What's for breakfast?

[Florence]

I love breakfast (and lunch and dinner and snacks...but that's another post!) So 'fess up, what did you have for breakfast this morning??

I had oatmeal with blueberries. Sooo good!!:)

[Jilly]

A headache, so no breakfast for me.

[pinkytoe]

My standard everyday breakfast is oatmeal cooked with coconut and frozen berries added at the end. Cinnamon and nuts! Holds me till lunch. This morning, DH made migas to use up some old tortilla chips.

[ApatheticNoMore]

On weekdays, I usually always have the same thing for breakfast, a banana and some nuts. Sometimes I add some tea with cream (caffeinated or not). Yesterday I added some strawberries with cream as farmer's market strawberries are fragile and need to be eaten. Occasionally on weekends I'll have scrambled eggs with cheese or something, but not weekdays. Well occasionally I'll eat my lunch for breakfast - then haha I'll be stuck with nothing but a banana and nuts for lunch :)

[CeciliaW]

Coffee, a banana, some crackers.
Breakfast is usually whatever is around and no cooking required.
Lunch becomes the meal I think about 'balancing'. ;)

[Weston]

Black coffee. I love breakfast but find it very difficult to keep my weight down when I eat it regularly. I know that goes against widespread prevailing wisdom but I've tracked it, and when I stopped forcing myself to eat breakfast (I'm very rarely hungry in the morning) I found losing weight much, much easier.

[puglogic]

This morning I had leftover lentil soup with tomatoes, kale and olives. And a cup of really good coffee.

Although I'm doing this Food Stamp Challenge, I've found it very hard to give up coffee. One really good cup in the morning, even at the cost of cutting corners somewhere else in the food budget (like prepared foods), has kept me from feeling deprived at breakfast time.

I might have breakfast for lunch, though....something about an omelette for lunch really holds me over.

[Florence]

A headache, so no breakfast for me.

Hope your headache goes away soon.

[try2bfrugal]

This morning I had leftover lentil soup with tomatoes, kale and olives. And a cup of really good coffee.

Although I'm doing this Food Stamp Challenge, I've found it very hard to give up coffee. One really good cup in the morning, even at the cost of cutting corners somewhere else in the food budget (like prepared foods), has kept me from feeling deprived at breakfast time.

I might have breakfast for lunch, though....something about an omelette for lunch really holds me over.

Do you like tea? I see tea on sale or at discount stores for maybe 2 cents per bag.

This morning so far I have had green tea. I really prefer coffee but green tea does seem help me more on the weight loss front.

[Rogar]

I have a smoothie almost every day for breakfast and alter the routine by adding different ingredients. Today it was spinach, cucumber, banana, a scoop of vanilla whey power, coconut milk, and a handful of ice cubes. All blended.

I've been trying to use up some of the last of the garden in my breakfasts and have been pretty heavy on adding chard, cucumber, and beet tops lately.

[The Storyteller]

Interesting you should ask... :)

I had sworn off preprocessed foods as untrustworthy, as in, they pack in extra salt, refined sugars, and fat to absurd levels. Even the stuff that sounds healthful like orange juice, grape juice, breakfast cereals, and most yogurts are so adulterated they are almost always actually unhealthy. So, it was pretty much rolled oats or steel cut oatmeal as far as breakfast cereal goes.

But then I watched Forks Over Knives again, and have had a change of heart. Caldwell Esselstyn is one of the featured speakers in that film, and I had just finished his book on preventing and reversing heart disease through diet (http://www.amazon.com/Prevent-Reverse-Heart-Disease-Nutrition-Based/dp/1583333002). Of the several authors I have read, he is the most strict where it comes to avoiding processed and refined foods, oils, and animal products (although I haven't yet read The China Study).

Well, low and behold, about half way through the film, there is Anne Esselstyn touting the virtues of breakfast cereals. I pulled out my Kindle and did a search, and sure enough, they recommend certain whole grain cereals as "safe", specifically...

Kashi 7 Whole Grain varieties
Post Grape Nuts
Ezekiel 4:9 sprouted grain cereal
Post Shredded Wheat
Uncle Sam
Wheatena

There may be others, but those are the only ones I'm sure of. So, being cereal lovers, we ran out and bought several boxes. Some are harder to find the others. All that to say...

