Is this a healthy breakfast?

I asked mainly because i was under the mistaken impression that my at home breakfast (the one described in the OP) was healthier than my at work breakfast which consists of a diet lipton green tea and a 7/11 corndog.

There’s no such thing as an unhealthy (or unhealthful) food or meal…there’s unhealthful diets. If that’s your daily breakfast - neither the work or home one are great - then you can certainly make improvements as others have noted.

But if the rest of your diet is heavy in non/minimally-processed foods, vegetables, fruits, clean lower-fat protein and generally free of sugar, corn syrup and saturated fat, it’s not that bad IMO. Especially if you get plenty of exercise.

Personally I’d lose the Pam and use a dab of real butter, or olive oil, instead. I’m not a fan of “fake food” so that’s just my take.

Well, it’s not that bad, but to get enough fruits and veggies for the day after you eat none at breakfast requires more planning for the rest of the day. Try an online calculator and try to get all your vitamins and minerals from food sometime without eating 8000 calories; you have to be careful.
It’s also hard to judge from one meal; my breakfasts look like they’re feeding three lumberjacks, but I am FAR hungrier in the morning than the rest of the day, so breakfast is a larger proportion of my daily caloric intake than it is for most people. Mostly, look at the stuff you aren’t getting much from as well as what “no-nos” you care most about. If you are trying to avoid salt, the bacon sucks. If you’re trying to eat low-fat, the bacon still sucks and the eggs might be too high. If you’re trying to avoid carbo-loading, nix the toast. (Bacon honestly just kind of sucks from a health perspective; think of it as meat dessert and treat it accordingly.)

Personally, I’d add some fruit or a tomato/something green and dump the bacon for a leaner protein if you’re trying for a high-protein, biggish breakfast like that.

Also, sugar in your coffee is blasphemous, but I’m just ignoring that because I doubt that will change. Corndogs are also blasphemous, so I’d eat your home cooked breakfast first, health be damned. :smiley:

I had no idea everybody but me had so many things at breakfast. My breakfast is always either a bowl of cereal with milk or a bagel with cream cheese.

It’s not just you. I usually either have two eggs, scrambled with a little cheese (and/or some chili if we have any) or a bowl of cottage cheese with salt and pepper.

Pam is basically canola oil with some propellant, so it’s not really ‘fake’ unless you consider rapeseed oil to be fake.

I also generally only have a bowl of cereal with banana or berrys on it for breakfast, although on the weekend I’ll spash out and make pancakes or waffles usually with some berrys. Sometimes if I’m feeling wacky I’ll make a scrambled egg thingy to go with them.

I would say that there’s nothing inherently unhealthy in that breakfast. It’s a lot of Calories, true, but it’s well under the RDA. If your other two meals are smaller (or you get a lot of physical activity), and you get plenty of fruits and vegetables in those other meals, that’d be just fine.

That breakfast may well be a part of an unhealthy diet, but we’d have to see the diet as a whole to judge that.

I second Morningstar Farms fake meats. They also make sausage patties, which I find more satisfying than the bacon. Turkey bacon is another good option. I was eating a breakfast like yours about a year ago and the other meat options helped me healthy things up. Morningstar Farms stuff is a little pricey, but it’s frozen so you can stock up when it’s on sale.

Also you might want to check out “light” bread. It’s a little smaller and airier than regular bread. Half the calories, same yolk-sopping power!

For an ordinary American (I.e. not too active) that is a lot of food. I would quickly start gaining weight if I ate like that on a daily basis, even with a reasonable lunch and dinner.

Cut it in half, make it turkey bacon, and add a piece of fruit or a handful of something green and you are looking good.

Honestly, it might be a pretty even tie with the corn dog. A corn dog has what, 250 calories? Your breakfast is probably more than 700. While it is nice to eat actual food, bacon isn’t much better for you than a hotdog.

I wouldn’t recommend turkey bacon or Morningstar veggie bacon unless you really like them. They really aren’t that much healthier for you than just regular bacon, you might try a piece of Canadian bacon or just a piece of ham.

If you really want to go all out, grind up a couple whole pork loins with breakfast sausage seasoning. You could eat three times as much of that than most breakfast meats.

Flipping this over easy to Cafe Society.

Good grief, no.

Same here. I’m not convinced that either the suggested Splenda or the “diet” tea are particularly healthy for you. You can eat real sugar, just substantially less of it. And yes, it can be done. I used to take enormous amounts of sugar in my coffee too, but I really don’t like more than about half a teaspoon per 10-12 oz. of coffee anymore. (You really need to cut down the sugar. 3 tablespoons is almost 1/4 cup. Holy crap.)

If you want healthier meals, focus on cooking with whole foods and pay particular attention to vegetables and fruits. I know for myself, and I think for many people, it’s really easy to slack off on the veggies, when they are actually the food that gives you the most volume (to fill you up) and nutrients for the fewest calories.

Not that i’m complaining or anything but how does this go in cafe society?

Learn to drink your coffee black, as god intended it to be.

Just FYI in terms of introducing veggies to your breakfast, chopped spinach, mushrooms, and onions in scrambled eggs is very tasty, super easy, and gives you some vitamins and such.

I usually do something like 2 eggs over easy with butter as the lubricant, toast, hummus, black coffee. Sometimes the toast and hummus gets replaced with another egg. Other times, it gets replaced with chopped spinach and onions.

Who’s Pam and why does she have two eggs in her?

Not enough fiber unless you use added fiber bread.

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