Preferably something that has little to no preparation required.
Do you find you have no appetite in the morning?
I have this problem and find that Greek yogurt cups and black tea help.
Alternatively, the “BRAT” diet is meant for someone with a queasy stomach from being ill but also works in this case: Banana, Rice, Applesauce, Toast.
Unless there are dinner leftovers, I usually eat a corn farofa filled with two scrambled eggs, half onion, and a carrot. It’s 10min cooking if you plan in advance (grate the carrot and chop the onion), really filling, and… well, you got two vegs and a grain and a source of protein, I’d say that it’s nutritious.
Overnight oats which you can prepare the night before. Soak some oats in milk and keep it in the fridge for at least 2 hours for the oats to soak up all the liquids. Toss in your favourite toppings, like freshly chopped fruits, or even some chocolate, and it’s ready to eat.
Wait you mean you don’t cook the oats? Oats (the old fashioned 30 minute kind) cook nicely for me in 4 minutes in an instant pot, but no cooking sounds even better.
Cooking is not necessary for overnight oats. I used steel cut myself, but the texture of these oats prepared this way may be chewier than you expect or are used to though, if you have always been heat-cooking them.
Just look up overnight oats and there are plenty of recipes and suggestions, some even using yogurt instead of milk. Here’s one from Martha Stewart for starters,
https://www.marthastewart.com/1524080/no-cook-overnight-oats
Cooking is entirely optional.
You can cook or keep it cold.
I do it cold with yoghurt.
Always a good plan. I’m not too creative but have a easy go-to with 1/3 each of oats, chopped dates, and some kind of granola mix. Add oat/almond milk until covered and leave it in the fridge.
Frozen pancakes (1 min in microwave per package of 3) and a whey protein shake. This is the pinnacle of efficient and delicious nutrition. Everyone else’s advice is misguided and wrong. Nobody has time for all that bullshit. You’re welcome.
Option bonus: banana
Oat meal
Bircher muesli, it’s basically oats soaked in milk overnight. Can be prepared weeks in advance (in dry form) and takes seconds to prepare the night before.
Oatmeal. Pour in bowl with water/milk and nuke it for 3-4 min. Or you can do the whole overnight oats thing and have it ready with no prep in the morning.
Oatmeal (from the big container), banana, water. 3m in the microwave.
Big container of plain oats or the prepackaged units of various flavors?
The large container is cheaper but I prefer the flavour of prepackaged units and it’s easier. They are still much healthier than other breakfasts and the cost is still just about twenty cents per bag anyway.
If you mean stuff like brown sugar cinnamon Quaker brand, that stuff has more sugar than Count Chocula or Fruit Loops.
I found the nutritional label, which reports 10 grams of sugar per packet. That, to me, is reasonable. I did not look up the nutritional information of the cereal, but remember that sugar content isn’t the whole story. The cereal is more or less deficient in nutrients whereas oatmeal isn’t. Oatmeal is a complex carbohydrate.
As another example, if you had a banana and whole oats, no sugar, that meal would be obviously very healthy but nominally have 15 g of sugar.
That’s odd, I was looking at their ‘reduced sugar’ product https://www.quakeroats.com/products/hot-cereals/lower-sugar/maple-and-brown-sugar where they say this,
‘50% less sugar than regular Quaker® Instant Oatmeal Maple & Brown Sugar flavor* *Sugar content (on 55g basis): Lower Sugar Maple & Brown Sugar: 7g. Regular Maple & Brown Sugar flavor contains 16g sugar.’
Certainly I agree oats aren’t a nutritional vacuum like sugar cereal. But if that 16g is correct that is half a Snickers bar.
Edit: bad link
Could you edit your link? It’s a 404 for me
If you have one cup of skim milk with your oatmeal, assuming the oatmeal has absolutely no sugar at all (which isn’t the case), you’d be having 13 g of sugar. I usually like to mix in a spoonful of brown sugar with my oatmeal, adding another 5 g of sugar. Maybe you don’t do that; everyone’s different. Putting in half a banana would add 7 g of sugar.
