I start the day with a really strong cup of coffee, chased by a handful of dried apricots. Then I have a banana, followed by a cup of yogurt. Sometimes if I am feeling wild and crazy, I eat the yogurt before the banana. That's first breakfast. Second breakfast happens an hour later, when I make myself an egg-cheese-muffin sandwich. That'll tide me over til first lunch.
The only day I do anything different is Sunday, when I will make us pancakes (oatmeal blueberry pancakes! so gooooood).

Coffee, first thing. Without fail.

I bought a personal smoothie blender meant to drink directly from the blender jar. It's small and limits the size of the smoothie. That is the problem with regular blenders, you can make HUGE smoothies, and calorie savings are nixed by quantity.

My smoothies always have yogurt (protein) and raw quick oatmeal. The blending effectively "cooks" the oatmeal. Plus, half of an apple or pear (fresh), plus berries (frozen). I found a source of good cheap fresh carrot juice, so that will likely be my usual thinner. Other fruits as I buy them. When I remember, I throw in a few pecans or whatever other nuts I have.

wow you guys have it figured out

I've usually eaten the equivalent of leftovers or unhealthy outside breakfastythings (I usually wake up late in the day). But now that I've been eating more carefully that doesn't really work, and I'm especially getting sensitive to eating too many carbs immediately (I get tired). So I've been eating stuff like oatmeal, or corn flakes, etc. with a banana. I do need to figure out the protein side of the equation. Maybe boiled eggs or some cooked chicken...

Ideally then it'd be laid out like this in order:

A bunch of water, maybe with lemon.
Oatmeal or shredded wheat or equivalent with a spot of milk and some fruit
(later) some protein. Maybe with bread. And coffee/tea

Yogurt, the greek kind, sometimes with almonds/berries/whatever but just as often plain.

Mon-Sat I wake up, have a cup of black coffee brought to me or bring it out. Sit in bed and read the news until the coffee is done. Get up, eat my yogurt cup while setting up the next cup of coffee, the whole thing takes about ten minutes really - finish yogurt, no morning stretches and exercises for about another 20 min or so before showering/brushing/face ointment putting on.

On Sundays I wake up and go down to the local pub and have beer, not coffee, and usually some bad for me pub food and gossip with the bar tender.

For those of you who work during the week: do you eat at home, before you leave? In the car? At your desk? A combination of these?

1. Always a glass of ice tea. I do not remember any time in my life when there hasn't been a pitcher of tea in my fridge.

2. A bowl of some hippy healthy cereal, with a little milk.

I am thinking of changing up this routine. Except for the ice tea.

I don't usually eat breakfast.
When I get up I take pills with water, but don't get hungry til about 11 and then I can just hold out til lunch.

3 jobs ago, we had "editorial dept yogurt time" at 10:30 every day, which was kind of fun. We realized that our whole group ate yogurt and liked to do it around the same time, so we just made it a thing.
I miss that, working from home now.

I've been trying to eat a regular breakfast, at home, since starting my new job. I'm usually unsuccessful. I do have to eat something in the morning, because I require medication that needs to be taken with food. Otherwise, I'd probably skip it like I always used to. Right now, bowl of cereal, skim milk. Frosted Flakes, because they taste better than cornflakes, and the nutritional info says they're actually better.

I don't drink coffee, can't drink coffee, am allergic to it, and find it disgusting. Or some combination of any of those things. I've never bothered to figure it out. What I did figure out, in the lead-up to getting diagnosed with sleep apnea, is that for the cost of about 2 cups of coffee, I can get a month's worth of caffeine pills (something like 40 for $8 at K-Mart, unless they're on sale for cheaper). I just take one with breakfast. All the benefits of drinking a strong cuppa, without the cost, hassle, or disgusting taste/smell (and discoloration of teeth? I think?). It's not for everyone, I guess, but neither is drinking coffee. (Meaning I'm not saying it to sound all superior or anything, but I do think y'all coffee-drinking motherfuckers are nasty. And not the good kind of nasty.)

I used to just get a bagel after arriving at work, but I've been trying to do better lately. In an attempt to do the "slow carb" thing I've been eating a couple eggs, usually mixed with pre-chopped onions and peppers in a sort of omelette approximation, black beans, avocado and salsa. The extra time required in the mornings was a hurdle for me, but I forgot how easy and quick eggs are. So far I've only skipped making bfast at home once in two weeks.

while not as extreme as Eide I do think that many people who drink coffee on a totally empty stomach (I used to do that when I was in the States too) would benefit from drinking half a bottle of water first.

I use to be very regimented and disciplined about the whole thing: liquid vitamins, twenty five minutes later, steel cut oatmeal with everything possible added to make it delicious (the militaristic regime sucked all flavor out of it, though) or this one cereal I could tolerate. Coffee, with which I was allowed to linger until I left to commute.

