Hearty Breakfast

You should never skip breakfast, it's the most important meal of the day. Include cereals, fruit and milk, yogurt, kefir or buttermilk.

The Italian Way

Italians usually have an espresso or a cappuccino with a croissant for breakfast. Not really very healthy, but nowadays things are changing. Their breakfast is more consistent and varied. 

Today's breakfast consists of Tarallucci cookies, Orzoro, which is a barley drink, similar to coffee but without caffeine, a banana and cottage cheese with wholewheat crackers. You can spot a real espresso of course. Breakfast isn't breakfast without a cup of coffee. 

A Sweet Breakfast

In Sicily breakfast usually consists of sweets and coffee or cappuccino. 

Here is a Ginger Sponge pudding that I made and other sweets.

A Croissant from Buon Giorno Bio, an apricot tartlet, Fig Newtons and my Ginger Sponge Pudding. 

Nutella filled Croissant

A typical Italian breakfast consists of an espresso (or cappuccino) and a cornetto (Croissant). This particular croissant is simply decadent .... it's filled with NUTELLA