Breakfast & Brunch

As well as starting your day with a gentle self-congratulation for making it through to another morning, you should try to get something good inside you to set up your energy levels for whatever the day ahead will hold. If I forget to eat breakfast, I find myself lethargic, crabby and easily distracted – and it usually takes me a minute of confusion to work out why.

I always make sure my partner and child get a healthy, nutritious breakfast in the mornings, but between school runs and making packed lunches and all the other morning admin, sometimes I forget about myself in the process. I now keep a large jar of homemade granola in my eyeline and a pot of natural yoghurt in the fridge at all times, so if I do forget, I can dump a fistful of the former into the latter in a matter of seconds, take it to my desk, and get on with my day.