Anybody regularly eat a "good breakfast"?

In My Humble Opinion
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If you’ve passed through an American elementary school, or whiled away the odd minute reading a cereal box, you know that “breakfast is the most important meal of the day.” And you know what a “good breakfast” looks like – cereal, milk, toast, juice, and tea or coffee (might as well throw in fresh fruit to make it even better).

It goes without saying that never in my life have I had a regular habit of eating a breakfast the Surgeon General would approve. This morning, for example, I had two bowls of Cheerios and a glass of water.

Does anyone out there eat a good breakfast, as a matter of routine?

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I eat breakfast every day, but not necessarily breakfast food. I do eat that kind of stuff on the weekend, but during the week I bring leftover dinner to work. This morning I had 1/ 2 of a boneless pork chop and pasta primavera. You got your meat, your grain, your veggies, and your dairy (parmesan - not cream.) And it was yummy!

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I also eat breakfast every day but it’s just a lightly buttered English muffin and a glass of milk or juice. Who can eat all of that stuff in the morning? I am barely coherent as it is.

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I eat yogurt and granola 4 days a week.

One day a week, I eat a bagel.

Saturdays, I eat meat & eggs & toast to get ready for a bike ride.

On Sundays, typically a muffin, or something fancier.

So, I regularly eat a good breakfast.

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I eat a good meal mid-morning every day, but not necessarily ‘breakfast food.’ I work from 1:00 to 9:00 (and sometimes later), and quite often don’t get a chance to stop and eat. I need something that will fill me up and keep me from passing out from hunger.
I usually have some protein and veggies. Today I had a 2-egg omelet with cheese and broccoli and a slice of whole-wheat toast. Some days it might be a big salad with lots of veggies, cheese and tuna or chicken.

I don’t eat cereal and try to keep carbs to a minimum. I find the mid-day sugar crash too hard to handle, and meat and eggs and veggies are better at keeping me going on a crazy non-stop 8-hour shift.

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Smoothies have made my life so much better. I have one every morning. (Basic ingredients: one banana, handful of frozen fruit, splash of fruit juice, scoop or two of yogurt.) If you rinse out the blender and your glass as soon as you’re done, clean-up is a snap too.

I love it because it’s easy and I’m not real good at doing the planning/shopping/cooking to feed myself the rest of the time. When I’m standing, dazzled, in the grocery store, wondering what I want to buy and cook and eat for the rest of the week, it’s quite a relief to be able to go buy my smoothie staples and be guaranteed of a few servings of fruit every day.

Plus it’s nice to not get really hungry in the middle of every morning.

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Every morning, I eat:

-Miso soup with udon/soba noodles and scallions.
-Tea with a spot of milk

I think it is very healthy.

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Since I’ve made the connection of weight control = daily calorie intake I’ve decided that if I’m not hungry I can skip breakfast. So most days all I have in the morning is a non-fat latte and that keeps me going until lunch.
If I am hungry a granola bar usually does the trick.

Detractors may say “well, if you eat a decent breakfast you won’t eat as much for lunch” but I’ve never found that to be the case. I’ll eat the same lunch whether I have breakfast or not.

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Nope.

Who can eat first thing in the morning? I feel sick if I try (unless it’s one of those rare days I wake up ravenous, and then I still wait because I have to cook enough to feed that hunger).

I take a bagel/toast or muffin or whatever with me when I go to work, along with my mug of coffee, so I get something in my stomach before lunch and sometimes on weekends I go all out and eat a good breakfast (pancakes/panakukua/french toast, with fruit and sausage and all that or in the winter porridge or cream of wheat).

My son gets fruit and/or cereal.

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There is no way I can eat when I wake up in the morning. I feel(nauseated, naseous, pukey) and I’m not even talking about when I have a hangover. I wouldn’t even get up in that case.

I have never been able to eat breakfast. I have coffee, of course because I could not function without at least three cups. It will be at least noon before I am able to digest food. I’ve been this way my whole adult life.

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I eat the same breakfast almost every day - 2 Kashi Go Lean Waffles, 1 with natural peanut butter, one with jam and a mug of plain green tea.

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I, too, use a morning shake for my breakfast. I buy a commerical Meal Replacement Power (Myoplex, which comes in Chocolate, Vanilla, and Strawberry flavor), and then I add some Hemp Oil (no high from that, but it does give an excellent dose of Omega 3 fatty acids). It’s filling, quick, and nutritious!

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I never used to eat breakfast. In fact, if I eat too soon after waking up, I’m both ravenous *and *slightly nauseated for the rest of the day. As a kid, I hated “breakfast foods”, and was much happier with a cold piece of pizza or two, or leftover burgandy meatballs and egg noodles.

