1. Avoid hipster-dom, go straight to the health food source
Before quinoa and chia seeds were de rigueur, clever Chinese grandmas helped cleanse their clan with a steaming pot of . Packed with and several superfoods of the future – – this recipe is a winner in health, vitality and flavour stakes.
2. Poached eggs aren’t just for perfectionists
If you’ve ever shied away from breakfast experimentation due to fear of (egg) failure, we can heartily assure you: there is hope. Stopwatches are for sport, not a poaching pot, and that’s why one intelligent Israeli decided to create . With , this quick, yet impressive egg dish from is a guaranteed gold.
3. Breakfast is an all-ages event
Why should kids have all the fun? Serve yourself a stack of pancakes and let the children chomp on toast. If you’re going to do , do them properly and yes, that means a . (, we like your style.) Hopefully your childhood metabolism hasn’t gone on holidays.
4. You can’t philosophise without a full stomach
, these golden puffs, or from , have been a popular breakfast food in Greece since the 6th-century BC. That means Socrates, Plato and Aristotle probably devoured them on the daily, and we could probably learn a thing or two from them.
5. Nachos for breakfast? Yes, please.
Call it a stroke of genius or simply making do, this Mexican breakfast recipe teams up . To our party-lovin’ amigos, we say fuel up on the fried goodness and pick up the fiesta from where it left off.
6. Coffee comes in cake form
While most of us grab our caffeine hit from a steaming cuppa Joe, clever coffee-lovers know how to mix it up. These gloriously from , , contain walnuts, dates, coconut milk and that all important ingredient, .
7. What do Thor, Superman and Muhammad Ali have in common?
They’re all champions and they all (probably) ate breakfast. Learn from the masters and make the day count with a plate of , from the greatest on earth, (care of ).
8. Cereal is so last century
Break free from Western preconceptions and begin your morning with a bowl of Asian inspiration. is a Burmese staple, usually served for breakfast, and this version comes from the globe-trotting chef, . Featuring fragrant , the soup is almost as enlightening as a bout of meditation.
9. It’s a smooth(i)er transition than you think
You swore you’d never be one of those smoothie-smirking, cool bag-toting, health food-haranguing “foodies”, but maybe they were onto something. Take a leaf from the pretentious playbook: it’s better to sip than skip. Try this from for dairy-free deliciousness on the go, and let the hipsters keep their kale spiel.
