We prepared eight "ten-minute breakfast" options and asked five office workers to follow them for two weeks. Three survived.
The five that did not share one feature: their ten minutes counted only the morning, not the preparation the night before.
The three that stayed
The first is overnight oats — three minutes the previous evening, ready to take in the morning. The second is boiled eggs with wholemeal bread, eight minutes. The third is frozen multigrain porridge with a portion of nuts.
- Test: 8 options, 5 participants, 2 weeks
- Kept: overnight oats, egg and bread, multigrain porridge
- Key: preparation the night before under 5 minutes
- Common factor: all three include a clear protein source
What the three have in common is a clear protein source. Participants consistently reported that a purely carbohydrate breakfast left them hungry before ten.
One other detail came up repeatedly: keeping the utensils and ingredients in a fixed place saves more time than you would expect.
Clearly written, and the section on the data is more solid than most coverage of this.
Clearly written, and the section on the data is more solid than most coverage of this.