Starting the day with a full English breakfast is glorious.

Having to wake up 15 minutes earlier to prepare said full English, not so glorious.

So we rejoice at the discovery of a way to make breakfast overnight so it’s ready to eat the moment we wake up.

As with many brilliant life hacks, this one comes to us by way of Facebook.


A woman named Rose shared the trick on Facebook, saying she spotted it in a slow cooker group she’s part of (sounds fun).

‘Wow! what an amazing idea someone has shared in the slow cooker group,’ wrote Rose. ‘Make sure the meat is leant against the edge for it to brown.’



That post has been shared more than 27,000 times.

(Picture: Rose Bowler/Facebook)

BBC reports that the slow cooker breakfast is the creation of Sonia Cheetham, who came up with the plan to save time when making breakfast for her two daughters.

The trick is in the positioning of each breakfast component. They need to be segregated to make sure it doesn’t all turn into a big puddle of mush.

Sonia uses mugs to separate each part of the meal. She puts a knob of butter along with mushrooms in one mug, eggs and a knob of butter into another, and pours beans or tomatoes into their own mugs, too. Sausages are stood along the edge of the slow cooker, while bacon is rolled and propped up.

The slow cooker’s then turned on and left overnight for around nine hours.

If you’re keen for toast, that’s the one bit of your meal you’ll need to prepare in the morning. But that’s not too tricky, right? You can stick bread in the toaster while the kettle’s boiling for your tea.

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