The best start for a cold winter day is a great local breakfast from Around the Sound.

Here are some menu options from our store this week.

Puffed cereals from Sean McGivern's "guns of Desborough" include spelt, kamut and gluten-free basmati rice and millet. Apple currant granola from Rising Sun is great with milk or yogurt.

Hot cereal more your style? We have organic oats, and Windy Hill's hot cereal blends like Early Rise and Cremo. Organic cane sugar can sweeten it up.

For the bacon-and-eggs types, we have both - as well as sausages in pork, lamb and elk. The eggs are organic - large Omega 3 from Beckers, or medium (the girls lay smaller this time of year!) from Grassroots for only 2.50 with any other Grassroots product. What about an omelette with locally smoked trout or salmon?

The toast on the side can be any of the Rising Sun breads - like Cranberry Sunflower Oat or Ancient Grains and Flax. And on the toast - grape jelly from Annan grapes, cinnamon or cherry flavoured honeys or local apple butter.

If you miss the Groundhog Day pancakes, you can make your own with Grassroots' multigrain or buckwheat mixes. Of course Uncle Richard's maple syrup is the perfect topping, but if you're feeling adventurous, try some maple or honey butter and Raspberry Drizzle, made with Triple Sec.

A glass of Filsinger's apple cider, hot or cold, will finish the meal.

Then relax and read the paper over a cup - or two - of locally roasted coffee - all fair trade and organic. Back Eddies makes several popular blends, or try Kemble Mountain's "Around the Sound" blend, made with me in mind -"bold with nuances of spicyness and fruit."

And you can sleep in - Around the Sound doesn't open until 10 a.m.

Thursday and Friday, 10 - 7; Saturday 10 - 4