Food What did you have for breakfast?

Instant Oatmeal (plain)
1/2 English Muffin with rasberry jelly.
2 glasses of water.
5 cups of coffee.

 

A big bowl of a dumbass.

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1 - Single serving bowl of Total Raisin Bran
1 - Box 'o UHT skim milk
2 - Single serving peanut butter trays
1 - MET-Rx protein powder (strawberry colored)
1 - Diet Coke

 

A fried egg with a slice of melted cheese on a piece of whole wheat toast. A handful of dried cranberries. A glass of iced tea.

* and a couple squares of Cadbury milk chocolate. I couldn't resist.

 

Marionberry Scone and coffee. I woke up too late to even eat cereal at home, so I had to pick something up at the coffee shop on campus.

I like to make a full breakfast (ok, sometimes it's lunch) on the weekends. I'm thinking about Biscuits and Gravy this weekend. Mmmmmmm...gravy.

 

Several double lattes. I typically only eat 2 meals a day and I'm thoroughly wired until lunchtime.

 

A bowl of this with 1% milk and coffee



Before too long I'll switch over to oatmeal with raisins and brown sugar for the winter. And with coffee, of course.

 

Cup of tea and a chocolate biscuit........I know its not a proper breakfast but some mornings I just don't feel like making breakfast, I'm still half asleep.

 

I had nothing to eat until lunch, today. I did this, today, because I was running late. Normally; whole wheat/ peanut butter toast.
I do not agree that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, an usually find it unnecessary and a performance hinderance.
Usually, if I eat breakfast, I am starving and sluggish by 10am. If I just have a few drinks (coffee, water), I am much clearer.

I feel that lunch is the most important. Europeans are not fat and their primary meal is mid day.

 

Had some grits casserole and an English breakfast tea. The casserole had sausage and cheese in it.

 

I completely agree with Phi Eyed.

On work days (whether domestic or international), I rarely have breakfast, unless I'm meeting someone for the same.

On holiday, I usually have a chocolate croissant with a latté macchiatto. Or something of that nature and quantity.

Further on work days, my most important meal is a well-sized lunch (I also rarely have dinner, unless I'm traveling or meeting someone). For holidays, the priority shifts to dinners.

 

I'm terrible about breakfast, mostly because I sleep until the latest possible moment (and then some). I'm also not a fan of most breakfast foods. If I had time to make eggs in the morning (I could, but that would require going to bed earlier and I'm a night person), then I'd do that. Instead, I often don't eat anything until I get lunch. Sometimes I have a caffeinated beverage in place of breakfast - gotta have something to provide the energy that I'm not getting from food in the morning.

All in all, terribly unhealthy and not particularly tasty.
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Agreed. The idea that Europeans are more healthy because their lunch is larger than their breakfast entirely misses the point. Phi Eyed, I don't know if you're European but if you are maybe this discussion has made you think breakfast is a major part of American lifestyle and therefore it may be part of why we're generally fatter. In fact, it's the opposite. The most important meal of the day for most Americans is dinner, with breakfast being the least important (and often skipped). Compared to that, lunch is certainly healthier, but there have been many studies showing that breakfast has the largest impact.

 

Hey, I'm not knocking the 3-meals-per day routine.

It is clearly the better of the two. Three medium-sized meals provide a much better energy intake and give the body an opportunity to be much more efficient in the output of energy, as otherwise the large energy intake from a single large meal is mostly converted into fat and "stored".

Hell, when I was in my peak training phase, I'd have anything between 5 to 8 small meals throughout an entire day to maximize efficiency.

 

I was on a five meal a day plan that caused me to lose over 20 pounds in less than 3 months. It was so simple. I never got hungry once. It included breakfast, a rather hearty breakfast at that. It isn't how often you eat, it is what you eat. I say it was simple because it never got hungry. But it was very difficult to sustain eating 5 times a day especially as I was doing a lot of business travel then.

 

Microwaved meatballs on a bagel.