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Our family are creatures of habit.
My father had a full English for all of his adult life.
Hubby has a mixture of weetabix and oatibix, plus half a bagel or slice of seeded toast.
Porridge for me with a bit of cinnamon and a small drizzle of honey in a BIG bowl.
What's yours?
2 slices of toast with some of that spread stuff and maybe some blackcurrant or blueberry jam
Shreddies. As much (many?) That will sensibly fit in the bowl so I don't spill it when walking to the table.
Porridge with dried blueberries, cranberries and raisins. Semi skimmed milk in the week, full fat at the weekends.
beans on toasted doorsteps and oodles of butter
breakfast (bacon and egg) bap
sausage sarnies with chili relish
usually with OJ and espresso
Granola.
None of your authentic artisan stuff, though - it's the sweetened nonsense that's relatively cheap in any supermarket, so I can pretend to be healthy and holier than others, whilst still feeding my sugar dependency...
Working night shift, so literally just had my breakfast of three crumpets with Benecol spread and marmite
It can range from nothing, to a banana, to a tin of tuna (if I've just been to the gym), to muesli, to my favourite of two slices of small seeded batch (warburtons) with mackerel in spicy tomato sauce, with black pepper and Lea & Perrins, or Hendersons relish.
I rarely eat as soon as I get up, can be an hour or two later. Very occassionally now (used to be regular), bacon will be involved
2 slices of toast with some of that spread stuff and maybe some blackcurrant or blueberry jam
I don't like anything sweet so go for toast with loads of butter then pâté
Absolutely anything is fair game at weekends. Smoked salmon and scrambled egg is a regular favourite
And who doesn't love feeling dirty after wolfing down a Double sausage and egg McMuffin and a hash brown> 😀
Weekdays, 2 eggs scrambled on sourdough, 1 day a week with maple syrup, the rest of the week ketchup and sweet chili sauce.
Weekends, as above plus 3 slices of pancetta cut smoked bacon. OR sourdough pancakes with fruit and syrup.
Alternative option is some homemade nutty granola, it's easy to do, tastes great and is relatively cheap compared to shop bought too. BBC good food 'good for you granola' recipe.
I want a waffle iron, but my wife has sensibly said this is probably a terrible idea for weight management. I LOVE breakfast foods though.
Coffee
Perhaps once every couple of months a bacon and egg butty.
Over night oats when I can be bothered, but usually frosted shreddies (left to go soggy before eating).
frosted shreddies (left to go soggy before eating).
You sick, sick individual. Get out of here.
Smashed Avocado on toast with pico de gallo.
Huevos Rancheros.
Cheese crumpets with salsa.
Scrambled eggs, usually with buttered bread rather than toast.
Last night's curry takeaway leftovers (not usually anything left...)
Kestrel super
Poached eggs at the weekend
Washed down with kestrel super
Used to be coffee and cigarettes. These days just coffee and coffee.
I bloody miss smoking.
Breakfast #1, after getting up but before early morning ride or gym: muesli, frozen strawberries and blueberries, yoghurt and soy milk. Made the night before and put in the fridge.
Breakfast #2, when I get to my desk: chicken, rocket and tomato bagel, sometimes with saucisson.
And who doesn’t love feeling dirty after wolfing down a Double sausage and egg McMuffin and a hash brown
That or a Greggs breakfast roll frequently replace breakfast #2 on the drive to the trails at the weekend.
Yeah, coffee is the first thing I think about
Well you have to go massive for the food factor, so either sausage, bacon, or corned-beef hash with diced chilies, a Spanish omelette or eggs Benedict.
Coffee and a bloody Mary or two, maybe a margarita, who knows maybe something stronger to finish for dessert
Eaten in the sun on the patio while reading the newspaper while naked, obviously
Some kind of bircher muesli, usually something like 100ml apple juice, 100g frozen forest fruits, pot of either natural or strawberry yoghourt, and four heaped tablespoons of oats. I make it last thing at night, stick it in the fridge, and it's ready next morning for breakfast.
Cup of tea, and a biscuit on my days off. Can’t face anything else to eat until late morning
Nowadays, a decadent breakfast is poached eggs on sourdough washed down with a mug of tea, a brief pause then a jug of coffee
When I was younger I would have been very happy with a couple of fried egg barms with runny yokes. Oh my that takes me back
Weekdays, usually a couple of pieces of fruit and coffee.
Weekends:
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Most days it's scrambled eggs on toast, beans and egg on toast or beans on toast (with grated cheese).
