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What Breakfast Gets You Going?
Crash McBang asks: "Apparently many are foregoing the morning coffee for something sweeter, according to a recent article in RedOrbit. 'There is nothing better than the feel of Coke on the back of your throat in the morning,' said McKinsey, a morning pop drinker since the 1970s, savoring the cold, stinging sensation that coffee drinkers just don't get. What gets you going after waking up?"
You are torturing me! I have to fast this morning until 11am because I have this health screening thing at work. And now a story on Slashdot about breakfast. Of all the days, I swear. I guess though that on any given day someone reading Slashdot has to fast for some reason.
To answer your question though, I usually have some sort of pastry, peanut butter and jelly sandwich or donuts. On the weekends when I have more time, I make eggs and bacon or waffles for my family. And milk of course. I'm not a coffee drinker. Coffee ice cream though, now that gets me going. But not in the mornings.
Cereal, a nice cup of Tea (yes, i'm British) and some fruit gets me going. Apparently, Apples are more effective at waking you up than coffee!
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I haven't had breakfast on a working day for about 15 years. However, weekends it's a big steamy bowl of porridge with honey, sultanas and cinnamon.
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Seriously though, i dont have a breakfast most of the time. I sometimes grab a coffee on the way to Uni but not regularly.
1. Mountain Dew is the usual meal 2. Red bull or other energy drink when I need a slightly stronger kick. 3. Carmel Machiato with a triple shot of espresso if I need something more.
Frappe. Lots of frappe.
A pot of coffee. No nancy-boy additions, no milk, no sugar, no nothin' but strong back coffee ground fresh in my kitchen this morning.
On weekdays I'll have a danish, too. On weekends, I'll make at least one real breakfast centered around pancakes or waffles.
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A mega-mug of crushed ice filled with Diet Coke, and a doughnut, or that extra special cold pizza stashed behind something in the frig. Hello World!
A nice cold Mountain Dew Code Red gets me up.
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In the winter, I eat a grapefruit almost every morning sometime between 4 am and 6 am.
Honey Buns are good for breakfast on the go (I have 8 O'clock classes, so no time for a real breakfast at the cafe).
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In the old times, it used to be a bottle of Mello Yello (with the sugar shaken back into solution). Now, it's a bowl or two of weetabix, and a diet pepsi on the drive to the office.
Getting old is a pain, but it sure beats the alternatives!
The smell of money gets me right the heck out of bed at any hour. Nothing can make me more awake or more motivated when the rubbing together of hundreds is involved.
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Coffee and a smoke. Then some more coffee.
kashi golean crunch cereal with fresh blueberries (no milk)
strong black tea
Most days it's a bowl of cereal (typically Raisin Bran or Frosted Shredded Wheat), a banana, and a nice big glass or two of tea, typically green. In the wintertime, it's hot oatmeal or cream of wheat.
If I have a lot to do that day, or an exam, or whatnot, I'll get up a bit earlier and make a couple of eggs, whole grain toast with peanut butter, yogurt, etc. Brain food.
Breakfast has never been optional for me. Not only do I not like to be hungry, if I haven't had something of substance to eat within a couple of hours of waking up, I typically get a horrible splitting headache that lasts all day and which doesn't respond to analgesics. (No, it's not the caffeine. I can go days without tea - I just won't be happy about it.)
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Slashdot journalism as breakfast makes me going... to the bathroom.
...of the dog that bit you. In my case that's usually Coopers Pale or Sambucca. If the day at work previously was really shit then it could even be tequila.
*NOTE* I don't really drink that much every night. There are just some times at particular points in the project when you say fsck it and piss on of a worknight with mates to forget about it all.
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My breakfast is an extra fifteen minutes of sleep.
bacon, eggs, and sometimes sausage. Usually washed down with some lightly or un-sweetened iced tea. Lately, I've been stopping by the local quickiemart for a 24oz eye opener, and a banana for a mid-morning snack. if I'm pressed for time I get a sausage, egg, and cheese bagel from Wawa (Convenience store/deli).
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Tea or malt coffee (I'm trying to reduce my caffeine intake, plus there's free coffee at work)
Orange juice
Toast with jam, or cereal
Normally, it is some form of cereal. Usually the higher in sugar the better. For instance, this morning was Cap'N Crunch with Crunch Berries. But, I also have Honey Nut Cheerios, Honey Nut Crunch'n Oats (two different versions) or whatever cereal is on sale when I go shopping (usually have a coupon too).
However, on weekends I usually make myself a two-egg cheese omelette or on rare occasions, 6-8 slices of french toast.
I always have a glass of juice (grapefruit) and a slice of toast, pop tart or some cake/pie. I'll throw in hash or spam from time to time as well.
I almost never miss breakfast, no matter how early I have to get up (right now around 5 - 5:20 every morning).
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I meant "with a plate of your {favourite regional variety of bread}".
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...or I assume the yanks call it an English Breakfast...
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But at lunch time.
A Friday Fry-Up for lunch is a tradition, or an old charter, or something.
I've just had mine, and I'm ready for my afternoon sleep
It seems that having soft drinks for breakfast is quite unhealthy, lowers your attention span, etc.
Here's the source (but I'm sure there are many other sources that say the same thing).