Since I started Weight Watchers almost three weeks ago, I’ve been getting better, but it’s still three or four hours after I get up that I can eat.

My breakfasts still don’t exactly look like “Part of this complete breakfast!” (Didja ever notice that the breakfast pictured is completely nutritious and complete without the breakfast cereal being advertised?) Some of my current breakfasts in rotation are:

Cereal and milk - usually 1 cup of skim milk in 1/2 cup sugar frosted flakes and 1/2 cup bran flakes with 1/4 cup dried cranberries; I mix generic brands of single flakes into one bowl so it’s interesting AND cheap.

Lowfat egg substitute (1/2 - 3/4 cup, equivalent to 2-3 eggs) scrambled with melted 2% shredded cheddar cheese, sometimes with salsa, and a piece of high fiber whole grain bread toasted, with a tablespoon of fruit preserves.

A cup of nonfat yogurt with fruit and a piece of toast cut into strips for dipping, or 1/4 cup of granola mixed in (granola, even the low fat stuff, is pretty high in fat, so I won’t do more than a small bit. A big bowl of granola is right out, these days.)

Occasionally oatmeal, made with skim milk, but without all the brown sugar I used to put on it, it’s rather meh.

The two year old’s favorite breakfast is Trader Joe’s O’s (Cheerios) with yogurt (Yobaby, or Dannon Naturals Vanilla, depending on what’s on sale) and just a splash of milk. I started her on the yogurt to teach her to use a spoon - the yogurt makes the cereal stick to the spoon. My plan was to wean her off the yogurt and onto milk, but she loves the yogurt so much I just haven’t bothered. Keeps her gut happy, anyway.

I don’t do juice except on special occasions (too many calories, and I get my Vitamin C through copious amounts of red peppers and salads), but I will often have a glass of sugar-free Kool-aid with breakfast, because I do like the sweet drink thing.

Protein and fiber, that’s what I’m looking for, and low fat to boot. It’s not always exciting, but I’m getting better at it.

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I risk a migraine if I don’t eat. I used to feel nauseous about eating first thing in the morning, but now that I’ve developed the habit, I’m as hungry in the morning as at any other time of day. Usually I scarf up the leftovers from dinner, but lately I’m trying to shed a little weight, so I eat some high fiber cereal and drink some Crystal Light and a cup of coffee.

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I really do need to eat breakfast, usually pretty soon after I get up. I usually wake up with hunger pangs.

When I’m being “good,” I have oatmeal made with half nonfat milk, and some applesauce stirred in.

When I’m being “normal,” I have a slice of whole wheat toast with natural peanut butter and strawberry jam.

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I usually have coffee and cereal with milk and fruit for breakfast. I find that, if I don’t eat until later, I end up snacking on junk, or I overeat at dinnertime.

Robin

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Although my “usual” breakfast is the protein shake I referenced earlier, I’ve often thought that, if I had a last meal (hopefully not as a prelude to execution), it’d be a good ole’ fashioned Southern breakfast. Probably a few eggs, over easy (nice and runny) covered in tobasco, with corn beef hash, crunchy hash browns, a couple of limp slices of bacon (definitely not crunchy) and some warm, buttered biscuits (useful for sopping up the runny eggs). Add a tall glass of cranberry juice, and I’m in heaven!

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During the week, I have one bowl of cereal, along with a ginormous multi-vitamin.

Nothing on weekends. Unless the free popcorn at Bradley Video counts.

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When it’s on sale, I invest in a bag of red grapefruit which I’ll bring with me to work - I usually have a grapefruit at my desk with a bottle of water.

Sometimes I’ll bring a baggie full of cereal and munch on that throughout the morning.

Some mornings I go down to the cafeteria and get some sausage, some iced tea, a donut or something - maybe two days a week. That’s what I did today - got some lemonade, three sausage links and ate those, now I’m munching on a sleeve of Saltines I brought in the other day with butter on them. For lunch, I’ll probably just get a side dish or something. I’m not hungry anymore.

Once in a blue moon I go with a friend of mine to a restaurant down the street from work and THEN I have a full breakfast - two eggs sunny side up, hash browns, four sausage links, orange juice, milk, and black coffee. (He has a Denver omelette. Every freakin’ time. ;))

Thing is, I don’t eat normal - I’m usually good with something little in the morning, lunch and then that’s it. I don’t “do” dinner for the most part.

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Wow - I guess I’m model breakfast guy. Every morning in my own kitchen I have some type of whole grain, meat, and fresh fruit and then chase it all with an espresso. Today it was bagels (two mini-bagels) w/ cream cheese, fresh strawberries, and scrapple. Yesterday it was a bowl of Chex with strawberries and sausage.