Breakfast

[wellinghall]

[Poll #1722402]

Comments

[miss-next.livejournal.com]

I'm amazed you didn't include fruit. A lot of people like some fruit as part of breakfast. :-)

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Depends on the definition of often!

Re. the something elses, I have yoghurt often (every day at the moment, until the milk delivery is set up), and breakfast isn't breakfast without fruit, preferably an orange.

[muninnhuginn]

Banana! The world does not exist until both tea and banana have been consumed.

[segh.livejournal.com]

How could you omit kedgeree?

[bookwormsarah.livejournal.com]

I often don't bother with breakfast - I find most breakfast foods very dull. Since moving to Lancashire I've started eating a mixture of crunchy nut cornflakes and branflakes (dry - I don't like milk) and recently I discovered the utter wonder that is crunchy nut cornflakes and cold custard. Trust me, this is ambrosial. Even better if it is chocolate custard.

Given time and as long as I have washed up the porridge pot I have porridge with blueberries (frozen) or with pecans and maple/golden syrup. I'll drink lemon and ginger tea, or cranberry juice, or a glass of water.

For much of my childhood I ate a slice of dry wholemeal toast and two biscuits for breakfast. True fact.

[camillofan.livejournal.com]

Coffee and leftovers-- cold pizza, when available, is especially preferred.

The said, I love traditional breakfast foods, and my favorite meal to eat out is b'fast. Better yet, b'fast food for supper.

(Yes, I know. Americans.)

[muuranker.livejournal.com]

Cold lasagnia.

Something else cold

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Bread + jam!

[alitalf.livejournal.com]

Very different attempts at breakfast on different days. If I am not expecting to eat lunch, a cooked breakfast is the way to go, but if I am - sometimes just coffee, sometimes muesli as well.

[sally_maria]

Either cereal (in the week) or toast (at weekends) for most of the time, though if I'm staying somewhere that offers a cooked breakfast I will definitely eat it.

[muuranker.livejournal.com]

You missed a range of toasted things - bagels, English muffins, crumpets, etc.

And baked beans, and tinned tomatoes. And mushrooms.

I had the revelation about 30 years ago: just because it's before noon, doesn't mean you have to eat breakfast foods.

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

Quite right too :)

[miss-t-ide.livejournal.com]

Croissant and coffee at the weekend. Toast & marmalade or cereal on days when I'm not having a croissant. With either coffee or tea. And the croissant option has the benefit of containing the fewest calories. Win!

[firin.livejournal.com]

Granola (which isn't really exactly the same thing as muesli, though it's similar-ish) and fruit.

[firin.livejournal.com]

Apparently muesli is 'uncooked rolled oats' plus fruit and nuts etc. Granola contains the same ingredients, but is baked until crispy. Very different taste. I prefer muesli, but I've kind of got used to granola in the US now.

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

I think I'm the only person who only picked "Nothing at all". I'd rather sleep to be honest. Not a morning person, and not eating breakfast means I don't have to set the alarm to go off before 8.00 despite having a 35 minute drive to work.

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

Very sensible! I used to have most of my brekkie when I was on teaching practice when I got there or at break, and the other teeny bit brought to me to eat in 30 seconds while I was getting ready. Indeed I also ate breakfast at break time when I was at secondary school. This is another reason why I don't bother with breakfast here, once I get up I usually go out sooner than I'd want to eat anything substantial.

[chainmailmaiden]

I'm with you on the forgoing breakfast to have time in bed. I do have breakfast, but not until I get to work. I still have to get up at 6.40am though :-(

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

Caveat: in my current life the answers don't apply as I can't get some of the items and some aren't doable on the move, which is what I usually am when I am not in bed esp in the morning, so I start grazing when I first feel hungry and eat several times during the day thereafter, usually. Sometimes this involves an actual real meal or two, sometimes it doesn't. (I do eat a variety of things though, in all food groups).

[chainmailmaiden]

By tea, I mean green tea, without milk. I have it with a banana and a pack of Belvita breakfast biscuits when I get to work. I don't have anything before leaving the house.

[chainmailmaiden]

Oh and at the weekend our standard breakfast is orange juice with croissants and home-made jam. Followed by freshly ground coffee and cookies for dunking. I didn't tick those in the poll though as I don't count 2 days out of 5 to be often :-)

[davidcook.livejournal.com]

Cereal (no milk, just a sprinkling of sugar), then toast. And a glass of coke to accompany it ...

(although staying at B&Bs in the UK, I got quite used to cereal, toast, sausage, bacon, hash brown, maybe even tea, as a breakfast, and that was usually enough to allow me to just snack through the day and not worry too much about finding somewhere to eat lunch - very handy when touristing around the place)

[asklepia.livejournal.com]

My stomach doesn't wake up at the same time I do, so I don't generally break my fast until morning teatime.