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Breakfast in Colour - Cassie's favourite family breakfast recipes

Published: May 26, 2026 at 11:51 AM

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Eating well, sharing a meal and adding a bit more colour to the plate can be enough to make weekends feel special. Let’s banish the beige...breakfast is better when it’s in colour.

While midweek breakfasts are often a rushed affair, weekends can be a chance to slow down, make something a bit more special and enjoy a meal together. We’ve teamed up with Veg Power on their Breakfast in Colour campaign, encouraging families to make weekend breakfasts healthier, more colourful and a moment to connect. To celebrate, I've pulled together my favourite family breakfast recipes.

Meet Cassie Cassie Best is our Head of Food and mum to Florence, nine, and Rupert, seven. Read on for her favourite healthy family breakfast ideas or check out more of Cassie's recipes.

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For all of these recipes, if there’s something you can’t get or the price of an ingredient is too much, either substitute or, if it doesn’t make a difference to the recipe, leave it out entirely. Avocados for example are lovely, and good for you, but they can be expensive; if they are a side to the main dish, you can leave them out.

When it comes to fruit, you can often find good value berries and cherries in the freezer section of the supermarket.

Small but mighty, chia seeds are a nutritional powerhouse. As well as being high in fibre, calcium and magnesium, they provide a rich plant source of protein and omega-3 fatty acids. As they are low-GI, chia seeds also help to stabilise blood sugar, making them a great breakfast option. Despite being quite pricey, chia seeds have a long shelf life and can be used as a sprinkle on porridge, oats, yogurt and fruit or soaked to make chia pudding.

While it's tempting to reach for the shop-bought granolas, these are often high in fat and sugar. Instead, I often make my own, so I can control the level of sweetness using natural alternatives, while maximising the health benefits of oats.

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