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Please tell me you are all just drug addicts and you are talking about cocaine, not Coca-Cola. That stuff is disgusting in the morning. And yes, I have tried it.
And people wonder why Americans are so overweight. We have started drinking sugary soda in the mornings too now. Are you too lazy to brew a quick cup of coffee and get your caffeine rush there?
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With some butter tarts. And a coffee crisp. And maybe some Smarties. And a pepperoni stick. And an O Henry. And a pizza pop. God I'm hungry. I've been in the US for too long. =(
On the subject of drinks though, I am a pop drinker as well. It depends on what's going on that day what I drink though. I will have a coke most days. But if I really need to be awake and alert, I will start the day off with a Bawls.
A Jimmy Dean sausage wrapped in a pancake on a stick, chased with Gatorade AM.
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It keeps you from getting hungry to fast again.
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I get up at 330 am for a 5 am shift. Breakfast is a PBJ sandwich with Orange Juice. Doctor prescribed 100 mg Modafinil (Provigil) to help me through the early morning sleepies. Not a stimulant like caffiene, this drug just keeps you awake.
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I do one of two things for a morning boost.
The first is a GNC protein shake. Mixed with cold water and blended it makes an awesome breakfast. 300 calories; all good. And it keeps me full till lunch.
If I had a shitty night, I eat a boiled egg and shoot a Mountain Dew Code Red. Very bad for me, but the sugar and caffeine get me going and the egg keeps my stomach from eating itself before lunch.
Also, one of the best things to get me going is some push-ups and stretching in the morning. I can knock out 30 push-ups in no time flat while I'm waiting for Outlook to sync up. After my first once-over of my inbox, I'll stretch while I think about the responses I'll send.
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I drink two glasses of ice cold water. one before I get wash and dressed and the other just before I set off to walk to work (a 15 minute brisk walk). I then have some fruit at work. If I eat before I have been awake for more than 2 hours I tend to feel bloated and sick.
A mix of oatmeal, hazelnuts, pumpkin seeds and sunflower seeds. Topped with low-fat yoghurt. This goes good with a glass of orange juice.
After that I can tackle the day.
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Workdays: Capsule of L-Tyrosine, big mug containing 50-50 mix of hot chocolate and coffee (from machine at work) Keeps me pumping until lunch.
When I was a teenager and had not yet acquired a taste for coffee, my father wisely observed that when I got to college, I'd learn to like it. Which was just the push I needed to dig in my heels and resist. Of course he was right about my collegiate need for caffeine, but the cafeteria's soft drink dispensers were functional at every meal, so I started waking up with diet cola. A pattern was set.
My last year of college I spent a semester in Scotland, and was introduced to an alternative: tea. Although my flatmates snickered at me for not knowing how to brew a kettle, by then I was mature enough to welcome the opportunity to expand my horizons (plus, none of them were my dad). A hot cup (or large mug) of tea became my cold-weather starter. (To this day I've had a cup of coffee only once... and didn't finish it.)
Of course both are lacking in energy (a conscious choice to keep me from puffing up), so I need to get my actual fuel from somewhere. Oatmeal (especially off-brand) is one of the cheapest and healthiest, and with a fairly liberal splash of honey or a dollop of jam (nicely compensated by my lo-cal beverages), it's darn tasty.
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I'm from the U.S., so that colors my perception of what's reasonable for breakfast, but breakfast is a must for me. Most important meal of the day, y'know. :-)
To begin, here are a few randome points from a guy who would happily eat "breakfast" three times a day. One, yes, I like a diet Coke in the morning. Two, I think pancakes and syrup are too sweet and heavy, so a big "pancake breakfast" is not for me. A couple on the side are fine; I just can't imagine an entire breakfast composed of the things. And finally, three, I've seen on a few recent travel shows something referred to as a "traditional English breakfast", a monstrous affair with multiple starches and sausages, eggs, some tomato, and more. Is that real or something they just serve to tourists? Either way, it looks mighty good to me.
But for a *real* breakfast (and to finally answer the headline question), I dearly love a plate with one half covered with eggs (scrambled in a mix of butter and bacon grease) and the other half covered with steamed white rice. Add too much butter and salt to the rice and mix in the middle. Enjoy. A few strips of bacon dropped on top and a glass of milk on the side are worthy additions. Frankly, I might actually order this for my last meal pre-execution; it would be a reasonable choice.
Doesn't matter what else I have in the morning. I have to have orange juice.
I often have trouble remembering which way is out of bed in the morning.
For me it's coffee, half caf. I toned down the caffiene intake a while back, it was getting tough on the end users. I'm not ready for anything solid until an hour or two after getting up. Speaking of gettin gup, what is it about the morning that makes my girlfriend want sausage for breakfast? It's the one time that I've got strictly maintenance plans for that part of my anatomy and she wants to take it for a few laps around the track.
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Mountain Dew and a cigarette of course.
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At the moment its a trip to the Hellfire Peninsula..... follwed by coffee and a cig. If I could drink in the morning I could start my day with a full round of sad addictions.
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The excess melted butter, syrup, and egg yolks should be allowed to mingle. The resulting soupy mess should be eaten mixed with the hash browns. The biscuit can be used to mop up any remaining liquid.