Weekdays its banana, blueberries, a bit of muesli, skyr and milk. Weekends eggs on toast
Used to be coffee and cigarettes. These days just coffee and coffee.
I bloody miss smoking.
@jambourgie - as soon as I read that I went all misty eyed for the days of starting the day stood at the back door with a coffee and sparking up a B&H
The breakfast of champions, and I've always said that it is the one cigarette of the day I actually miss.
Two babybel and a pint of tomato juice.
A cup of tea in bed. Would rather lie in bed longer than be bothered with breakfast.
Fresh coffee, a small bowl of mixed fresh berries (blueberries, raspberries and strawberries) and figs along with a croissant or danish.
It varies usually between porridge, all bran, weetabix, shredded wheat (all with added fruit and nuts) and toast. Sundays are special - boiled eggs and toast. Fry up now and then scrambled eggs and smoked salmon sometimes too.
Coffee first then a big bowl of porridge (made with Oat Milk), golden syrup, blueberries and cinnamon. And this time of year - maybe a hot cross bun or two. Then another coffee.
scrambled eggs and smoked salmon sometimes too.
My new thing is substituting pastrami for the salmon.
Tastier, cheaper and perhaps less ethically dubious (assuming farmed salmon).
Coffee, and either
- bowl of half muesli/half granola mix, with a small handful each of raisins and sultanas on it. Usually with milk, occasionally with Greek yoghurt
or
- toast, one round with butter and marmalade, the other with crunchy peanut butter and jam.
Oat milk, peanut butter and banana smoothie. If I'm feeling particularly decadent I may add in some cacoa nibs.
My new thing is substituting pastrami for the salmon.
Sounds good. Reminds of the "Czech Breakfast" a climbing partner introduced me to whilst in the Torino hut (where the kitchen facilities at the time comprised a shelf to put your stove on).
Chop a piece of some sort of sausage - chorizo, pastrami, that sort of thing, cook slowly in pan to release fatty goodness. Add chopped onion and red pepper. Cook for a bit then crack in a couple of eggs and scramble. Serve with baguette. Easy one pot cooking and "wash" the pan with the bread.
It was good.
A tuna salad sandwich, usually just after I've arrived in work about 06.30. 🙂
Takes about a minute to make and puts me in a 'work' mood.
I've no idea why.
Large bowl of porridge with a banana and honey, sometimes I go crazy and have walnuts as well .
No regular breakfast, quite often wait until 11 ish. Sometimes porridge, sometimes yoghurt, sometimes bacon sandwiches, omelette with onions, garlic and herbs. Sugar puffs with oat milk the other day but my favourite is Californian stuff, peasant potatoes, Huevos Rancheros, spicy garlic stuff, what a way to start a day!
And if in California - not had a passport for about 10 years but if I did - a glass of the Mexican stout, Modello?
The breakfast of champions, and I’ve always said that it is the one cigarette of the day I actually miss.
Oh man, totally! Bleary-eyed double headrush of nicotine and caffeine... what's that proverb? 'it's better to have loved and lost'... but still, it's bloody hard.
Weekdays, Banana, black coffee
Weekends, Greek Yoghurt with Muesli & Honey, black coffee
Hungover, Slow cooked scrambled Eggs on Toast, black coffee
I don't normally eat til lunchtime (which I guess means thats when I break my fast) So breakfast today was Chicken Pad Thai and a Bounty Bar.
When I was at uni it was a cup of tea and a 'herbal' cigarette.
Got older/sensible so it changed to coffee and a cig.
Now it's whatevers left after the kids and wife have hoovered up all the good stuff.
Eggs and beans on toast or chorizo and cheese omelette if WFH, English breakfast buffet if in the office.
I’m with you OP. Except with fruit, mostly sliced banana but sometimes blueberries or sliced dried apricots. Porridge is the only thing that keeps me going till lunchtime.
At the weekend it’s usually bacon butties.
Edit-oh yes, lots of coffee.
Coffee plus one of the following...
Porridge
Granola
Minibix
Cheerios
Croissant
Pain au chocolate
Toast with jam/marmalade
Toasted teacake
Two soft-boiled eggs (eaten whole (deshelled, mind - I'm not an animal)) and an oat milk coffee. Boom. 🙂
Bowl of Allbran with water and some fruit followed by peanut butter on toast.
Both of which I have to share with out cats..
Bertie waits by the toaster for his Peanut Butter (he licks the knife and gets the odd nibble out of the toast).
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Our brown nosed tabby has first dibs on the Allbran...
