While I love certain flavors of instant oatmeal, I’ve gone through all of them and every morning’s been feeling more and more like a boring dystopia.

Prefer savory to cut down sugar. All the egg + microwave suggestions are welcome (but are they any good?)

  • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Alright so what you're gonna want to do is get a bag of english muffins (or homemake some biscuits if you wanna be a real champion). Then you need a small microwaveable bowl roughly the diameter of an english muffin. Scramble an egg into that fucker and pop your english muffin in the toaster oven.

    While the toast is toasting, microwave the egg on 3/4 power for 45 seconds - 1 minute. You'll have to play around a little. You want it to cook and bind together but still have a bit of runnyness around the edges and the center might not be cooked. That's perfect. Take out your toast, put the egg on there, lay on a slice of pepperjack cheese if that's your thing. Try avacado on there if you don't like cheese. Put it on a microwaveable plate and put it in the microwave. Zap it on full power for ~10 seconds. That will finish cooking the egg, finish warming the bread, and add a little melt to that slice of cheese but it won't turn it into goo.

    Let it cool a few seconds, cut it in half if you want it cool extra fast if you need to wolf it down in a hurry. I make 2 of these a day when I gotta leave the house at 5am during our crunch time. I eat one there and the other at my first break at 9-10am. Keeps me going when I'm outside for ten+ hours, and the warm savory flavors and the density of the food really help to warm me up with a nice caloric boost when its cold as fuck and the sun hasn't even risen.

    Also electric kettles are so much faster than using a stove top to boil water, and a lot more efficient than heating it up in a microwave, so consider getting one of those as well to shave some time off your morning if you need to boil water for tea or coffee. (Edited to break up the wall o text)