This should not be eaten on a regular basis. I use it before a long day of hard outdoor work, like felling trees, hauling timber, pouring concrete, etc.. Anything where I expect to burn a huge number of calories.
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Ever since I was but a lad I've loved that stuff. Nothing gets the train out of the station like Bran Flakes.
As for coffee, I prefer to be at work while having my first one, to take advantage of the brief period of complete awareness that accompanies the first coffee of the day. So I stop at the Second Cup on my way up. It's the next strongest thing to Starbucks.
It's pretty distressing how many people are saying they don't eat something for breakfast.
I didn't, for years. Now I make the effort and it's well worth it. Counterintuively, it's good for keeping your weight down.
I'm on porridge at the moment, since it's winter. Fruit or toast in the summer.
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Although the new Rockstar Zero Carb "with twice as much caffeine" in the blue can has been growing on me this week.
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A couple of redbulls and a cigarette.
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The older and more health-conscious I get, the simpler my meals get. For breakfast most days, it's oatmeal with raisins and a side of tea. On weekends, we usually have a "hearty breakfast" of scrambled eggs or pancakes, along with espresso of some kind.
What's more interesting to me is what I eat throughout the day. I pack my own lunch, which really turns into a constant source of snacks while I code. Raisins and almonds, vegetables, fruit, and other nutritious stuff.
Folks might think my diet odd, but I'm one of the most in-shape coders of all the folks I work with.
...bathe myself in the soothing green light, and I'm good to go!
Well, Jon Stewart just added Gatorade A.M. to his pantry of fame. The label reads, "Gatorade A.M. helps you put back the fluids and energy you lose during a full night's sleep."
Because, you know, you lose a lot of fluids when you sleep?!
Between the tongue in the ass and Gatorade A.M., I'd probably take the tongue in the ass.
I've been drinking soda in the morning for years now. It's not so much about the cold or sugar or caffeine. My stomach usually feels queezy in the morning. Drinking coffee would only make it worse (It's a sure way to give me stomach cramps and send me running to the toilet.) A can of soda, on the other hand, settles things down for me. I guess it's probably the carbonation that helps.
The only downside is when coworkers see me with a can of soda in the morning, they assume I'm some mega sugar junkie. Most days that first can in the morning is the only soda I drink.
smarties doesn't make cereal, it's just smarties in a bowl with milk.
I drink a bottle of room-temperature water at the beginning of the morning. After that it's pretty much continuous coffee until I leave for work. Before my doctor told me to lay off the coffee, I was drinking one 10-cup carafe before 8AM every morning. It was usually the light-roast breakfast blend which, contrary to many people's beliefs, seems to have more kick than the darker roast I drink towards the afternoon. Now it's just the water and one or two cups of drip brew with creamer and no sugar.
This said, mornings are not a problem for me. My slowest part of the day is immediately after lunch around 1PM. It's exceedingly difficult for me to concentrate at that time. The remedy is usually a cup or two of coffee and another bottle of water.
I really dislike the taste of soda so rarely drink it.
BIG class of cold Coke, sausage biscuit with mustard. Movin on ..........
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There is a wonderful pub in north london (and I apologise that I cannot rememebr its name right now) that our company used to go to on the morning of major launches for a company breakfast.
Liver, bacon, sausages, black pudding, fried bread, mushrooms, tomatoes, fried eggs, beans, toast and most importantly a pint of Guinness - That keeps you going til lunch time!!!
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Some times, like in the summer, coffee is just too hot and/or overused. However, you don't want a Red Bull/Rockstar/Tab/etc. You just want caffeene in a soda, but Coke and Pepsi aren't it.
Times like these, I reach for a can of Jolt. No added junk like ginseng and taurine. No bland cans that make you wonder if they're all equal. You just reach for a battery of Jolt, drink the entire thing over the day's work.
Too bad they're not doing Orange Jolt anymore...
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...Dr Pepper. It's my favorite soda, and since it usually wakes me up, I drink it to wake myself up. However, sometimes I use the heavy artilery when I haven't slept all night, such as an Energy Drink like Bawls.
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This revives a faint memory of the time when I didn't have kids yet. Oh, how I miss those days, when nobody used to jump full speed right into my groins in the middle of the sweetest REM phase...
Anyway: Kids DO get you going in the morning, whether you're ready or not. And forget about those extra 15 minutes of sleep.
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Coffee. Black.
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Vegan sausage, whole wheat bagel, and tea. Except on Sundays, then it's a chocolate chocolate chip muffin (not a typo, it's chocolate, and it has chocolate chips) and a mocha.
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Provided the ingredients are good, the simplest breakfasts are best. I like a couple of large succulent bacon sandwiches (grilled back bacon and fresh granary or wholemeal bread, generously buttered) and a mug or two of strong Ceylon tea sweetened with a teaspoon of honey to wash 'em down. Fried egg sandwiches are good too (fresh free range eggs fried in hot butter spooned over the yolks until they're cooked just right and then sprinkled with a little ground black pepper and salt).
Sorry to nitpick, but Irish Coffee is actually neat Whisky mixed with Cane Sugar, after which Black Coffee is poured on. Finally the mixture is topped with Double Cream whipped till slightly thick. This makes a lovely looking glass with half the liquid almost black and the other half almost white. When you drink it the two parts start mixing.
