$2.49 Breakfast with free coffee (IKEA Breakfast)

If you don't like fast food but want something of decent quality and cheap... IKEA is the place to go.  The cafeteria is open 1/2 hour before the store opens (which is around 9:30AM).

Just the traditional breakfast alone was worth the trip. For $2.49, the breakfast comes with scrambled eggs, 2 pieces of chicken sausages, a slice of bread (it is thick), a slice (or two) of tomato and hash browns. There really isn't anything special about the eggs, hashbrown or bread. I thought they tasted pretty average. The only thing that stood out for me was the chicken sausage. It tastes slightly dry (and it looks dry too). I can't help but wonder if the chicken was zombified before it was turned into sausages to look like that. All of that aside, the food itself is not sweet or greasy and the only thing fried is the hashbrowns. Their hashbrowns tasted more baked than fried too (though I am not sure how it is processed). In total for $2.49, this is a very good deal and it's relatively nutritious (in my opinion) so it is definitely worth the trip. To make things sweeter, if you go there in the morning before they open (the first 30 minutes before opening) the coffee is free too.

    Beside the traditional breakfast, they also have things like crepes, assorted buns, yogurt parfait, salad, and more. I didn't really try the other things when I was there because the traditional breakfast was enough for me. However, these are things to look into if the bread, eggs, sausage and tomato is your style. The only interesting thing I noticed with IKEA is that the food tends to take a dull theme for the colours. I am not sure if this is because IKEA doesn't put food colouring into their food (or that the other places I go to does). This is only an observation.