# Breakfast challenge: help me refine my diet **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 28, 2018, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-challenge-help-me-refine-my-diet/814969 "2018-05-28T14:58:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-challenge-help-me-refine-my-diet/814969/21 "2018-05-29T00:13:51Z")
> [@JcWoman](#): > > [li]Breakfast is my ongoing trouble point, as is finding things that my husband will also eat. We’re picky in different ways. it’s very possible that I need to do my own thing, but he really needs to lose weight also, so extra points if we can find breakfast items for both of us.[/li] > … > > Toast, sure, but husband isn’t a huge fan. Cheesy biscuit? > [@JcWoman](#): > > I can do oatmeal but husband isn’t a fan. This is one of the cases where we may have to do our own things. I frequently have oatmeal for lunch. > > … > > Another husband thing; trying to find something we both like. He has “food rules” like not eating dinner items for breakfast or vica versa. I will eat anything for any meal as long as it sounds yummy. Speaking as someone who has been married for 15 years and both of us have health and preference issues influencing our food choices—I suggest you cut your husband loose to fend for himself when it comes to breakfast. Let him plan what he needs for the shopping list (regardless of who does the shopping), preparation, and consumption. Let him decide for himself if he’s going to start making the right dietary choices and then executing them. Don’t let his needs and preferences affect what you need to to for yourself. If he’s going to continue to need doughnuts for breakfast, tell him he’s got to do his doughnut storage and consumption somewhere outside the house. ---
**Author:** ![blob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blob/32/489_2.png) [@blob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blob)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-challenge-help-me-refine-my-diet/814969/22 "2018-05-29T00:45:49Z")
> [@JcWoman](#): > > [li]We both hate cereal, so don’t suggest that.[/li] Because you don’t like cereal, have you avoided the cereal aisle so as not to have seen the number of options these days? It’s not how it used to be, there are some really nice mueslis and alternatives to corn flakes and weeties and those sugary concoctions. I’ve got these “lumps” with cranberries and stuff. It’s quite nice. Have you ever tried bircher muesli? It’s yummy. Oats are soaked in fruit juice overnight and it’s got grated apples in it and seeds and nuts and stuff (if you make it yourself, you can put whatever you like in it) and then you eat it with yoghurt. If you use sweet fruit, it’ll be sweet, but I’m not a sweet tooth, if you use green apple and lemon juice and not add (many) sweet things, it’ll be tart. Greek yoghurt. Yum. Another suggestion that may (or may not) pass the “no dinner foods for breakfast” rule is bubble n squeak. Leftover mashed potato fried up with leftover veggies. Get it all crusty and have it on toast. When I was in Germany, they gave us kaiser rolls for breakfast. You could also have cheese on rye bread. Bread for breakfast is a thing in some places. crepes have been suggested. Yes you can have them savoury with whatever you want. Veggies in a bechamel sauce would be nice for breakfast, broccoli, spinach, some little champignon mushrooms maybe… (now I’m REALLY hungry :D) ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-challenge-help-me-refine-my-diet/814969/23 "2018-05-29T01:19:17Z")
Asparagus makes a tasty breakfast veggie. A poached egg on a slice of non-buttered wholewheat or multi-grain toast (don’t need butter with a runny yolk) and a couple stalks of asparagus on the side is mighty fine. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-challenge-help-me-refine-my-diet/814969/24 "2018-05-29T01:30:06Z")
Discussions about food are best served in Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-challenge-help-me-refine-my-diet/814969/25 "2018-05-29T04:47:48Z")
> [@JcWoman](#): > > Can I do that (or a similar) crepe recipe without any sweetener? No reason the recipe I shared would suffer if you left out the sweetener. The vanilla makes it sweet even without the sugar. Or you could use a tablespoon of actual sugar. It works out to half a teaspoon of sugar per crepe. As **blob** mentioned, you can move to a savory crepe, too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-challenge-help-me-refine-my-diet/814969.md?page=1)