Interestingly it's also a relatively new invention, not much more than 50 years old.
Ruination of good Coffee and good Whisky as my dad always says ;o)
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And of course a big bowl of granola, the crunching of which will help to drown out the latest depressing Iraq news or Dubya quote on the NPR!
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i've asked my wife to set the alarm clock to blowjob instead of alarm. for some reason she's hasn't figured it out yet... all kidding asided, last year we started the day with a 30 minute run on the beach, followed with a simple breakfast of fruit, egg, and bread(sometimes substituting the bread for oatmeal).
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Hmm, as an Irishman I feel the need to reply to this. First off, no Irishman I know drinks more coffee than tea,
Hehe... yeah. In fact the actual "quote" from the Irish man I was going to write is that Irish drink MORE tea than English and english drink more coffee. I guess I am still sleeping (I am hungry thats sure). And yeah at least in Mexico I know Irish Coffee as a mix of Coffee and Whisky (btw why doesnt firefox recognize "Whisky" without e?... someone told me that the brands that sell Whiskey with the "e" are not real 100% Scottish)
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Orange juice mixed with various types of Moutain Dew.
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Unlike my wife, when I wake up in the morning, I'm typically hungry, so actually eating breakfast is a no-brainer to me. It's what I eat that can put me into a rut. I find that over time, I open the fridge and pull out the same old thing, and I find myself getting bored. I have to make an effort to mix things up occasionally. Fortunately, variety gets "forced" because on Tuesday mornings, I get together with some guys from Church at a local breakfast place. It at least gives me something different from the norm.
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Instant Ramen, noodles.
Hot and spicy...with one or two eggs.
Maybe some hot dogs in it.
ohhhhh yeah.
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Option 1: Toast with cream cheese and green olives.
Option 2: Toast with peanut butter
Option 3: Buttered toast and soy sausage (Yes, I'm a vegetarian)
Option 4: Cheese grits (no, I'm not from the south, but I was raised by a southerner)
Any one of these, plus a cup of tea, black with sugar, and I'm good to go.
I'm not so interested in the instant sugar rush. I think it's killing us. More important to me is to get a small shot of protein and a small shot of carbs to keep me going through to about mid-morning, when I will stop for a small snack.
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Guiness should be named Irish Coffee... personally I named it "Irish Atole" because of the thickness. I personally LOVE it and because of it I cant drink anything but Bitters, Ales or Guiness without thinking I am drinking piss (Corona bear specially tastes like piss [and it is from Mexico =oP])
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Half a grapefruit and black coffee.
There's Chemicals in the grapefruit that cause the caffeine to work better.
Can't start the day without a healthy dose of vitamins Nicotine & Caffeine.
Optionally, a slice of pizza.
Though you may find yourself dependent on your morning ritual. Often times the ritual is held over your head so your lady can perform various acts of blackmail in order to secure funds for shopping. To qualify for sex in the morning, you must have ended the previous day spooning in bed with your girl.
All in all, I have yet to find a better way to start my day. Hell I could think of few better ways to start anything at all.
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About an hour later I usually have some toast w/chunky PB made on 3-carb bread from a little bakery off 183 & Braker here in Austin. (Yea... yea... I know... But my TC is like 114 on Lipitor... My doc and I are still arguing as to why I'm even on it...)
Couple of pints of beer, sets you up in the way no other breakfast can. You fall asleep again for another 4 hours.
My breakfast consists of an alternating diet of
1: Take 4 -5 apples, core them, and run them through a juicer. Take 3-4 bananas. Mix the whole thing in a blender. Drink.
2: Take 3-4 Bananas, put in blender, add milk until they are covered. Blend and drink.
3: Juice 4-5 oranges (no pulp). Drink
4: Take half a pound of grapes. Juice and drink.
Works great, have plenty of energy for the day, and I've lost like 50 pounds (with exercise of course) doing it.
Whisky & coffee, surely?
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The IBM Cafeteria in Boulder, Colorado has the best breakfast food I've ever had. Eggs, hash browns and a scoop of spicy green chili wrapped in a burrito wrapper and topped with a generous helping of tomatoes and more green chili. If you really want to live it up get a scoop of corned beef hash with that. Thinking of that got me out of bed ever morning for the more than 5 years I was working there.
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...or well, at least sometime before noon, is waking up without the alarm going off. That with 98% probability says I've turned off the alarm and overslept, unless I have a freak awakening in the middle of the night.
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A triple espresso and a bonghit.
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You know, back in my younger days (I'm 22 ;)) I used to drink sodas like a ritual. Never really liked coffee. Until one day when I wanted to give up sodas and caffeine. It was hard for the first few months and I was tired as hell being so dependant on it. But now its been about 3 years. I'll have a form of soda caffeine or not mabye once a month. I drink water and sometimes (decaf) Tea. My morning have been much better now. I don't need anything to wake me up.
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I eat eggs, bacon or sausage and coffee. Wash it back with selzer for digestion. Maybe later in the day have some sort of oat bar. I have tried many things and protein in the moring is only thing that doesn't let me down to drowzy nodding in the moring at my desk. And by god avoid pancakes at any cost. They are desert of the worst kind usually...and starch in the moring is going to kill your whole day. So far I am sticking to saying "breakfast is the most important meal of the day". ... for vegeterian/vegan food items.
