'Packed' breakfast in bed ideas please?

[geraniumsrojo]

Please can you suggest breakfast ideas that would work given:

• No refrigeration for 12 hours (left by bed)
• Limited crumbs (eating in bed)
• Can be eaten with half a hand (while tandem feeding twins)

So far I have the idea of brioche and a banana...

Do you have a cool bag/icepack?

Cereal bars, or if you can get a cool bag and ice blocks, a sandwich, yogurt pouch, overnight oats would be good but might be difficult to eat while feeding

Any fruit, nuts, cereal bars, dried fruit, babybel (I prefer them not too cold). Could you have a lunch bag with ice pack and have boiled eggs? Waffles (not potato), scotch pancakes, oatcakes (like Nairn).

Could you afford to buy a mini fridge to go next to your bed? Otherwise a cool box with ice blocks in it would give you more options.

Thanks for the suggestions.

I could get a kid's insulated lunch bag

type thing. Although it would be ideal to manage without. There is already so much stuff to cart around the house.

In a cool bag (or a chilly bedroom) a wrap with plain cheese, cheese and marmite, or soft cheese, or peanut butter. Apparently jam and soft cheese is also a nice combo. Banana flapjack - find normal flapjack recipe, mash a couple of bananas with the melty ingredients and add nearly double the amount of oats and some raisins. Not super healthy but roughly half the fat of normal flapjack.

However I would probably eat biscuits, Belvita if feeling keen.

The cool bag could just live by your bed, though you'd still have the problem of having to take breakfast up every night. Hence, biscuits.

Huge respect to you.

is this person bed bound? Wouldn’t it be much easier to have breakfast in the kitchen before/after feeding?

Are you on your own with twins? DH used to make me tea in a flask every morning and a pile of peanut butter toast and bring it to me in bed before he went to work while I nursed.

My rule is any food is breakfast food! But boiled eggs could be good?

LOL. I've never had newborn twins, but even I can tell that going downstairs for breakfast probably isn't going to work.

@sharperimage lol, no I'm not. But once I get my 2yo and 5yo up, there's usually not time for me to eat breakfast. I've decided to wake up a little earlier to make sure the babies (and me) get a good feed before the morning rush starts. If I try and sneak downstairs, we'd wake everyone up, hence breakfast in bed.

Husband leaves for work before we're up, before anyone asks.

That's what i was thinking.

Food in the bedroom is grim.

@PacificallyRequested yeah, I'm usually up feeding anyway, as babies wake early. It's quite a nice quiet time in the day. Food would make it better :)

Wraps (pita bread) don't make crumbs. You could have peanut butter or (my daughter's favourite) a banana and butter wrap with honey. Apples and easy peelers or carrot sticks might be good too. And raisins. Any dried fruit would be ok.

I’m wondering about this myself for more then 20 years, I haven’t found anything better then brioche and banana, then water.
I would prefer brioche with some honey and black coffee if flask is available but otherwise just water.

Wraps is a genius idea! Adding to shopping list.

You get yourself, twin babies, a 2yo and 5yo up in the morning by yourself? You deserve a medal. How long before you get up does your husband leave? I think he owes you a hot cup of tea and some toast in bed before he leaves....

Peanut butter bagels

Hot cross buns
Dry granola straight from the packet
Those ready rolled chocolate filled pancakes
Flapjacks
Nutella or peanut butter sandwich

Eat all the sugar/carbs you fancy!

(Tesco cheap brand) individually wrapped pain au chocolate - usually have less crumbs and a longish shelf life (could stash a load in bedroom drawer 😆)

Pots of M&S fruit. Hot cross buns are in M&S already. Pre buttered apple ones would be nice untoasted. Elderflower cordial (green bottle) so refreshing. Maybe a Continential breakfast of ham, cheese and bread. Use cool bag for ham and cheese. Depending on bread for crumbs. A large linen napkin spread out and can be gathered up with any crumbs. Very small picnic basket.
Treat yourself as you deserve it.

You can make a batch or even buy overnight oats.Then just pop one in your bag to defrost over night.

I also like Breakfast muffins and once cooked can be kept in an airtight tin.

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/breakfast-muffins
Also good are energy balls which can be made into lactation balls with added pep.
Lastly as a treat cinnamon rolls ( homemade) are actually very easy to make and keep well in a tin. I don’t add too much sugar. My buns in pic

Agree protein balls, wraps and cinnamon buns but if you want a buy in quick fix we get individually wrapped brioche buns, croissant (mess though) and nutella pancakes when we are travelling and need to eat on the go. They do a lovely tear and share brioche too you could cut in advance.

Cold marmite on toast gone cold and folded over and wrapped in cling film is lovely.