Please I need ideas for hearty, easy-to-eat breakfasts that take no time to prepare....

[TooTickyTheLittleRedHen]

Have decided car too much hassle on cold mornings but children need good fuel if they are to walk over a mile in the cold...

Cheese on toast? I know it sounds odd but since I've banished chocolate cereal from our kitchen I struggle to get DD to eat anything.

I've come over all 1950's/Cath Kidson and started to make DH and the DDs a cooked breakfast in the morning. Nigella's American Pancakes sound great. Anybody got the recipe to save me buying a book I'll probably never use (I'm not that 1950s.....). Please!

i'll do the recipe, give me a minute...

Nigella's American Breakfast Pancakes

These are theose thick, spongy pancakes that are often eaten with warm maple syrup and crisp fied bacon... You can easily cook these pancakes by dolloping the batter on a hot griddle pan (smooth side) or cast-iron pan, but i use a blin pan, one of my pet implements.

225g plain flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
pinch of salt
1 teaspoon sugar
2 large eggs, beaten
30g butter, melted and cooled
300ml milk
butter for frying

Put all ingredients into blender and blitz. But if you do it by hand in a bowl, make a well in the flour, baking powder sugar and salt, beat in the eggs, melted butter and milk, and transfer to a jug; it's much easier to pour the batter into the pan than to spoon it. I like to leave the batter for 20 minutes before using, and you may then want to add more milk.
When you cook the pancakes, all you need to remember is that when the upper side of the pancake is blistering and bubbling it's time to cok the second side, and this only needs about a minute, if that.

Yummy - sometimes i make the batter the night before or just weigh out hte dry ingredients ready to blitz in the morning. And i use an ordinary ono-stick frying pan. And we have maple or golden syrup or nutella on them.

Thank you so much Foxtrot, that's really kind of you. I'll make this tomorrow morning and report back!

I make a BIG batch of porridge when i have the time and them put the leftovers in the fridge. Just scoop out abowl full and nuke for 3 mintues.
make it a bit on the runny side though

Thanks Foxtrot. I made the batter the night before and cooked them this morning. The DDs had 3 each and DH scoffed 6! They were apparently delicious with maple syrup, slices of apple and tinned raspberries. But what would I know - as the only member of the family who doesn't need to put on several pounds, I had two slices of whole grain toast and an apple.

boy has ready brek I have porrige, can do both at the same time (i'm not fussy about standing over it stiring the [pot! lol) only takes 5 mins and if u chuck toast in as well at the same time a v good brekie - althou I used to do the oats so simple - in a bowl milk in newk (sp) em for 2/3 mins and then eat (only thing is can only do one at a time that way)

I make Nigella's pancakes too, but I use half the baking powder. They are a bit less puffy, but I think you can taste the baking powder if you use a whole tablespoonful( but I think that's just me!) Fab if you mix a tin of drained sweetcorn into the batter too. Although perhaps not for breakfast!
Porage.
Weetabix with an big blob of yoghurt and brown sugar.
Brown toast, peanut butter and blueberries(that one's really lovely!)
Smoothie made with yoghurt, milk, honey and a banana.
Leftover new potatoes in their skins from the night before brushed with olive oil and put in a hot oven for 15 minutes to crisp up.
Or, if you are my dd, taramasalata, olives and pitta bread. We say she must have been Greek in a past life!

scrambled eggs and hot buttered toast. Very quick and filling, esp with wholemeal toast.