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I keep carbs for the later part of the day
For extra caffinated day, I interject breaks with fruits, one of which is must be banana... for me the code monkey.
Nothing gets me "going" like Fiber One cereal. It's the bestest!
(Why they can't make a high-fiber cereal that is also nutritious and tasty is beyond me. It's flavorless and also has less vitamins than Cocoa Puffs.)
I just drink water to energize me.
I'll go in at 8:00, and will have downed at least a liter of water, usually close to two by 10:00. Keeps me going and keeps me healthy.
Coke, Coffee, (either together, or the coffee as a coke chaser), with one of those small sugar pies..yummy!
Milk and fruits is a nice combination of proteins and hydrocarbonites. Healthy, easy, fast.
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And I take my coffee the way I take my women
I like a piece of whole wheat toast, an orange, and an egg. Oh, and some crystal meth... gotta have the morning meth.
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This just may be the finest way there is to start the day.
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A big glass of Clamato!
One of the Naked Juice products, like a Green Machine (basically all the green stuff you should be eating pureed and mixed in a tasty fashion) followed by a sugar free Red Bull.
Then I eat lunch at 11am.
Usually I toss in the blender some fresh frozen fruit, bit of yogurt, ice, and whey powder to make a quick, tasty and healthy meal. Once at work I'll get some coffee or a soda to get my caffeine fix going for the day.
I used to be one of those people that didn't eat breakfast, but after forcing myself to do it for a couple weeks I look forward to eating it every morning and have a lot more energy throughout the day.
Beef jerky flakes with tabasco sauce as milk
This is what people like to eat for breakfast around here:
Eating or drinking really sweet stuff (Coke, chocolate or sugary things) for breakfast is not something that is really done here. Some do eat jam, but there's nothing like Frischkäse and Spanish salami on your Brötchen...
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Rounded 1/3 cup whole oats
1 cup water
dozen+ raisins cooked in
banana
cinnamon
unsweetened almond-flavored soy milk
and diet Dr. Pepper liberally iced.
If anyone knows where you can get reasonably priced whole wheat ramen, bulk or packages, in the U.S. I might switch to morning soup. I once knew a place that had WW packages but they were about $1.70 each 20 years ago.
I've read all the comments, and only 2 so far said they didnt eat, without mentioning drinking something or some other ritual.
I would hereby like to specifically mention:
I wake up, I go to work.
I don't eat.
I don't drink coffee.
I don't drink orange juice.
I don't drink...
I don't chug 2 liters of water. (wtf?)
I don't get a blowjob.
I don't I don't take a bunch of [xxinsertstimulantherexx].
What the fuck is wrong with you people?
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Mix 12 fl.oz. of lemon juice with 6 fl.oz. of prune juice. Add 1 tsp Dave's Insanity Sauce. Stir. Serve with ice.
Cut that out, or I will ship you to Norilsk in a box.
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I don't really get a chance to eat breakfast much anymore, but I remember back in high school I used to heat up Toaster Strudels in the morning and eat those on the way to the bus. And of course, me being the cool kid, I would draw vaginas and penises with the icing.
After that lot, a nice mid morning coffee keeps my engine running all day. And a spot of chocky after lunch.
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Unless you're going off peak. . . . peak rush hour in Chitown is almost as bad as the DC beltway.
You better watch out, there may be dogs about . .
Totally off-subject, but she had a son who lost a total of 7 fingers in multiple cotton gin accidents. Dispite this handicap, he could still roll his own cigarettes, which was truly amazing to my five-year-old eyes. IIRC, he died of lung cancer about the same time as her; perhaps he should have been eating the same breakfast.
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1) 6am grapes or apples or orange sections , steel-cut oatmeal w/ cinnamon or pumpkin pie spice, 40gm of protein with milk and water, banana.
2) 8am whole grapefruit peeled and sectioned, 3eggs scrambled (no cheese), salsa. Work has a nice commisary... the eggs cost a buck... I bring the grapefruit.
I need 2 breakfasts to function right and stay in shape. (I do 6 meals a day, and workout at the gym in the basement of the office centre) If I do caffeine, green tea with lunch.
Anyway, since I don't eat pizza that often, on most mornings I resort to coffee, rye bread with cheese and occasionally turkey. Or cereal (with minimum amount of sugar) and müsli with yoghurt. Scrambled eggs and toast on weekends.
Protein. Pick your fav. The trick is, NOTHING that will cause insulin release. Delay that until lunch, and you'll feel great and lose weight. Insulin is an anabolic steroid - you can build muscle and store fat while insulin is in your blood, but you can't burn fat. Insulin takes a few hours to wear off, so when you get up in the morning is when you're at the lowest level. If you just skip breakfast, your body will store anything it can when you finally eat to protect itself from possible starvation. Eat some protein and you'll have nutrition your brain will run just fine on, your muscles and tissues won't shrink or waste away, but your fat will be put to use for what glucose (via glycogen) you need. A bit o' coffee and a handfull of the right vitamins, and your morning will be bright while your belly stays flat. :-D )
This is NOT a low carb diet either; eat lots of fruit later in the day if you want. Just be aware of your timing and hormones. If you actually want to build muscle, then eat a big meal shortly after your workout. The insulin will help your muscles grow. (So does testosterone, so hang some pron around your home gym
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Okay, I know, I know... different strokes and all that.
