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I bought some breakfast cereal for the first time in years today. It got me thinking about what others have to eat for breakfast.

 

So, what do you have? Why?

Would you have something different if you could?

Does time restrict what you have?

Tell us about your favourite breakfast EVER!

What do you do at the breakfast table? Read? Watch TV? Chat?

Do you have a beverage?

 

I want to know all about your breakfast habits! :D

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Weetbix, milk and sugar. I've been eating them for years and I still love them. I can't really be bothered having anything else unless I'm away on holiday. Usually I sit with my first cup of coffee, after taking daughter to the school bus down the road, and eat my weetbix while checking out the computer to see what exciting things have happened overnight.

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Depends on mood when waking up. Most mornings it is cereal. Otherwise is it is toast and marmite and a cup of tea. Weekends, it can scrambled or fried egg on toast and said cuppa.

 

I don't read or chat (I don't really "do" mornings). But I just sit and watch BBC breakfast and I usually allow 10 minutes.

 

Best breakfast ever is in our staff restaurant every Friday morning. Full English!

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I have porridge or Weetabix with blueberries or a sliced banana. Except on Sundays when it's a bacon sandwich :)

 

I usually read a few pages of my book or watch the news while I'm having my breakfast.

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In the week I have a cup of tea (essential) and those breakfast biscuits cause they are easy really thats the only reason.

I would love to have something different if someone else would cook it I would have a full english or continental depending on mood and season also provided they were non fattening :D and healthy.

 

Nope time has no restrictions mainly because I set my alarm for early enough to get up shower and breakfast back in bed, its not the breakfast that makes me late its the book I am reading. :readingtwo:

 

My favourite breakfast ever is one where I don't have to cook or do any washing up. I love having it in Spain at my aunts house mostly cause its the only place I feel like drinking coffee and its very relaxed and takes us ages to eat it, I don't mind lingering there. I also had some amazing breakfasts in America last year, not healthy but delicious.

 

I don't eat at the breakfast table I take it back to bed and read.

 

Tea every time in the UK and in spain its weak coffee made with milk

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I always have breakfast (day feels wrong without it - I have no energy and become grumpy).

 

Normally I have porridge, cereal or toast with an apple or banana afterwards. These are all quite quite quick to make. I always have a coffee with it and normally listen to the radio news while eating.

 

The best breakfast I have had in the last year or so was in Spain. "Tostata con tomate" with a coffee, sitting at a cafe by a marina in the early morning sun :-)

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I know breakfast is the best meal of the day, but I don't always want anything to eat at 7 am

 

But once a week my husband comes into town with me before I start work and we go to neros for a coffe and a pain au raisin, had this today which was a good way to start the week

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I like to switch it up with my breakfasts since I get bored pretty easily. I will either have an egg on toast, oatmeal, cold cereal or just a couple pieces of toast smothered in peanut butter. Oh and some sort of fruit. I usually have juice and then wait to have coffee until I get to work. On the weekends I'll get fancier and make an omelet for myself and once in a blue moon will also fry up some bacon.

 

I generally eat while I'm getting ready for work, so I'm not rushed in the hour I take to do that before I have to leave the house. I also manage to watch the morning news and sometimes get online to see what's up with everyone.

 

The best breakfast I've ever had was at this little diner in Plymouth, Massachusetts. It was an omelet filled with Boursin cheese and caramelized onions and I was in heaven! Plus I was on vacation and having a fab time so that made it even better :D.

 

One odd thing about me is that I can't stand going out for breakfast super early in the morning (before 8am). Fried greasy restaurant food smell just makes me ill. Any other time of day though I'm fine! Long story, but it just makes me think of going on road trips when I was young and the inevitable car sickness that would follow.

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I used to always have rye bread (sometimes white bread) with butter and something on top of it, and some juice and coffee. Now I always have porridge/oat meal, with cotton cheese and some sort of juice added to it. Is goooood :) And healthy.

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I have muesli with chopped apple or banana or sometimes porridge with raisins & a sprinkling of cinnamon & fruit tea. I usually make the children whatever they want for breakfast so I can be quite busy in the kitchen on a morning making anything from toast & jam to scrambled eggs. We went to the States a couple of years ago & we ate breakfast a few times in a buffet restaurant there was so much choice you could literally have anything you wanted & I had the best carrot cake ever one morning, naughty but very nice :blush:

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I rarely have breakfast, purely due to time constraints. I usually manage to grab a cereal bar mid morning.

 

When I'm on holiday I'll usually have toast, but if I had the time (and remembered to plan in advance), I'd love to have grapefruit, toast (fresh granary bread or perhaps a lovely sourdough) with lemon curd or lime marmalade, fresh coffee, orange juice, and perhaps a croissant or pain au chocolat. And then I don't need to eat until dinner in the evening! On holiday, a good breakfast means I can do whatever I want during the day without having to worry about finding somewhere for lunch!

