What do you eat for breakfast?

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by Pico and ME

Sundae Girl, is your Dads fried bread just fried bread or french toast?

Fried bread.

What you call French toast is actually eggy bread.
And we have that for tea, not breakfast

[Clodfobble]

Bowl of cereal, every single morning. Haven't had anything different since the days when I was skipping breakfast. Before that... bowl of cereal.

Cheerios, Crispix, or Oatmeal Crisp. Always one of those three. When I was a kid, Rice Krispies instead of Oatmeal Crisp in that triad.

[kerosene]

I always make breakfast for my family before the day begins. Sometimes I slack off and sleep in a little, causing my husband to have to get things started for me.

This morning we had banana pancakes, bacon and milk. Yesterday was cornmeal mush. Sometimes we have bacon eggs and toast. I try to mix it up a lot. I can't handle monotony. But it is homemade every morning, for economical reasons.

[jinx]

Nothing. It's the same thing I had when growing up, although back then my sister and I took turns faking "evidence" for my mom... couple of bowls with a little milk swirled around and a few flakes of cereal tossed in.

[wolf]

Bob's Red Mill Scottish Oatmeal with honey, sometimes a bit of Saigon Cinnamon sprinkled on for excitment. I occasionally change this up for some other sort of hot cereal, Bob's Red Mill 7 Grain usually, although the Silver Palate Rough and Ready Oatmeal is also a winner.

Beverage is 2 cups of black coffee.

If there's a good prize in the box I may have some sugary cereal ... I really liked the light-up Indiana Jones Adventure Spoons that have recently been in the Kellogg's cereals.

[BrianR]

Originally Posted by glatt

That's a huge breakfast Brian! And you are even skinnier than me, if I remember correctly. Is that your biggest meal of the day?

Nope. Supper is my big meal, usually consisting of a large hunk of some meat, a generous helping of pasta or potato, a tiny spoonful of a veggie, unless I have carrots, in which case I have a half pound or so, and a couple cold ones to wash it down...not to mention either bread or some of my wife's biscuits and real butter.

Dessert comes extra...depending on whether or not I made something. Mary has been feeming cake and I might just indulge her tonight if she's a good girl today.

Yes, I am underweight and trying to gain 20. No, I am not succeeding. The bathroom scale is beginning to scare me.

Happy meals!

[BrianR]

Originally Posted by Pico and ME

Its the best way to eat oatmeal...low glycemic index and more fiber. I think it tastes better too. Now that Quaker Oats offers it you dont have to go to a health food store to get it.

I can't find it at all here. Only instant, pressed oatmeal.
Yuck.

But I eat it anyway, or farina. When I'm in the mmood to cook and want a hot brekkie.

[Griff]

Brian, maybe you should pick up a bread making machine. I've seen people bulk up pretty fast when one gets in their kitchen.

[Cicero]

I eat people like you, for breakfast!



Sorry, good mood today.

[Sundae]

Today I will have a late, late breakfast.
I've been slobbing around, reading, catching up here and on emails.

When HM goes to work (soon, surely?!) I'm going to nip into work & grab some bits out of the fridge. Then have a snacky feast.

Why wait til he's gone? Because it's practically my last blow-out before I get healthy next week, but I can't be arsed to explain that to him (sounds like an excuse for eating too much cheese & pate) and because I need to wash my hair before I can be seen in public, and I can't be bothered to do that before I dye it tonight.

Slacker.

But breakfast/ brunch/ lunch/ dinner will be: Danish blue cheese, Marmite flavoured rice cakes, extra mature Cheddar, Branston pickle, mackerel pate, olives, French bread, spring onions, honeydew peppers and possibly a rice or cous cous dish. Carb heavy? You betcha.

[Cicero]

Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

I need to wash my hair before I can be seen in public, and I can't be bothered to do that before I dye it tonight.

Slacker.

We seem to be on the same hair dying schedule. Of course I might just not do it, again. I always put it off. Then I have no time to do it, then I have time to do it, and put it off, again. Then I get comments at work. Then I get stubborn because someone made a comment and I refuse to do it, then I decide to do it, and put it off. I go with: maybe it will happen this weekend. I might!

So I'm supposed to do it today. We'll see.........

Really I wait until lunch to eat. I'm not hungry in the morning, and I know it weighs me down and makes too tired to function at work. So I choke something down after noon. I'm a 2 meal a day person unless I make my husband breakfast, then I have a small portion of what I make for him.

[Pico and ME]

Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

Fried bread.

What you call French toast is actually eggy bread.
And we have that for tea, not breakfast

I had to google fry bread and Wikipedia said it was either or...typical. So what is fry bread like? Is it like a grilled cheese sandwich without the cheese?

[Sundae]

I couldn't honestly say
I've only had toasted cheese sandwiches

I don't like fried bread myself - too greasy
But I'm a big toast fan, so maybe I just compare the two unfavourably.

Fried bread is just that. Bread (sliced, white) fried in the fat left over after frying other breakfast items. Which is why my Dad rarely has it, because they grill everything.

In fact it's probably just a treat at Christmas and Easter now as he'll use the dripping (fat from the roast). If that - since his heart problems Mum is far stricter on what he eats!

It did used to be a staple of a fried breakfast.
Even now, if I stay in a B&B I will check exactly what they mean by a Full English. I can cope with fried sausage, bacon, egg (although I'd never make them myself) but leave out the bread. And the tinned tomatoes.

[Pico and ME]

Mmmm....I suppose it might be interesting if it was cooked in bacon grease (I love bacon). Kinda reminds me of All Creatures Great and Small where the farmers would eat fried fat (?? I think I have that right) in the morning.

[skysidhe]

Typical American?

I think our typical is morphing into alternative/organic/local/health/but the demographic of typical changes depending on where one lives.
Pancakes become the special treat for folks after church on Sunday at the local Pancake house.

*thinks* Am I trying to have a lame psuedo serious conversation about breakfast!? lol

I need another cup of coffee.