Breakfast - its a funny meal

i realised about a year ago i was skipping breakfast so i went all goody goody and started having low carb high protein breakfasts. Read: eggs, tomato, mushroom fry up. That got too hard, so i switched to the diet shakes we sell at work. you know, just add water, shake and go. i ended up sipping them all morning and while they are low calorie, simple and packed with vitamins (even Chromium for combating sugar cravings) i feel that they cant be good for me long term. They probably have tonnes of flavours, sweetners, anti-caking agents, preservatives. Totally artificial.

Sooooo..... i was browsing the cereal isle and Woolworths and its all crap! mostly. Its either sugar disguised as food, highly processes grains until "thankfully" they dont resemble grains, or its HUGELY overpriced. for something that you eat almost everday (Pancakes on sundays) i dont want to be paying $6-8 a box.
I guess i should be eating porridge, its down home goodness. BUT all carbs, especially when you need as much brown sugar and cream as i do, to get it down my gob.

SO i ended up making a batch of home made muesli (which in hindsight is probably really expensive, made of nuts, sesame oil, golden syrup and dried fruit) but the plus side is, the portions are controlled at 1/3 cup.
I cant eat much more than that anyway as its so rich.

In the end I'm just wondering what people do for their first, often rushed, meal of the day AND WHY?????

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also in other news,

our sheep escaped last night.

took until 11.30 this morning to get them back. thankfully a lady 3-4 blocks away called the council to say they were in her driveway. they crossed a railway, princes highway and a creek to get there. stupid sheep.

Mount Barker council considers itself a rural council so i did have the help of a council officer usually involved in dog and cat catching. he was on his own though - friday before a long weekend. usually a team of three should do this stuff but he had himself, me and max a very old very tired retired border collie who i'm dog-sitting and who i thought could "sit, stay" at any gateways if we needed an extra "man"

we found a house that had a secure yard and the lady said she'd tolerate them until i came with a trailer. they didn't go in there, they ran across the creek footbridge instead. then across the main street. then across the rail line. sigh. pack into the 4wd and track them down. by now they are on Burns st and Gary (council dog catcher) reckons they are smarter than i give them credit for.

they prove him wrong pretty quick by nipping up a side street and racing down a long driveway. turns out the guy who lives there kept sheep, had them penned in a little raceway and had a trailer with cage!! awesomeness.

by this time i've been standing in the rain for at least half an hour. but we get them home, Gary does the manly trailer thing down the drive and farewells me and max.

i bought a bottle of wine for both Gary and sheep-guy-with-trailer.

Note: dont share sheep in two neighbourly backyards when your neighbour has kids that

a). chase sheep until its gonna taste like leather and

b). leave gates open.