What is your usual breakfast?

Sometimes bacon & eggs.. hashbrowns.. pancakes.. a cup of coffee.. other times cereal.. but more often than not.. nothing

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Most days: granola and a banana.
Weekends: bacon, eggs, home fries, and toast.
Today: Matzo ball chicken soup.

In a little bit, I expect I will brew some tea and run get a scone. There is a bakery just down the way and I am at home sick, so I might as well scone it up.

I have two breakfast styles: a full breakfast and a quick breakfast.

The full breakfast is a healthy nutritious breakfast that gets you going in the morning and keeps you full well until lunchtime. It consists of two hash brown patties, two strips of bacon, two eggs (usually prepared in an omelette with veggies [onion, mushroom, jalapeno or regular peppers]), a piece of fruit (often grapes, banana, or orange) and a cup of coffee. I can prepare this in exactly 22 minutes (the length of the hash browns). It’s almost as if it’s a flowing dance where the pieces are lined up in perfect succession. Start the hash browns and coffee and bacon, bacon is done when the hash browns need to be flipped and coffee needs to be stirred, cook up the omelette, prepare the coffee, plates, fruit and serve: voila a breakfast for a king. And it only takes one oven pan, one frying pan, one knife, and one cutting board.

My quick breakfast revolves around the all powerful toasted English Muffin. You can take it in so many ways depending on how much time you have or how much you want to eat. One problem with these breakfasts yes I’ve actually tracked the efficiency of different breakfasts on me, I’m a quasi-scientist after all is that they only give me around 3 hours of quick release energy (as in, I’m up and going real fast) and then give me really bad hunger pains if I don’t have a snack when appropriate. Some possibilities include:
– Quick cook an egg. Voila a simple egg sandwich. Great for all around energy. Add any meat for extra protein (quick fry a cold cut, super yummy).
– Mash up an avocado, add salsa or pepper if you fancy, and spread it on each side. Top with salt. One of my favorites.
– Peanut butter or Nutella (my favourite). Jam too, though I will admit I am not really a fan of jam on English muffins because the muffins tend to be sharper and crisper than toast.
– Cream cheese is great. Add a meat such as smoked salmon for bonus protein.

My observations conclude that eating pure carbohydrates such as cereal give me a super energy boost but leave me with crippling hunger pains within two hours. I am now experimenting with incorporating various cereals (I loved Muslix but since Kellogs makes it I can’t buy it anymore go Michael I buy my store’s cloned version) into the full breakfast.

Coffee. Lots of coffee.

Coffee, oatbran (like oatmeal, but instant), nonfat TJs yogurt

Coffee, cereal

the super greasy and fatty mcdonalds deluxe breakfast… I seriously can’t help it. It almost makes me wanna throw up but it’s delicious in some ways. So I feel all content and sick in such mornings. And then I turned to sandwiches which I found to be so, SO dry that I gave up on it to. Nowadays, I try some fruits, a chocolate bar (for calorie folks, Im not some chocolate maniac :) ) and milk if I’m lucky enough to have it in the fridge…

On week days: latte and a danish

On some weekends pancakes or waffles or french toast. If guests are around, sausage, too.

Weekdays (when the kids are at school) it’s just coffee when I wake up, but I eat an early lunch.
Weekends we make big breakfasts. Eggs (my favorite is veggie omlette or poached) and bacon, toast, fruit, home fries, pancakes or french toast, crepes with fresh whipped cream and fruit, open faced sandwiches (cheese, bacon, sliced tomato) or cream of wheat. Whatever we have a taste for. Sometimes we decide to switch it up and make breakfast for dinner.

I don’t know how some people can get by on coffee and cereal alone. I have a toasted bagel with cream cheese and ham or turkey, followed by either a large bowl of Kashi Golean or a Clif Builder’s Bar (20 grams of protein and all natural ingredients). At 10:30 I have another Builder’s Bar, then have a modest sized lunch.

A few almonds, some juice or fruit, oatmeal when I’m not too lazy to make it.

@Triiiple – If you always have cold cereal then how did you manage to burn your breakfast?

@mirifique – Sometimes I eat fruit with my cereal. But I’m only 5’1”. I have a little stomach.

@mirifique bagel sandwiches are the best! A toasted onion bagel, a little butter, turkey, pepper, and a big scoop of fresh salsa. Mmmmmm…

@elijahsuicide They really are!

I rotate between:

Oatmeal with walnuts
Everything Bagel with cream cheese
Scrambled eggs on toast
Yogurt with cereal in it (generally granola or cocoa krispies)

Depends on how much time I have in the morning! If I sleep way too late I’ll just grab a granola bar on my way out the door, but I don’t like to do that. On the weekends I’ll make an egg sandwich on a bagel with cheese and sometimes bacon if I’ve broken down and purchased some of it. Oh, and ALWAYS a large mug of some kind of black tea.

Bowl-sized cup of espresso with honey and some 2 per cent milk or soymilk as soon as I wake up. Then write for an hour. Then a poached egg and a slice of toast. The best.
Lunch around 3. The egg holds me.

I don’t eat breakfast. I’m bad.

capn crunch berries (:

I eat a live toad first thing in the morning, that way, nothing worse than that can happen to me the rest of the day! I’ve been waiting years to use that line.

@evelyns_pet_zebra – Actually, the same goes for the toad, don’t you think?

@Darwin The toad never complains, so how can I tell?