Fairly regularly albeit I tend to get up around midday. I’m not big on cereals but I’ll have porridge or fruit or sometimes bacon and grilled tomatoes.
Yep, except for me it is 7 days a week, and make that granola low-fat and high-fiber.
This is a very good breakfast, BTW.
Don’t worry, I eat my share of double-cheese-bugers and other crap, but I have no brains in the AM so I pre-plan all my breakfasts.
My usual breakfast:
- a bowl of Sultana Bran with low-fat milk;
- glass of orange juice;
- toast with vegemite;
- whatever fruit’s in the bowl (usually an apple or banana)
My usual breakfast is a bowl of healthy-type granola with dried cranberries on top, light milk, and cranberry juice. (I like cranberries.) Sometimes I put fresh fruit on like boysenberries or nectarines, but not very often–just when they’re on the bushes/tree.
Cranberry juice is my coffee; I’m not properly awake until I have it, and if I wake up with a headache, the first thing I do is get my juice.
I usually have a bowl of Kashi Go Lean every morning with 2% milk. If I’m having an especially hectic school day I’ll consume a Kashi bar or a South Beach Diet bar. A Payday if I’m desperate. Coffee always. Gotta have my morning protein and caffeine or I get tunnel vision around mid morning.
Since I had weight loss surgery a little over a year ago, I get ravenous quickly (of course, I also get full quickly). It’s also vital for me to get at least 90g of protein a day. So skipping breakfast is not an option.
Some days, I’ll just have leftovers from the previous night’s dinner. I may very well have some sliced turkey this morning. Other mornings, I’ll have a South Beach Meal Replacement Bar (the only kind of protein bar I’ve found that isn’t so dense my jaws hurt by the time I’m finished chewing it!) and an 8oz cup of low-sugar yogurt. Fortunately, my body interprets yogurt as a drink, so it doesn’t fill me up too quickly to eat it all.
A good breakfast to me means 2 to 3 eggs and some meat, perhaps some cheese - though foods that are not thought of as breakfast food ae still a good breakfast. I think the trend to cereal is a very unhealthy trend.
I eat plain yogurt with muesli and a banana for breakfast. Usually the muesli is chocolate flavored (i love Germany). I always wake up really hungry, which is a good motivator for getting out of bed in the morning. On the weekends I’ll sleep in which somehow makes me less hungry, so i’ll just have bread and peanut butter or something.
Well, the eggs, meat and cheese can be good, especially with the addition of fresh fruits/veggies. The trend towards cereal isn’t necessarily bad; what’s bad is a trend towards cereals that are just simple carbs. If you’re going to do cereal for breakfast, it’s best if it’s whole-grain, and not packed with tons of sugar.
After years of erratic breakfasts, I have just settled down to a couple of weetbix and some easiyo live yogurt every morning. I don’t have long, and it helps with the 1 hour drive (and keeps me regular).
Sometimes willpower fails me and I have a Bacon roll when I get to work.
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I find that I don’t really feel hungry until a couple of hours after I get up. Since I’m losing weight at the moment, I take advantage of this to save up some of my calorie allowance for later. I don’t buy that stuff about your metabolism being somehow dormant until you eat something :dubious:
The old advice “breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, dine like a pauper” is the exact opposite of what works for me. I find that if I start off the day with a hearty breakfast, it puts me into an Eat Lots Of Food frame of mind for the rest of the day. I like to have my biggest meal as something to look forward to later in the day.
I always have cereal and yoghurt before going to work because…well, because I always do. Sometimes I stop for something else, but mostly it’s cereal and yoghurt.
On my days off, I stop for coffee and something sweet, usually cookies.
Why would the non-nutritional coffee or tea be part of a “good breakfast”?
I’ve been eating a low-carb diet since January. This means I eat a lot of eggs, bacon, pork sausage, cheese, and butter. Also enjoy low-carb buttermilk pancake mix and sugar-free syrup.
I love big, hearty breakfasts.
I think it’s bowing to the inevitable.
So this morning, I had an English muffin with jam, and iced tea. It’s a matter of time as much as anything.
And to judge by the responses in this thread, you’d think no one in America eats Pop-Tarts! Because I know we’re such a representative bunch…
Weekdays, I usually just have a bowl of cereal with fruit in the morning when I’m getting ready (6:30), but then I either prepare a yogurt/fruit smoothie or a serving of cottage cheese with fruit topping to take with me to work and eat that at around 9 am. That keeps me from crashing before lunch – but then my body processes food really fast and I definitely cannot skip a meal, and usually eat snacks between times to keep me going until I get a meal.
If I eat breakfast, I probably will skip lunch, and I feel sick for the day.
So, I skip breakfast. Sometimes on weekends I skip lunch too don’t even eat until supper time.
Weekdays I eat breakfast at work. Shredded wheat with skim milk, cup of tea (no sugar). Add some fruit to the mix (I keep organic unsweetened applesauce in my office, they also provide a huge breakfast tray once in a while and I’ll snag some fresh fruit, leave the donuts and whatnot alone). I have to eat in the morning or I quickly start feeling rundown and/or queasy.
Weekends I eat much better breakfasts since I’m usually going out for a long ride later. I treat myself to a nice hot meal at one of my favorite spots around town. Hot oatmeal w/skim milk and fresh fruit. Vegan “heart healthy” breakfast with brown rice, black beans, sauteed mushrooms, diced tomatoes and corn. Veggie corn-cilantro pancakes stuffed with avocado, fresh made salsa, served w/black beans and fresh biscuits. “Harajuku scramble” - sauteed tofu and veggies, potatoes. Since I know that I’ll be burning off a ton of calories I add things that aren’t on my day to day menu (toast or biscuits with jam, sugar in my coffee, brown sugar/nuts/raisins in my oatmeal, that kind of thing). Last Sunday was a 30 mile ride with a 6 mile run stacked on top so my “big healthy breakfast” was paid for in sweat 
OK, now I’m really hungry again.
Usually a granola bar, or I microwave an empanada (fruit, savory, cheesy, depends on what I made). I try to make a pot of coffee too, but that’s often forgotten. Lately smoothies have worked themselves in also, but my blender is awful at chopping up frozen fruit.
I used to go without breakfast, but after passing out from low blood sugar one too many times I just take the extra few minutes to whip something up. Much less embarrassing to just eat breakfast than pass out in the line at subway while trying to order a sandwich.
I’ve tried to reason that, on the rare days when I eat anything before noon, a few spoonfuls of peanut butter along with sugary coffee is balanced. You’ve got your peanut butter and your caffeine, which are two of the major food groups, right?
On the even rarer days when I want more than that I’ll probably have just a plain slice of toast or, if my allergies aren’t bad*, a banana with the peanut butter.
I swear to god I’m sometimes allergic to bananas. They make my tongue itch and on one occasion swell up a little, but only about a quarter of the time, usually but not always when my hay fever is acting up. I’m a freak of nature, I say.