Yes you read that right breakfast cous cous. Well we have lots of wheat and oats at breakfast so why not cous cous!

I always have a bowl of fruit but on days when I know I'm going to be busy till lunch I like to have a good filling breakfast. This usually means using up my hex b choice which can be limiting for the rest of the day. A lovely lady at group gave me this recipe it's sort of like a fruit porridge or rice pudding. I really like it and its fruity, flavoursome, really fills you up and you only have to boil a kettle.

Serves 1

Syns Free on EE/Green

Dried cous cous

1 muller light (Any flavour but I like raspberry and cranberry best)

Selection fresh or frozen berries ( or any fruit you fancy)

1. Pour cous cous into a heat resistan bowl. Pour as much as you want but remember it will roughly double in volume.

2. Then pour over enough boiling water to just a bit over the top of the cous cous. Stir then cover and leave for 10 min or until the grains are cooked and the water has all evaporated.

3. Stir in the yogurt and fruit and enjoy!

Here's another warming breakfast to stock the fires on these cold winter mornings. Whilst I love my fresh fruit and watermelon, on these dark and damp mornings you need a bit of a glow about you before you tackle the great out doors. And like everything I do in the morning its really easy! 

As ever its free for interpretation change the yogurts or fruit. I was a bit worried about the apple cooking when I add it to the porridge so to avoid this I coarsely grated it and didnt add it until after I'd added the yogurt. I didn't taste cooked so Im pretty sure I got away without the syns!

I love to use cinnamon in my baking and sweets as I find it really adds sweetness and reduces the need for sweetener. It goes brilliantly with apple, oats and toffee, hooray!

Serves 1
1 HexB rolled oats 
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 Toffee Muller Light
1 cooking apple grated
Frozen Berries to taste

1. Take out your berries and put to one side to thaw.
2. Cook your oats slowly in twice the volume of water and the cinnamon, stirring until thick.
3. Pour in the yogurt
4. Then add the grated apple and top with the berrys. et voila!

Morning Sunshine. Well actually it's blowing a miserable gale outside so I have given myself a bowl of tropical sunshine to cheer me up. Watermelon, pineapple, apple and a few blue berries have set me up in good style.

I love a big bowl of fruit in the morning and this is one of the things that slipped with the general madness of toddler breakfast time.

I got the watermelon for £2.50 from lidl and its lasted me all week so a right bargain. And I flipping love watermelon, reminds me of more exciting tropical times which can seem very far away on a wet windy morning!