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Week days or weekend riding days - coffee and granola
Non riding weekends - coffee, pain au chocolat, banana.
Everyday - 20mg Citalopram
Obviously this is First Breakfast.
I'm partial to a tin of sardines in olive oil much to the horror of my colleagues on early shifts. Failing that its porridge with either cranberries or blueberries, pumpkin seeds, cinnamon and honey. Either way, fresh black coffee is a must!
Everyday – 20mg Citalopram
+1
A large cup of Aeropress Coffee with skimmed milk and A bowl of Shreddies that Red Rum couldn't get over
You all sound quite a healthy bunch.
What I really want for breakfast isn't porridge but: 2 x pain au chocolate, a big bacon barm and poached eggs with avocado, a big juicy navel orange and 2 slices of toast with lime marmalade. Alas one has to look after one's figure.
Very often scrambled eggs on toast / bagel / tattie scone.
When I’m early shift all bets are off and it’s whatever I can grab at 6am before getting out the door - I’m not one of these morning people that goes to the gym and then has second breakfast once they get to work.
Muesli or granola, with coconut milk or skimmed milk. One of those little pots of drinking yogurt, black coffee.
Occasionally add a croissant, or toast and marmalade, maybe orange juice.
Winter I’ll have porridge with dried fruits if I can be bothered. Once in a blue moon will be a variation of cooked breakfast, varying quantities of cooked pig and eggs.
Mostly fairly healthy except for the sugar rush from shop bought cereals.
Porridge is the only thing that keeps me going till lunchtime.
What keeps me going to lunchtime is not having breakfast. On the occasions I do have anything at breakfast time I'm hungry again by 10.30 / 11ish. If I don't eat breakfast then I'm not hungry at all.
Coffee, followed by secondary coffee.
If I've managed to get to the butchers then its a couple of rolls on lorne., or a couple of lamb burgers and cheese.
I know, not very healthy.
Espresso.
Then tea.
If it's a work day I have two Weetabix.
If it's a non-work day and I can be bothered I have French Toast. If I'm really going for it I'll add bacon.
If it's a big day and I need the fuel I'll have Huevos Rancheros:
https://www.goodto.com/recipes/mexican-breakfast-eggs
If you've never tried this I urge you to give it a go.There are hundreds of different recipes, but as far as I can tell they are all good. Like Spaghetti Carbonara.
The wife and I have porridge (50g each, full fate oats) with soft boiled eggs (one for her, two for me) with sliced green onions and sriracha.
Lush.
Porridge with onions and eggs? I thought having chutney or aubergine pickle on toast was strange! And.. full fate oats? I’d rather not know!
A full fry up is the only meal I could never get bored of, I look forward to it everyday, can’t say the same about other meals. Don’t eat it every day for health reasons, but I totally would if there was a healthy version!
I often cheat with thinly sliced, well cooked chorizo and eggs. It’s not healthy but it’s quick, goes great in a wrap
Oh yes, a full fry up. Discovered a cafe in what used to be a miner’s welfare in Clay Cross. £4.95, I have to work up to it, not work up to it, but starve myself is perhaps the best description. Lovely place.
Can't believe the proportion of folk who have coffee for breakfast. What has become of the traditional British cuppa?
Breakfast for me is either porridge made with water with some golden syrup and sometimes raisins, sunflower and pumpkin seeds, or granola.
Frequently have 2 boiled eggs which are my favourite way to eat eggs followed by a couple of slices of toast with marmalade, jam or peanut butter.
Occasionally have an omelette (particularly if it's brunch) or scrambled or poached eggs on toast. If I'm in a rush will just have a couple of slices of toast and marmalade, and once every few months will cook a full English.
All the above will be washed down with a pot of tea - can't cope with coffee first thing.
2 lightly toasted hot x buns with a thick layer of smooth peanut butter and mashed banana or sweet jam-strawberry or blackcurrant-in each.
For years it's been a strong coffee and a bowl of cereal (weetabix-alike, shreddies-alike, oats, or a mix often with some mixed dried fruit) within minutes of getting up.
But recently it's been reduced to just the coffee, as a trial to see if I eat a bit less overall through the day.
On work days (starting 0630) I have my first break at ~0930 and buy/consume a meal deal (sandwich, flapjack, for goodness shake). Back home by 1500 and I'd be hungry again so I'll snack (often cold hot cross buns or choc raisins), then dinner at ~1900. Cereal if hungry before bedtime just before 2100 instead of the old snacks.
