It started well with Three Fruit Marmalade and granary toast. We’ve just finished a jar of cheap marmalade (Number Two went shopping last month and, in true student style, bought the cheapest he could find).
I’m seriously thinking about my diet, and can’t shake the idea that a grimmer breakfast would probably be better for me – porridge or bran flakes for instance. (I’m expecting a Scottish backlash about the porridge, but it’s grey and with the traditional water and salt it’s hardly luxurious.) It’s always tempting to say that porridge is the world’s only grey food, but according to this link there are others.
We moved on to collecting cardboard from a market stall. Julia had arranged that on Saturday as she needed cardboard to supress weeds in the polytunnel. There’s an area at the back of the raised beds which isn’t easy to reach so she’s choking the weeds with a mulch of cardboard and wood chip.
As it was a nice day, and we then set off for the coast. The curse of the mobile phone then struck, and to my dismay I heard Julia arranging a meeting for the evening at a time that we couldn’t possibly make if we went to the coast first.
I don’t think she really understands the concept of “day off”.
And that was how the day failed to live up to the promise of the Three Fruit Marmalade start.
The Sneinton market area has been a busy centre for the fruit and vegetable trade since the 1850s when the original market was built on the site of a clay pipe works. It was improved in 1938 andmore buildings added in 1957. That was when the Fyffes warehouse was built, complete with its sculptural bunch of bananas. Julia has been meaning to take a picture of the bananas for years, so here they are.
The wholesale market was relocated again in the 1990s, leaving a small remnant of a market and a numbr of small business units.
Our “house blend” morning cereal is thick-cut rolled oats cooked with shredded coconut, a pinch of salt, coconut oil and served with fresh berries. Nuts and cranberries are optional.
All very healthy. 🙂
Bran flakes and banana this morning.
I’m with Helen. My husband eats porridge for most of the year (except when it’s really hot) and makes it with milk and dried fruit (fresh fruit when there’s a fruit salad made up in the fridge).
Sounds OK to me. 🙂
Not getting to the coast deserves a tasty breakfast
I would agree with that. I had porridge this morning and it fuelled me all the way to the coast. 🙂
Oh, I’d go with milk – then I add chopped nuts and raisins to my porridge. That might have more calories but they are good calories, I think. It’s certainly a more palatable meal!
Sounds like a good plan!
Porridge with water instead of milk is nice and a tiny pinch of salt gives it a little more flavour.
Hmmm…