Breakfast in Bed to Kick-off Father’s Day
June 20th is Father’s Day. You may have been waiting with bated breath for your usual glut of World’s Best Dad mugs, nylon ties with atrociously serious-looking stripes, and the usual number of cards with mis-proportioned cartoon dogs on them, probably with something like, “Have a Grrr-eat Day!” written in Comic Sans inside. You lucky guy! While all you may want is to fill that mug with lager and watch Italy annihilate New Zealand (apologies to Kiwis here. To be entirely fair the reverse happens in Six Nations every year), you could kick off this deservedly lazy Sunday with some togetherness time with the kids.
Will you want to, though, after they’ve strode into your room, vuvuzelas blaring and ties and mugs at the ready? Well, it is Father’s Day, and probably one of the best things you can do for your kids is to spend time with them,. So make it a Father’s Day to remember with family brekkie in bed. Have a bed-in, not for peace, but to celebrate being a family.
Breakfast of Champions Meal Ideas
You (or hopefully your partner) can help and supervise the kids prepare brekkie for your bed-in, although older kids should be able to manage most of these meal ideas themselves.
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Tea or instant coffee Making tea or instant coffee is an important skill. Well, a useful skill at least. Introduce your little chefs to the idea that coffee or tea are a Goldilocks drink, because everyone likes theirs different.
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Toast or crumpet, with butter and jam A definite crowd pleaser. Mexican wave, anyone?
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Cereal, fruit and milk Even wee ones can assemble this with minimal help. Berries (in season, and delicious) are perfect for little hands to add to big bowls.
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Microwave omelette, cheese and/or ham on a muffin Possibly the easiest way to prepare an egg is to scramble it in a small, pre-greased, ceramic bowl, add salt, pepper and green onion (if you like) and then to put the bowl and egg in a microwave for 45 seconds. Bing! Small omelette! Bing! On toasted muffin! Bing! With a slice of cheese or ham! We love it.
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Porridge, honey and milk This is a stick to your ribs brekkie that’s easy to make in the microwave (but really hot when it comes out). Use jam if your gut’s suffering from World-Cup pub over-indulgence.
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Juice Sooo refreshing and hydrating in the morning. Especially if you over-did it watching Ghana v. Australia.
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Pastry (shop-bought) and fruit salad Almost all supermarkets will do bags of sweet pastries of maximum deliciousness for minimum investment. Serve with fruit salad—by that we mean cut-up fruit, not the syrupy cocktail stuff that’s been sitting on your shelf since the Eighties.
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Fruit and yoghurt A healthier option!
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Muesli and yoghurt The contrast of creamy yoghurt and crunchy muesli may seem strange, but it’s also delicious. Have the kids stir it for you, while pretending to be Macbeth’s witches—eight-your-olds are particularly hilarious when reciting blank verse.
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Beans on toast Beans, beans, the musical fruit. The more eat the more you toot. The more you toot the better you feel, so eat beans at every meal!
To complete, serve brekkie on a tray (or trays) with a small flower in a spare bottle. Blokes can like flowers too—it shows you’re comfortable with your masculinity, much like wearing a salmon pink polo shirt.
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