What's for breakfast these days?? How's it different for work mornings
as opposed to offdays??

91 responses total.

I've been in non-breakfast mode again lately.  Bad Valerie!
Sometimes on the weekends I'll make pancakes, but that's very rare
lately.  One o' these days I'll go back to the oatmeal-and-raisin thing.
I try to eat a banana or something before the Saturday walks so that
I'm not ready to eat people's shoes by the end of the walk, but I
usually forget.

i hada kahluah <however you spell it> coffee this morning...

well, today it was a coke float...

but normally corn puffs or somethig....

Breakfast?  What's a breakfast?

Frosted Mini Wheats

I've been in a breakfast mode of late... Saturday morning
last weekend, my friend and I went out toa breakfast
buffet.  Since then, most mornings I've had cereal or
muffins.

The usual... bowl of Wheaties, mug of coffee, a banana... forgot to drink
orange juice this morning.

corn pops...lots nd lots of cornpops!!!!  wdell, and a couple of patties
of left-over sasuge and coke..:)

more kaluah coffee, and a bowl of frosted mini wheats.

I'm thinking about starting to eat breakfast again.  Everybody think
happy valerie-breakfast thoughts.  :)

I drink a cup of coffee for breakfast and then go on my way.

During the week and the rush of Daddy's Taxi (STeve has to drop me at
work by 8, Damon at school on the other side of town at 8-8:10 and Staci off
by 8:15) he makes oatmeal for him and the kids while the kids are getting
dressed or we make a quick stop at Kroger's for yogurt and donuts or muffins
(I keep yogurt in the fridge at work and add some grapenuts to it).  On the
weekends we either eat out or send Damon up the street to the Bagel Factory.

i love bagel factory!!! but i am starting to become addicted to brugers.....

On work days it's a warm croissant with melted cheese from the snack 
bar.  On weekends I cave into family pressure and make pancakes and
french toast as a rule.  Last weekend I even made whipped cream for 
the pancakes and served them with wonderful fresh raspberries!

I'm eating crackers and muenster cheese for breakfast as I type this.

I usually eat fried potatoes with onions, bacon and eggs with orange juice
for my daily breakfast.  The kids prefer sausage biscuits or french toast with
cinnamon.

Do you worry about the amount of fat in your breakfast?


You know those cups of soup where you just add hot water?  Recently the same
companies have come out with breakfast cups that are similar.  I tried two
flavors recently.  They were very good, but much saltier than I'd've liked.
And when you figure I can make from scratch for pennies what they sell for
$1.29, and I can control the salt level myself, well, I think I'll go back
to oatmeal from scratch.  One idea I did pick up from them is that they had
dried bananas and other fruit in the breakfasts; those would be great to toss
into my own oatmeal.  Whole Foods has a huge variety of dried fruits.  I'm
looking forward to experimenting....

You can make your own granola, and leave out the oil and/or sugar.  

Yup, have done it.  Wow does homemade granola ever make the kitchen
smell wonderful!  Mmmmm!

I drain and dry the fat off of everything as much as possible and watch fat
at other times for the most part.  I use cooking sprays and have been known
to wash meats under hot water to remove the grease and oils.  However, there
are times when I just gotta have my fat...then I resort to french fries, onion
rings and chicken in the deep fryer...mmmmmmmmmgood!

During the week, when in a huge hurray I have orange juice, a non-fat yogurt
and de-caf coffee with skim milk.  Or if I miss breakfast at home, at work,
I make a cup of decaf coffee and buy a bagel with cream cheese.
On the weekend, all hell breaks loose and we might have lowfat pancakes, or
french toast, or bagels and lox, or we really lose control and go to Angelos.

  usually I roll through Mickey D's and get hash browns, sausage and egg
biscuit and lg coffee, 4 creams, 2 sugars. fatty, yet filling ;)

Made my great grandmother's prize roll dough cinnamon twists and had those
for breakfast over the holidays with hot cocoa.

Could you post the recipe for that freida?  Just yesterday I was thinking
that cinamon rolls would be a fun thing to make.

Sure Valerie...these are really yummy!

1 TBsp yeast
1/4 cup warm water
3/4 cup milk, scalded
1/4 cup oleo
1 tsp salt
2 TBsp sugar
3 cups flour
1 egg beaten
cinnamon, brown sugar and melted butter

Soften yeast in warm water.  Scald milk and add butter, salt and sugar,
stirring until sugar is dissolved and let cool to lukewarm.  Add 1 cup of
flour and beaten egg and stir or beat until smooth.  Blend in yeast.  Add
remaining flour and turn onto a floured board and knead until dough is  smooth
and satiny...about 5 minutes.  Cover and let rise in a warm place until double
in size...about 1-1/2 hours.

