In search of the perfect breakfast

 The first plant to do really well in my garden this spring is rhubarb, and I mean more than doing well. The one clump of rhubarb rose from death-like winter hibernation to almost jungle proportions so quickly I began to think that at heart it must really be a weed

I asked about it online and was amazed to learn from Nutrition Data that rhubarb ‘is low in Saturated Fat and Sodium, and very low in Cholesterol.

'It is also a good source of Magnesium, and a very good source of Dietary Fiber, Vitamin C, Vitamin K, Calcium, Potassium and Manganese.’

What's to go with it?

A perfect breakfast to follow my almost-daily workouts at the gym, I mused, and asked Google what might accompany it.

Porridge came the suggestion with a revelation that seemed astonishing. I mean, not every Scot looks exactly wildly healthy.

Sarah Knapton, the Telegraph newspaper’s science editor, reported that researchers at Harvard University found that a small bowl of porridge each day could be the key to a long and healthy life.

By now I was half-way to the discount supermarket for the perfect accompaniment for the now revered just harvested health-packed plant.

And then the unexpected

The rest of the healthy tale should be simply of the enormous good health I experienced with that breakfast. However, as they say when the unexpected is to be introduced … however … how many spoonfuls of porridge make ‘a small bowl’?

I was in a hungry hurry by now and put a guessed amount into the microwave, looking forward to a fast and life-restoring breakfast.

A loud bang announced that the breakfast was proving its surprising power … and was spraying the inside of the microwave, packing loads of it around the door and across its ceiling, and a surprisingly generous splodge under the turning glass part as well.

I learned then that as healthy a breakfast as porridge – and rhubarb - offers, it isn’t to be mistaken for a quick breakfast. Bon appetit!

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