A packet of Quaker cinnamon flavour instant oats has 10 g of sugar. If you have two packets, it is roughly equivalent to making regular oatmeal with half a banana (7 g), a spoonful of brown sugar (5 g), a tablespoon of peanut butter (1 g) and half a cup of milk (6 g)
Granted, the combination of making it yourself is a lot more nutritionally whole, but if we’re just comparing sugar content, it’s actually not that bad.
It really is the best answer. It’s pretty tasty, fast, and filling
There’s a reason centuries of peasants survived on gruel…
I second oatmeal but I go with savory. 50g of oats, 250ml of broth/liquid.
Variation 1 is a spice mix that mimics a favorite rice pilaf recipe (maybe 1/2 tsp of Old Bay seasoning, some salt and pepper, a sprinkle of turmeric and coriander). Then add in protein, veg, cheese, whatever. That’s my go-to most of the time.
Variation 2 is “pizza” style: a scoop of premade marinara, some broth to fill out the rest of the liquid, and a sprinkle of shredded mozz. Throw in some protein/veg that works (think pizza).
Variation 3 is “Mexican style,” which I mostly do if I have some leftover carnitas or taco meat: change the spices to chili powder and cumin, cheese, of course.
Quick oats cook up in 2-2.5 minutes in the microwave. Total prep time is maybe 10-15 minutes.
Oh damn I never knew you could do oats like this. My wife recently went on an oatmeal kick and did overnight oats with peanut butter and milk but I had a real hard time with the texture/consistency of it.
It took me a moment to get used to it, because I had the traditional upbringing with oatmeal = cinnamon, sugar, etc. But it’s not that different from mashed potatoes, polenta, or rice. I already had the pilaf recipe that was a favorite “go with anything” side dish, so I tried that first and stuck with it.
I started by putting egg and olives on mine. Seemed breakfast-ish. Chili paste and egg and pork fu is great on oats too.
I honestly can’t do oatmeal with peanut butter. Every time I’ve tried it, it makes me gag. Not sure what it is, since I enjoy both separately.
That’s about the reaction I had. It would make me physically sick to my stomach even though I love peanut butter and don’t mind oats in most things.
- Overnight oats
- Yogurt with frozen fruit and granola (parfait)
- Granola/protein bar of choice
- Hard boiled eggs
- Peanut butter toast
I like Soylent and related products.
Green has the most protein
+1 and Huel black is my drinkable meal of choice.
Great option! For me personally, Soylent tastes really good and has good nutrition, but I never feel full drinking it.
No worries! It just happens to work for me early in the morning (ie. I’m really lazy), and keeps me reasonably full.
I have the same issue but adding a heaping tablespoon of psyllium husks to the soylent really helps with the fullness problem.
I make steel cut oats in a rice cooker with a timer, so I can put the oats and water in the night before. I’ve pre-mixed the spices, peanut powder, flax powder. I throw nuts and raisins in when I mix it all together in the morning. For spices it’s cocoa, tiny bit of cloves, tiny bit of cinnamon, tiny bit of ginger, pinch of salt.
Steel cut oats are even better done with chicken broth as a savory in the rice cooker. Use as you would rice with dinner, or break an egg over a bowlful in the morning and microwave or “fried rice” it.
I like to make oats in the microwave and mix in peanut butter and banana slices
Sorry for the uneducated downvotes, but some have yet to even hear about OMAD. 🤗
They didn’t ask how to be anorexic
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Yes, but BMI misses in the other direction much more often. If you are overweight by BMI you are probably overfat.
Waist to height is the easiest and most accurate measure, actually.
I don’t think suggesting trying just skipping breakfast if you don’t want to eat in the morning is silly. Waiting till lunch is one way to handle not having time to prepare breakfast. Not what OP asked for but not off topic either.
But everyone’s telling me how great I look!
An apple
They said filling. 10 apples.
It depends on the size of the apples. Some people where I am grow apples the size of a Nintendo Switch.
Turning OP into the people from math questions
