I usually eat leftovers for breakfast, sometimes toast or eggs and bacon, very rarely i eat cereal, about only three or four times a year.
I can usually stomach leftovers better for breakfast then traditional fare. I can handle burritos, curries etc easily, but just the smell of a fried egg can make me sick.
What about you?
I have no qualms about eating leftovers for breakfast, curries, chilli con carne or just whatever is floating about in the fridge. I tend to have either a slimming shake or some cottage cheese but have been known to tuck into some weetbix when desperate.
I don’t like breakfast food, or eating too early, so no. I usually prefer lunch to be my first meal, or some type of snack.
I usually save the leftovers for lunch, since I work from home. Breakfast is usually oatmeal or toast and eggs and fruit or granola with yogurt.
Today, though, I’m having leftover pizza for breakfast. Yay!
I usually just eat cereal for breakfast. One thing I don’t understand is why people get so excited about going out to a restaurant for breakfast. Just about every restaurant has the exact same things: pancakes, eggs, bacon, etc. Lunch and dinner food at restaurants is much more varied and interesting to me.
I usually have cereal too. But I like the occasional pancakes, eggs, and bacon. Maybe 2-3 times per year.
My usual is coffee, fruit juice toast and yogurt.
When skiing I’ll eat something more substantial and bulk up on those continental breads and meats.
On the very rare occasions I am away with my wife sans kids and able to devote my attention to it I will have the “full english”.
To me that is, toast and coffee (obviously) sausage, fried eggs, bacon, fried bread, baked beans, black pudding.
Opinions vary as to the true make-up of the full English.
Some say fried tomato rather than beans. Some say scrambled rather than fried eggs and these are all perfectly reasonable alternatives. However, some omit the black pudding and it is for those that I reserve my full scorn. They are to be pitied and shunned. The least they can do is order it and give it to me.
oh yeah! I love me some blood and fat. (I occupy the moral high ground regarding Black Pudding as I used to work in a butchers and bakers after leaving school and one of my more gruesome tasks was to nip down to the slaughterhouse when they were killing the pigs and catch the blood. I then spent my afternoon up to my elbows making the pudding…happy times)
For me it’s the effort. I love crepes and pancakes with fruit fillings and bacon but what a pain to cook and so many dishes. I much prefer cooking lunch and dinner to cooking breakfast.
Usually breakfast food. On weekdays, it’s one of the following:
On weekends, there are more options:
Usually these include bacon or sausage and toast.
On the rare occasion (a few times a year) that we go out to breakfast, I’ll eat breakfast food (or if we’re staying overnight in a hotel, in which case hubby nips down to the local McD’s and brings stuff back; don’t know if you can properly call this ‘food’, but it’s definitely breakfast-type stuff). On Christmas Eve, I throw together a breakfast casserole that sits in the fridge all night and gets baked off Christmas morning, so I eat breakfast food then.
But on an average day, breakfast is either leftovers from last night’s dinner (an hour ago, I ate the last of my beef fillet medallions and baked sweet potato from last night’s steak-house visit!), or I’ll just nuke up a can of soup or something.
I do keep (and eat) things like oatmeal and cold cereal, but I’m much more likely to eat them as a bedtime snack than as breakfast.
Oh, one more qualification. Since I bought a Belgian waffle maker a couple of months ago, I have been making waffles maybe once a week.
Granola and yoghurt most days, very traditional.
Traditional American breakfast food yes (fried eggs, cheddar cheese, bacon, and/or some combo of sausage cornedbeef hash home fries).
Traditional “continental” fare no (lots of sweet breads donuts sugary pastries).
I will do waffles sometimes even though they too are a sugary bread by any evaluation, even though it’s not a good way to start my day, because I love 'em. (but I always eat sausage or bacon, and cheddar cheese, with them, I needs my morning protein)
When I was in university I went through a period of having omelettes for breakfast, but I fell out of that habit in favour of waking up later and grabbing something from the buttery on the way in to lectures. Sometimes it’d be a bacon roll and a cup of coffee, sometimes it’d be a chicken wrap.
Then there was the period of cooking a risotto or quick pasta sauce for breakfast, eating half and taking the rest in for lunch. I call those my “got fat really quickly” days, and luckily it was only for a month or so when I was cramming for my final exams.
My first job was shift-based, and I didn’t have to leave the house until ten in the morning, so breakfast kind of lost its meaning for six months, to the point where I can’t really remember what I ate. Maybe cereal, because it was cheap.
Now I’m in a standard 9-5 routine, I’ll have toast, eggs in various forms, crumpets, English muffins, tea cakes… normally something toasted with something else on it. Sort of traditional, but it was toast and tuna this morning because there was some sandwich filling left over from making my lunch.
Yes, I eat traditional breakfast foods, but normally not in the morning. I am not usually hungry when I wake up, and I sure don’t feel like cooking in the morning (though I can and do make coffee while still semi-asleep). I’ll have omelettes and scrambled eggs and toast and things like that in the morning if someone else puts them in front of me, but otherwise I prefer to eat those things every so often as brunch, or late at night after a performance, at a diner.
Yes, and not just at breakfast. I enjoy eggs in many forms and will often scramble eggs and make bacon for dinner.
I like savory breakfast foods, but I usually will have something like whole wheat pasta with shredded cheese, or rice with various vegetables and spices, or have nothing at all.
Mostly an omelette or bacon or sausage or toast comes around later in the day, though.
Jim Thorne has a great essay on the search for his ideal breakfast in Pot on the Fire which turned me onto pierogis for breakfast for a while.
Yes, right now, because i have two small kids and cereal is fast. I don’t actually like it much, and I’d rather eat leftovers or something savoury, but cereal is the quickest thing I can put on the table, and mornings are usually chaotic.
Dunno what’s considered “traditional breakfast food” for you guys, but I like milky coffee, a soft boiled egg, orange juice and a croissant with strawberry jelly on a Sunday.
On working days, I tend to go for a milky coffee and a cigarette.
I never had much sense of “this food you can only eat in the morning.” Always seems weird to me. That said, I do like a lot of breakfast foods, and I’ll get them on occasion. But during the work week, I use the time I’d take to make food to sleep, and on the weekends, I’m usually in the mood for something more lunchy by the time I’m dressed and semi-awake.
When I was working very early a few months ago, I’m ashamed to say I’d use some crummy frozen pizzas, corn dogs, or hit Burger King. It made me feel physically terrible, eating all that fat, but knowing I’d had enough calories to last an entire day almost was enough to offset my disgust.