Make This: Breakfast Porridge

And eat for the next five years

Breakfast in our house is about ease and consistency. A cooked to order breakfast is an activity best kept to the weekends; on the weekdays I like to wake up to a meal requiring little effort, because there is a 4-year old to be awakened, fed and prepped for school, coffee to be brewed, emails to check, and a good brisk stretching to be done.

I go through years-long periods of eating the same exact breakfast, day in and day out; such is my devotion to the morning routine. For many years it was cereal and milk, until I graduated to scrambled eggs and toast. Then I had a four or five year commitment to peanut butter and banana on toast before dipping back into eggs - this time with avocado, and the customary toast. For the last several months the entire family has been eating overnight oats (and loving them, I might add). We call them “O’Nites.” And recently we made a few modifications that really brought this whole situation into very exciting territory.