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28 November 2010

Breakfast! What do you usually do for breakfast? →[More:]

Since I haven't had a kitchen for awhile, I've been doing fruit for breakfast at work (usually pineapple!). But that's expensive, and now that I'm finally moving in to my own place again, I'm going to start making my own breakfast.

I'm thinking cereal. Maybe waffles on the weekend. I'm not talking fantasy here; what's your usual breakfast?

post by: Eideteker at: 10:21 | 40 comments

Straight from my command prompt

findstr /i /c:"breakfast:" OBLF.htm

[Many lines deleted]

Breakfast: Muesli
Breakfast: Muesli
Breakfast: Muesli
Breakfast: Muesli, yoghurt, honey
Breakfast: Muesli (large helping)
Breakfast: Muesli, yoghurt, honey
Breakfast: Ham tomato sandwich
Breakfast: Muesli
Breakfast: Muesli
Breakfast: Toast, pate
Breakfast: Toast, cheese, tomato
Breakfast: Muesli
Breakfast: Coco pops (35g)
Breakfast: Muesli
Breakfast: 2 toast, mini-babybel, tomatoes
Breakfast: Frosties
Breakfast: Toast ham tomato
Breakfast: Toast, ham, tomato
Breakfast: Ham sandwich
Breakfast: Bacon sandwich, tomato, mini Mars bar
Breakfast: 2 bacon and cheese sandwiches.

posted by TheophileEscargot 28 November | 10:31

I have two distinct approaches:

1) Weekday, work day breakfasts - cereal with fruit, or a english muffin with peanut butter, or sometimes a grainy bagel with cream cheese. If I run out of time, I'll grab a carrot muffin with some butter, at the coffee place

2) Weekend, when I can get folks to join me at a decent greasy spoon - 2 eggs poached medium, crispy bacon, brown toast and homefries (how much I enjoy homefries varies widely based on location - best ever? Sneaky Dee's in Toronto, Eddie's here at home)

posted by richat 28 November | 11:04

I don't really have a Usually anymore for breakfast. It used to be: big cappuccino and a fruit smoothie (home-frozen berries with orange juice and maybe yogurt) right away, and later a piece of whole wheat toast, maybe with peanut butter.

Then our Magic Bullet died, and my breakfast routine went to hell.

I know: I poked so much gentle fun at my partner over his desire for a Magic Bullet! It's just a crappy too-small blender, right? But it turned out that I used that thing EVERY DAY, at least once a day. I really miss it! I keep scouring the thrift-store shelves, figuring someone as scornful as I was must be tossing one out, but I'm almost ready to break down and pay full price plus shipping.

Until then, I usually manage to have a piece of toast and a coffee, then wish I had some fruit.

This thread reminds me that it's time to make granola!

posted by Elsa 28 November | 11:28

Hot cereal, lately either oatmeal or the "Peppy Kernels" from Bob's Red Mill, with black pepper and crushed red pepper, because I'm weird. I picked up some maple syrup two weeks ago, though, so I've been making french toast more often.

posted by enn 28 November | 11:35

Oh, and another "hot cereal" kinda thing: in cold weather, one of my favorite breakfasts is leftover brown rice topped with a handful of toasted, barely salted almonds (you can do a batch in advance and store in a jar). I zonk the whole thing in the microwave just long enough to get the rice hot through.

It's really good: a little chewy, very hearty, and incredibly easy and fast. If I want a savory breakfast, I top it with a chunk of sharp cheddar, or honey if I want it sweet.

posted by Elsa 28 November | 11:48

I eat a bowlful of Kashi Go Lean cereal. Unless someone invites me out for breakfast, in which case I eat french toast or pancakes.

posted by JanetLand 28 November | 11:51

Always coffee. Sometimes I stop at Whole Foods or Brueggers to pick something up. Sometimes I bring my lunch and tuck into it early. I don't tend to get hungry until a few hours after I'm awake.

posted by Stewriffic 28 November | 11:58

Workdays, I make burrito out of a small flour tortilla, veggie refried beans or sometimes black beans, hot sauce, lettuce, tomato if I have it, and a little bit of sour cream/yogurt dressing, or cheese if I'm feeling decadent. I take it with and usually eat it around 9:30.

posted by rainbaby 28 November | 12:00

Cereal
Crackers + cheese

and an apple, typically

Sometimes some ginger ale makes it in too.

I have a ton of oatmeal that I picked up over the summer for super cheap so I'm probably going to start eating that soon. I wonder if I can make it with milk. (It's the little packet kind.)

posted by sperose 28 November | 12:02

Black coffee + cold cereal (usually shredded wheat), I can't handle anything more complicated first thing in the morning. Hot cereal is out since I don't trust myself to boil water and fruit usually involved knives.

posted by octothorpe 28 November | 12:09

In cold weather, porridge, a very small portion on the days I'm heading out to the office, and when I get to work I'll then have yoghurt and a banana. On the days I work from home, I'll have a larger bowl of porridge and add raisins, cinnamon and maybe half a chopped banana.

