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.
Breakfast? Can't eat for an hour after taking AM medicine, and I'm at work by then. (Un)fortunately, there is a Sweetwater's Donut Mill right next door, so I usually have a plain bagel and tomato juice around 9am, then a piece of fruit between then and lunch. Weekends usually involve a big farmer's omelette (sans meat).
denise: zing's does do orders...meaning they can ship bread to you...:)
Zingerman's has a wonderful mail order catalog. I used it myself when I was lost in Kansas for a couple years.
Actually, I do have their mail order catalog [Zingerman's] but just haven't ordered anything yet. But I will when I get back...!! Since I can't actually BE at Zing's, this should be the next best thing. :-) Thanks for the reminder!!!
Well, I don't mean rub it in or anything but... ;-) I'll be at Zing's, on the patio, enjoying the pre-game chaos, at about 11:30 a.m. I'll have a capp for you!
Mmm, thanks, that was delicious! Especially having just finished my workout this morning! :-) This next week is going to be a busy week for me-between planning on seeing the peak color change in the mountains early in the week and then having to work 3 out of 4 days when I get back, I'm currently planning on placing an rder for early NEXT week! :-) [Now to go get my catalog and start salivating over the pages!]
I haven't been eating breakfast lately because of lack of funds, but hopefully that will change in a few months...
Try an apple for breakfast, or toast with jam. You mentioned trying to lose weight in an earlier item, which means you should not skip breakfast. You need to get your metabolism running, and having something in the morning should keep your hunger from taking complete control by lunchtime, too.
check this breakfast out: http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0744/ It's a Swanson Hungry-man breakfast, which proudly proclaims its' "over 1 lb of food". Some "nutrition" facts: Total fat 64g (98% dv) Cholesterol 690mg(231% dv) sodium 2090mg (87% dv) yum!
How many calories? Although just the fat content alone makes it an unwise choice except for those who might be digging their own grave, all day long.
re #48 That looks like a deer salt lick with a dollop of butter!
1030 calories! the Daily Value is based on a 2000 calorie diet.
i.e. small value meal
Jim says he eats more like 3000 calories a day. Today the vitamin E study nutritionist advised him to eat more protein and calcium and less olive and sesame oil. I think he simply guessed wrong at the amounts he reported eating - 1 oz olive oil, 8 oz rice, 4 oz beans -more like 1/2 oz oil, 16 oz rice, 8 oz beans. And his cholesterol is too low (140 total, similarly wrong for HDL and LDL). She suggested eating cheese.
Eggs
For breakfast Jim cooked the lima beans I had soaked, peeled some cooked potatoes, and fried up radishes, cauliflower, onions, brocolli, carrots with peanuts to put on top. Filling. More left for lunch.
I had a roast beef sandwich for breakfast..with lettuce, tomato, provolone, and wheat bread. Lunch will be greek salad and probably 2 hardboiled eggs.
Breakfast today was Honey Bunchs of Oats with almond slivers with fat free milk. :)
Breakfast was a bagel and cream cheese. With Indian brewed chai earlier in the morning.
turkey on wheat with a coffee
Oatmeal and corn on the cob and yellow cherry tomatoes and grapefruit juice and we left the cooked cabbage and onions for lunch.
I had eggs, tomato, greenpepper, onion, and feta cheese wrapped in a whole wheat lawash. And coffee.
Breakfast was Frosted Mini-Wheats and milk. oooh, exciting! ;) resp:61 That sounds really tasty (minus the green pepper)
Today it was home-made Indian style tea, followed by a whole wheat bagel and cream cheese, another cup of tea (this time, teabag brewed) and a chocolate muffin two hours later. I've been decadent.
turkey sammitz w/coffee
I missed breakfast this morning but had a chicken sandwich and cucumber salad for lunch. That Indian chai tea is good, I bet!
Strawberry yogurt with Grape Nuts mixed in, coffee.
