Breakfast Notes

I’m going with a loose breakfast theme today.
– I’ve gone through several different oatmeal variations over the past few years, but this is how I’ve been making them lately: I cook about 1/3 cup oatbran in 1/2 cup almond milk + 1/3 cup water (roughly). I add a packet of stevia, a few shakes of cinnamon, several drops of concentrated coconut flavoring (I got this last weekend, and I want EVERYthing to taste of coconut now). After about four minutes, I turn the heat down and add a quarter cup of beaten egg whites, while stirring. I let it cook for another minute or so and then dump it in a bowl, add a tablespoon of almond butter, artfully arrange the banana slices, and top with a couple spoonfuls of pumpkin flax granola. Complicated much? But I love it.
– To answer Jessie’s questions on my last post, there’s a layer of cream cheese on my toast/English muffins before I put the jam on top. I’m not a HUGE fan of plain cream cheese by itself on toast, etc, but it’s magic when paired with jam. The sausages are Morningstar brand breakfast links. I prefer their products over Boca, although they don’t score as well in the protein department (for the burgers, that is). If you can get your hands on Quorn’s ‘chicken’ tenders or turk’y burgers, stock up.
– I was a loyal PG Tips drinker in London. It costs the same to get a box of Yorkshire Gold or PG Tips here, though, which seems like an injustice, as I reckon PG Tips should be cheaper. So, to stick it to the man, I feel like I should spend my $4.99 on Yorkshire Gold. Given the choice, though, say, if somebody from the UK were visiting in March, I would like an enormous box of PG Tips.
– Right now, I switch between having oatbran and English muffins for breakfast. And I recently stopped going to the gym Monday-Tuesday-Thursday-Friday and started going Monday-Wednesday-Friday instead. This has been a blessing, because now I can alternate between my two breakfasts every day of the week. I can’t eat oatmeal on days that I run (too sloshy + not enough staying power), but I don’t like having to wait two whole days to have it again. Problem solved. Crisis averted.
– Two of my top moments in any given (average) day: 1. Sitting down with my breakfast and coffee in the morning while I listen to the radio. 2. Crawling into bed at the end of a long day, with my flannel sheets all warm from the heated mattress pad. That I’m conscious for very little of the time between those two events (er, in the right order, that is) is like a bonus.