Breakfast is our theme this week, and to kick it off, we want to know: What did you eat for breakfast this morning?
Pictured above is one of my own favorite breakfasts (although, alas, not what I ate for breakfast today): Homemade scallion pancakes with a wobbly poached egg. Pretty heavenly.
Depending on the morning I tend to eat a granola bar or some steel-cut oats for breakfast. Sometimes yogurt. And always strong black coffee, brewed in a French press pot.
What about you? What did you eat for breakfast today, and is it part of a routine? Do you always eat the same thing, or do you like to keep it varied?
Related: April 2010: 3 Square Meals (and Dessert)
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A carefully peeled Ruby Red Grapefruit and the other half of yesterday's bagel, revived with a ten second spell in the microwave, and some hard time under the broiler. Little olive oil instead of buttah.
Homemade Greek yogurt, honey, a teeny bit of granola, and black coffee. Plus I snuck a few bites from one of the leftover cinnamon rolls I made for Easter yesterday. Deeeelish!
I eat the same breakfast every day. A bowl of honey-nut cereal with soy milk, a protein shake and fruit juice. I need to shake things up!
Scrambled eggs with wilted spinach and mozzarella/fontina shredded cheese on half of an English muffin. Hot coffee. Mmm.
flaxseed oatmeal :\
need new (vegan) ideas
3 egg whites on a whole grain english muffin; same breakfast everyday eaten at my desk at work after running 6-12 miles.
Today I had half a slice of homemade sourdough bread with apricot preserves. I usually also have a bit of cheese with that but I was running late so I didn't get the cheese part. Other breakfasts I have are yogurt, cereal, or toast. Then hot tea when I get to work.
Every weekday (and most weekends unless we go out) I eat All Bran Flakes with skim milk and artificial sweetener. Seems boring or maybe even gross to some, but I LOVE it. I actually eat that as a snack in the evenings sometimes too.. or even dinner if I'm too lazy to make something real. mmmm cereal.
A piece of leftover Easter ham. There will be pastries at work later today but what I'm dreaming of instead is chilequiles but I haven't got the time or the ingredients, sadly.
Does anyone else do the "second breakfast" thing?
Today? Trader Joe's cinnamon raisin bagel and cream cheese.
Sometimes cold cereal, steel cut oats when it's cold outside.
German chocolate & baklava
During the week I normally I eat yogurt with granola, peanut butter, jam, nutella & a sliced banana. And on weekends I typically go for pastries or pancakes (... and I do enjoy the occasional slice of cold pizza)
Not a fan of eggs for breakfast though
Waffles with some leftover ham on the side (am I the only one that loves cold ham?). Starbucks coffee and Int'l Delight creamer to round out the meal.
Cup of jo with 2% milk and 2 tsp of sugar.
A cup of cereal with milk (not finished).
Usually I don't even bother with breakfast. I go for brunch or just lunch and dinner.
A regular slice of home-made whole-wheat-rye bread with a slice of kashar cheese with a cup of coffee/tea. My typical breakfast for weekdays. :)
Oatmeal with brown sugar, cranberries, currants, almonds and walnuts.
Green eggs and ham, a whole-grain pita and a cup of coffee.
You just happened to ask on my usually-annually-occurring Green Eggs and Ham day (aka leftovers from Easter). Usually it's considerably less exotic.
Non-fat greek yogurt sprinkled with wheat germ and topped with mixed berries (leftover from yesterdays brunch fruit salad).
Leftover matzoh brie w/some homemade labneh and zaatar.
Oat bran and an apple.
Matzo Brei!
Essentially scrambled eggs with matzo in it. It has just the right amount of crunch and can go either sweet (if you drizzle maple syrup on top) or savory (with ketchup or hot sauce).
Every morning involves a large cup of black tea (PG tips), sweetened with half & half.
Most mornings involve a large bowl of oatmeal with brown sugar, cinnamon, and frozen blueberries or raspberries. If I don't feel like oatmeal, it's something with eggs, usually fried until the yolks are just barely runny.
Every day:
- 1c old fashioned oatmeal, cooked with frozen berries
- steamed vegetables
- 3 egg whites
It's a lot of protein and food up front, but they say to eat breakfast like a King and dinner like a pauper, no? Having vegetables in the morning really makes a difference for my mood. Plus, it's one less serving to worry about later in the day!