On days off like the next five days, I'll try to hold out eating anything until ~1000, then either have cereal; a banana; a single hot cross bun etc. to keep me going until after lunchtime Zwift sprint race (today https://zwiftpower.com/events.php?zid=2942379 Sea To Tree at 1200 and then https://zwiftpower.com/events.php?zid=2942381 1 lap Hilly route reverse at 1215).
Generally, I do seem to be losing some weight, went from 84Kg to 81Kg since early March... Been snacking more, slipping into old bad habits since weekend, so I've put on ~0.5Kg
What keeps me going to lunchtime is not having breakfast. On the occasions I do have anything at breakfast time I’m hungry again by 10.30 / 11ish. If I don’t eat breakfast then I’m not hungry at all.
same here, so tend to have my 'breakfast' for dinner (lunch). 2 oatibix mixed with an unflavoured protein shake rather than just milk, which makes it really creamy. handful of raisins in there too and maybe a sprinkling of chia seeds from time to time.
I alternate so also:
Breakfast #1, Peanut butter & marmite on toast
Breakfast #2, Poached eggs on toast, with marmite on the toast
Both washed down with fresh coffee.
What keeps me going to lunchtime is not having breakfast. On the occasions I do have anything at breakfast time I’m hungry again by 10.30 / 11ish. If I don’t eat breakfast then I’m not hungry at all.
This is me too. I used the 800 diet to shift some much needed weight 3 years ago and got into the habit then of also doing restricted time eating - 8 hours between first and last calories. I've got into more of an equilibrium since then but the habit of not intaking any calories most days until 1130 or later stuck. Black coffee only for me for breakfast. I can ride to work (27 miles) and then do a morning's work without issue like this. I only break this habit if I've got a mega day (a big mountain day or a long bike ride planned) or for social reasons on a birthday/xmas etc when I'll have a light breakfast. But it is the days when I do have a light breakfast that I feel most hungry before lunch. Weird.
Tea,tea and more tea, then porridge with dried fruit and a black coffee chaser..<< weekdays
Baps with deconstructed sausages, scrambled eggs and mushrooms,
or toast with peanut butter and jam.. << weekends
Toast with real butter. Or being a displaced Stokie Cheesey Oatcakes. That's if I can be bothered to make any oatcakes to start with.
Am I alone in thinking "get those f------g cats off the worktop, you filthy b@$t@rd".
Sorry fella, but that's grim.
What keeps me going to lunchtime is not having breakfast. On the occasions I do have anything at breakfast time I’m hungry again by 10.30 / 11ish. If I don’t eat breakfast then I’m not hungry at all.
Kinda similar, I don't have breakfast until about two hours after I get up (so at 8:30 after waking up at 6:30), and find that I'm then not hungry until lunchtime. Maybe it's because I'm two hours nearer lunch, but I think it's something to do with blood sugar/insulin response.
Today - toast with proper butter, marmite with marmalade on top. Sort of sweet and sour.
Just succumbed to a Costa Breakfast Wrap - like a dirty McDonald's but twice the price.
Most days – porridge – rice flakes, oats, coconut milk, various additions.
Now and again – toast, butter, jam.
At Christmas – hot mince pie and cream.
deconstructed sausages
😆
I'm home alone today, so could make a fry up without having to cater for the whole family 🙂
Eggs, sausages and beans. With some sriracha chilli sauce, and an aeropressed black coffee. Heaven
Two toasted sourdough slices dressed with a bed of spinach and a couple of poached eggs, still runny, on top. Chilli flakes and black pepper to season. That's when I have time.
Otherwise two Weetabix and skimmed milk.
Or Porridge. The real stuff. Not that ReadyBrek shite.
4 poached eggs on 4 buttered toast with black pepper and Hendo's or 2 wheat biscuits with homemade museli and mixed seeds/nuts and semi skimmed followed by 2/3 rounds of toast depending how hungry I am. Sometimes I'll split the cereal/toast if I'm running or cycling and have the toast weh I get back in.
For every egg poached, there's an egg that would have been better fried 🙂
1) Pinhead oats (lower GI than rolled oats), peanut butter, grated apple and cinnamon.
2) Salmon and scrambled eggs if i dont want/need the carbs.
Both breakfasts ensure the hunger cravings are kept at bay!
Give it a whirl. Sometimes I use chicken or umami stock instead of milk.
And whilst you make it, you can stare into the Milky abyss and see your fate!
Two toasted sourdough slices dressed with a bed of spinach and a couple of poached eggs
Green things have no right to be anywhere near a breakfast! 😉
