The famous English gardener is known for his love of all things horticulture and is no stranger to growing his produce at home.
But when it comes to mealtimes, Alan Titchmarsh prefers a cupboard staple.
Writing in Gardeners’ World magazine, the broadcaster revealed that he avoids popular breakfast dishes like avocado on toast and prefers a £2.50 cereal instead.
Alan wrote: “It seems there is a great movement towards smashed avocado on sourdough bread.
“‘I can’t think of anything more insipid to force down my neck at the crack of dawn.”
The Love Your Garden host went on to explain that the environmental impact of foods greatly determines his diet.
He said: “I cannot reconcile myself to eating avocados and contributing to the enormous carbon footprint involved in shipping them across the ocean to my breakfast table, not to mention the wholesale destruction of the rainforest to create such plantations.”
Alan says a humble bowl of Shreddies is much more enjoyable to start his day.
While he is a “devoted” fan of the popular cereal, he is also partial to a serving of three Weetabix biscuits to keep him full until lunchtime – something that Shreddies fails to do in his opinion.
Alan’s daily breakfast has a surprising lack of home-grown fruits or vegetables, but the gardener is partial to hand-reared produce of another kind alongside a bowl of cereal.
Speaking previously to the Telegraph about the chickens he keeps at home, Alan said: “My reward is a fresh egg for breakfast every day, should I so wish, except from October to January when they go off lay.
“That said, for most of the year four chickens will produce more than enough eggs for a family of four – for breakfast and for baking.”
The gardening expert revealed that he enjoys the egg fried along with a couple of rashers of dry-smoked bacon, a cup of tea and a slice of toast and marmalade.
According to Alan, this is “as sophisticated a meal as I [he] would ever want to eat”.
He continued: “I am never happier than when gathering the eggs from Rocky, Chalky, Columbine and Oh-oh. Even if the rest of them are living the life of Riley.”