This morning, white toast with bitter marmalade, and a cup of hot tea with honey.
Usually I have a bowl of homemade muesli made to this recipe, mixed with Greek yoghurt. So tasty, and it makes the house smell so good when you're cooking it. Also, it keeps for quite a while, so I don't need to bother making a batch more than every 2-3 weeks. Before I started making it myself I used to feel guilty lashing out for a $7 box of muesli that'd last me a week. So much cheaper to do it yourself!
I'm trying to detox from Easter, so although we have some leftover hot cross buns in the kitchen, I returned to my regular oatmeal, with splenda and cinnamon. I always have to have a cup of earl grey, too!
Same thing I eat almost every day during the work week. Fage plain Greek yogurt with raw honey and chopped walnuts with a little ground flax mixed in as well. Dark roast free trade coffee, black. A couple pieces of fruit, and today it was a handful of strawberries and a kiwi fruit.
Office coffee w/ shelf-stable "half and half" :(
I am in a breakfast breakdown lately...haven't left myself enough time before leaving the house and haven't shopped for anything quick to take or stash at work.
Now reading this has my tummy growling!
Leftover Chinese takeout (vegetarian fried rice, hot tofu and asparagus, and Kung Pao broccoli) and a double cappuccino using the last scant glug of milk.
We, uh, haven't been marketing for a while. The cupboard is bare.
A few mini corn muffins with maple butter (Easter leftovers)!
steel cut oatmeal with honey and walnuts; iced coffee
Now that it's warming up, I'll start making yogurt and granola
First - a cappucino with a little sugar (never cinnamon or any other toppings -- stricly Italian style for me!) Then oatmeal -- McCann's if I have the time, or Uncle Sam's instant at the office. Uncle Sam's has virtually no sodium (unlike all the other instant brands) but does have added whole wheat flakes and flaxseed -- not bad for instant!
An apple and a pumpkin muffin! I was planning on eating some leftover frittata (mushrooms, quinoa, asparagus, parmesan... yummmm) but I was running late and had no time to warm it up.
South Indian egg curry over rice, and coffee.
Coffee and a black bean, rice & bison sausage burrito.
Toast smeared with peanut butter topped with half a mashed banana. Nursery food, basically.
two tiny slices of sourdough with burre
and a lovely jug of chlorophyll.
I had a homemade cranberry and almond muffin, and coffee...pretty typical for a weekday. Weekends, we splurge and have bacon or sausage, with hashbrowns and toast... I love weekends!
Big salad with mixed greens, baby spinach, sprouts, cukes, sautéed asparagus, avocado, red wine vinegar, and s&p, and kale and jalapeño sauerkraut quesadillas made with Daiya vegan cheese and homemade hot sauce mixed with salsa for dipping.
Details here: http://lambdashanks.tumblr.com/post/498270771/breakfast-procrastination
Fresh strawberries with yogurt and 2 slices of fresh baked pecan raisin bread with honey butter. Yum.
Kashi GoLean High Protein Cereal with Silk Light Plain Soymilk and a sliced up strawberry.
Just a quick piece of toast with peanut butter and homemade plum and lavender jam. I'm now drinking green tea and eating raw almonds at my desk.
Easter Leftovers--Ham, Eggs, and Columba di Pasqua bread and cup of ginseng peppermint tea.
All Bran Buds cereal with milk and two cups of coffee with half-and-half. Weekdays I'm just not awake enough to manage elaborate breakfasts.
Ezekiel 4:9 toast with peanut butter, flax seeds and agave nectar; and a cup of tea.
My favorite weekday breakfast!
Large slice of sourdough bread, a pat of Kate's Homemade butter, wild blueberry-ginger jam from the farmers market. Washed down with a large cup of black tea with milk.
Weekends are all about good old fashioned diner food: pancakes (with real syrup of course), eggs, fried tomatoes, bacon, grits... yum!!!
More Easter leftovers--the last hot cross bun
Slice of no-knead bread toast (I add a cup of rye flour to the dough so it has some whole grain); banana, earth balance, and four cups of coffee with skim milk.
whole grain pita bread with 1 wedge of laughing cow lite and sliced tomato
boring.