Then I realized this whole breakfast theory was not nearly the necessity I thought it was. Still, if I must fortify for a stretch of daylight, grapenuts, honey and yogurt, that cereal, or oatmeal. Indulgent breakfast out would be something like eggs benedict or biscuits and gravy or something different I don't usually have.

Today I think the first thing I had was coffee, then after a couple hours, reheated chinese food. I think I've had coffee routinely enough for the past few weeks that I have a bit of a addiction headache now.

When I worked in Atlanta, breakfast was simple. Sausage biscuit. You could grab one of those just about anywhere.

I usually have a bowl of cereal in the lunchroom when I get to work, as I can't face eating the moment I get up and usually have just enough time between getting up and leaving to shave, have a quick shower, make my bed, get dressed and slurp down a quick coffee in amongst all that.

I love these glimpses into each other's lives. A great question, candid without being intrusive.

Faux cappuccino (too sleepy to make real at that hour), and mixture of several cold cereals with milk with added fruit & nuts and sunflower seeds (as available).

Gummy vitamins while I feed the pets when I get up. Then coffee. Later on, two poached eggs. I might snack on some raw vegetables with hummus after that. I tend to be hungrier later in the day. I work from home, so snacking is pretty tempting.

Usually I end up eating the dregs of my two kids' cereal bowls (they are ages 5 and 2). Or if they have eggs and toast, then the crusts of their toast and leftovers of their eggs. Realizing this kind of gives me a sad; it is such a tangible reminder of how I end up not taking very good care of myself because I am always taking care of them.

I do always make coffee for myself, though. With cream and sugar. Usually two cups. Sometimes it is only coffee for me until lunch, when I eat the crusts of their PBJs. Oh god.

On the days I'm in the office, I take a flask of strong coffee to drink on the train, then I have porridge made in the microwave at work at 7am, and a banana at about 9.45.

On my work-at-home days I have several cups of coffee and then mid-morning I'll have an omelet and a banana.

Weekends I usually have fruit, nuts and yoghurt for breakfast. If I'm going for a run I'll have just a banana and then I'll eat brunch when I get home.

Black coffee, always - and either toast (with houmous, peanut butter or something sweet), or granola/muesli and yogurt. Haven't had the latter for ages, so maybe I will tomorrow. Sometimes pastries at the weekend.

I keep cereal, yogurt and coffee at work and used to have breakfast there maybe 1 day in 3, but that doesn't seem to work for me during pregnancy.

I prep whatever I'm eating first and then feed the cat. Typically, I prefer a high protein hot breakfast. If I get out of bed at a reasonable hour--I'll make a cheese omelet. I also like hardboiled eggs with honey mustard dressing and shredded mozzarella (I know, you'll think it is nasty but it is SO FUCKING DELICIOUS). If I don't get out of bed at a reasonable hour, I'll either make ramen noodles, melt some cheese on saltines, or heat up some leftovers/meals that I make on Sunday for this exact purpose.

But most of the time, it has to be a hot meal. (With the exception of the hardboiled eggs.)

It typically takes me about 10-15 minutes or so to prep the food and sit down to eat it (in front of my computer while I read stuff on the tubes). During that time I also feed the cat (mentioned above), pack my lunch for the day, and will sometimes put away dishes from the previous evening.

No coffee for me except for a rare occasion in the winter. Mostly ginger ale.

Dishes get washed when I get home.

On the weekends, this doesn't change too much.

On weekdays, I pack a breakfast for the office- 1/3 cup Fiber One, 1/3 cup Craisins. Delicious and nutritious! I have a mid-morning snack between breakfast and lunch of some nuts (right now it's a handful of cashews).

On Saturdays, I try to do a fun late breakfast- french toast, waffles, some fancy egg thing.

On Sundays, I'm usually grabbing bits of pastry at church.

OJ every morning! OJ is my coffee, can't live without it.

Two cups of coffee with Chocolate flavor Coffee Mate. Shut up. It's so good. I drink one at home and the second one in the car on the way to school/kid work/me.

Food wise I will usually eat nothing or will eat a banana if we have any, or a small handful of dry Cinnamon Life cereal.

Breakfast is not my thing. When I have to go out for breakfast, I don't want breakfast food. I might get a bagel and cream cheese if its a place with real bagels (think Jewish deli, not mass produced), or I will ask if I can get regular food from the lunch menu.

Individually I like various breakfast foods, I guess, but just don't really want to eat much in the morning. I'd rather eat a cookie than a waffle, or a sandwich instead of a omelet.

Double fist black coffee and diet pepsi while I toilet, dress, dog walk. 90% of the time, I have two hard boiled egg whites with maybe a little bit of yolk, well salted and peppered, in the car. Then when I get to my desk, finish the diet pepsi, with a piece of double bubble gum chaser. Then I switch to lemonade Crystal Light, well iced.

About 10:30 I'll have some cole slaw or chicken.

Yeah!

