Breakfasting like a boss!

You're looking a one of my secret time-saving devices. Yeah, I know that it resembles a shaker-bottle that one might put a protein shake in at the gym...That's because it actually is. But it saves me time and helps keep me healthy nonetheless. So what prompted me to show you this time-saving device? Well, tonight I was making some breakfast muffins, and morning omelette mix and it just sort of popped into my mind to tell you about it. I'll explain.

My wife and I live very busy lives and sometimes don't have a lot of time to eat properly. Obviously healthy eating is important though and so we have a few short cuts to help us eat healthy foods without it taking up a lot of time. Breakfast is one of those meals that has, in the past, been a challenge from a time/healthy eating perspective and so we came up with this...

Every few days I whisk up a heap of eggs, add in some finely chopped vegetables and grated cheese then store it in one of these shaker bottles in the fridge. Essentially it's a pre-mixed omelette mix complete and ready to pour into a frypan and cook. It then literally only takes a couple of minutes to make in the morning and boom, a healthy breakfast.

We add combinations of things like red and green peppers, onion or spring onion, parsley, mushrooms, baby spinach, corn kernels, ham, pine nuts, feta cheese, cherry tomatoes, parmesan cheese etc. ...Pretty-much anything you may expect to find in an omelette. We add the salt and pepper, sometimes sweet-chilli sauce or a small amount of garlic and chilli...

It's such an easy way to go, is tasty and healthy too. Having it ready to pour into a fry pan means we can cook it in a very short space of time with minimal washing up. There's no chopping and virtually no clean up which suits us in the morning as we both head out to our jobs early.

I mentioned above that we also make breakfast muffins, for a change from omelette's, which we make in bulk, maybe 12-15 at a time; They get individually wrapped and put in the freezer. Each night we take a couple out and put them in the fridge door where they defrost. In the morning it's a great grab-and-go breakfast which means I'm in the car quickly and off to work at the same time as having a great breakfast. The mix is sort of the same as the omelette mix but with some differences. A little self-raising flour is added so they rise up a little and I usually add more vegetables to make them more robust. I was making them tonight actually.

Here's a pic of what they come out like, these ones are from tonight. I'm no chef so if you think they look like shit then you'd probably be right. It's a good thing you don't have to have any. They are really tasty as I add some secret things in there, I could tell you but I'd have to kill you. Nah, not really...A lot of trial and error has gone into the mix and each time...Well, it comes out differently.

I'm a big supporter of variety so we do not always eat this sort of thing for breakfast. I go to a friends cafe a lot, (not as much as I used to though) a couple of mornings a week generally and I often have breakfast client-meetings however we always have our go-to breakfast in the freezer or fridge ready to nourish us and get us started for the day.

I wonder if other's do similar things to save time as well. I'd be interested to know if anyone does and what exactly they do to make morning meals (or any meal) more stream-lined. Please feel free to comment.