Broken Biscuits for Breakfast? The Cereal Upgrade Nobody Asked For... But Everyone Deserves

Here at That's Food and Drink, we occasionally stumble across culinary innovations so revolutionary that we wonder why Michelin-starred chefs haven't already thought of them.

Today, we're talking about mixing biscuits with your breakfast cereal.

Yes. Biscuits!

Before the nutrition police arrive and confiscate our cornflakes, hear us out.

Most of us have, at some point, encountered the glorious institution that is the box of broken biscuits. These boxes are one of Britain's great food bargains: an archaeological dig through layers of biscuit fragments where you never quite know what you're going to uncover.

A bit of digestive.

Half a custard cream.

Something chocolatey.

A mysterious pink wafer that's apparently survived several major geological events.

And occasionally, jackpot!, almost an entire bourbon.

But here's the question: why simply eat them as biscuits?

Give Your Breakfast Some Pizzazz

Your average bowl of breakfast cereal can sometimes be a little… predictable.

Cereal.

Milk.

Spoon.

Repeat tomorrow.

But take several broken biscuits, crumble them over the top or even mix them in and suddenly breakfast has undergone a transformation worthy of a television makeover programme.

Cornflakes with crushed digestives?

Surprisingly good.

Rice cereal with broken bourbons?

Now we're talking.

Bran flakes with crumbled custard creams?

Well, you've already chosen bran flakes, so frankly you've earned a little excitement.

And chocolate biscuits scattered over something relatively sensible like Weetabix create the wonderful illusion that you're simultaneously being healthy and having pudding.

That's efficiency.

The Broken Biscuit Breakfast Lottery

The real fun begins when you have one of those assorted boxes of broken biscuits.

Don't look.

Just reach in, grab a handful, crush them slightly and scatter them over your cereal and stir them in.

Every breakfast becomes a culinary lottery.

Will today's bowl contain shortbread?

Chocolate digestives?

Nice biscuits?

Some Biscoff biscuits?

A fragment of something involving jam?

Who knows?

It's breakfast with an element of danger.

Obviously, we're not suggesting you empty half a kilogram of chocolate biscuits over a lonely cornflake and then tell your GP that That's Food and Drink said it counted as a balanced breakfast.

A little restraint may be appropriate.

But as an occasional treat, a sprinkling of biscuit rubble can transform an ordinary bowl of cereal into something much more interesting.

It also gives those poor broken biscuits a sense of purpose.

They may have been rejected from polite biscuit society because they're cracked, chipped or missing important structural components, but on top of a bowl of cereal they can finally fulfil their destiny.

So next time you see a box of broken biscuits, don't merely think tea break.

Think breakfast ingredient.

Because sometimes all your cornflakes need is a little pizzazz.

And possibly half a bourbon, or several Biscoffs. And a dollop of cream or full fat yogurt as a topper?