Breakfast with Benefits focuses on the fantastic work of medical researchers and raising funds for breast cancer research. So why not theme your breakfast like a research lab and concoct up some healthy food to benefit your guests!

Remit your payment before 15 November 2011, for a chance to win some fantastic prizes relating to your chosen breakfast theme.*

Here are some ideas to help your breakfast go off with a bang!

Mix the right elements to create your Breakfast with Benefits Laboratory:

• For a lab atmosphere, lay out your food on trestle tables
• Create a tablecloth with butcher's paper and decorate with lots of formulae and scientific notes
• Display your menus like conference notes in folders or on clipboards
• Dress in lab coats
• Serve juice in beakers
• Add milk to tea and coffee with dropper bottles
• Use petri dishes (the little round plastic dishes that microbiologists use) for sauces and condiments
• Put dry ice in drinks for an 'experiment style' look
• Set up a podium for speakers for so your 'budding scientist' friends can share their ideas
• Decorate your room or serve food in a variety of hospital gear

A Menu with Benefits – tasty and healthy:

• Avocado and tomatoes served on mini toasts (packed full of anti-oxidants!)
• Vegetarian omelette
• Poached eggs
• Mushroom and ricotta boat with spinach
• Bran and muesli treats
• A selection of herbal teas

Real Benefits – boost your breakfast fundraising:

• Run a competition to come up with the best breakfast invention (donate to enter, or ask guests to vote with a gold coin for the best ideas)
• Experiment with unusual smoothie or juice blends and sell the best ones
• Sell Pink Ribbon merchandise
• Auction off an innovative service
• Organise a service swap with local service providers and donate the savings you make

*Please refer to our Competitions Page for further details and terms and conditions.