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black pudding

🥗Healthier: vegetarian sausage

💰Cheaper: regular sausage

Vegetarian sausage offers a meat-free option, while regular sausage is often less expensive.

bacon

🥗Healthier: turkey bacon

💰Cheaper: pork belly

Turkey bacon is lower in fat, while pork belly can be more cost-effective.

sausages

🥗Healthier: chicken sausages

💰Cheaper: bulk sausage

Chicken sausages reduce fat content, while bulk sausage can save money.

baked beans

🥗Healthier: homemade beans

💰Cheaper: canned beans

Homemade beans can be healthier, while canned beans are often more affordable.

Heat a frying pan over medium heat until hot.

Add bacon to the frying pan and listen to it sizzle.

Add a sausage to the frying pan.

Explain that this is a traditional fry-up but will be doing something different today.

Mention that frying can be greasy and that the fry-up is a convenience food.

Show the ingredients: bacon, beefsteak tomato, black pudding, mushrooms, honey roast sausages, and baked beans.

Discuss the challenges of cooking for multiple people and how to plan ahead.

Slice mushrooms thickly and prepare to cook them with butter and seasoning.

Add butter to the pan and season the mushrooms with salt and pepper.

Cut the beefsteak tomato in half and prepare to grill it.

Place the sausages on a rack in an oven-safe pan and bake them at 160 degrees Celsius for 30-35 minutes.

Select between Heinz and Branston baked beans for the dish.

While the sausages bake, explain the differences between English, Welsh, Scottish, and Cornish breakfasts.

Grill the bacon and tomato, placing tinfoil underneath to keep them warm.

Start cooking the mushrooms on high heat, then lower to a simmer.

Check the sausages in the oven and explain their composition.

Heat baked beans gently in a frying pan.

Prepare to fry the black pudding in a hot frying pan.

Fry the black pudding until crispy.

Prepare to fry an egg in the same pan as the black pudding.

Flip the bacon and tomatoes as they cook.

Butter the bread thickly and prepare to assemble the dish.

Assemble the breakfast with black pudding on top of the fried egg, alongside sausages, mushrooms, bacon, baked beans, and tomato.

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