I should have added that my breakfast routine varies, depending on what I'm making or not making for the kids or what I feel like. Fairly common breakfasts for me would be scones, pancakes, bagel with homemade jam or apple butter, a burrito, leftover homemade pizza, and occasional cereal.
Weekends I go all out, but on weekdays it's usually a smoothie that I bring to work in a mason jar, or oatmeal with chopped apples/dates/bananas/frozen blueberries/whatever I have around, and a splash of vanilla soymilk.
@miscjenn Everyone is Australia, well, most of the population, eats cold ham.
For breakfast i had corn flakes. And this probably won't change for awhile
Ezekiel 4:9 toast-- one piece w/ poached egg and grated parmesan, one with sliced up avocado and chili flakes. I believe in a big, hearty breakfast and cook one every single day. It's an important part of my morning routine-- having just those few minutes to cook something makes me more centered.
Bank holiday weekend breakfast: a soft boiled egg, Granary toast with butter and homemade marmalade and 2 cups of white tea. We had croissants for toasting earlier in the weekend, but alas they were gone, and I wasn't in the mood for hot cross buns that were still lingering.
Being a bank holiday I got to enjoy sitting down at the table to eat breakfast - hence the 2 cups of tea!
I had a frittata with asparagus, leeks and morels- i beat the eggs with some half n half, thyme, salt and pepper, then grated some parmesan on top and threw it under the broiler.
ummmm YUM!
Hmm, usually I have some greek yogurt and a cup of coffee, but today, I had a couple of poached eggs over toast. Good stuff! This last weekend, I was mastering my poaching skills :)
i had a leftover lemon sticky bun (soooo delicious) with an egg fried in olive oil, and a cup of coffee with fat-free half and half and Splenda. later i had a bit of ham, a bit of bread, and a tangerine.
Coffee, packaged oatmeal that I keep in a box at work. If I remember it, it's an english muffin with cheese. But I didn't this morning.
Stoneyfield plain yogurt, full fat, with a bosc pear.
Steel cut oats with hot berries (frozen berries warmed with a touch of maple syrup)
A cup of coffee with soy milk.
Potato salad and apple spice tea. I have always been a fan of non-breakfast food for breakfast.
After yesterday's Easter dinner, a bowl of Nature's Path Optimum Slim cereal seemed like a good choice. Fiberful, filling, and delicious.
A piece of wheat toast topped with wilted arugula with lots of lemon juice and a poached egg. It was so effing tasty I can't wait to do it again!
now I really want to be home so I could make a delicious full breakfast.
I actually had leftover dessert from Easter... from-scratch shortcake (biscuits) with strawberries. No whipped cream though. Was dreamy!
Those scallion pancakes with wobbly poached egg look SO delicious. Alas, I was too darn tired to eat this morning - coffee was all I could bring myself to consume. Up to 1:30am working, then crying 7 month old woke up at 3:30am - finally falling back asleep at 4:15am, then forced myself to get up and work out at 5:45am...
Going to get lunch now! I am starving.
north staffs oatcake and free range fried (no oil) egg, glass apple juice from local fruit farm, cup of fairtrade organic tea with milk
AllBran w/Yogurt bites and 1% milk, a glass of homemade iced tea.
over medium egg, toast [dave's killer bread/good seed variety] with earth balance margarine and homemade strawberry jam, half a grapefruit, coffee.
Leftover houska, warmed up old decaf coffee, and angel food cake decorated with marshmallow frosting & peeps. Post-Easter diet, definitely! Oh, and a bowl of oatmeal flavored with white sugar and lemon oil (my new favorite way to eat oatmeal).
Homemade artisan bread, toasted with butter and ham. Apple juice and coffee
My favorite simple breakfast: rolled oats, dried fruit, nuts, milk, and a touch of honey. I mix it all together, and eat it about 20 or 30 minutes later at work. I like the taste of cold, raw oats.
a couple hard-boiled eggs.
I need some more yummy recipes using steel cut oats!
Green smoothie & coffee or yerba mate
earl gray with milk every day and leftover brown rice with a big dollop plain yogurt and medium dollop of cilantro pesto. yum! i generally don't eat sweet things for breakfast anymore. not for any particular reason other than i don't crave sugar in the morning (but afternoons are a different story altogether).
local plain yogurt, granola, a drizzle of local honey, and an espresso with a splash of raw milk.
