Old fashioned oatmeal, cooked overnight with groats, a splash of maple syrup and some kind of milk. Sometimes a banana half ends up in there. If I could, I would have granola, berries and milk or yogurt for a cold breakfast.
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Hot: Fermented oats with lots of mix ins
Cold: homemade granola
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Great thread . I donât eat any food after 3 or more hours after waking . I have a strong coffee and a little sweet . Iâm trying cottage cheese with a tomato. Not really working. I need first meal help.
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I rejected Steel Cut Oats here because they used to take sooo long to cook. Now I do 1 cup s.c.oats and 2.5 cups water in instapot for 10 mins. Let come down in pressure for 10 mins - tadahh! Beautiful creamy, poppy steel cut oats. Add half teaspoon peanut butter, one half banana. Full till lunch!
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Thanks!
Maybe, that is how I will Christen my IP.
Perhaps that would be an easy way for me to start learning and cooking with my IP.
Instant Pot sounds like a good idea for steelcut. I also recall an episode of Good Eats where Alton suggested using a crock pot overnight, which others have mentioned.
My kids loved breakfast barley when they were younger but I was always a bit reluctant because of the 40-45 minute cook time. I didnât have an IP then but this recipe suggests a 20 minute cook at pressure with manual release, so if I used very hot water to start the cycle might be a bit shorter, more like 26-30 minutes.
Edit to add:
I got mine as a work milestone anniversary gift but had been thinking about buying one off/on for a while anyway.
At first I tried a lot of the recipes suggested in the accompanying booklet (even âcook spaghetti and meatballs and sauce all at once!â, and âmake a cake in your IP!â) and, for me, it did an adequate job but not any better, or faster, than stovetop.
For me where it really shines is if you have something requiring a long braise. Oxtail stew in an hour instead of 3.5. Same with goat or beef neckbone stews. Also kind of sacrilegious, but pulled pork in the IP with a bit of liquid smoke is really quite good - an hour instead of 10 on my grill/smoker. If my Texan friends learned of this, Iâd be strung up by my thumbs, though.
Broths and stocks and especially bone broths are another great use. Anything I cook with a bone in it, the bones and scraps go in for making bone broth. I was all the time failing to watch the stovetop broths and theyâd boil too much (rather than simmer) and Iâd end up getting fat incorporated and have to do the egg white âraftâ process to clarify afterwards. Never a problem with the IP, and 4 hours in the IP instead of a day on the stove for bone broth.
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Whatâs breakfast barley?
New one on me.
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Basically the same as oats[1] or another cooked grain. Just cook then jazz it up with whatever you want, cream, fruits, maple, granola, whatever on top. Even cooked to 45 minutes, though, itâs still got a lot of âtoothâ to it so it feels more substantial than, e.g., rolled oats.
[1] Except NOT gluten free.
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Thank you that certainly does make the IP less overwhelming to me.
Jacques Pepin likes crushed fried onions (Durkee, Frenchâs, and other brands like the big plastic jars in Asian groceries) as âbreadingâ for sauteed/broiled/baked fish.
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I like this topic!
I am one of those people who cannot function properly without breakfast, keeps me from crashing and/or overeating at the next meal.
Also, 99% of my breakfasts are savoury as I luckily for me was never socialized into sweet for breakfast.
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Instant Steel Cut Oats - these are actually nutritionally almost identical to the regular steel cut oats, and cook in 5 minutes. They are cut a little smaller than the steel cut oats, thatâs why. I make Upma with this and a package of broccoli slaw instead of slicing carrots, potatoes, and other vegetables. Cook with less water to get the best upma texture (fluffy and dry and non-gloppy).
I love this with a dollop of plain yogurt on the side. Still searching for a good non-dairy plain yogurt without sugar, suggestions welcome. I want a neutral flavour profile. -
Whole Wheat toast (e.g. the brand Daveâs Killer Bread): with almond butter and a spicy chutney. On the rare occasions I have something sweet for breakfast, it will be the same toast with almond butter and jam or marmalade.
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Things made from cereal - idlis or dosais, the latter is rare as it requires me to stand there making them; idlis donât require that. I do cheelas regularly, thatâs not logical, as they also require me to chef. My DH makes migas on weekends often. Another favourite. Once in a very blue moon especially if someone else is cooking I will have parathas or pooris.
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In the summers, overnight soaked chia seeds (do these count?) with plant milk and some sweet spices (another sweet breakfast here) and fruit, e.g. blueberries.
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I never took a liking to breakfast cereals, they feel too sweet and insubstantial for me. I literally never eat these at any time of the day or even as toppings.
Breading or binding:
- Plain cornflakes or rice krispies, but these are not usually stocked at home and getting a box just for this purpose is unlikely. Hmmm. I wonder if I can do this with crushed cheerios.
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Honey Nut Cheerios Medley Crunch
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I used to love (and be sustained by) ricotta and canned stewed tomatoes. Maybe just enough more ooomph to keep you going?
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Kashi Go Lean Cinnamon Crisp with whole milk Greek yogurt, but I usually donât eat anything before noon. I hate oatmeal. Always have hated since I was a child. Itâs gluey.
Iâm like you, as I hate eating breakfast, but feel better when I do. Some ideas: toasted everything bagel, toasted w/cream cheese OR spread with hummus and top with sliced cucumber. English muffin toasted, with PB&J, hard boiled egg, string cheese, healthy smoothies, yogurt with granola and berries. Cottage cheese and melon. Lately Iâm on the thin (faux) ET bagels with cream cheese, but getting bored.
Breakfast is sometimes much better on weekends!
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Go to cold cereal for many years has been Kelloggâs raisin bran with bananas - bananas in the box, not added by me. It disappeared from the neighborhood grocery a few months into the pandemic and hasnât returned and I havenât looked for it elsewhere. Always with Silk light, plain or vanilla. I donât have any other reason to keep milk of any kind around. I have tended to fixate on one cereal for a few years and then look for something new. But cold cereal is actually not for breakfast more than half the time serving instead as early, light supper or snack, dry or w/milk, anytime I feel like it.
Hot cereal - rolled oats with butter, no milk, lots of butter 
. Butter takes care of the glueyness. Sometimes, added tbs or two of fruit preserves - blueberry, apricot, plum - w/half and half rather than butter.
In the absence of cereal, buttered toast with a piece of fruit and coffee suffices. Nothing too complicated or requiring skill or concentration.
@Lambchop I like your breakfast ideas. I used to skip breakfast most of the time but when I had to lose weight I found having something keeps me from obsessing on food until I do have some which in turn seems to help control overeating.
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Hot: oatmeal, w/blueberries and brown sugar.
Cold: Cheerios, or Corn Flakes
With obligatory technivorm cup one Colombianâblack.
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I used to be a big fan of nonfat cottage cheese and green chile salsa when I had leisurely breakfasts.
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When you say breakfast cereal, I still think only of the cold milk on a boxed cereal. Most breakfast cereals fall between sugary crap (though I get the occasional craving to revisit an old cereal) and dry or shredded cardboard masquerading as âhigh fiber and healthyâ.
In the US general markets, faves:
- Momâs Best Blueberry Wheatfuls (think mini shredded wheats with blueberry flavor)
- One Degree Sprouted Rice Cacao Crisps (think adult version of cocoa crispies - way less sugary)
And as expected, none of my local markets carry these. I have to take a train to a hipper section of my city to buy these. 
I tried having plain yogurt on my âcorn flakesâ (thatâs what they tasted like) in Peru once and it was a revelation. Quite good, so on occasion I do buy plain yogurt and will add corn flakes if I have them lying around.
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