Here's my morning thing. Like other posters in this Porage/Porridge thread, I noticed an all-round improvement in mind, body and soul since having this for breakfast. Usually, I prep this the night before and boil it up in the morn. It tastes creamier when you do that = good.
1 cup jumbo oats
1 cup SoGood(TM) soya milk, the fresh stuff preferably.
1 cup water
a teaspoon of honey
then, I "shave" an apple or pear into the mix.
Since changing to this (from endless rounds of toast and Marmite/espresso), I've lost the need for a mid-morning booster of coffee and donuts. In fact, I've stopped drinking coffee altogether. Two side benefits have been weight loss and uninterrupted sleep.
Downsides is I'm really boring and prescriptive about other people's breakfast habits.
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A can of coke and a few slices of cold pizza (it can't be warm) is a terrific breakfast. Of course, that's for when I get to work, if I tried to eat it at home it would horrify the rest of the family.
They're pretty good nutrionally. I can eat them anywhere in about two minutes. They keep for months in a desk drawer, etc. Sweet enough to be palatable but not sickeningly so. Pretty smooth energy burn for several hours.
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It doesn't have to be orange juice, though it helps. Citric acid helps cut the crud in the back of your throat from sleeping.
And the sugar, of course, gives you a little boost. But it's not corn syrup. At least, assuming you use 100% juice it's not.
Right now I'm drinking some Orange/Peach/Mango. It costs about the same as regular orange juice, but is less injurious to my stomach, and often just tastes better, without being overly sweet like grape juice can be, or heat damaged, like apple juice usually is.
Yeah, don't call me a health nut. If I was a real one, I'd get off my butt and make it all myself, instead of buying quarts.
Ex-Lax. That'll get you going.
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1 banana
8 oz plain yogurt
8 oz juice
a cup of frozen blueberries and pineapple mixed (or whatever is around)
honey
blend completely
some hot coffee or tea on the side.
keeps me charged for hours
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This morning I took a few bong hits (I don't normally do that before work, but it was a nice morning and I was up early). Then I went for a walk to get the paper. Then I cooked up a sandwich made of a biscuit + egg + Morningstar breakfast patty + provolone cheese. Then I cleaned up and took the dogs outside and played with them a little. Still feeling the bong hits, I drove to work with the windows slightly open to let the cool air in and the music moderately loud. I still managed to get to work before everyone else (very rare, I'm usually 30min - 1 hr later than everyone else).
It was an unusually nice morning.
To answer the question of this thread, I don't drink any caffeinated drinks. I drink mostly water, but sometimes juice or milk (preferably soy) during breakfast. If I have time, I like to cook a breakfast involving eggs. Otherwise, I grab something I can prepare/eat at work, like toast or a bagel. I like to have fruit for a mid-morning snack, but lately I've been forgetting or there just isn't that much time between breakfast and lunch.
Nothing like it.
1/2 Cup Oats
1 cup water
pinch cinnamon
pinch nutmeg
pinch allspice
tablespoon of brown sugar
Nuke for 2 minutes
throw in some frozen fruit (blueberry is the best, bus strawberry or raspberry works )
Nuke for 2 more minutes
Fills you up and is very low cal and healthy
I rarely eat breakfast in the morning. However I'll ocasionally stop by Chikfila on the way to work and grab some chikin minis.
Bowl of cereal or a cereal bar and 48 oz of coffee once I get to work.
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I always have 2 cups of coffee before I'm out the door.
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In winter I have a bowl of instant oatmeal. In summer usually a cold cereal of some type, or a banana.
If I'm running late I still have the coffee, but then just get a ham-egg-cheese on wheat toast from one of the many food carts I pass in the city. Ummm. So greasy. It's usually my once-a-week breakfast treat to myself.
cold pizza and a beer at 2PM then sit in front of the computer in my underwear til 4am working
maybe some hotpockets if i got off my ass and bought groceries.
So I start off my mornings relatively healthily. I eat 1 granola bar (not the chocolatey chewy kind, just a simple, plain, crunchy granola bar) and then have 1 cup of "lite" yogurt. Then I wash it all down with Diet Mountain Dew. A lot of it.
Hot drinks like tea or coffee in the morning just make me want to go back to sleep.
I commute to work, and I prefer to eat my breakfast while reading my morning emails. So, I bring a nice organic yogurt, mix in raisins and granola, and I'm set until my 10 AM piece of fruit (usually a banana). The reason I buy the organic yogurt is because I try to avoid gelatin (I'm a dairy eating vegetarian) and all major yogurt brands in the US use gelatin. Really, properly made yogurt shouldn't need gelatin.
Plus one huge mug of coffee!
Activia Yogurt - Not only does it get me going, it really gets me going.
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You can't go wrong with Hollandse Neuwe!
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Used to live in the netherlands, in summer, I used to skate to the nearest Hollandse Neuwe shop where I got my daily fix of these delicious morning proteins with fresh onions and soft bread... hmm...
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How crass, I know.
