Dian Green

Breakfast here is mostly about fibre. It's usually: bran cereal like Bran Buds or flakes, cooked oatmeal with added pure bran or bran muffins. ( the type where you make the huge batch that stays in the fridge and you bake as needed)
Plain yogurt, either fresh/ frozen fruit or homemade fruit sauces as well and milk or soy milk, if there is is cereal.

We've all found things are better generally if we stick to this. Special/holiday meals with things like pancakes, fancy eggs and all that happen at lunch instead.

Just wanted to say that after reading this thread last year, I started adding some vinegar to my stock/broth pots. It has really made a significant improvement to the flavours!

I do not have any hives and don't plan to in the near future.
I might change my mind. In the last couple of years of my BSc. I took several apiary courses so have handled bees. Friends also have hives and I don't have much reaction to stings and have found them very easy to deal with.
In our old place, the property was so small and close to neighbors that I didn't feel comfortable with a hive. I also had lots of honeybees visiting, so knew there were hives around. I mainly stuck to supporting the bumblebees and other native pollinators. ( honeybees do important work but they are not native)
Here at the new place, I again have seen lots of honeybees around so pollination seems to be covered. It's a farming area and I often see hive boxes in the field edges. I'm planning to stay with my general support plan of trying to get as many different nectar/pollen sources growing as I can so that there are food options for the whole season on our land.
It's going to take a few years before the trees/shrubs and perennials are all established so I have some time. I'll keep a close eye out for all bees and am ready to eventually set up hives if it looks like there isn't enough coverage here. ( or I really want the honey)

Most of the versions I had seen used a basic chocolate chip, peanut butter or sugar cookie as the base and it is just pressed thin into a pizza pan. Then base cooked and pulled out to add sweet toppings like: marshmallows, nuts, chips, candies etc. Then put back in under broil before serving. Some called for sauces or whipped cream as finishers.

I have tried the overnight oats thing and loved the convenience but didnt care for the "chalkiness" of the uncooked oats.
It's a minor taste/texture difference but it doesn't work for me or my mother so we're sticking to cooked for now.
If I desperately needed the time saved, I might get over it but I'm glad I don't have to for now.
( when cooking oatmeal, I will make a large batch and it usually covers 3 days. It reheats in the micro fine for us.)

Dirt Cheap Food: easy entry food gardening

Let's F-ing Grow! Food for ( nearly) free from your lawn.

That link to the EFN store was far too tempting. It had just about everything that was on my " want" list and I've added some skirret seeds too!
Considering how well sunchokes did here last year, I'm excited to add another perennial root crop.

Lots of good suggestions!

I don't have any of the fun colour radishes on hand and most of the family has sensory issues so they didn't want anything hot.

I don't have any favs beans either, but I'd like to try them. At least the scarlet runners have the big seeds that are dramatic sprouters.

I would have loved to include some nasturtiums but I'm out of them too.

I'm sending some stuff to a friend and she knows I'm into the food gardening so I'm including a few seeds so she can start teaching her children about growing plants.
Ages are 10-4. Zone 4 and they are renting for now. Not super adventurous eaters/cooks.
I stuck to stuff I had extra of on hand. There are 4 in the lettuce mix and regular green beans along with some scarlet runners.

Does this look like too much or a decent, basic starter kit?

Good info!
A few years ago, a (former) neighbour had a pretty destructive fire from oiled rags. Their shop did woodworking and restoration and someone got a bit careless with the rags and it went up one night. Not a total loss since the fire trucks got there very quickly but some major damage. We were just glad it happened not long after a rain so the huge Norway spruce on our property line didnt go up like a torch.
Insurance did cover it but I'm not sure what it did to their premiums.