This morning, I had Kashi 7 Whole Grain Flakes in almond milk, with banana and blueberries!

:)

[The Storyteller]

I have a smoothie almost every day for breakfast and alter the routine by adding different ingredients. Today it was spinach, cucumber, banana, a scoop of vanilla whey power, coconut milk, and a handful of ice cubes. All blended.

I've been trying to use up some of the last of the garden in my breakfasts and have been pretty heavy on adding chard, cucumber, and beet tops lately.

Sounds wonderful! I've been wanting to start doing smothies. Right now, we juice recipes similar to that

[Rogar]

Sounds wonderful! I've been wanting to start doing smothies. Right now, we juice recipes similar to that

Neat. I had a juicer for a while but it turned out to be a little bit of a hassle. For breakfast especially, I think the fiber and bulk from the whole produce is a little more filling, and also think the whey or soy powder helps to balance the carbs from the fruits and stays with me til lunch. The greens just sort of disappear, but can't do a few things like carrots that don't get blended well. And apples, which seem to make the drink mushy. I try to have both a fruit and a green in mine. It seems like the variations are almost endless. I also use chocolate flavored whey or soy powder for something different, and at least by my taste I need a milk of some sort...almond, rice, coconut, or soy.

[Gardenarian]

I don't eat breakfast. I don't get hungry till around 1:00 - right around now...

[Sparrow]

I also make a smoothie every morning consisting of almond milk, banana, kale, ground flaxseed and frozen berries. It wasn't holding me until lunchtime so I'm now also eating a boiled egg along with it as well.

[puglogic]

Oh, YUM! I think I lived on smoothies during the summer. I planted a sort of "smoothie garden" in the garden this year: kale, sorrel, collards, strawberries. And I let the purslane and lamb's quarters (weeds) grow, as they're both awesome in green smoothies as well. My husband refers to the ones with the wild greens as "weedies" :D (We planted blueberries this year but it'll be a couple of years before they can pull their weight)

[The Storyteller]

Neat. I had a juicer for a while but it turned out to be a little bit of a hassle. For breakfast especially, I think the fiber and bulk from the whole produce is a little more filling, and also think the whey or soy powder helps to balance the carbs from the fruits and stays with me til lunch. The greens just sort of disappear, but can't do a few things like carrots that don't get blended well. And apples, which seem to make the drink mushy. I try to have both a fruit and a green in mine. It seems like the variations are almost endless. I also use chocolate flavored whey or soy powder for something different, and at least by my taste I need a milk of some sort...almond, rice, coconut, or soy.

Yeah, it's easy to get carried away on the fruits when juicing, which packs in a LOT of calories. Some of my juicing sources recommend an 80/20 split on veggies to fruits in juice.

Sometimes when a juice is really strong (which can be the case with kale and some of the others), we add an inch or so of ginger root.

[JaneV2.0]

Leftovers: peppers stuffed with ground beef.

[The Storyteller]

For today, juice!

4 carrots
2 apples
1" ginger

[JaneV2.0]

Chicken, cheese, a loaded latte.

[ApatheticNoMore]

I'd thought I'd left several bananas on my desk but apparently not ... so now "we have no bananas" is running through my head. So since I also seem yesterday to have lost the badge that allows me to get easily in and out of the building (to say buy a banana) - without asking several people to help me to do so, in a spate of hunger I ate a free bagel and cream cheese at the office (yea that's all they've got for food here besides the vending machine). It's not my idea of a healthy or filling breakfast. So, always carry a spare banana.

[Rogar]

Yeah, it's easy to get carried away on the fruits when juicing, which packs in a LOT of calories. Some of my juicing sources recommend an 80/20 split on veggies to fruits in juice.

Sometimes when a juice is really strong (which can be the case with kale and some of the others), we add an inch or so of ginger root.

That might be where juicing trumps blending. If I added a piece of fruit to a smoothie and wanted four times that in veggies the greens could be overwhelming.

[ApatheticNoMore]

apple with almond butter, tea with cream. Mostly on account of having run out of nuts, I'm sure I will return to the usual soon.

[JaneV2.0]

Spicy ground turkey and kale.