Survey: What Do You Eat For Breakfast?

[Michelle W. Flannery]

I'm curious and I'd like to know what people are eating for breakfast. What do you grab as you're running out the door in the morning? What breakfast satisfies your hunger and health requirements? And what's your favorite pull-out-all-the-stops-I'm-gonna-stuff-my-face breakfast? Do you eat differently in cold weather than you do in warm? Please let me know! Thanks.

[Maggie]

We have nuts and seeds which we grind and serve with goats yoghurt and fresh fruit.
My Indian neighbours have idle with spicy sauce or a lentil soup or sambar.
I love all the above. I guess the main thing is some fresh veggies for enzymes and for digestion and some veggie protein for energy.
Sometimes we have steamed greens with organic eggs poached on the top.
I think the idea of the full English breakfast is a very heavy way to start the day. I feel I need a nap when I have had a very heavy meal.
Asians have a rice congee soup meal with fresh pickles, also good for digestion.
I look forward to what others have to say.

[Michelle W. Flannery]

I enjoy having non-breakfast specific foods for breakfast. I'd just as soon warm up leftovers - like a bowl of soup, or chicken salad on a bed of lettuce. When I was growing up, friends used to eat cooked rice with milk and sugar. I always thought that was weird, but maybe now I can see it isn't. It's just a different way of eating.

[Kate]

Maggie I am with you.... and sometimes I have leftovers from dinner for breakfast.... like that zuccini and mushroom lasagne I just gave you the recipe for. If I am going to be spending the morning doing a lot of physical work, I like to have piece of protein too...... usually a leg of grilled chicken leftover from making my husband's lunch! Or a boiled egg etc. My favourite though, is the nuts and seeds with fresh or stewed fruit and natural yoghurt. The steamed greens with an egg is delicious too but we eat so many greens for dinner I usually can't face any more for breakfast! The English breakfast is the ideal thing if you are going to be spending the day out in the cold and snow, ploughing your fields with an oxen! Actually I used to do a lot of week long cross-country skiing trips and the perfect breakfast, cooked under the fly of a mountain tent, was fatty bacon, boiled in the billy and then you drink the hot liquid too.....wow that was luxury and just what was needed before putting on your boots and skis and lifting a mighty heavy pack onto your back and heading out into the snowy mountains before setting up camp at the end of the day, likely as not in a blizzard, several days skiing from another person!

So it is important to eat what is right for the times and not stick to eating like a mountain man if you live in the air-conditioned comfort of a city!

[Tamra]

EGGS! Eggs with toast, eggs with grits, eggs scrambled with Daylilly blossoms, shallots and dill. I love eggs! I love the big English breakfast. I love the Saturday mornings when my husband makes a big breakfast: biscuits from scratch, fried potatoes and EGGS.

In the summer, when my garden and the farmers markets are full of fruit, I will eat just fruit on many mornings. Eggs in the summer are cooked with vegetables and served with fresh fruit. Last week I harvested 16 pounds of peppers so this morning it was peppers with eggs.

While traveling in Mexico we discovered Chiliquiles, and great breakfast of stale tortillas and eggs. My recipe is here.


Here is how I prepare eggs and veggies.

[Skip]

We have bacon or sausage we raised, homemade biscuits, and either western omelets or fried tater's and eggs.

[Beva]

This sounds like the breakfasts my Mother made on the dairy farm. boiled potatoes left over from supper would be chunked up and fried in bacon grease along with buttermilk biscuits or home made rolls. Scrambled or over easy fried eggs, bacon or sausage.
She was feeding hard working men each day. I recall the hired men tromping into the kitchen, barn boots and all and being scolded until they went back the the porch and took them off... then they were allowed in the kitchen. These brawny men washed their hands in the kitchen sink like meek little boys when Ma was through with them! They loved her breakfasts, so they did as they were told!

[TAR HEEL]

I'M HUNGRY.....you better wash them hands! ED

[TAR HEEL]

.......no hound-dogs allowed. ED

[PiscesGirl]

Holy mackarel - that sounds good! :)

[Tia]

What's your recipe for homemade biscuits?

[TAR HEEL]

POWER TO THE CARNIVORES!!!!.......more bacon please. ED

[Michelle W. Flannery]

We're big egg eaters here. Almost all the eggs we consume are eaten at breakfast. Scrambled, fried, boiled, omlets... I love going through the refrigerator to see what I can come up with that's different than the standard eggs, meat and toast. Sometimes, for John, I will fry up two corn tortillas. A little grated cheese on one. Top with sliced or shredded cooked pork (sometimes I'll reheat it with spices to kick up the flavor - BAM!) Top with a fried egg, cooked over easy, a little more grated cheese, and top with the second tortilla. Sometimes pour a little barbecue sauce over the pork, or if it's steak, A-1 sauce).

We aren't vegetarians, and I've done many scrambles and omlets like yours, with lots of crispy veggies in them, plus a bit of sausage or bacon (we don't eat that very often), or even chicken if I have some left over.