,Earl Grey, ha ha. I stopped drinking coffee a few years ago, not sure why,, but love tea better.
On very very rare occasions,I might have a bacon buttie for breakfast.

Agree with the egg muffin idea and also haloumi/avocado. Personally I got into having low carb high protein egg /veg breakfasts when I had gestational diabetes and found it so good i have stuck with it. I know porridge is great for many people but it isn’t anything like as filling for me.

Current favourites are:

• Avo on seedy bread toast
• chia pudding with blueberries & no-granola
• coconut yogurt with blueberries & no-granola

I’m a T1 diabetic and all of these are great for keeping me full and blood levels stable.

Lots of recipes on the Internet for all of these. Key is minimal carbs at breakfast, protein & good fats to keep you full.