Breakfast?

That too, requires patience, persistence and nerves of steel.

I quite like the idea
of a marmalade hunt
in Ikea.
I might take
my bow'n'arrow.

Maybe they do online selling...? [hopeful emoticon]

Ikea is not an experience for the faint hearted. You will need to ask yourself a serious question. Is the marmalade worth the struggle?

gally, I've no idea if there's an Ikea in Glasgow! Don't even know where M&S is yet. I can google it though.

Marmalade in Ikea? I thought they sold furniture.

Dead up to date shoppingwise, me.

I like the Pecan and Maple Syrup one, usually with stewed fruit of some kind, but always start the Day with an Actimel Original. I do like porridge but find I am hungry again at about 11 o'clock, which is not good for me. Two cups of tea are a must. The other half likes his two syrupy Weetabix, with stewed fruit, warmed in the microwave and timed to co-incide with the brewing of his lemon and ginger tea - he does that himself.

I've just had my customary eggs, fried with chopped anchovy on top, handful of cherry tomatoes, toast and coffee.

All will be walked off later this morning on my six-mile brisk river walk

Tomatoes on toast are my favourite too Absent

Tomatoes on toast are my favourite but there isn't always time. Mr absent has introduced the grandchildren to the delights of porridge which I am afraid they eat smothered in golden syrup. Eggs and bacon is a great treat for them although there isn't time if it's a school morning, but then they don't very often stay on school nights. I can't remember when Mr absent and I sat at the same table at the same time to eat breakfast – perhaps on the flight from the UK to NZ.

I am a tea, toast and jam person with a glass of pomegranet (? Sp) juice so that I have something healthy .

Morning Bags. It's from Ikea. Not seen it anywhere else. Is there an Ikea in Glasgow?

These all sound delicious. But I've stopped having those sorts of breakfasts as I found I was hungry by mid morning with no chance of being able to anything for at least a couple of hours. So now I have a banana and a handful of almonds and brazil nuts, keeps me full all morning and the nuts are full of calcium too which I need for my bones.

Breakfast no.1 (as soon as I get up): coffee, flapjack, more coffee.

Breakfast no.2 (after I'm dressed): coffee, bread, butter, marmalade (or, at the moment, apricot jam), more coffee.

gally, that orange and elderflower marmalade sounds good. Where can i get some?

Porridge with fresh fruit and yoghurt sprinkled with sunflower seeds

Current favourite is Total full fat Greek yoghurt topped with walnuts and manuka honey. I have that before 7 am and it keeps me going to lunchtime which is usually about 2.30.

I always have two slices of toast and marmalade - homemade bread with sunflower and pumpkin seeds and thick cut marmalade. So boring but I feel quite bereft without it

SOL told me when he came to collect DGD2 that this am she asked if she could have Jaffa Cakes for breakfast. He said 'No, Jaffa Cakes are not a 'breakfast' thing, You can have A Weetabix, or cornflakes or porridge'. Then she asked if she could have a Jaffa Cake after breakfast and he said 'OK as long as you eat ALL of your breakfast first'. 'Oh I will', said she, fetching a small plate. 'Can I have A cornflake, please'.

Something cakey, pain aux raisins or madeleines, Nutella often features too, great on hot toast buttered with salted butter. Lashings of tea or hot chocolate.
Sometimes in the winter, porridge with extra hot milk.

Usually toast with marmalade. Love marmalade Tipp Tree is my favourite or anything home made without too many bits.

oops - got carried away ....

Porridge with a dollop of Manuka honey, some raspberries and blueberries, occasionally followed by wholemeal toast with marmite although I have a thing about Ikea orange and elderflower marmalade at the moment. On high days and holidays, I have a poached egg on toast. Three tulsi tea if I feel healthy, or builders tea if I don't.
I feel so hungry reading these posts, it's making my stomach rumble

Porridge with a dollop of Manuka honey, some raspberries and blueberries, occasionally followed by wholemeal toast with marmite although I have a thing about Ikea orange and elderflower marmalade at the moment. On high days and holidays, I have a poached egg on toast. Three tulsi tea if I feel healthy, or builders tea if I don't.
I feel so hungry reading these posts, it's making my stomach rumble

Summer its Bran Flakes or Shredded Wheat with fresh raspberries and Winter its porridge with brown sugar and fruit.. occasionally I'll cook a full English or egg on toast but as a rule its cereal or porridge.

Porridge oats soaked in milk for half an hour at least (whoever gets up to make the tea to be drunk in bed does this), with stewed prunes and apricots and a tablespoon of plain yoghurt. Occasionally fresh fruit insted of the prunes/apricots.

2 slices of toast with butter then marmalade or honey every day of the week with a cup of coffee.