In warm weather, a smoothie made with yoghurt, banana, juice, ground flax, or home-made muesli made with oats, nuts, dried fruit, ground flax, all soaked in fruit juice and served with yoghurt and banana or fruit compote.

I rarely have a fry-up for breakfast, although when I do I usually really enjoy it, but I wouldn't make a habit of it.

I love American breakfasts - pancakes, waffles, French toast, muffins. It's like having dessert for breakfast!

posted by Senyar 28 November | 12:20

Pie!

posted by pjern 28 November | 12:53

During the week, a Clif bar. I can't bear to wake up any earlier than I have to to prepare something.

On the weekend, if I have breakfast it is likely eggs or oatmeal or pancakes.

posted by amro 28 November | 13:03

Being a man of leisure, I can cook a a fairly decent breakfast. The breakfast I eat most often includes low-sodium turkey kielbasa, whole-grain toast (black break is my favorite), and home fries that are half onions and bell peppers. Coffee and milk. Oatmeal if I am really hungry.

I have to eat a fairly sizable breakfast as well as a well-rounded lunch if I expect to have any energy by mid-afternoon. The whole-grain bread goes a long way with the complex carbs. I had to force myself to eat at least 3 slices each day but that habit got easier.

posted by Ardiril 28 November | 13:07

--Quick-cook steel-cut oats with a little milk mixed in, and also maple syrup, fruit preserves, mandarin oranges or raisins mixed in

--Egg sandwich with one fried egg, a piece of deli cheese and a piece of bacon or ham deli meat on an English muffin

--A piece of cut-up fruit or a spoonful of canned mandarin oranges and a piece of toast with butter

--A banana with peanut butter dollops

--A piece of pita bread with hummus

posted by initapplette 28 November | 13:27

Sugar cream, pjern? ;-)

I'm not a morning person, so I don't usually eat it. Scrambled eggs, fruit, bacon or sausage, rye toast and sometimes a pancake or muffin when I eat out. A handful of nuts when I don't and am in a rush.

posted by brujita 28 November | 14:09

Of course, all that work gets tossed if the kids left pizza in the fridge overnight. Cold pizza is an irresistible magnet.

posted by Ardiril 28 November | 14:23

Elsa: buy a Ninja instead - it kicks the arse of the Magic Bullet.

posted by Senyar 28 November | 14:24

A hard boiled egg on an english muffin is standard for me, but today was a restaurant breakfast with eggs over easy, bacon, and potatoes.

posted by wens 28 November | 14:47

Peanut Butter Panda Puffs!

posted by evilcupcakes 28 November | 14:52

At work, I eat cereal- 1/2 cup of Fiber one with 1/3 cup of dried cranberries. I usually have a glass of OJ before I leave the house in the morning.

On weekends or holidays, I like to do more- omelettes, waffles, dutch baby.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 28 November | 14:57

Oooh, thanks, Senyar; that looks promising.

Though I must admit the appeal of the Bullet is its absolute mindlessness and familiarity. I can use it while still half-asleep, which is HUGE.

For bigger jobs, I have my food processor and a kick-ass immersion blender, which has a smaller FP attachment, too. I can't seem to get into the habit of using my immersion blender for smoothies. Though it works fine, it's apparently one step too complicated for me to tackle first thing in the morning.

All of that suggests that I really don't need another competent machine; I need another stupidly-simple, completely familiar machine. The Bullet is exactly that.

posted by Elsa 28 November | 15:00

Toast (Healthy Way Twenty Loaf bread) with peanut butter. Every day. Usually one piece - if I'm hungry, I might eat two. Oh, and tea.

posted by nelvana 28 November | 15:18

2 cups of coffee, and a small handful of my kid's Cinnamon Life, dry. That's it. Sometimes I skip the cereal but I always have the coffee.

posted by Kangaroo 28 November | 16:21

Lately my breakfast has been fried eggs and sausages (3 of each). Simvastatin is controlling my cholesterol nicely, thank you.

Other days it might be yogurt, blueberries, oats and raisins; or plain cereal: corn flakes or rice chex.

Add coffee, of course... 1 or 2 cups, always with milk, sometimes with sugar...

posted by DarkForest 28 November | 17:07

I don't, usually, so here's what my dad (whose mother's side of the family is pure Alp-dwelling Swiss, and further influenced by his grandmother, who was a health food educator of some kind around the 20s) has every day. He uses a Quaker oats canister to store an easy version of homemade muesli, 2 to 3 parts raw rolled oats to one part organic granola. Over a half-cup or so of this, he pours a little skim milk, dollops on some Greek yogurt, and then adds a couple of ounces of chopped almonds and berries or banana. Afterwards, a couple of demitasse cupfuls of fresh ground espresso made in a French press, and he's off teaching classes, writing books, and running stairs for fun.