New Way...
Gently heat milk and water in microwave.  Follow your bread machine's order
of ingredients.  Mine:  Place liquid in first, followed by flour, then other
ingredients, saving yeast until last.  Turn on knead only function or stop
machine at end of kneading procedure ( although it makes a great bread for
french toast!).  Lightly spray bowl with pam and cover and let rise.

Continuation...
When doubled in bulk, punch down, divide in two and roll out to about 14 inch
thickness on a lightly floured board.  Try to make a rectangle when rolling
the dough.  Slather with melted butter, crumble dark brown sugar onto it, then
sprinkle with cinnamon to taste.  Leave one edge of the dough sugar and
cinnamon free for joining purposes.  Roll the dough into a long rope, sealing
the edges.  Spray your baking sheet with Pam and cut the roll into 1 or 1-1/2
inch pieces, placing them about 1" apart.  Bake at 350 for 10-12 minutes. 
Remove to cooling rack or wax paper immediately.  

My mom always included different nuts to give a sip to the buns.  She also
took each cut piece and twisted it before putting it on the pan.  She called
them cinnamon nut twists.  I am too lazy to do this, so just make regular
cinnamon rolls.  Can be eaten without topping, but ...
Mix soft butter with 1 TBsp of milk and enough confectioner's sugar to form
a medium thick frosting...frost while warm or make the frosting thin and frost
when cool.

This is my great grandmother's recipe...and one of my favorites, especially
now that I have the bread machine!  Hope you enjoy it!

FORGOT!!!  ONCE ON THE BAKING SHEET, MUST LET RISE AGAIN BEFORE BAKING!

ooh that zojirushi is calling calling me, saying, "Buy me, Valerie!  Buy me!"
That sounds wonderful, Christine!

Well, I didn't get around to eating when I first got up this morning,
then was in a 'healthy' sort of mood, so I just had some salad for
breakfast... It hasn't settled yet, I'm still hungry!  

I ate a day-old somewhat-underbaked but none-the-less quite good chocolate
chip cookie for breakfast today.  :)

During the week,  I normally have cereal with fruit, a couple slices of toast,
and coffee.  During the weekends, though, I splurge and have either pancakes
with a couple strips of bacon or hashbrowns and eggs with some kind of fruit.

I normally have cold ceral with milk for breakfast.  I lean more
towards hot cereal in the winter.  I especially like cheerios 
for cold, and cream of wheat for hot.  I sometimes have a small
glass of OJ.  I gave up coffee last year, alas.  Sometimes I 
have a cup of herbal or decaffeinated tea.  Once in awhile I
cook cheese omelets with sausages and english muffins on the
weekends.

As I type, my almost-finished bowl of shredded wheat and sliced
bananas is by my side. Still about half a cup of coffee left. This
is my "first breakfast". In a couple of hours I'll have a "second
breakfast" consisting of a bagel and a glass of orange juice.

This is my typical breakfast, although the particular cereal and
fruit topping varies from one day to the next.

How do you stay so trim, John, eating two breakfasts? Do you eat two lunches,
also, or do you eliminate another meal?

I wouldn't say that I'm all that trim, but note that my two
breakfasts combined have fewer calories than a lot of people's
one breakfast.

Also, they say that if you're watching your weight it's better to eat lots
of small meals than a small number of big ones.

Right, and that's what I try to do.

Can we talk about bummer breakfasts here?  I love Zingerman's.  I'm a
loyal Zinger-person.  But last Sunday I showed up for my Raisin-Pecan
toast with light cream cheese, OJ, coffee, and two violists playing their
viols, only to fine they were out of OJ, out of light cream cheese, the
coffee pot was dry and the violists were nowhere to be heard. 

Life went on.

...but only after we lodged an official complaint.

I miss my good Zingerman's bread!! The last time I was in town,
I brought a couple loaves to bring home [including the raisin pecan
which I had never tried before].  I had put some of the bread
in the freezer for later... but now that later is gone,  I'm in
withdrawl!! Guess I'm going to have to place an order sometime soon!
[Speaking of which, I have a couple friends here in Durham that are
from AA, one of which used to work at Zing's!]

Zingerman's bread!  Yum!  I *love* their chocolate cherry bread, and Italian
bread is yummy too.  In fact I think I've liked all the breads that I've tried
there, though those two are the ones that stick out in my mind most.

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