The big apology should be for leaving off “cold pizza” as a breakfast item.
Lol. Or generally, cold leftovers.
Sorry, I wasn’t trying to tag you specifically, I was trying to reference the poll my comment referred to. I was the first to comment on it, and I sometimes find this discussion confusing to figure out which comment is talking about which poll, so I thought I’d help out whoever read my post.
I think that’s cheese, other bread, veggies, and maybe meat, fwiw
I was wondering whether breakfast sandwiches (Egg McMuffins et al) should have been a separate category. I don’t often get breakfast from fast food places, but I imagine a nontrivial number of people do.
I do almost every day. But I don’t do breakfast for breakfast, because most fast-food breakfast items suck.
So this morning I got 2 tacos and a large iced tea at Del Taco for my morning meal. Yesterday it was a cheeseburger, fries and large iced tea from Farmer Boys. They do an ok breakfast burrito, so that will likely be choice tomorrow. Weekends are the only times I do a regular breakfast - Machaca & eggs w/beans and rice from a local Mexican place on Saturday and a junk scramble with hash browns from a sit-down place early Sunday, before the churchies show up.
I like to change up my breakfast routine regularly. So I might eat one thing every day for a week, then I get tired of that thing and eat something completely different every day the next week. So I counted the items that come up in the rotation enough that they probably average out to once a week.
I sometimes buy English muffins, Canadian bacon, eggs, and cheese and make my own homemade Egg McMuffins. I just counted the individual ingredients as separate items in the poll – Canadian bacon was my “other meat” (I assumed bacon in the poll meant the traditional fatty American style bacon) and English muffins were my “other bread”.
Sometimes I’ll just buy some frozen breakfast burritos and pop them in the microwave for breakfast. That was my “other” in the hot food category.
This week I’m just having cold cereal, berries, and milk every day.
I voted for the things I fairly consistently eat once a week or more; but I eat a number of the others, as well as some things not on the list at all, sporadically – maybe several times a week for a week or two, maybe once a week or even several times a week for several weeks running during particular weather or just because I had a burst of wanting that particular thing.
Most mornings I just have a small glass of OJ before I head out the door. Relatively rarely, I’ll have Pop-Tarts (the glazed strawberry or blueberry are my favorites), or a banana, or some buttered toast with cinnamon sugar. Once in a blue moon I’ll have a big, hot breakfast, like scrambled eggs and bacon, or waffles, or an omelet.
We have pancakes and bacon for dinner every month or so.
I really have no problem eating the same thing for breakfast every morning.
My husband either. He eats a mix of oatmeal, dried fruit, nuts and spices which he prepares dry at the beginning of every week.
My son, he has a very restricted diet due to his feeding disorder. So all he will eat in the morning are plain Kodiak protein waffles. He eats the same thing every day. Yet he tires of eating the same thing every day, and I’m like, “I don’t know what to tell you, kid. You’d have more variety if you were willing to eat more things.” So lately it’s a 50/50 on whether he eats breakfast at all. It’s very hard to get him to eat sometimes.
(We’re very concerned and are having him evaluated for Avoidant/Restricted Food Intake Disorder (ARFID.))
I forgot about that the third time discourse killed my poll and I had to start over. But I had kinda intended people to deconstruct that – is there ham on that sandwich? Cheese? an egg? Beans in the breakfast burrito?
Thanks! That was my intention, although I forgot to WRITE that in the text, because I got sidetracked by Discourse eating my poll several times.
I intended the poptart to be a pastry, (did I remember to include hot pastries? I intended to, specifically thinking of poptarts, but may have failed) the banana to be a fruit, and the buttered toast with cinnamon sugar to be “toast”.
Same here.
98% of the time i have porridge with fresh fruit (strawberries or banana) and, of
course, a nice cup of tea.
The other 2%, it’s either toast and marmalade, or cold cereal (muesli) with cold
milk and, of course, a nice cup of tea.
Under ‘do I generally eat’ in the new version: do you mean ‘I generally eat one or more of these things’ or ‘I generally eat all of these things’?
I mean, I generally eat at least two of them, and sometimes three or four; but I never eat the whole list of the things I sometimes eat at once.
I meant “which of these things do you eat somewhat frequently”. So if you alternate oatmeal and cold cereal on weekdays, but eat pancakes on Saturday and eggs and bacon on Sunday, vote for all those items.
Also, I’m curious what the other beverage is. And I’m surprised how few dopers drink tea for breakfast.
I picked “Other” because my breakfast drink of choice is iced tea, which isn’t what most people think of as “breakfast tea.”
I’m one of the “doesn’t eat breakfast regularly” in the second version. So I didn’t participate in the later sections.
Regarding morning beverages though, my first is a cup of coffee (cream and sugar) at home, and an insulated mug of hot tea for the morning at work. At work, they’ve cut back on offering any free caf of any sort, so depending on the time of year it’s either home-brought tea-bags into hot water, or Mio Energy into iced water.
So at work/home I drink coffee to tea in about a 50-50 ratio. But that’s fair, I grew up in a split house. My father and step-mother are tea drinkers (hot and iced) and my mother and step-father are coffee drinkers.
I generally have a bowl of oatmeal and I usually add some granola to it. I didn’t put that down as cold cereal because I figured it gets warmed up by the oatmeal. That said, I also usually chop up a banana and add that as well but I didn’t put that down as cooked fruit. I acknowledge the inconsistency.
On the high school curriculum poll, I’d like to see learning a second language as a requirement. I’d go with accepting ASL as one of the options to meet this requirement.
I often have a toasted English muffin with butter and jam. Closest thing to that I see on the list is “bread”, so I checked that.
OK, voted accordingly.
I often drink tea; but with breakfast, it’s coffee.
– Math, literature, coherent writing, civics, history, scientific method, and some art/music course, though not necessarily the same one for each student. Also both shop and home economics, which were on the list.
I like that one also.
ETA: How to judge the accuracy of information on the internet; or, for that matter, information not on the internet.