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im currently over my DF whinging about having nothing to eat for breakfast. he isnt happy unless he has something hot everyday. He cant keep eating mcdonalds or steak/snags, bacon, eggs etc everyday as we are on a strict budget due to monthly pay. whatever happened to toast or something simple.
so my question is what does your partner/husband eat for breakfast??
My DH eats toast or a wheat bix and muesli combo. Would your DH eat hot porridge? What about crumpets? Scrambled eggs on toast?
He eats cereal, rain, shine or apocalypse.
Is there any chance you can get chickens? That might be a cheap way to have eggs on tap? Would he be happy to substitute the hot brekky every morning for something else special, like a hot coffee from a coffee machine or something? As in, that might save you money in the long run?
Can something in the budget be altered? As in, if you get pocket money, his breakfast can come out of his pocket money? Something like that?
DH either makes porridge or a banana+weetbix+milo smoothie which is his version of an up and go :rolleyes:
On weekends if we are both home then I cook poached eggs on toast with bacon I LOVE bacon - especially the home grown ones much tastier than the brought ones.
He could make museli with hot milk, eggs on toast (scrambled or other) , a bacon and egg wrap or muffin, fried tomatos, sausages and eggs, toast, crumpets, pancakes lots of ideas.
Toast or crumpets. The only time he gets a hot breakfast is fathers day.
mine is a "hot brekki" boy most of the time - he gets up, makes himself a coffee (we have a coffee machine - saves us a fortune) which he drinks while cooking whatever we're having for brekki. most of the time it's snags or rissoles and eggs and/or tomato cooked up with onion. DH is only home a couple of days a week for brekki, and will eat left overs from the night before if there are any. when he's at work, he only eats one decent meal a day that he cooks, so it's normally brekki - and reheats for dinner. i don't complain too much cos it keeps him happy, and if he has a big brekki, he will have a simple lunch (if any at all).
ummmm, can you talk to him about substituting the heavy meat for something simple except for a couple of days a week - maybe eggs on toast or muffin without the meat. toasted sandwich with ham and cheese etc... mine will settle for that if we have nothing else in the house...
Mine has 1.5 weetbix, a handful of muesli, a small tub of yoghurt and some milk, warmed in the microwave for a minute.
He gets a hot meal every day that way - and he can make it himself.. haha
Sometimes he will feel like eggs though, so I'll tell him to poach his own. Then he gets over feeling like he wants eggs pretty quickly :p
I cooked DP scrambled eggs this mornign but it was a one off and we had so many eggs to use up!
He will often have left overs from dinner the night before for breakfast! LOL! If there is nothing left over and he says to me what is for breakfast I say there i cereal or toast that he can have.
Sometimes he will make a protein shake as well
My DP gets whatever he wants for breakfast - he makes it himself!
On the weekends when he has more time he makes us all a hot breakfast - pancakes, eggs and bacon (whatever version DD feels like that day), or something similar. Not really enough time on weekdays for much more than toast or cereal, tea or coffee.
I help out during the week with breakfast, but not on the weekends unless I'm asked.
Shel has cereal on work days. Toast or an english muffin on non-work days. We used to do a hot breaky once a week, but then we got sick of it lol, so now its on rare occassion that we do anything other than cereal or toast.
Maybe do some cheaper (and healthier) alternatives, boiled egg or scrambled egg with baked beans, or ham and cheese english muffins, porridge with fruit, maybe even a toasted cheese and tomato sandwich?
LOL, mine too! And he HAS to have yoghurt and juice along with it. Breakfast is his thing.:
For the hot breaky though, I'd go with what the other girls have said. Eggs are pretty inexpensive, so maybe he can cook himself some scrambled on toast? And you can buy tins of tomatoes quite cheaply too - a tomato and onion salsa on the side could be a nice treat perhaps...
I love crumpets too, and they seem to be on special at the shops really frequently (cause they only have a couple of days left before they expire). I put them in the freezer and they heat up fine.
DP pretty much always eats cereal. occasionally he'll have toast. and on weekends i sometimes make pancakes but that's more of an occasional treat.
Df usually has wheatbix (about 5 of them!) with Milk and Yoghurt or honey, most of the time though he gets something once he's at work as he starts at 5 in the morning and isn't always hungry when he gets up.
Sundays are our cooked breakfast days, I don't think I could be bothered during the week!
Monthly pays suck, I get paid fornightly and that's bad enough *grumbles*
Naenae, you grow your own bacon?? I'm picturing little bacon tree's ahah! xx
My DF is easy....he rarely has breakfast!! If he does he has it himself and is usually something simple like cereal or toast and coffee. Very occasionally I might make bacon & eggs on a weekend, but that doesn't happen very often. He works late nights so I would starve if I was to wait for him to get up before I had breakfast!
mine leaves for work very early so doesnt really find the time to make breakfast. Last year we discovered Lowan cup of oats, its like cup of soup but instead its oats (porridge)
it comes in sachets and you put it in a cup and add boiling water and walla you have breakfast, there are 3 different flavours I think but we just get original which has a hint of vanilla and honey. He loves them and I dont worry anymore because I know he is getting breakfast. On weekends he just has toast.
On a workday, I don't know what he has..I'm not getting up at 4am to make anything for him lol. On nightshift, he has ham,cheese tomato on mountain bread, or sometimes I might make him scrambled eggs.
He use to cook eggs benedict most sundays, but we have started going out for brunch, so neither of us have been making any brekkie then.
He usually whinges that he needs cereal, so I buy it, then it seems to sit in the pantry forever!
Nic
DP rarely eats breakfast so I'll tell you what I have.
Often a fruit muffin - ie. like an English Muffin but with fruit rather than the cake-y muffins.
Or a hot cross bun.
Or a pretend toasted sandwich. Toast some bread and then fill it with ham, cheese and mayo. Or I will mix up some tuna and pesto and have that in some toast or an English muffin.
On the weekends, I will sometimes cook corn fritters with eggs, smoked salmon, mushed avocado and sour cream but that's way too much bother during the week.
Sometimes I have porridge.
Not a fan of cereal. Dunno why.
I have the same problem most mornings :rolleyes: Ive decided to put my foot down and tried to introduce a normal healthy breakfast (not a 3 course meal!) so DS has rice bubbles I have toast and a coffee and DF has toast or leftovers from the night before.
Saturdays are usually eggs benny with a light lunch and something easy like nachos for dinner. Hes slowly getting use to the new morning routine but its hard to teach old dogs new tricks huh.. :wall:
I LOVE my DP! :)
He has cereal (museli) every day. He gets up, gets dressed, takes DD down and gives her cereal, makes himself cereal and both of us a coffee and brings me the coffee in bed! :) Then i get up and usually have toast but it depends when i took my thyroid meds (can't be taken within 30 mins and preferably an hour of food) so sometimes i have to wait befor i can eat.
Occasionally (like today) i get up while he's getting dressed and he STILL has cereal but today i made the coffee and heated him a croissant too. Very occasionally i'll make him porridge or bacon and eggs or something, and at the weekend we almost always have an extended breakfast with newspapers, good coffee, hot chocolate, pastries, toast, etc. or eat out for brunch.
Bx
my DP gets up 5 minutes before he has to be at work so doesnt have breaky
he works in a servo so most likely has something gross around lunchtime like a meat pie and can of red bull :wall:
he works mon-sat and i work sunday so we never get a breaky together, when i used to have sundays off i did pancakes (those shake and bake ones) , he loves them...guess when i finish work in 2 weeks itll be back to that (for 4 or 5 weeks til bubs arrives then he can bloody get up and make it himself LOL)