The recipe doesn’t state who is the intended consumer. It could be that the BBC thinks it would be fine for four five year old children to eat before they go and spend the day staring at their tv screens.
Well yeah, never know a recipe to tell you who its for, I assume they think people are able to decide that for themselves.
@CanadianLori many of the fires were probably caused by idiots with open camp fires, barbecues, or simply not thinking of the consequences of their actions at all. I was watching a programme about people prospecting in the Aussie Outback a couple of days ago. Bone dry area with long grass, but this idiot decided to do some welding of equipment about 20 feet in the air from a scaffolding tower. He didn't notice the red hot metal dropping, or the fire it started. Fortunately for him, the film crew did. If they hadn't been there he would have had no chance!
Maybe we should bring back rationing, just joking. But I wouldn't put that breakfast menu as one of the things causing it, more likely takeaways and fast food. Someone actually creating something for breakfast is surely a good thing and better than just stuffing themselves with Greggs sausage rolls or Mc Diddles rubbish.
The breakfast Bakewell recipe is simple - Cherry Bakewell overnight oats recipe Oats, soaked overnight, are considered to be healthy giving protein, fibre, vitamins and minerals and low calories. The problem for me is piling on sugar to make them sweet and the use of almond milk which needs incredibly high levels of water plus transported bee colonies to produce and, in the UK, has to be imported. Cow or goat milk is far better or unsweetend apple juice or oat milk if you're vegan. Britain, like the USA, has fallen for Kellogs and co pushing highly refined cereals full of sugar and little, if any, fibre. They don't satiate hunger for long and don't give much nutrition. An egg or two with wholemeal toast would be far better all round.
I’m obviously too old. My breakfast, from age four to age 18, was a plate of Scotts porage oats with milk and honey washed down with a glass of milk. Lunch was the school’s standard meal. When I got home, I was given a plate of baked beans on toast or a fried egg or an omelette on toast or a baked potato or macaroni cheese. That was it. For the day. I weighed eight stone on the dot from adulthood to retirement when I got a chronic type of cancer and my weight now varies by a few pounds as the hospital adjusts my treatment. I still only eat one slice of toast and a blob of homemade jam for breakfast and I do a full morning’s work on that quite happily. I’m of the eat to live, rather than the live to eat philosophy.
Shame about the fires in Canada. You'd think in general fire prevention would be second nature for all.
Do any of the obesity statistics show that the offspring of obese parents are, more often than not, obese themselves ? It's a bit unlikely that many young children have the money to buy takeaways/fast food and sugar laden drinks on a regular basis so how do they get hold of it ? Plenty of pocket money or parents buy it for them as well as themselves and the children then accept it as the norm.
@Tidemark I have never liked porridge but I do love oats in muesli, flapkacks and crumbles sweet or savoury. I expect I'd like them in Cranachan too, except I don't like whisky but i'm sure I could leave that out of the whipped cream. Must try that when our raspberries are ready. Not for breakfast tho! I only eat breakfast if staying on a B&B or hotel. Lunch is my first meal of the day.
@redstar I suspect most of the fires are caused by 'townies' who haven't a clue how to act in the countryside. That's definitely true in the UK.
1 tablespoon of maple syrup, 50g jam, 1/2 tablespoon of icing sugar on top of the sugars in banana and cherries sounds really healthy to me - NOT!!!
Maybe we should eat cardboard? I was more worried about the pinch of salt. Anything tasty seems to be bad for you. Just had a fry up and enjoyed it.
I was more concerned that the recipe seemed to be telling to us steal the salt as it says 'pinch salt'. The whole recipe has to be good because it says to use free range eggs. So not harmful. But I'm not too sure about what's involved in rolling the oats, grinding almonds, chopping bananas and also flaking almonds. Sounds a bit cruel to me.
