Each morning, I roll out of bed at 06:45, trudge to the bathroom for a shower, and then settle down with my breakfast to watch the news. This relaxes me before work, gives me time to think about the upcoming day, and gives my boyfriend all of the duvet for at least an hour a night.

My breakfast tends to be one of three things – pancakes, porridge, or scrambled egg with tuna. All three are delicious, but it depends whether I’m exhausted and need carbs, or I’m feeling good and want an early hit of protein – savoury or sweet. Here’s the recipes that work for me:

Pancakes:

2 eggs
100g banana
24g protein powder (generally strawberry)
8g pumpkin seeds

100g strawberries
65g Greek yoghurt

Whizz the first three up in a NutriBullet, then sprinkle pumpkin seeds on each pancake (cooked in a dry, non-stick frying pan) before flipping with a wide spatula.

Stack your pancakes up – this mix generally makes about 6 small ones – with a layer of chopped strawberries mixed with yoghurt, and then devour with a knife and fork, and a glass of unsweetened almond milk. Yum.

Porridge

1 sachet Original Oatso Simple (yes, laziness wins in the morning)
200ml almond milk
75g apple

8g pumpkin seeds
35g raspberries
100g banana
15g flaxseed
70g Greek yoghurt

Pop the first 3 in a saucepan together to bubble up nicely (I don’t wait for the milk to heat up first, I just whack it all in at once) and for the apple to soften.

In a bowl, mix the banana, raspberries and yoghurt, then top with the hot porridge and apple mixture before stirring in the flaxseed (mixing the flaxseed in earlier makes it taste a bit gravelly, or maybe that’s just my poor stirring abilities..)

Scrambled eggs are straight forward, so you can work that out for yourself..

All are best served piping hot and in front of BBC Breakfast news. Enjoy!