Typically fiber one original cereal with a banana and several cups of tazo organic chai tea.
but today I had the sticky lemon rolls that were just posted a few weeks ago. They lived up to every raving review! So good, I ate two.
Cold burek
Cereal with milk today and on days when I'm feeling rushed and/or lazy.
On a good week day- open faced egg sandwich (over easy); and on a relaxing weekend morning- pancakes or waffles :)
Ummm, a plain bagel with some cream cheese. Sad thing is, I even had time to make a "well-rounded" breakfast this morning. I look forward to this weeks theme.
This morning it was two slices of homemade bread, one toasted and buttered, one plain and buttered with a few slices of cheese. And a couple of chocolate eggs from my Easter basket.
Usually it's cereal (Shreddies, Mini Wheats or Cheerios) with 1% milk or toast with butter or jam. At my last job, I had to be at work so early that I would just take a granola bar and eat it once I was at my desk. On weekends, I have the big breakfasts of bacon and eggs or pancakes. I only eat eggs on Sundays, so I look forward to them.
Whole wheat toast with natural peanut butter.
A cup of lemon tea with honey.
yum!
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Today, a latte and an apple. The coffee is a constant (read: mandatory for basic function) and then something small like an apple, or a bit of yogurt.
Iced coffee and apple pie. In the winter I like cinnamon toast and hot chocolate.
My usual workday "breakfast" is sugar free instant oatmeal. Today I had that and a banana. I've been seriously craving some plain old egg-on-toast (scrambled or fried) and may have that for dinner!
Weekends we usually bake... love muffins, pancakes, waffles and an occasional blueberry bagel with light cream cheese. Yum!
Today I had leftover fruit salad for breakfast. It was basically fruit it a yogurt/honey sauce, so I figured it would fit the bill.
Two slices of toast with marmite, and a white coffee.
I had a really simple breakfast today, because Easter involved so much food! A slice of whole wheat toast with orange blossom honey and some coffee with cream.
Usually I have eggs, either fried, soft boiled or in an omelet.
I get on kicks! My current one is to mash half an avocado on wheat toast with hot sauce. And while I'd like to start cutting back, a big cup of light, sweet coffee.
I had a slice of quiche, leftover from yesterday's brunch. It had caramelized leeks, bacon, and swiss cheese in it.
Oatmeal mixed with canned pumpkin, a sliced banana, and vanilla extract. Pretty much my breakfast every morning. But sometimes I go a little crazy and use almond extract instead of vanilla.
Um, I had a small Reese's peanut butter cup from my easter basket. . . it wasn't my best morning.
Quaker oatmeal with raisins, brown sugar and milk. Yum.
Plain yogurt sweetened with honey with a handful of honey bunches of oats. And a cafe au lait - that was lukewarm - not my coffee shops finest moment...
Homemade cashew coconut butter, strawberries, and clover honey on multi-grain bread.
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Usually: cup of tea, milk and cereal (or instant oatmeal).
Today (work from home day): popovers with butter and blackcurrant jam.
Normally I have two poached eggs and a slice of wheat toast with my coffee, but I ran out of eggs. Instead I had oatmeal with cinnamon, brown sugar, and flax seeds.
@RosieGreenie -- Glad you like the granola. I'm making another batch today. =)
A compost cookie and a cup of tea. I couldn't help it!! I was helpless against its siren call! Soooo unhealthy.
Uh, Earl Grey with a little lemon and honey for my throat.
Some mango banana smoothie juice from TJs.
And then a piece of a Clif bar around ten.
That's just sad.
Pumpkin muffins and milk
A chopped up apple with yogurt and a dash of almonds.
@onesnowyowl that is the best cereal EVER! i love it with reduced fat vanilla soy milk or almond milk and a banana. yum!
today i had kashi heart to heart with almond milk and 2 cups of black coffee.
Sourdough toast with peanut butter, yogurt with a banana, chopped almonds and ground flaxseed. Plus coffee. Always coffee.
