The most important meals of the day

Most people are familiar with the concept of first breakfast, but for many, second breakfast remains largely unexplored.

First breakfast is important to me - it's a quick bite very early in the morning, scoffed down before rushing off to the gym or taking the dog for an hour-long walk. It has to sustain me. It can't be anything too difficult to stomach at stupid o'clock in the morning, and in summer is usually a bircher muesli which I prepared earlier, or, in winter, quick oats which cook while I dress.

Second breakfast, however, is more problematic - it's the breakfast I have several hours later when I get to work. This is the breakfast that determines my hunger-and-junk-food levels for the rest of the day.

If second breakfast is tasty and filling, for example a bacon and egg sandwich, chances are I won't be very hungry at lunchtime, will be satisfied with a bowl of soup, and then a small dinner in the evening.

If second breakfast is pissy and pathetic, for example a bowl of cereal or some toast, I will be starving in an hour, will probably nip down for a piece of cake at morning tea time, have an inappropriately unhealthy lunch and then eat crap all evening.

The problem is, bacon and egg sandwiches are all very well and good, but the bacon always has all its fat, and for some reason they all seem to have cheese these days, which I'm not against in principle, but it detracts from the eggy-bacony-ness that is the reason I'm there in the first place. I can order one with no fat and no cheese, but who can be bothered waiting for it when there are emails waiting upstairs?

So that's what this blog is all about - finding the perfect second breakfast, one that is satisfying in a tasty, stomachy, office-suitabley, easily preparedly, easily transportabley, and healthy way.