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Breakfast is not my favourite thing. I am simply not hungry in the mornings so I eat little and late - but come dinner time, bring it on!
After years of trying to find what it is I can face eating in the mornings I have settled on fruit, yoghurtand nuts and, having read Mikki Williden's nutritional breakfasts feature, I think it gives me what I need. But there are days when I want something different and there is plenty of inspiration this week.
Aaron Brunet's warm blueberry breakfast was born out of something resembling improv theatre. On a cool day he wanted something warm and really healthy using blueberries from the freezer. So he got to work using what was to hand, adding this and that until he got what he was looking for. It resembles porridge but there's no oats - nuts and seeds provide texture here.
There are other recipes that have previously featured in bite that fit Mikki's nutritional breakfast guidelines so we have pulled these together too. A super bran breakfast loaf for those mornings that you need to just slice and go, an orange and hazelnut spoonie that's another of Aaron's foodie improve recipes, an ABC (that's almond, brazil and cashew) butter to add protein to the toast, bricher muesli you can have in the fridge ready to go and from our youngest contributor - morning cookies. Bianca Rocca created these cookies as a way of including all the things needed for a well-rounded breakfast that she could eat on the run. Oh and since it's pear season, we've thrown in a favourite viva recipe for ricotta, pear, honey and cinnamon on toast.
But before then it's Valentine's Day. My brother Warren is presenting his love with this four-course meal (which I must say she is very deserving of!) but don't feel you have to go to that degree, you would have me at this bowl of chilled cauliflower soup with a heart garnish.
