So, how many of you out there are breakfast eaters? Do you indulge in big breakfasts on weekends? Do you eat "non-breakfast" foods in the mornings? Or coffee and nothing else?
I was a bowl of cereal person for all my growing up years and many years thereafter, until I learned that my body responds MUCH better to a substantial serving of protein for breakfast.
Today I had a breakfast burritos with 3 scrambled eggs w/ tabasco and cheese on a whole wheat tortilla. It was yummy, and I definitely won't be looking for anything to snack on till lunchtime.
Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on November 12, 2005 10:11 AM:
I am a consumer of breakfasts. However, I am a rather dull consumer of breakfasts, and a question such as this will likely elicit more information than you were hoping to get.
However, since the question has been posed, I do feel it is hereby my duty to expound to the best of my knowledge and ability.
My breakfasts are ordinary, dull, and, for the most part, unchanging with little variety. I eat bran with yoghurt. Strawberry flavored most days, but also plain sweetened. No other flavors are available.
But it just occurred to me - and I now wonder why I had not considered this before - that I could add mango or such other fruit juice cordials as we regularly have in stock to my plain yoghurt for more variety.
Excellent idea!
No, no coffee or tea, but occasionally herbal tea. When we have bananas, they also go in with the yoghurt and bran.
Yum!
(Okay, okay, bran isn't yum, but bran with yoghurt is way way way better than bran with milk, which is just gross and disgusting to me. Ick!)
Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on November 12, 2005 10:13 AM:
I used to eat wheat germ w/ yogurt, and that was pretty yummy, actually. I'd forgotten all about that particular breakfast! Actually, I'd forgotten all about the existence of wheat germ . . .
Posted by sweetbaboo (Member # 8845) on November 12, 2005 10:18 AM:
Old fashioned oatmeal cooked in skim milk instead of water with a little bit of vanilla to make it taste pudding-like. YUM!
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on November 12, 2005 10:22 AM:
Great. Now I'm starving, there's no food in the house and it's raining.
Thanks.
Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on November 12, 2005 10:28 AM:
heh heh . . . well Bob, the thread WAS clearly labelled and you clicked on it!! Hmmm...drive out to McDonald's for an egg mcmuffin or something?
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on November 12, 2005 11:24 AM:
I'm another one who grew up on cold cereal and maybe an occasional weekend "treat" of eggs or french toast or something similar. Once I got out and on my own, I found that I rarely took the time to eat breakfast except for (some) weekends, and when I did, it was typically bread/cereal/fruit and little to no meat or eggs. When the doctor ordered me to go on the South Beach diet to lose 50 pounds, I started having cheese sticks or hardboiled eggs and yogurt for breakfast instead. One big downside, though, is that I now routinely find myself wanting to nibble within 3 hours, so I end up delaying breakfast until after I get to work (and by that point I've been up and about for almost 3 hours) so I can make it through until lunch time.
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on November 12, 2005 11:45 AM:
I, for one, greatly enjoy the breakfast. I usually have cereal because that's all I have time for, though I mix up the kind a lot. At times I have pancakes or waffles, but that's always a weekend effort if it ever happens.
Posted by romanylass (Member # 6306) on November 12, 2005 11:54 AM:
Right now I have whole grain blueberry pancakes on the griddle. ON the other 6 days I have Kashi with yogurt or toast and peanut butter. Every day accompianied by a triple latte.
Posted by Theaca (Member # 8325) on November 12, 2005 12:12 PM:
I just ate a hard boiled egg (I made some last night) and I'm still hungry. I guess it IS lunchtime technically. Do I want something with cheese or do I want whipped chocolate mousse yoghurt? Oh! I have a hotdog left over. That'll work.
Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on November 12, 2005 12:21 PM:
We're having brick oven 5 cheese pizza. And sliced apples.