The Breakfast Thread

[Ziggy]

I never make pointless threads, so just shut up!

I was about to name this thread The Breakfast Club.

I know we have the what are you eating thread. This is different. This is just breakfast.

Hey, it's the most important meal of the day. What do you eat?

On days that I work I usually eat a shit breakfast, if anything at all. I don't eat before I leave the house. I eat when I get to work. Mostly Pop Tarts or instant Oatmeal. I should probably find something better to eat than Pop Tarts.


On days that I'm off, and I make a breakfast, I make sure to do it up right. I take it very seriously. I love breakfast foods. Eggs, sausage or bacon, toast or an English muffin, orange juice and coffee. And every once in a while I'll add pancakes to that lineup!

I don't believe I have any bacon or sausage in the house, so today I'll just have to settle for eggs and toast.

I'm really fussy with my eggs. The only time I'll eat a fried egg is if it's on a sandwich. Up until just recently, the only way I'd eat scrambled eggs that weren't on a sandwich was if they had cheese on them. Well I figured out that I like scrambled eggs without cheese, but they just have to be made a certain way. I can't order them from a dinner, they suck. It's very labor intensive. Scramble some eggs with a little bit of milk. Melt what most people would call too much butter in a frying pan. Then from the moment you pour the eggs in, it's a nonstop ordeal. With a spatula, I'll constantly push from the outer edges into the center, all the way around in a circle. This gives the eggs that "scrambled" appearance, but more importantly, makes them fluffy. Cook them too little and they'll be all undercooked and soupy like. Too long and they get too firm. Gotta make em just right.

I'm gonna go make myself some eggs right now.


What are YOU eating for breakfast?

[flojocabron]

cornflakes!

[fastbilly1]

During the week:
Oatmeal. Usually a mix of McCanns Steel Cut Irish, or Kroger low sugar Brown Sugar and Cinnamon.

If I get lucky, I might get a Chikfila Chicken Biscuit, but those are rare affairs.

Weekend:
All variety of fun foods. My favorite kind of cake is a Pancake, so we have atleast two types of mix on hand and the stuff to make them from scratch. Krusteaz is my favorite mix and we usually buy the 10lb bag of plain and a box of blueberry or wheat. We usually top it with local honey or a raw maple syrup we get from the farmers market (or if we dont have the syrup we get Kroger Private Select Syrup which is pure). We do have a bottle of Log Cabin and some Agave on hand since some people dont like the "crazy stuff."

If we have them, we will do egg and bacon or sausage, but we are low on meat stocks. I like eggs over easy or hard boiled. But scrambled with cream cheese is a special occasion treat.

[lisalover1]

I almost always eat a bowl of oatmeal cooked over the stove, adding brown sugar, almond milk, walnuts, and raisins to top it off. It's a nice, filling breakfast that usually keeps me satisfied until dinner. But, on days when I'm not too hungry when I wake up and want to make lunch my main meal, I just have a banana or something.

[TSTR]

Cereal or leftovers usually. My breakfast time is most folks' lunch time though, so I tend to vary between breakfast foods and other stuff.

Also, I have a Bojangles addiction.

[Luke]

McCanns Steel Cut Irish

Delicious.


Today: Handful of blackberries, heaping spoonful of plain yogurt. Rinse blackberries, repeat.

Making your own mixed yogurt is delicious and packed with protein.

Cheap too.

[Ziggy]

I love cereal. Cold or hot. I've been trying not to eat much cold cereal tho. I use to drink too much milk, and cereal doesn't help. Also, all the cereals I like are the worst kind for you. Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Apple Jacks, mmmmmm. I do like Special K tho. But every time I get it, when I'm eating it, I feel insecure. They market it toward middle aged women trying to lose weight or keep weight down. It's all over the box.

I like hot cereals, too. But I end up putting sugar in them, making them not as healthy as they should be. Being more consience of this, I try to do alternatives or happy mediums. When I make oatmeal, I'll put some cinnamon in it. Then I'll do either part or all brown sugar instead of white sugar. I've tried Agave in it before. It's not bad. If I'm feeling a little adventurous I'll put some maple sugar in it.

Which leads me to Maypo. Something I'm sure most of you have never heard of. It's hard to find in stores around here now. It's "maple flavored oatmeal" and it's absolutely fabulous.

Then there's Ferina. It's basically cream of wheat. I try not to eat it often anymore though, as it's basically a big bowl of wheat a sugar. The two worst things for you. I could, of course, not put sugar in it. But then it'd be a big bowl of bland wheat.

Witih both Maypo and Ferina, I like to butter some bread to eat with it.

[J T]

cornflakes!

Not me. I'm always hangin' with the raisin girls.

[Hobie-wan]

If you're having cream of wheat/farina anyway, put in some fruit preserves instead.

[Ziggy]

I'm pretty Plain Jane when it comes to most foods. The only things I want in my Farina are a couple of lumps. If I'm making oatmeal on the stove, I don't put anything in it. The only time I can tolerate something is if I get some instant oatmeal with little bits of apple in it.

I don't like things in my pancakes either. And the thought of putting bananas in cereal just grosses me out for some reason. I like bananas, but I can't stand them in stuff.