Ideas for breakfast

[Teacher & Snacktime]

This provides an amazing surge of energy to get up that first hill in the morning!

Just add boiling water and wait?

oops, wrong quote.....I meant this one:

Bulgar Wheat #1, add some nido, dash of cinnimon and sugar. Ahh ...,Magnificent !

how do you prepare it?

[Armywife]

Powdered eggs, a bit of powdered cheese and milk, some bits of jerky and dried peppers and onions; mix with water and cook. Omelets
Lean beef, minced, mixed with chopped fruit and nuts; shaped into bars and dried. Protein bars.
Couscous, dried peppers, jerky, and dried tomatoes. breakfast pasta

[redseal]

My breakfast staples:
2 Carnation Instant Breakfast milk packets and a Cliff Builders protein bar
or
Wrap with nutella and Honey Bunches of Oats cereal piled on top

[Wise Old Owl]

[Siestita]

Like some others here, I'm a fan of NIDO. For those not yet familiar with that Nestle product, which is primarily marketed in Latin America, Nido is "leche entera"/"instant whole milk" powder. It's much tastier, than "non-fat powdered milk" and has more of the calories backpackers need. I use NIDO with breakfast cereal and also when making Knorr paste entrees (or Mac and Cheese) for dinner.

NIDO is sold in supermarkets (Krogers or Super Walmart in my area) , in the Hispanic foods section.

Another trick that I use to make breakfast cereal more interesting is to bring along some dried fruit, such as dried apricots, dried cranberries, raisins, etc. Each evening I put my next morning's dried fruit, abut a fist full, into a bottle with some water. Later the re-hydrated result is yummy, although it admittedly does not taste quite as good as fresh apricots, berries, or grapes would. Consuming dried/rehydrated fruit gets helpful fiber into my diet.

[Siestita]

For me, a hot beverage, usually hot chocolate, goes well with my unheated breakfast of granola-like breakfast cereal + milk made from NIDO + re-hydrated fruit.

Heating water for just the beverage is, time-wise, a compromise between eating completely "cold" vs. cooking oatmeal or something else.

[Old Hiker]

Krispy Kreame fried apple pie, hard boiled egg, hot coffee w/cream and sugar. Not light but gets my butt out of the sleeping bag!

I tried that, but the Krispy Kreme manager kept calling the cops to kick me off the front lawn. It didn't matter that I was in my tent, either, for some reason.

Seriously: poptarts at first, then poptarts with an Oatmeal to Go bar, plus a mug of coffee got me going. I liked mini-bagels with cream cheese as well if I was able to find them further north of GA.

[staehpj1]

When I have food from home or by mail drop... Breakfast burritos made with freeze dried refried beans, freeze dried eggs, freeze dried mushrooms, and freeze dried cheese are great. I get everything but the tortillas from Honeyville.

I also prepack oatmeal, sugar, Nido, and dried fruit; or sometimes grape nuts, Nido, fruit, and sugar

When I buy along the way, I use whatever I can find.

[swofford]

Fry summer sausage and put it on a bagel with cheese!! I even toast the bagel before frying the summer sausage

[MuddyWaters]

Whatever sweet things you like.
If you dont like it, you wont eat it.

Pop Tarts suck. It doesnt take long to get sick of them.

[Cookerhiker]

This...

Rolled oats, nuts, and dried fruit. You can eat it cooked or not cooked, with powdered milk or not....

Plus this...

Me too, but I also add cinnamon, salt, ....

Plus ground flaxmeal and a little brown sugar.

[Monkeywrench]

Nutella Crescent Rolls? I never knew such a thing existed. I LOVE Nutella. Where do you find these things?

[Wise Old Owl]

Just thinking outside the box!

1 pack big and buttery crescents 1cup of nutella hazelnut spread

sugar
cinnamon to taste (optional)

• 1 preheat oven to 375
• 2 unroll crescents
• 3 warm up nutella
• 4 spread nutella onto crescents
• 5 roll and sprinkle on cinnamon (optional) and sugar
• 6 bake for 11-16 minutes or until golden
• 7 perfecto!! u

[Grampie]

During my thru-hike I ate instant oatmeal every morning along with coffee made with Folgers coffee singles. When it got warmer I would eat dry ceral with powdered milk.

[amac]

pop tarts carnation instant breakfast mixed with Nido and babybel cheese.

[Another Kevin]

If I have a shortish day ahead, so that I can dawdle a while in the morning, I find that muffins are a morale booster. I pre-measure Bisquick and powdered milk (the cheap stuff is fine, no need for Nido in this application) at home. I carry olive oil anyway, and it works as well as any other grease in the batter. I also carry an inch-wide strip of heavy foil, cut from a dollar-store cookie sheet, to coil in a spiral in my cookpot.

On trail: Drop the spiral in the pot, add water to just below the top of it, and bring to a boil. Take the ziplock with the muffin mix. Add the oil and just barely enough water to moisten the dry ingredients, and knead in the ziplock. Throw in a handful of gorp. Fill the foil cups 2/3 full and set them on the spiral. Cover the pot tightly and steam for 15 minutes or so until the muffins test done (knife stuck in them comes out clean). Pack up the sleeping bag and tent while waiting.

Ten times better if I found berries the day before! Warm blackcap or huckleberry muffins in the morning - mmmmm!

If I don't have time for that, then it's likely instant oatmeal, or a bagel with freezer-bag powdered eggs, or quinoa, Nido and raisins, or if I'm in a real hurry, just start noshing on whatever I've brought for lunch/snacks.

Oh, and if I can't have coffee I'm not going.

[Teacher & Snacktime]

Oh, and if I can't have coffee I'm not going.

Got that right!

[Wise Old Owl]

hmmm COFFEE CAKE!


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