If I do make breakfast, it's almost always an egg-in-the-hole or two using whole wheat bread, quick and simple.

posted by notquitemaryann 28 November | 18:08

Uh, I don't normally eat breakfast. But when I do (or it's the weekend) it can either be Jiffy mix muffins, pancakes. egg-in-a-frame, leftovers from last night, etc.

Seeing as breakfast means "breaking your fast" from the night before, almost anything is fair game for me.

posted by TrishaLynn 28 November | 18:08

If I do eat breakfast, which isn't often (apart from coffee) it's usually something like a slice of cheese and some hummus and crackers. Cereal doesn't really keep me going for long.

posted by gaspode 28 November | 19:10

Weekdays: Cold cereal - for the past two weeks raisin bran since my daughter has been eating all my rice chex simulant cereal.

Weekends - depends. We make something more substantial depending on the kids' mood. Eggs - pancakes - waffles - French toast - that kind of thing.

posted by plinth 28 November | 19:16

I eat a bowlful of Kashi Go Lean cereal. Unless someone invites me out for breakfast, in which case I eat french toast or pancakes.

JanetLand is my breakfast twin. My morning is coffee+milk and then Kashi+milk a little later, maybe w/ fruit if I'm feeling crazy. Maybe a few times a month I skip cereal and go straight to lunch. Occasionally I'll go out to breakfast [I don't get up really before brunch] and then I'll get maybe pancakes or a waffle.

posted by jessamyn 28 November | 19:19

Oatmeal, high-fiber cereal with skim milk, or two eggs. Sometimes I eat the eggs with toast, sometimes fruit.

posted by LoriFLA 28 November | 19:45

On weekdays I eat two Kashi cereal bars with hot tea. On weekends I sleep in.

posted by BoringPostcards 28 November | 20:47

Coffee.

I love breakfast food, though. I just don't usually eat it for breakfast.

posted by Pips 28 November | 20:59

Bourbon.

posted by jonmc 28 November | 21:43

I love to make various mini pancakes!

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Otherwise it's either bran cereal, or vegemite on toast or poached egg on toast.

posted by gomichild 28 November | 23:21

Workdays: bowl of cereal with milk at my desk around 9am. If I ran out of cereal or milk and forgot to get/bring more in, then I'll pop into the coffee shop for half a muffin. If I'm at home alone on a workday then I'll make myself eggs with a hat.

Weekends: Usually waffles or pancakes from scratch. Sometimes with bacon. This morning we had bacon and cheese omelet and toast with jam.

posted by rhapsodie 29 November | 00:13

Weekdays is one of the following:
- two bowls of dry cereal with milk (usually Cheerios, Raisin Bran or Special K)
- toasted bagel with cream cheese
- two packets of Quaker Oats hot cereal with milk

Weekends:
Saturday - the mister usually brings home fast food breaky
Sunday - eggs (scrambled or fried), hash browns and toast or sausage and biscuits w/gravy or waffles with fruit
The mister usually fries up a whole pound of bacon and I may have a slice or two, but it's usually saved for BLTs later in the week.

posted by deborah 29 November | 00:46

I thought of metachazens fondly as I made my burrito this morning. Then I left it at home.

Curse you all.

posted by rainbaby 29 November | 08:29

Such a bore I am.

Weekdays and Saturday: 1/2 cup Peace Hearty Raisin Bran or Kashi GoLean Crunch, plus a LOT of organic berries (blueberries, raspberries, strawberries) and sometimes a half banana when I'm low on berries, plus a 1/2 cup of nonfat local (grass fed) milk.
Slight variation on cold mornings: Nature's Path Flax n'Oats hot cereal zapped with water for a minute in the microwave, plus the berries/banana, plus some of the milk.

Sundays: 2 eggs, either poached or over easy, plus a broiled hot turkey sausage, plus 2 slices whole wheat/oat toast, plus a grapefruit.

I am more interesting when we go out for breakfast.

posted by bearwife 29 November | 13:39

I'm pretty boring myself. These days it's scrambled eggs, and if I remember, shredded cheese on top. Since it's cold now I do coffee instead of tea.

What I love doing this time of year is ham with brown sugar and pineapple. I should totally do that this week.

What I should also make is "poco bueno" (pretty good) made from my dad's memories: cracked wheat (or wheat germ) with peanuts, roasted until cooked. I add some dried strawberries, too. It's like a warm peanut butter sandwich when you nuke it with milk.

posted by lysdexic 29 November | 22:35

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