#Microblog Monday 250: Breakfast
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While I am totally aware that every culture and country has a different list of foods that it counts as “breakfast” foods, I was not aware that Americans have the narrowest definition of breakfast items. That fact listed in the dek isn’t really backed up with a numerical count of every country and its breakfast items, but sure, let’s go with it.
I have the same breakfast every day. A container of yogurt. That is my favourite breakfast. If we’re having breakfast out, I tend to go for eggs first and French toast second and anything else third. I’m not the biggest fan of pancakes, though I’ll eat them if I make them. And I love a good crepe, but few non-crepe places serve crepes here.
And I loooooove breakfast for dinner. In fact, that’s what I think we’ll have tonight.
What do you have for breakfast? And are breakfast foods kept at breakfast time?
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I eat anything for breakfast, except “breakfast foods” because I don’t really like breakfast foods. If we go to a restaurant, I will probably order a burger (although eggs florentine is an option because I don’t make Hollandaise sauce and it’s delicious). My daughter sometimes complains about how there’s nothing for breakfast, so I tell her about the miraculous refrigerator full of food that’s right in front of her and how she can have anything in it. Don’t be limited by definitions!
Hi here in the uk I avoid the traditional cooked breakfasts of bacon, eggs, sausage, beans and toast ! All year round on a working day it is oats with chopped banana and blueberries with 1 tablespoon of maple syrup it keeps me going all morning , if out for breakfast I love scrambled eggs or poached and often have this as dinner !
Hi here in the uk I avoid the traditional cooked breakfasts of bacon, eggs, sausage, beans and toast ! All year round on a working day it is oats with chopped banana and blueberries with 1 tablespoon of maple syrup it keeps me going all morning , if out for breakfast I love scrambled eggs or poached and often have this as dinner ! As an insulin dependent diabetic I avoid all pastries and rarely have toast which is my default comfort food 🙁
I don’t know what’s happened to me. I used to love breakfast—especially going out for breakfast. Eggs, bagels, toast, grits… I think it all got too heavy to deal with. Every morning, I have a tablespoon of peanut butter and decaf green tea. How exciting. On a Saturday, I might eat the other stuff but during the week it makes me too exhausted. I never really do breakfast for dinner but my daughter loves it– pancakes, waffles, which I’m fine with because she makes them herself and leaves me out of it.
Now that’s a topic I can write a 1000 words about. In India, different states have different kinds of breakfast. For example, in central India, breakfast and evening snacks (a quite bite) can be used interchangeably. This is also same of the area I come from, East India. In the north, the breakfast is a heavy meal and that can also be lunch or dinner. The concept comes from the brunch that men used to have before going for work in the fields. Then evenings when they came back, it would be tea and snacks.
I can have eggs anytime. For breakfast, Lunch or dinner. At my place, I try to make breakfast that’s a whole grain food. What a fun topic, Mel. You got me thinking.
Also, I think only yogurt for breakfast and dinner is too less. I would be hungry all the time. 😛
My breakfast for the past 35 years or so has been more or less the same: oatmeal, cooked in the microwave, with brown sugar, cinnamon & milk, and a big glass of orange juice. My grandfather had porridge every morning (cooked his own, after my grandmother died), & he lived to be 96, so my mom & decided there must be something to it & started eating it ourselves. 😉
My dad makes an excellent brunch on Sundays when we’re there — usually eggs of some kind with ham or bacon, hash browns & toast, and that’s what I usually order if we go out for brunch. Sometimes waffles or pancakes. My mom used to make us waffles for dinner once a week when we were kids, with bacon on the side, and we loved it!
When I was at university, I would sometimes eat cold leftover pizza from my little dorm room fridge for breakfast, especially if I’d overslept & missed breakfast at the cafeteria. 🙂
My breakfast isn’t same-same everyday, but it does have the same types of foods that are labeled “breakfast foods”. I did a challenge to eat vegetables every meal of the day and breakfast was the most difficult! Why aren’t veggies a stable “breakfast food?” It’s really weird. And, as i write this, the breakfast veggies have fallen by the wayside most days because even though I established the habit in 30 days, it was really easy to break!
Like Parul, I don’t know how you just eat yogurt and aren’t hungry. Especially on work days, I need something substantial so it usually eggs/bacon or sausage and fruit or toast a biscuit from the cafeteria.