The last meal I cooked was walleye, served with a cold cracked wheat salad and steamed asparagus. I've been playing around with fish lately, trying to figure out what works and what doesn't. My favorite catfish recipe involves a dredge in cajun-style seasoning then a quick bake at 425 degrees. Salmon I like marinated in asian-style seasonings and broiled. Walleye (or other tender white non-oily filets) I've not been so happy with despite trying a number of techniques. So the other night I gave walleye another shot, this time going back to basics. I simply sauted it in a tablespoon each of olive oil and butter. When the fish was done I removed it then added a little fresh lemon juice and chopped parsley to the pan, scraping up the bits, then drizzled it over the fish. Too simple, but it worked. Dinner was 10 minutes, start to serve. Sometimes, that's important.
Pssst, Mary, this is the breakfast item, but your dinner sounds yummy and I really don't like fish.
That sounds like a delicious and easy recipe - I should try it (though I'm not sure I know what a walley looks like) Skipped breakfast and am having a Subway sandwich for lunch. Also kipped the Indian chai tea as we've just moved (yesterday) and I neglected to make sure we had basic breakfast items on hand :/
I had pancakes and sausage links for breakfast today. I have this same breakfast almost every Monday.
I wish I had the time to make a breakfast like that. Well I would if I woke up earlier instead of 30 minutes before the time I'm supposed to be in at work.
Haw. I didnt make that breakfast. We have a cafeteria at work that serves breakfast. I always eat breakfast here at work. It occurred to me recently that I have always worked someplace where I could eat breakfast so I almost never eat breakfast at home except on weekends.
My cafeteria serves up bagels and cream cheese. I'm usually way too late for their breakfast.
Jim usually makes oatmeal for breakfast. It has gotten pretty boring since berry season ended. Today he shook some apples out of a tree.
(and I always thought you supported non-violence.)
Ack, sorry about #67. I thought I was in another item. In a few minutes I'll be poaching eggs and serving 'em with English muffins and a cup of berries. That's a five minute breakfast.
How do you poach. In swirling hot h2o?
No, I'm too sleepy at breakfast to try to deal with free-swimming egg whites. I have this little three-compartment tray thingie that sits in a small, covered pan of simmering water. Like this, but for only three eggs: http://tinyurl.com/sxbrh
Three easy monthly payments of $4.95? And when you're not poaching, you could serve condiments.
And here you had me all jacked thinking you were sincerely interested. It's like, no prom for me, again.
(sorry)
Here's an interesting breakfast recipe that I just came across [from the cdc website mentioned in 0 that I'm finally checking out]: Apple Sausage 1. Mix one large finely chopped apple with a pound of lean ground turkey or chicken. 2. Season with sage and rosemary and shape into breakfast sausage patties. 3. Cook in skillet over medium heat for 4 to 5 minutes on each side until meat reaches an internal temperature of 165 F.
I do a version of that for a hearty camping breakfast. Leave the apples out of the sausage mix. Brown the sausage, and then saute apple slices with it for the last 10 minutes or so.
That sounds yummy
Breakfast these past few days has been blueberry muffin with tea
Breakfast for me is usually juice, a banana, and either a bowl of cereal or a couple of Clif bars. We just picked up a 1.5-quart slow cooker to use for making overnight steel-cut oats, but haven't used it yet.
a suggestion on the overnight oats. I find putting the oats and water in a small pyrex custard cup gives me a better texture. You might try stacking them if they won't fit comfortably side-by-side.
I've recently gotten back into eating oatmeal again. My dad gave me some blueberries today-so I'll be adding them to my next several bowls of the oatmeal. :-) And am also going through some clementines, too. [other than this stuff, I haven't been eating very healthy lately and I'm really beginning to feel it.]
A great photo-series of people and their breakfast. http://jonhuck.com/breakfast/index.htm
I love that! I just wish they had names for what some of them are eating.
For whatever reason, a few of the photos made me laugh. :-) There's a number of them I'd love to try but a few, well, let's just say that they don't look at all appetizing and thus, I'd pass on breakfast. I wonder how many of these breaksfasts were on weekdays and how many were on the weekend? And thus, how much of a difference would there be in what these people would've had? Cool website and photos!
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