Two cups Yorkshire Gold tea with milk, one piece sourdough and one Milton multi-grain slice toast. Usually I would add a bit of my friend's homemade plum jam, but I was feeling a bit overdone on sweets from yesterday...
The standard weekday breakfast: Sometimes bran buds w/ rice milk, other times it's kashi lean with rice milk. Both always with raisins, orange juice or smoothie, coffee, and a handful of vitamin supplements.
A banana and two cups of French press coffee. The coffee is standard, the banana is not. I usually try to have something more substantial--egg on toast, or granola and yogurt--but I just wasn't very hungry today.
same thing I eat every morning: old-fashioned oats with yellow raisins, craisins, dried blueberries, and walnuts, sprinkled with cinnamon and nutmeg.
the boyfriend, on the other hand, ate something different for breakfast this morning: an Easter egg.
Thank you for asking this question - and thank you for all the answers! I have some inspiration for future workday breakfasts.
I had scrambled egg and tea, but only because I have a slight cold. I usually eat yogurt with blueberries, strawberries, and wheat germ mixed in (I'm really picky about buying plain yogurt and putting my own fruit in it as opposed to buying yogurt with fruit on the bottom) or homemade granola.
sliced banana, blood orange, mango, and blueberries topped with Ronnybrook Farm drinkable mango yogurt and some homemade granola. And coffee with milk
Kashi Go Lean with almond milk and sliced banana on top a cup of Earl Grey
coffee of course
oatmeal with milk, brown sugar and a ton of cinnamon
but it's getting a little warm for this breakfast; almost time to switch over to yogurt & fruit
browned garlic and sesame fried eggs with bean curd marinated in ponzu served with a curried bulgur/rice pilaf and kimchi.....
I premix my own oatmeal, then slowcook it, and top with a spoon of honey to sweeten.
The majority is steelcut oats, but I mix in whole rolled spelt, wheat, rye, and barley flakes, chia seed, hemp seed, and right now I'm trying coconut flakes for flavour. 1/4 cup of this mix keeps me running all day.
Mine was a quick quesedilla - a tortilla, an ounce of leftover roasted chicken, about 1/2 an ounce of shredded cheese, a Tbsp of fat-free sour cream (I recommend Breakstones - doesn't taste fat-free) and a Tbsp of salsa.
My breakfast varies wildly over time, since I know that if I don't vary it, I tend to do one thing until i burn out.
Two mandarin oranges and a buttered english muffin! I was in a rush, so I didn't have time to make anything big, but it was delicious anyway.
I have the same thing almost every day...a big green smoothie with spinach, kale or chard, a banana or half an avocado and whatever other fresh or frozen fruit I have on hand. I also have hot green tea with a splash of cow's milk or rice milk. I love starting my day knowing I already have some serious nutrition under my belt.
Lots of healthyish breakfasts here!
I'm not ashamed to admit that this am I had a big piece of Dewey's Moravian Sugar Cake (those in W-S, NC know what I'm talking about.)
Yesterday the boyfriend made me Gordon Ramsey's scrambled eggs. Look up the video and try it--SO GOOD, especially if you don't like rubbery, chunky scrambled eggs.
I wish I could enjoy oatmeal--after a phase of dutifully eating nearly every morning I can't stand the texture anymore, and it doesn't fill me up at all.
Vegetable Juice mixed with flax seeds.
today was a bad breakfast. water with apple cider vinegar, an odwalla vitamin c citrus juice, and half a sandwich with roasted turkey, cheese, tomatoes and sprouts. usually i have a kefir, banana and blueberry smoothie and a coffee.
A ham and cheese sandwich. On white bread. With mayo. And a Pepsi. I r not the healthy brekfst eater. ;)
Umm...I had instant noodles for breakfast. Not exactly gourmet, but it's what I felt like.
a leftover lemon roll with cream cheese glaze :) heated up for 30 secs in the microwave of course!
Special K with Red Berries and milk because I was running late. When I have a little more time, breakfast is usually a scrambled egg and toast, or a little omelet with spinach and ham or cheese.
Mmmm, poached egg, gouda and avocado on sprouted grain toast.
I usually have some kind of cold cereal with fat free, lactose free milk, half of a banana or on indulgent days a toasted bagel with butter & jelly.
If I get up early it's usually oatmeal with same kind of milk, banana and a few nuts tossed in.
