What is your typical breakfast?

[Michael_in_TX]

For me, breakfast has to be fast. Anything longer than ten minutes simply isn't happening. For many years, I've done the cereal thing, but I'm really sensitive to sugar (and there is a lot of sugar even in just the milk) and would get a sugar crash mid-morning. Plus, it never leaves me full and I hate being hungry at 10 am.

I've messed around with oatmeals and countless microwavable things. My current breakfast is something that is fresh, relatively healthy, certainly filling, and tasty.

It's basically an egg breakfast sandwich. Here it is:



It goes together pretty quickly: I take a whole wheat English muffin, slice it, and get it going in the toaster. I then take two slices of microwavable bacon and zap that for 15 seconds. (Microwave bacon slices are small and less greasy than normal.)

I then put a splash of milk in a 2 cup pyrex bowl, a pinch of salt, some pepper, and crack one egg in there and whisk well. (The pyrex dish's diameter more-or-less matches the diameter of the english muffin.) That goes in my 1100 watt microwave for 45 seconds.

By now the muffin has popped out of the toaster. I break the bacon slices in two (so I now have four pieces of bacon.) On the bottom english muffin slice, I place two bacon slices. I then carefully slide the now cooked egg onto the bottom english muffin half (it is normal to have a bit of uncooked egg still in the bowl). Then I top that with the remaining two bacon slices.

Then I place a slice of sharp cheddar cheese on top of that, and a tomato slice on top of that. The top english muffin half gets a bit of kewpie (Japanese) mayo and then the entire thing is done. (Don't put mayo on the bottom english muffin as it will make your egg slide out when you try to eat it.

This thing will keep me satiated for a good three-four hours.

This is accompanied by two large mugs of 50/50 caf/decaf coffee. Never more, but certainly never less.

So what do you usually eat in the morning?

[texastweeter]

Coffee and a cigar.

[CaptainMike]

Sipped from a skull of one of your enemies, no doubt.

[Andrrr]

Coffee

[Red Man]

On work days it’s typically a cup of coffee, glass of OJ, and a kind bar. On weekends it could be anything.

[Panhead John]

Yeah, I don’t like those mean bars.

[texastweeter]

Coffee and oj?! Ack! Lol

[Jerod Broussard]

Working 2nd shift I'm typically not getting up until 1130hrs or so. Wheaties or an egg, cheese, sausage biscuit of some sort. Sometimes a hamburger.

[holehogg]

One meal a day for me so only a couple cups coffee. If I did eat breakfast I'd have no hesitation eating what you serving.

[texastweeter]

I am the same. Only supper.

[RichardCullip]

I alternate btwn cheerios in almond milk with greek yogurt and an omelette of some sorts. Trying to emphasize protein over carbs.

[Michael_in_TX]

I forgot I had done the almond milk + splenda thing for awhile. Quite good, actually.

[smokin fool]

Sounds like my morning, Mon and Thurs mornings I do a spin class at 9am and don't want to chuck all over the place so just a yogurt.
Rest of week its Cheerios or Life cereal but in milk, tried the Almond milk thing.
Didn't mind Almond milk but its really never caught on in this house.
Weekends we copy Donw with the belly buster egg, pork, bean, hash browns wake up call.
No grits.

[Donw]

I’m a creature of habit so Monday thru Thursday it is one thick slice of homemade bread, toasted, slight smear of strawberry preserves and a slice of cheese. Friday thru Sunday it is homemade biscuits with country ham, eggs, and grits

True story. For over 3 years I ate lunch at the same place and in the same booth every workday and ordered the exact same meal, a jerked chicken sandwich. One day my companions ragged me so much about it that I changed my order that one time. The cooks came out of the kitchen to double check because they thought the server had made a mistake on my order.

[texastweeter]

Lots of my favorites on that plate. 3 to be exact. Make those eggs over easy, and it would be a perfect score!

[prepperjack]

Never in my life have I seen gravy on grits before. Around here, I think they'd just shoot you dead if anyone saw you eating that in public.

[Donw]

prepperjack Eating grits without Redeye gravy is a felony in many States! Definitely marks you as "Ain’t from around here" in many locales.

[Jfrosty27]

My routine since I retired never changes. Get up between 7 and 8 AM. Coffee while reading the news on my tablet until around 10:00. Then brunch of either some sort of egg based dish or leftovers depending upon what is in the fridge.

[Jim White]

Cereal with plain yogurt instead of milk and coffee.

[CaptainMike]

I was doing the egg sandwich thing for quite a while, but have recently switched over to steel cut oats. I actually feel more energetic since doing so and it really helps with, there's no good way to put this delicately, my morning constitutional. The oats do take a while to cook, at least 30 minutes, but I'm an early riser and every day is Saturday so it's no big deal. I cook enough for my wife to take some with her to work as well. One of the weekend days I do up some kind of big, fun breakfast for us.

[Skip]

Constitutional? I guess I should have paid more attention in History Class.

[Old Glory]

Try it in the Insta Pot

[CaptainMike]

Good call, Old Glory!

[JohnPaul]

Black coffee at wake up. 3-4 hours later Oatmeal with Kerrygold butter and a touch of sugar.

[Santamarina]

These days it’s a smoothie. Frozen: dragon fruit, jack fruit, blueberries, blackberries, strawberries, spinach, and kale. Fresh: banana, apple, grapefruit. Toss’em all in the blender with some chia seed and pomegranate juice and I’m full until lunch!

For years I was an egg guy - over easy, scrambled, omelets (which usually included some dinner leftovers chopped inside). Couple those with bacon, sausage, potatoes…heavenly.

However, I have a chronic sickness that is not a fan of eggs (well, I guess it’s a fan of eggs, but I’m not a fan of the sickness) so I quit eating eggs about a year ago. My condition is much improved! I still enjoy bacon, sausage, and home fried potatoes on the weekend…and still make eggs for the rest of the family.

[RonB]

I don't like breakfast, but my doctor insists that I eat something in the morning. I alternate between cereal, (no added sugar), and a boiled egg. I boil enough eggs for the week on Mondays. Weekends I may make a one egg omelet or something else.

[Troutman]

KIND cereal with almond milk and sliced banana (MWF) or a bagel with smear (TTH). Weekend bacon and eggs. I also sometimes rotate to a yogurt and fresh fruit smoothie during the week.