Oh, and the desk pills: Vit D, Vit B, baby aspirin, psyllium fiber husks, blood pressure pill, if it's a crazy day, a quarter of a nerve pill (rare but there).

I go through phases. I'll have oatmeal or cereal or toast for breakfast until I get tired of it, and then I'll have one of the others for awhile. Right now I'm in a cinnamon raisin bread phase. I toast and butter it. And whatever phase I am in, I always have a glass of milk, some fruit, and multi-vitamins with it, unless I'm having cereal, and then I don't have the glass of milk because, of course, it's in the cereal.

And my routine is, I go downstairs to the kitchen, feed Trilby his breakfast, make mine, then take mine back upstairs to my room where I sit up in bed with my laptop on my lap and update my blog's Facebook page and Twitter account while I eat. It doesn't take me long to eat it, maybe five or six minutes.

My breakfast is always one-fifth of a can of President's Choice Finicky Cat (turkey and giblets, salmon, or tuna flavour) with about 1/4 cup of water added. Sometimes if there's another kind of cat food on sale, the person buys it instead. Sometimes I catch a mouse and I have that as well, but I still always have my regular breakfast too.

My routine is that when it starts to get light, or if I just decide it's breakfast time, I sit beside the person on her bed, or on the night table depending on which way she's facing, and I stare at her, willing her to wake up with my special pussycat brain wave powers. If that doesn't work, I start speaking to her at decreasingly shorter intervals. If that doesn't work, sometimes I go down to the kitchen and hang out for awhile and then come back upstairs and try again, but the rest of the time I just keep trying until she wakes up. I score some petting if I can. Then she gets up, I follow her to the bathroom, and I keep squawking at her to make sure she doesn't forget about me and my breakfast.

Then we head downstairs, with me leading the way and squawking to make sure she's reminded of me and my breakfast. Then once she gets to the kitchen and fills the bowl, I pace back and forth between the counter and the back kitchen area where she sets out my bowls. I keep squawking. It's part of my job to make sure she doesn't forget about me and my breakfast. Finally she sets the bowl down in front of me and I tuck in. And then once I'm done I go back upstairs and see if the person will let me have some of her breakfast. Which she never does, even though I love milk and she knows it. Specieist bitch. Then I have a nap.

Strong black coffee and a clif bar. And then a protein shake after my run. I'm such a cliche.

I get up, bathroom, stumble into the kitchen, start the water boiling for coffee, feed the dogs and wash some dishes while they eat (there are always dishes to wash. Always.) Then I have an Emergen-C with seltzer and either a piece of toast and a bowl of hippie cereal with almond or soy milk or a fried egg and cheese sandwich on an english muffin or maybe a peanut butter sandwich, depending. Then the coffee is ready - I have a french press - so I have a cup of black (yes like the men, dark and bitter) coffee while I either check the internets or frantically get ready for work. The first cup of coffee used to be my first cigarette so I had to change from automatically going out onto the porch with it and a book every morning and I kind of miss it. I'm still trying, five months later, to figure out how to be out on the porch without smoking or wanting to smoke. Then I'll drink coffee for the rest of the morning until the pot, which is largish, is gone.

Y'all make me realize just how unhealthy my diet is. During the week, I rarely make time to eat at home. Breakfast, on a good day, is a Clif bar or Naked smoothie. On a bad day, it's McDonalds drive thru or a bagel sandwich (I know!). No wonder I still have 20 pounds of baby weight to lose.

Nine-grain toast with Nutella. Double espresso. Taken at home in front of my computer as I start my day.

Breakfast during the week is some cereal, sometimes with milk, sometimes just in a bag, and either two soy sausages (on days I'm working out, so I need the extra protein) or a jimmy dean breakfast sandwich - currently, their version of the egg mcmuffin. Most mornings I drink nothing in the mornings until I get to work, and then I have the all essential coffee. Some mornings, I have a cup of coffee at home, but it's rare that I have the time for that. I *should* drink a glass of water first thing, every day, but I don't.

Weekends depend - we like to go out one morning, but the place we've been having breakfast for the last 5 years switched out their bacon, so it's not as good. We're currently searching for a new breakfast place.

Coffee. Can't function without it. I take a thermos with me to work and sip on it throughout the day, but mostly in the morning (saves money). The occasional poptart or roll with butter. On special occasions, a bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich from the truck outside the school where I teach, if I can fight my way through the crowd of kids checking their cell phones for a dollar a day (I guess he makes more money from that than egg sandwiches).

On weekends, I have been known to enjoy a slice of cold pizza or leftover lo mien for breakfast, if I wake up hungry. And, of course, coffee. There's also a fabulous bagel shop two blocks from our apartment, where we indulge sometimes (not often enough). Nothing beats a New York bagel.

Trilby, Zooey loves milk too, but she throw up all over the place if I give her more than a tiny bit, and sometimes even then.