Coffee with cream, vanilla yogurt, homemade granola and blueberries. Breakfast is such a great way to begin the day...
A bowl of yoghurt with homemade granola, a cup of tea, a glas of orange juice. It's a typical weekday breakfast for me. On weekends, I include bread with butter/cheese and half a grapefruit, and make my own juice from what I have at home.
Smoothie with soy yogurt, organic blueberries and bananas, and almond milk.
Whole grain toast, with a slather of Earth Balance.
(I'm also known to make breakfast from anything that's leftover in the fridge without discrimination, i.e. pizza, spaghetti, leftover Asian food, matzoh ball soup.)
Every morning I have rice pudding with fruit (from a pot since I carry it to work) but I am very, very bored with that and will be changing once I have run out of those. I think greek yoghurt, fruit and something crunchy will be my next series.
I need some serious help. Typically, my breakfast is a Mountain Dew and a bag of cheddar cheese pretzel Combos in the car. On a good day, it's an Egg McMuffin and a lowfat milk in the car. I have little time in the morning and DO NOT LIKE AND WILL NOT EAT granola, oatmeal, cereal (hot or cold) or yogurt. I can't eat eggs 7 days a week and French toast or waffles are out of the question during the week---and aren't such a healthy choice any way. I visited several dieting sites whose breakfast links were to Kellogg's and PopTarts sites instead of providing some real suggestions on what to eat if you don't like traditional breakfast fare. Any suggestions? If the food is not typically thought of as "breakfast" food, that's fine with me as long as it is healthier than the crap I've been grabbing. I also have no problem cooking on the weekend to be prepared for the week. Help!
LMAAR2 you have a serious problem, but i think Beyonce can help. Since you make ur coffee at home from a pressed pot, i assume you have a coffee to go cup for that.
Some Ideas for you:
1. Try Belvita Breakfast Biscuits - like eating cookies, but loaded with whole grain, fiber, and most important energy releasing B vitamins. Comes in 2 flavors, cinn. and blueberry. Each box of Belvita contains 5 packs, one pack has 4 cookies. I prefer the blueberry.
2. Fresh fruit - fill a bowl with whatever you like that is easy on the go, my fav is any kind of apples. Also plums and bananas are good for you and easy to carry.
3. My most favorite food in the whole world - NUTS - Planters sells various pre packaged small packages of various nuts, i just bought a can of nuts called Nutrition "Bone Health", has almonds, cashews, dried fruit. Just regular dried fruit is also portable, i just bought some dried fruit w/kiwi, apples, mango,raisins, pineapple. Pack in saandhich sized zip lock baggies.
4. For that egg fix, go the Dunkin Donuts and try the veggie egg white omlet on pita bread, surprisingly good, tried for the first time last week.
Hope this will give you a starting point, especially on cool, rainy mornings like i am looking at right now from my back porch.
5. If you e-mail me at cmarkham1@cfl.rr.com I can send you a link to my blog - Let's Get Healthy Together. I can also mail you a package, very soon, just let me know an address.
Good Sunday morning, For breakfast today i went to dunkin donuts drive thru. Ordered a number 6, veggie egg white omlet on pita and large coffee, triple cream, 4 splendas. Hope you have a blessed day and a healthy breakfast.
Despite a very busy morning, i did go to Dunkin Donuts and order a chees bagel twist and coffee. Ate half of the bagel as it is very high in carbs, yummy, no cream cheese. Coffee was yum as usual, really needed it this morning, long night.
for breakfast i ate two pieces of thin pumperknickle toast no butter and a leftover hamburger patty from a cookout we went to yesterday. so much food leftover, friend sent food home with everyone.
Put 4 chicken leg quarters marinated in italian dressing in the crockpot last night, done at 4am this morning.
After fasting since 12:15 am, when i could eat i wanted to go out for breakfast like to ihop, but wanted to get home quickly, so i went to dunkin donuts drive through, ordered a toasted cheese bagel and coffee. yum!
This morning i had a veggie egg white omlet with 2 small toasted pita breads from dunkin donuts. Bought a blueberry muffin for my daughter. Did not have my coffee from DD as usual, made DD coffee at home. Very healthy breakfast, enjoyed eating it and listening to the radio.