What do you have for breakfast?

[jack]

What do you have for breakfast?

I've recently been getting hungry in the mornings, so I think I may want to start having a larger breakfast and a smaller dinner. I've normally had a bowl of cereal or sometimes a pair of crumpets. I ideally want something that it's ok even if I have the same thing every day for a month, because having a choice is nice, but I'd like a default where I can make it on autopilot when I need to.

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[sfred]

In order of frequency:

1x granary toast with 1.5x scrambled egg (3 eggs between 2 people)
1x granary toast with 1x soft-boiled egg
2x granary toast with peanut butter or primula
yoghurt with porridge oats, mixed seeds and jam, made the night before so the yoghurt soaks into the oats
1x toast and a lump of cheese
leftover pizza

On Sundays we have pancakes.

[ceb]

Aaah, leftover pizza. Possibly the only finer breakfast is leftover apple crumble (and that's much harder to come by).

[sfred]

Oh, quite often preceded by half a grapefruit, and always a mug of tea.

[lavendersparkle]

I have three slices of brown bread with margarine and yeast extract, and a mug of tea.

[ceb]

I have an oaty bar and coffee, because my stomach doesn't wake up until after I've got into work.

[rysmiel]

My stomach tends not to be awake enough for any food at all other than caffeinating until I've been in work a couple of hours, so you could probably call the sandwiches I usually have in work technically my breakfast. (I'm with elisem in the first meal of the day counting as breakfast if it is before 1700 local time. After that it is brupper.)

When not working, left to my own devices, I would vacillate between sushi at the nearby hole-in-the-wall sushi place (usually a spider roll and a dragon eye, so mostly salmon, tuna and soft-shell crab), eating somewhere downtown if I happen to have reason to go downtown (most often a poutine with shredded smoked meat in Reuben's), or picking up soft rolls from the Italian bread shop at the end of the block if I happen to have anything nice to put in them. Though I agree that left-over pizza can also be very nice.

Today, as I did not get sandwich filling yesterday, I shall be going to the Korean place down the road from work for lunch and having a bento box. Yay options.

[rmc28]

My default is a big bowl of porridge: 60-80g oats, 30g sultanas, enough milk to cover, in the microwave for 2 minutes, add more milk if necessary. If I have remembered to get ground linseed I put 15-20g of that in too.

If it's too warm or I don't want to wait for the microwave, I have a bowlful of cornflakes or shreddies; but I don't tend to stay full until lunchtime on those.

We get whole milk as it's better for the children, and I'm leaning towards more fat / lower sugar as being better for me.

[rmc28]

Sometimes I make scrambled egg in the morning, with lots of butter, and some toast. But I like my sultana porridge and could probably eat it every day forever (apart from during British heatwaves).

[naath]

Musli and/or ganola (I sometimes buy both and mix them up) with yoghurt and sometimes blueberries; if time tea. When I get to work I have coffee, and sometimes an apple. I can manage to make porridge in the microwave when snoozy, but it takes too long to reach an eatable temperature and makes manky washing up, but sometimes I want something hot, so I do. (Er, I forget the exact ratio of oats to water, but I wrote it on my box of oats so I'd get it right*)

I'm usually eating breakfast a bit before 9 and eat lunch at about 12.

*I see that rmc recommends porridge with milk, this is of course a matter of personal taste - porridge can be made with milk, water, or a mix of the two (cream might work too); some people like to add sugar and/or other sweet flavourings either before heating or after (jam, maple syrup, fruit, etc. are all allegedly nice) personally I like to add salt (sometimes other salty things such as bacon bits, salted peanuts, salted fish) naturally this is also a matter of personal taste. If you haven't eaten porridge much then I guess it could be worth experimenting with how you like it by trying it with different things in.

[yvi]

In order of frequency :-)

* nothing
* some waffles and a coffee
* bread and coffee (weekends)

I am not a good role model in that regard :-)

[emperorzombie]

I tend to eat cereal but there is a short interval between breakfast and lunch so it doesn't need to keep me going that long. If I want something more substantial, I eat some toast with it, or I have porridge with banana and peanut butter which fills me up for hours.

[mathcathy]

Peanut butter in porridge? That sounds nice, I might try it!

[mathcathy]

Porridge with banana.

I buy 3kg of oats at a time, 30 bananas and who knows how much milk. The oats keep in the cupboard, the milk goes in the freezer and I slice up all the bananas, wrap them in cling film and put them in the freezer too ... the hot porridge mostly defrosts the slices, but frozen banana is nice anyway.

Sometimes I vary and throw seeds, nuts or dried fruit into the porridge instead of the banana.

[forestofglory]

Because of medical stuff I've been eating two small meals in the mornings for the last week or so. So I've been having some yogurt for my 1st breakfast, and having milk and cereal with fruit for my 2nd breakfast.

[andrewducker]

Lettuce, cucumber, tomato.

That seems to be enough to keep me going through to lunch.

[syderia]

A few slices of bread (the size depends of the type of bread and cheese during the week - bread, or oatmeal pancakes, or scones and jam or honey on the week-ends. (The oatmeal pancakes freeze very well, so I make a batch and then takes it out of the freezer one morning at a time).

[seryn]

I scramble an egg with butter, served over a bed of arugula (rocket?), cherry tomatoes, toasted whole grain bread or refried potatoes, and coffee with milk.

Sometimes I make an egg pie (spinach and cheese usually) and bake that in advance. It's microwavable if you want it hot, but I eat it cold.

I like ravioli for breakfast. The butternut squash kind with parmesan sprinkled on after.

I'll eat a turkey sandwich for breakfast... this week I had croissants and basil so I made all the sandwiches at once.

Sometimes I have a banana with peanut butter. Though that's usually dinner.

I like egg salad on toast, or just the hard boiled egg and really buttery toast... they sell the eggs pre-cooked and pre-peeled here.

Sometimes I make breakfast tacos with beans and egg and cheese and salsa on tortillas. I do cheat and heat all the stuff for those in the same skillet which looks really disgusting but tastes the same as the fancy layered assembly.

I also like eggy banana pancakes made with cottage cheese and pecans... they're super-high protein for pancakes. Those are good at dinner too.

I don't care when I eat foods, there's no reason for certain things to be "breakfast" to me. Other than feeling really ill if all I have is a sweet pastry. But generally I'm looking for a high-protein option that goes tolerably well with coffee.

I have made a large batch of whole grain multi-grain "oatmeal" (I like it better with the barley and 7 other things) and microwaved individual bowls of that. But I keep putting too much syrup on mine (tasty!!) and then I really want lunch early.

One of the few things I just don't like at breakfast, though it was easy and meets all the criteria, was lentil soup. I do like gazpacho for breakfast. And stew. It's just the curry first thing that killed the lentil idea. Potato soup for breakfast, with cheese on top, is excellent.