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10ish:
Wake, realize that life is good, light cigarette, pet dog. Go to bathroom. Press power button on computer to end hibernation. Start water boiling in microwave for coffee/chocolate milk drink. Let dogs out. Add one spoonful of Maxwelll House Instant Coffee to empty, dry mug. "Beeep." Dissolve coffee with a little hot water, swirl, add chocolate milk (purchased in pre-mixed form in gallon containers) to fill mug. Take mug to computer and view emails. "Woof!" Payton barks. Let dogs in. Finish coffee/choco drink whilst reading emails/News. Rinse coffee mug and invert over stove grate for drying. Begin heating two cups of water for second caffeine drink. Feed dogs. Have second cigarette while reading in bed. Mix second coffee -- still Maxwell House sorry coffee snobs. Drink coffee, read websites/post on Slashdot/try writing a MySpace blog then discard it 'cause it's dumb.
That's my basic startup sequence for the lazy days of the winter of '07.
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As a long-time "one meal a day" guy who's trying to get out of that habit, it really depends. Currently I usually throw a few packets of instant oatmeal into my bag. For the rest of the day, a piece of fruit, some microwavable lunch or leftovers to reheat, and I'm set.I tried getting up early enough to cook something good, but as a poor sleeper, it just never really happened.
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I wish slash had an ascii art translator, so I could make a picture of a gagging face as I think about having pop for breakfast. Ya'll are freaks. Lunch? Sure. Pick-me-up when you really need it? Why not. But breakfast? And what's with some of those quotes in TFA? "I get headaches if I don't drink it". Wow, there's a good sign. I'm sure nothing is wrong at all! "Keep Consuming!(tm)". Am I the only one who wonders if Coke has gone back to putting... coke... in their drinks?
Anyways, I digress. Now, if I don't have to be into work early, I'll stop by the greasy spoon up the street, and grab eggs and meat, with extra eggs and meat on the side. 4 or 5 eggs over hard, a double handful of sausage and bacon, tea and fruit juice... but no hash browns, I'm trying to watch my weight.
On a related note, I'm about to switch over to a more socially-conscious breakfast. There's a fair-trade market a few blocks away, so I'll be making my own oatmeal with fair trade oats and dried fruit. Aside from being healthier, it's also a small step towards better karma. I'd encourage everyone who has the opportunity to "help out the little guy" when possible... get your lunch from the hot dog cart or the privately owned deli instead of McD's. Go hit a fair trade store for your goods. It isn't much, and it doesn't cost a whole lot more either... but it's usually healthier, and also usually better for people who really need your help. You don't have to change everything you do, just one thing is better than none.
If I knew the wedgies I gave you back in 6th grade would have resulted in this . . . I might have taken a moments pause.
7 flash-frozen strawberries, scoop of soy isolate protein power, white grape juice. Blend. Delicious!
It's not a ton of food, but I'm on a 5-meal-a-day routine, and it works really well with that.
I'm far less hungry after a 6-mile ride to work with a smoothie breakfast than with cold cereal or even oatmeal.
Since I stocked up on the stuff in the 80's, not a day goes by that I don't have a big bowl of Mr T cereal for breakfast. Although, it is starting to taste funny.
Oatmeal (especially off-brand) is one of the cheapest and healthiest, and with a fairly liberal splash of honey or a dollop of jam (nicely compensated by my lo-cal beverages), it's darn tasty.
And the complex carbs keep you going (and help students do better in math at school - new study) and the soluble fiber helps keeps things going.
I used to be on oatmeal, then Alton Brown taught how to cook porridge. It's so much better and I've converted several oatmeal haters.
Take: 3 parts steel cut oats, 2 parts wheat berries, 1 part millet (yes bird food) and roast it in a pan with a little bit of butter until it starts to smoke then add 3 times as much boiling water as solids and 1 part ground flax seeds. Cover and cook about 25 minutes, stirring to prevent sticking. Then add milk and buttermilk, half each of the amount of solids. Cook that about another ten minutes and add some cinnamon and a touch of molasses.
It's about 15 minutes of hands-on work once a week to keep the family well fed.
Serve with green tea for your daily dose of antioxidants to keep you healthy, caffeine to pep you up, and l-theanine to counteract the negative effects of caffeine and keep you mellow.
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My favorite is those little-white powdered-sugared doughnuts. MMMMMM!
porridge wi bittae salt and strang tea.
A nice plump banana and a glass of OJ(That's about 250-300 calories). A blast of easily converted energy to wake you up early, and digests quickly so you don't feel bloated and heavy.
Sometimes I also have some yummy fruit-on-the-bottom yogurt (200ish) from a good brand. I've tried a lot of them and the differences between the brands is enormous.
I like a satisfying dinner so the breakfast has to be light to stay inside calorie boundaries.
A can of black beans heated on the stove, poured over two pieces of toast. Or poured over two pieces of toast with an egg on them. Nothing beats it, and you don't get the sugar roller-coaster.
Weekdays, it's strong coffee with cream & sugar first thing. Then later a bowl of cereal & some toast, a roll, biscuit or some such with butter and jam. Favorite cereal is Weetabix (when I can get it), but raisin bran or Grape Nuts will do. Then off to work with a 14oz thermal mug full of more coffee.
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I usually use milk instead of water, and add some or all of the following: banana, apple, berries, raisins, cinamon, sugar, honey.
Because it's easy to stock plenty of oatmeal and you can make it with just water and salt, it's a great backup meal in case you forgot to buy enough food.
