Breakfast - I'm awkward & difficult but I still want something yummy & warming at this time of year - what would you suggest?

[Bugsy2]

In an ideal world I would like porridge. I want to like porridge, I have tried making it every way imaginable - but it revolts me. I can manage about 3 spoonfuls & then I can barely swallow it for wanting to retch.

I can't eat toast or bread because I've got IBS & wheat is one of the triggers. But I want something nice to have for breakfast - ideally that could be eaten warm. It has to be quick or prepared the night before, as I have to be out of the house by 7.45am & I'm not prepared to get up at silly o'clock to cook a full english.

I don't have any problem with random stuff that wouldn't be considered normal breakfast foods - I just need some suggestions.

Got to be mushrooms on (wheat free) toast.

I'm the same - no allergies but find breakfast foods very uninsipiring and generally loathsome. Also, I like porridge, but it never lasts me all morning. I'd have to eat a vat of it to get that effect. One small bowl and I am ravenous by ten, but I couldn't eat more than one small bowl. No-one should have to

I generally eat leftovers or eggs. What about a rich, thick soup made with grains and pulses?

what wheat free bread do you use allhail? I have yet to find one that is worth bothering with. The ones I've tried have been so expensive & so minging, that I'd rather go without!

LaPrune, I love pearl barley & have eaten left over stew gravy with pearl barley for breakfast before. Maybe making up a soup would be a good idea. Thank you

Bugsy2 if you have a B&M bargains near you they have the oat and crumbly at 59p!

How about beans on toast? French toast? Bacon in a tortilla wrap with fried tomatoes?

I know what you mean about wanting to like porridge. Even more so as my dd adores it, would be great to make a pot for two. Anyway, while she's eating hers, I eat my oats cold. Like this - chunky rolled oats, grate over one half apple, slice in three brazil nuts, splash of milk, squeeze of lemon juice. Brilliant. I find this consistently appetising, I never get bored with it. But if this is too horse foody for you, make bircher muesli - for two people mix 100g oats with 175ml milk the might before. In the morning, stir in one grated apple and 65g yoghurt. Adorn with nuts, fruits, seeds to taste.

This is a great alternative to porridge and rice pudding. I make it without the ghee, saffron and cardamon and its really nice. The kids love it too.
You can use rice vermicilli.

www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/spicedsemolinavermic_81242

Tuna melt = breakfast of champions. Could you prep one (on wheat-free bread) the night before and bung it in the sandwich maker in the morning?

Candid - I think semolina is going to be out, as it is wheat. Lady Clarice, good idea but no sandwich maker & am still hoping someone will recommend a wheat free bread that isn't gross.

Hot Oat Crumbly is only 59p a box in B&M bargains!

How about beans corn tortillas with bacon and fried tomatoes? Or a breakfast quesadilla with cheesey scrambles eggs, mushrooms and cherry tomatoes? Hot branflakes are good but don't know how much wheat are in them.

Good reviews for this cookbook, www.amazon.co.uk/Real-Food-Gluten-free-Bread-Breadmaker/dp/0572030029

Sorry OP, I tend to forget that not everyone has kitchen equipment that makes the place look as if the 70s never died. Open-face tuna melt under the grill?
How do you feel about spelt bread? It's probably my favourite 'everyday' wheat-free bread. Rye is delicious but not that great for toasting, I find.

I absolutely agree with you OP. I would really, really like to like porridge, but it gies me the boak, no matter how hard I try to eat it.

I eat all sorts of random stuff for breakfast. This morning, I had tuna/mayo/sweetcorn on ryvita. It was left over from making ds1's lunch, it is prob not something I would actually make in the morning IYSWIM?

Thank you sharond - corn tortillas sound good. I'll have a look at the breadmaking cook book too.

LadyC, I love rye bread - but I have to be careful with too much of any grain. Wheat is the worst - but I can't eat too many of any of them without the IBS kicking off. I lived off toasted sarnies as a student - still get cravings for cheese & bean ones to this day!

Sweet rice - make the night before. I do it in a microwave rice cooker but I'm sure you could do it in a pan:

Soak some saffron in warm milk.
Put basmati rice, sugar, orange juice, saffronny milk, cashew nuts or flaked almonds and orange zest in rice cooker thingy, cover with boiling water and cook for about ten mins.

Baked plums (make ahead then zap in the microwave to warm through) with natural yoghurt and honey.

Don't use oat bran or flakes.

Use chunky rolled oats.

Cook to an almost choppable consistancy. Spoon into deep bowl and sprinkle with sugar. Surround with cold full fat milk, and eat it by spooning it up, then dipping it in the cold milk. This massively reduces clag

Toasted sandwiches easy with these toastie bags www.lakeland.co.uk/10724/Lakeland-Toastabag-500
current favourites are ham and cheese, cheese and tomato, jam and peanut butter. You can make sandwich night before to save on early morning stress

Sorry posted on wrong thread!

I would go for sausages (cooked the night before) and one of tomatoes, mushrooms (again cooked the night before) or beans. In the microwave, ready in 1 min. But I am not very cereal-orientated.

I also have the same problem with porridge. I just cannot make it go down nicely, whatever is in it, or howveer it has been made.

I tend to have alot of scrambled egg, or an omlette.

What about pilchards ? Mind you i have mine on toast

Have you tried readybrek, it's much smoother than porridge?