'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...

If your husband is up he can make you breakfast and bring it to the bedroom, then you have no need to faff around with cool bags.

Smoothies that dh brings up before he goes?

Definitely should be getting dh to put coffee in a flask and bringing it up before he goes. I like cereal bars, fruit, bagels etc, anything can be fridged and brought up by dh.

Thanks for the suggestions, but it is really not worth it to me to have DH bring food. The kids are such light sleepers at that hour. If they wake up before babies and I are up and fed/dressed, it is a huge inconvenience. As it is, he can get out of the house without going past babies' or kids' bedrooms.

protein balls? Deliciously ella makes some I think but I made my own (I.e got H to make them) when BF – easy to shovel into your face with the bonus of being high energy!

Croissants/soft pastries like the brioche you suggested would work as they don't crumble as badly as cereal bars or harder stuff. You are a superwoman for dealing with twin babies and two young kids, I would be locking myself in the bathroom...

I lived off Belvita breakfast biscuits when breastfeeding twins. God I remember that hunger!

Overnight oats could work well. I’d use a cool bag to keep some yoghurt cool overnight to top it with or if you want finger food, something like a Spanish tortilla pre sliced or even just a jam sandwich in nice bread with salty butter.

Since DP can't help in the morning he should prep the breakfast and pack the cold bag and lug it around for you!

Hydroflask can keep coffee hot for 8 hours. I think Spanish tortilla, Croissants and fruit all sound lovely. Might have to pack myself a picnic in bed!

I'd pack a lunch bag of a continental breakfast - deli meat, cheese slices, yogurt (one of the greek yogurt pouches so you can actually eat it!), fruit salad pack.

TBH with mine i just grabbed whatever was in the fridge when I made it downstairs but I'm not a big breakfast person. More important to me would have been coffee and water.

I’d make a green smoothie the night before and put it in a cool bag bring it up and have that plus some overnight oats with berries.
Not only delicious but really really nutritious and filling.

Can you start playing white noise in the kids’ bedrooms to drown out noise of husband creeping past so he can make you food? That’s what I would do.

If not, pre-packaged and wrapped brioche with fruit and water would be my go to. Maybe some cheese portions which should be fine left out overnight. Plus make a flask of coffee/tea before bed - that should stay hot in a decent enough flask.

I couldn't eat a wrap or croissant one-handed!

I'd go for overnight oats.

A dairylea lunchable 😃😃

Overnight oats? You could grate apple, mix with oats and a splash of oatmilk or apple juice. Add finely chopped walnuts or pecans, honey and cinnamon. No dairy, so should be OK in a covered bowl.

Soft Belvita, an innocent smoothie and a flask of coffee.

Continental breakfast: pumpernickel with speck or proscuttio and sliced emmental. Add some cherry tomatoes.

Nircher muesli: mix a cup of muesli with one of fresh orange juice, sliced banana and frozen raspberries and or blueberries, add a dollop of greek yoghurt. Stir well. Put in a bowl inside a larger bowl of ice or on an ice pack to keep it cool.

Very light toast a bagel. When it's cool, add butter and a mild cheese like edam or gouda. Or cream cheese. Or PBJ. Wrap in cling film.

Home made flapjack wiht added nuts and dried fruit.

Banana bread.