However, my favourite breakfast is:
- two or three slices of bread (freshly from the breadmachine) with old cheese, fish or honey.
- some yoghurt with cereal and fruit.
- fruit juice (usually oranje or grape) or milk
- tea (usually plain green or grey, sometimes flavoured)
- morning paper and some quiet music.
It could be healthier but I believe it's a lot better than the most things I read here!
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What really gets me going, though, is the first cup of lousy coffee at work. And the aggravation.
Coffee, yogurt and toast. Well, toast, or a muffin, or a scone. Something bread-based, anyway. And sometimes fruit juice.
I tend to go for a simple breakfast that I can eat at my desk when I get to work. I'm enough of a night owl that those extra 15 minutes of sleep in the morning can be critical.
There's no better breakfast than having sex just after you wake up...
2 eggs scrambled, small steak, biscuits, orange juice, water, and some fresh fruit.
I have been caffeine free for almost month now.
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Interesting nobody mentioned yoghurt.
... It's energetic enough to get me going in the morning.
Seems it is only popular here in Central Europe, western countries
shops have got much less of it in their offer. Perhaps except of France
but there yoghurt is a form of dessert rather then something to eat.
I'm addicted to having a large bottle of a yoghurt-drink for my breakfast.
Astonishingly being a drink it's still something to eat for me. Delicious
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And italian-style coffee of course, but that's another story
On the other hand, one American variation on the theme that I've encountered in restaurants was having them put the milk into the already-not-boiling water before putting in the teabag
If I'm in the mood for milk in my tea, I'd want some fairly strong Indian tea, maybe Assam or whatever else is around. But doing that with the more subtle Chinese teas - a Puerh or one of the oolongs - borders on criminal, and doing that with a Japanese green tea or a Chinese green-with-jasmine would be just weird.
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.. and a bowl of cereal topped with fruit, berries, or nuts.
Beer.
Nothing helps me get through the day better.
What?
2 liters of Dr Thunder....yeah. :)
Oh, and some food is nice too, sometimes.
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I take sugar as my breakfast pick-me-up of choice, saving caffeine for "emergencies". I drink at most one can of Mt. Dew a month, usually to keep me from falling asleep after lunch (usually when I didn't get enough sleep the previous night).
All that aside, my breakfast of choice is french toast (made with egg whites so I can pretend it's healthy) with syrup and OJ. The syrup gets me going, and the french toast keeps full longer than cereals do.
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Some granola, ground flax seed, trailmix and soy yogurt.
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Something i've had since High School, White toast with peanut butter and a glass of OJ. Decades later, still good :-)
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For a Malayalee (person from Kerala, India - who speaks Malayalam) breakfast will be usually one of the following -
Dosa or Idly with chutney
Puttu with Kadala
Kappa (tapioca) vevichatu (boiled) - mashed with coconut, ginger etc. and fish curry
Idiyappam and egg curry
In the 90s multinationals introduced breakfast cereals in India. In their advertisements they were arrogant to depict traditional Indian cooking as unhealthy. Anyways, cereals never became popular - a box was costing more than Rs.100 - too costly for most Indians except for the rich who anyways had servants to cook food.
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Buzz Water ramen, washed down with a bottle of Bawls. After washing off with some Shower Shock of course. But none of that coffee crap, that stuff will kill you.
300 ml yoghurt
1 orange
1 banana
40 grams of brinta porridge
----------------- + Blend
filling, tasty, low fat, low calories, fibers, proteins, vitamins, calcium and some other stuff!
I gave up the caffeine years ago and it's been great. Usually I have cereal like Oatmeal or Cheerios. And Carnation Instant Breakfast. Sometimes I have sausage.
A bit of muff-diving on the wife, followed by some serious mutual aerobics.
Cost-free, cholesterol-free, calorie-free, and a damn fine way to wake up. Try it sometime.
It works in the afternoon and evening as well.
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Before I had kids, I could answer this question honestly with a few shots and a pot of espresso. These days, I settle for some coffee and a smoke. My kids like Peanut Butter Puffins.
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Some days a 44 oz mug of some monstrously overloaded Energy drink.
Some days a 44 oz mug of fresh brewed espresso.(I worked brewing it into my get up get dressed routine and damn worth it.)
But always with my "special cerial recipe"
Large mug of raisin bran mixed with vanilla yogurt and "Franks Red Hot",Bout 3 tablespoons'll do it.Talk about gettin the old endorphines lined up.....In the car and on the highway,just like fear and loathing.
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A pigs ear is a big, roughly oval, flat pastry with a thin sticky glaze on top. Wonderful.
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Which usually means microwaved leftovers of yesterdays dinner, if there is any, and nothing if not.
I have children for breakfast. Oh, don't worry.. they're mine. Nothing wakes you up faster than children at breakfast.
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I gave up coffee in the mornings before work. For me it's a strong cup of tea, usually oolong or puh-ehr. When I really need to widen my apeture, I go for Mate. No sugar. No milk. Solid food, if any, is fruit. Bananas and apples are great on the go because I can eat them during my commute by train or when I get to work. Donuts, croisaints and last nights pizza are good for variety, but a full blown breakfast of bacon and eggs and stuff like that exists only in the realm of the obese.