Reducing UPFs - breakfast!

[JumpstartMondays]

Trying to reduce our UPFs as a family and next we are tackling breakfast cereals.

What do you have for your breakfasts that is low in UPF?

All well and good if you are only frying/ scrambling one or two eggs for one person.

And then you're also overlooking time to actually eat.

Not quite. I do it for 3-4 people and we eat. Practice makes perfect.

There are people that do and those that complain about there not being enough time to do.

you could always get out of bed 5 minutes earlier, maybe? I only deal in solutions, not problems. There is ALWAYS a solution!!

I jest of course, so please don’t shoot me. ;-) I hope you find your solution…

Mini shredded wheats (the ones that are just 100% wheat) with raisins and milk. Or failing that, porridge.

@MNersSufferFromContextomy

2-4mins to boil a kettle;
4 mins to boil an egg in the pan (and simultaneously make and butter toast);
10mins to eat (because you know, noone ever gets distracted at breakfast and the focus is entirely on only ever eating.

Oh wait, we've run out of that 15mins time already.

And that doesn't even account for filling the kettle, pouring the kettle water into the pan or retrieving the eggs from the water to transfer into egg cups.

Unless you like your boiled eggs under done or raw? For poached eggs, see above but subtract 2 mins.

All this of course assumes the children are patiently and calmly waiting and leaving you to get on with it, or get themselves up dressed and ready for the day perhaps, brushing their own teeth and doing their own hair, which of course they do at the ages of 2 and 4...

Suggesting it's just a problem of perception is clearly just unrealistic.

Plus breakfast at your house must be soulless.

I make a batch of muffins on a Sunday that do for breakfast - add some banana and oats to a basic muffin mix, I’ve also added flax seeds and walnuts, or used stem ginger for gingerbread muffins. Easy to grab and go, not UPF and the kids love them.