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I'll usually have cold cereal and orange juice, but I'll often have a toasted bagel with cream cheese (or butter an honey), scrambled eggs with bacon and/or toast, or hot cereal, like Cream of Wheat (which is what I had this morning). The only constant is juice...I always have juice.

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Usually I have cereal and coffee but lately I've been craving hearty breakfasts like eggs and bacon and hash browns. This morning I had some Cinnamon Chex cereal.

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I have to get up pretty early in the morning as it is without getting up even earlier to eat! It's naughty, I know, but I'm never hungry at 6am. I might swig a mouthful of milk at home and then take an Up & Go milk drink of various flavours to work (today it's vanilla). Half my fridge is taken up with those milk drinks. It's nice and filling and keeps me going for a bit. Occasionally I'll take along a Pop-Tart and have that with my milk. I usually have a muesli bar mid-morning which I guess could count as my breakfast.

 

On weekends I tend to sleep in so late that I miss breakfast completely. :rolleyes:

 

If I go out for breakfast I might have scones or a toasted sandwich, depending on my mood. Strangely, I rarely buy bacon/sausages and eggs, even though it's my favourite type of breakfast. I guess because it can be a large and filling meal, and I'm often not hungry enough to eat that much. I could really go a nice big meal of sausages, bacon, hash browns, eggs and toast right now. Mmmm.

 

Ooh, and I love eggs benedict with ham. That's an awesome treat that I've only had once or twice.

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For us, breakfast is a whatever we fancy at that given moment kind of affair. This moring, Xander asked for cheesy crackers and milk, so that's what he's got. Sometimes it's toast. Xan's not a fan of cereal, but he'll sometimes have porridge if he's in the mood. This morning, I'm having a mixture of fruit and nuts. We're both drinking milk this morning (Xan has full-fat, I have skimmed), but sometimes I have coffee or tea with brekkie.

 

I don't really do cooked brekkies unless we're away on holiday and it's more a brunch than brekkie. I haven't had a cooked breakfast in years. I'm definitely more into the continental breakfast kind of stuff like croissants and cereal, etc.

 

The best breakfast I ever had was in Turkey. There was a selection of hardboiled eggs, meats, local bread and cheese, fruit, Turkish coffee, apple tea and fruit juice - it was marvellous to sit out by the pool in the beautiful sunshine which wasn't yet too hot (I still got up at around 7am and had breakfast at about 7.30am). It was such a relaxing start to the day and kept me going till I would have a late lunch with my fiance (he worked at the hotel where I was staying and had the afternoons off).

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cereal - pretty much always. Usually something reasonably healthy like muesli, weetabix or porridge. Very occasionally I'll have a piece of marmite on toast instead but I can't remember the last time I did that. The only exception is when I'm on holiday especially in a hotel or b&b when I enjoy a good fry up :)

 

Frankie what is cotton cheese? Is that like cottage cheese?

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During the week I always have two boiled eggs, purely because it fills me up, and stops me snacking too early on. At work we have a rule of not eating before 10am. If you do, you have to put 50p in the pot. :giggle:

 

I always boil my eggs the night before, sometimes for several days worth, and then take them out of the fridge in morning and let them sit in a jug of warm water while I walk the dog. That way they aren't too cold when I eat them. I sound really fussy. :blush:

 

On weekends, it's usually egg on toast. I love my eggs. :giggle:

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A big bowl of oat cereal with rice milk and a mug of Roobosch tea, also with rice milk. If its a work day the tea has to wait until I get to work and have finished getting the residents their own breakfast - usually by around 7.30am. Sometimes I have some fruit smoothie instead, to boost my blood sugar and help keep me going.

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A big bowl of oat cereal with rice milk and a mug of Roobosch tea, also with rice milk. If its a work day the tea has to wait until I get to work and have finished getting the residents their own breakfast - usually by around 7.30am. Sometimes I have some fruit smoothie instead, to boost my blood sugar and help keep me going.

 

I've never had rice milk. Does it taste very different from cows milk? Is Roobosch the same as Red Bush (naturally caffeine free)? I drink that like it's going out of style. I particularly like the Vanilla flavour one.

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Yes that is the same as Redbush - I drink it because I wanted something that was caffeine free but was still like 'real' tea. It is an acquired taste, but I have been drinking it for more than 10 years now and rarely touch the strong stuff at all anymore, unless I go out somewhere and that's all I can get.

 

As for rice milk, it is very different to cows milk in that it is much more watery and doesn't have that strong creamy taste - neither does it clog you up like cows milk, which is the main reason I drink it, that and the fact that it's healthier. A lot of people who suffer from sinus problems are actually intolerant to cows milk and don't know it, I find that I get sinus problems and a stuffy nose if I drink too much of the stuff, which is the main reason why I don't. I do still have some dairy though, small amounts of cheese and natural yoghurt, although I am cutting down on the cheese too these days and tend to use feta instead, which is made from sheep, or goats cheese. Strange that I didn't get these symptoms in Iceland when I practically lived on dairy - it must be something to do with the way that's its processed, either than or something they do or perhaps don't feed their cows on !

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