In a bid to eat better, I tried my friend Ross suggestion of Weetabix for breakfast. In fact it wasn't so much of a suggestion as an exclamation on how Weetabix is the best breakfast ever and the only cereal to eat. I bought a box even though sugar was listed as one of the ingredients, something that seems counter to the healthy loosing weight type breakfast I am looking for.
All I can say is, if I wanted to eat army rations i would have joined the army. Actually I think the army probably gets better food, in the ration packs. I have never eaten such a tasteless mushy sawdust textured cereal in my life.
Ross says that to make it taste good you need to add like a chopped banana on top or some sugar. If I wanted a sugar cereal I would eat coco pops or something that tastes good (but has the less healthy value than the box it comes in) so I tried a banana. What you end up with is tasteless mushy sawdust, with a chopped banana on top. Not all that much improved, trust me.
This is added to the list, along with Ribena. The list of foods the Brits eat which are straight from the depths of hell itself.
Right, I'm off to have a grapefruit.
[Update] Ok the one advantage Weetabix has over grapefruit is that it doesn't shoot juice all over you. On the other hand you can't put Weetabix rinds in the waste extractor to give your kitchen a great citrusey fresh smell.
1. Ross
To Adrian Withoutabix
The only explanation is that you must be making it wrong.
Ross Withabix
2. Green Fairy
Best breakfast ever is a Mars Bar toastie, though I suppose not really within the remit of your bid for nutritional improvement.
3. Lori
Weetabix is great with hot milk and a nice topping of sugar. Defeats the object of a healthy cereal but I only care about taste and whether it will last me until lunch!
Nice new look, btw. Doesn’t seem to carry over to the comments pages at the moment but I assume this is a work in progress :)
4. Steve
Grapefruit is the best thing ever. I always have a glass of grapefruit juice before leaving for work and lunch will often consist of two grapefruits.
My names Steve and I’m a Grapefruit addict.
5. Adrian
Ross, it’s Weetabix for the love of bob. You can’t make it wrong. Brick + Milk = tastless mulch.
Green Fairy, I’m not sure I want to know, but how do you make a mars bar toastie?
Lori, WIP.
6. Green Fairy
Two slices of white bread and one sliced up Mars bar (don’t get greedy and use a King Size, it’ll only splurge out of the sides and sticky up your Breville for all eternity) arranged in the customary fashion within your sandwich toaster. Caution: contents of sandwich will be as molten lava immediately after it’s ready - leave to cool for a bit first.
7. Steve
Urgh
8. Adrian
I think I may be more of a savoury toasted sarmie person myself.
How in hecks name did you come up with this … ahem … delicacy?
9. romy
hi there why don’t you try “nestle’s nut clusters” (with slices of almonds - yum!). this crunchy goodness taste delicious with soymilk (“alpro soy” preferably). healthy as!
romy from vienna :)
10. D
I had cold sausage pizza once with banana slices on top. Gee, I don’t get to enjoy breakfasts like that anymore.
11. Joe
The only way I can eat Weetabix is whilst it is still slightly crunchy. Once it mulshes, it reminds me of fermenting beer. As for breakfast toast with marmite (no butter) is a healthy-ish option. Better calorie-wise than the Mars Bar Toastie (which sounds like a fab idea - although those may be my pregnant hormones talking), but nowhere near as sugary! What are the odds you try to make the Toastie next time you come in drunk??
12. Adrian
I don’t have a toastie maker so I’m probably safe. And I live by a 24 hour Maccy Dees so I have easy access to late night drunken food.
Marmite bagel is my regular breakfast.
13. Lisa
Must … try … Mars … bar … toastie …. drool
(and perhaps book myself a room at the hospital for the pending cardiac arrest after eating said toastie.)
14. Beth
OK..I don’t like mulch either. I like crunchy food. I eat this cereal stirred into a bit of vanilla yogurt: http://www.kashi.com/golcruncerou.html
15. Adrian
Beth, I go through yogurt phases every now and then when I do that. Although I prefer plain yogurt to vanilla myself.
16. Green Fairy
Well, if we’re talking yoghurt then clearly Mr Uppity’s chocolate flavour was head and shoulders above the competition. Until they stopped making it. Bastards.
17. pix
I don’t do breakfast.
In fact, I don’t do food before about 10 am… and when I do, it sure as hell isn’t shredded cardboard masquerading as healthy food.
greenfairy’s mars bar toastie reminded me of a friend of mine from school, who liked nothing better than a corned beef and chocolate spread sandwich.
bleurgh.