Scrambled egg whites, a vegetable smoothie or wholegrain cereal with low fat milk. That's how pop megastar Beyoncé described a bootylicious breakfast a few years ago.
However eating cereal has declined by over 11% over the past five years, with 40% of millennials dismissing it as inconvenient because it involves washing up. Meanwhile the kind of farming that produces bacon and sausages is criticised for contributing to climate change through the carbon emissions it produces.
So by the year 2039, meat, cereal and even dairy may be much harder to find on the breakfast menu. Instead, you might be tucking into a plate of insects.
According to researchers in the Netherlands, insects cost less to raise than cattle, consume less water and don't really leave a carbon footprint. Plus in many cultures around the world, in fact 30% of the planet's population, they're already considered pretty tasty.
Robyn Shapiro, founder of Seek Food says crickets are earthy and nutty which makes them good to pair with nuts and Granola. So, while a rasher of bacon may become an illicit luxury only available in a fancy restaurant, crunchy nut cricket flakes could mean starting the day with a bowl of creepy crawlies from your garden biosphere.
Probably not if you're vegan or vegetarian like one in eight Britons now are. Or how about lab meat grown from animal stem cells, with no need for real-life pigs or chickens to become dead ones.
A guilt-free slice of black pudding where there's blood on the plate but not on your hands. Maybe the thought of this has you desperately reaching for that one cup of coffee you're allowed per year thanks to climate change rationing.
Researchers and chefs including Heston Blumenthal, have discovered that what you hear can affect what you taste. So in 2039, your coffee might seem like its full of sugar even though there isn't anything sweet in it apart from the sound of music.
With immersive dining experiences on the rise, from medieval banquets to murder mystery stories, or even a gastro physics journey through space, could breakfast of the future be less about traditional taste and more about living out your culinary dreams in a flavour-filled fantasy land? By 2039 it looks like most of us, 70% in fact, will live in cities.
To cut transport costs, maybe we'll want to grow the onions to go with our stem cell sausages more locally. However, if the current housing crisis continues and luxury flats fill in every remaining space, where would we plant our greens?
