Prepare Breakfast...For The Week

Rushing out of the house on mornings is an all too common occurrence. No time to watch the news, have coffee or even have breakfast. How do we compensate? We listen to the radio news on the way to work, we drink coffee at the office and we buy breakfast. All of these are acceptable except for the “buy breakfast”.

One quarter of a sada roti or bake with a vegetable side can cost as much as $15 TT. If you’re like me, you need at least two so that’s $30 by 5 days for the week. If I do this, as well as my wife and daughter (they’ll have one quarter each per day), that would work out to $300 per week just for breakfast. Something is definitely wrong with that. Yes, doubles are an option but doubles every day for man, wife and child just isn’t right and can be quite dangerous.

Bhagi, patchoi, spinach, fried ochro, tomato choka, fried plantains, tuna salad, chicken paste, cheese paste, aloo (potato) choka, fried aloo, pumpkin, melongene choka, saltfish buljol, smoked herring, corned beef… These are some of the many sides that are available as breakfast options some of which can be self-cultivated (read my post Making Market).

The trick is to prepare five of them on Sunday evening, put them in bowls, refrigerate and use them throughout the week. You can get recipes here.

Dough for sada roti or bake is kneaded on the nights before they are required and refrigerated. Once that is thawed out the following morning, it takes just 5 to 10 minutes to have hot, delicious bake. Click here for help on making sada roti and get baking ideas on my other post. A few more minutes to make some sandwiches, pack them to go and you’re all set.

This way everyone is little fuller, even the wallet.

How much can you save by cutting out the “breakfast buying”?