At home, I rotate. Traditional cereals don’t hold my kids for long so I always try to have something whole grain and a protein to last, so we rotate different variations of eggs cooked all different ways, breakfast meats, and waffles/protein pancakes/toast. Big holidays we are all home together it’s our big breakfast which is breakfast potatoes, pancakes or waffles, over easy eggs, bacon AND sausage, variety of juices. On Fat Tuesday/Shrove Tuesday (the day before Ash Wednesday) we have breakfast for dinner and it’s the big breakfast.
I LOVE breakfast for dinner. It’s so fun!
For me personally during the week, I rotate between Protein Special K, hot cereals, eggs, toast or multigrain crackers with OB, turkey sausage. Today was a nectarine, string cheese, and a slice of bread with PB.
I have on occasion eaten leftovers for breakfast, but I find that’s usually not as balanced as I try to make my first meal (even split of protein/high fiber carbs) but I’m not against thinking outside the box when I’m tired of the usual choices.
Yogurt for me, too. But a very specific one. https://www.noosayoghurt.com/product/tart-cherry/
I eat eggs with oatmeal, eggs with bagel, or some variation of those two. I love breakfast food and can eat it all day long if I can. When we go to our favorite diner, I usually order breakfast for dinner. I tend to go with egg benedict, country fried steak, or pork chops plus eggs and pancakes.
I think my pre-diabetes is getting worse, so I’ve had to stop my usual cereal unless we’ve been to whole foods recently (need to stock up on Rip’s Big Bowl). When I am feeling like I have time or thought to plan ahead, I have oatmeal or an egg on toast or a breakfast taco. Mostly though I have leftovers that are different from the leftovers I’m bringing to work for lunch. This morning I had a slice of whole wheat toast with peanut butter.
I don’t eat breakfast. Never have. I mean, my mom made me when I was tiny but by the time I was like 6 or 7 and responsible for it myself I stopped and pretty much never started again. I will very rarely eat breakfast out if we wait until noon. Yes, I realize that could be called lunch. LOL But I can’t look at food until after 11am. When I do eat breakfast I like eggs, hashbrowns, waffles or pancakes (note: NO breakfast meats). There is nothing that can get me to eat sausage, or bacon.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/08/magazine/eaters-all-over.html
I found the Turkish breakfast in this piece a bit exaggerated (I am from Turkey) This is a Sunday breakfast, not a weekday breakfast. Weekdays, our family breakfast table has eggs, butter, honey, jam, a few types of cheese, olives, and if in season tomato/cucumbers along with brewed tea. On weekends, we sometimes substitute eggs with pancakes or waffles. We are just recently started having ‘American breakfast’ on weekdays, which for is oatmeal for parents and cold cereal for kids (they don’t like oatmeal).
I love breakfast. Given the choice, I’d make all meals either breakfast or icecream! Alas, my breakfasts are usually boring: eggs, tomatoes and guac; baked oatmeal: gluten free toast and PB; mixed veggie frittata. On weekends we might do high protein waffles, but that’s a treat.
Like you, I’m not much of a breakfast eater. Yogurt–and sometimes a pkg of Belvitas. But, I also enjoy breakfast for dinner–even though I like few of what we call breakfast foods here in the USA. 😉
My typical breakfast would be porridge with a mixture of seeds/fruit/raisins and oat milk. I drink a cup of tea with it. If I’m really hungry I might also have a croissant with a boiled egg/scrambled eggs. Whenever I’m in Ireland I’ll often treat myself to the full irish breakfast!
Work days: cold cereal, toast, bagel, or smoothie (frozen açaí purée, banana, frozen blueberries, soy milk)
Weekends: the above choices, or pancakes, scones, veganegg + hash browns, or cinnamon rolls
This is fascinating!
Also, yoghurt is not breakfast, it goes ON breakfast! Lol.
My breakfast varies on time I get up, the season, etc. I quite often skip breakfast, have a simple bran or granola cereal, sometimes with yoghurt and /or fruit, sometimes without. On fasting days that I’m going to be busy, one or two scrambled eggs. Toast and jam if I’m feeling naughty. Avocados and marmite on toast if my sister has given me some. If I’m out, any of the usual suspects, but like eggs benedict or French toast.