I've learned that half the battle of making breakfast is just getting it started while I'm spending time doing other things. Let's say it takes me 30 minutes to shower and get ready; there's plenty of time to make breakfast happen in that time frame with just a little bit of switching gears.
A bowl of steel-cut oats is one of my favorite ways to fuel up for the day, but it takes about 20 minutes to make. My trick for making it work is to get a cup of water in a saucepan on the stove ASAP after waking up, before I get in the shower. It's boiling by the time I'm out, and then I add a 1/4 cup of steel-cut oats and let it simmer (on lower heat) while I get ready, and I pop back to the stove occasionally to give a quick stir. By the time I'm dressed and ready, so are the oats, and all I have to do is add my favorite toppings (I love brown sugar, dried figs, sliced almonds, and sea salt) and eat the bowl in a few minutes.
You could, of course, also opt for instant oats or frozen varieties like Trader Joe's Frozen Steel-Cut Oats ($2), which are ready in a flash.
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