OK, this isn’t one of our greatest questions (and you can tell we wrote it when we were eating our breakfast…), but believe it or not, everyone has pretty strict preferences when it comes to breakfast. What are yours?
If you had it your way, do you prefer a big or small breakfast? Would you have some cereal for breakfast, or two eggs, bacon and toast? Oatmeal or a granola bar? Or pancakes and sausage?
Tell us in the poll below. Once you’ve done that, please leave a comment and tell us what you eat for breakfast. Don’t make us too hungry though…
I love a good breakfast. When camping, I am the cook, and will often be doing eggs, bacon or ham, and toast. But first priority is making sure I have fresh hot coffee for the wife!
The nice part about a good breakfast is it gives us time to plan our days activities while we are starting the day out on a good foot.
Actually it depends on what my plans for the day are – early shopping to beat the crowds, small; hike in a National Park, BIG!
I like a big breakfast — for all 4 meals.
I don’t consider two eggs and two pieces of toast a large breakfast and I don’t consider it a small breakfast. A bowl of cereal can also be a large or small breakfast depending on the size of the bowl. Now if you have 2 Eggs, 3-4 Pancakes and 3-4 slices of bacon or a half dozen sausages at the morning meal, that would be a large breakfast. When I was young and dumb, that was normal, but as I aged and the waist line expanded, that became a thing of the past.
Oatmeal. I have eaten oatmeal my entire life. Several ways, but my fave is: cook the oats, i add raisens. Then I stir (Separately) a Tb. Of peanut butter and pour on top. A tad brown sugar, walnuts and milk. Oh yummy. When fruit is in season, i cube the fruit and add fine chop pecans. I’m Irish, i have many creations with my oatmeal. I use steel cut, rolled and 1 minute. I buy Quakers or store brand. Just boil those oats.
Big breakfast. Usually an omelet with egg whites, peppers, onions, mushrooms, slice of cheese and anything else that looks good. Also a link of chicken sausage made at one of our local grocery stores. It’s a low fat, low carb meal that stays with me well into the afternoon.
The poll didn’t allow for how often. We usually have a smaller breakfast through the week, but one or two days a week we may have a larger breakfast, often on weekends when we have more time and don’t mind messing up the kitchen cooking multiple items.
I love a big breakfast in the mornings to get plenty of fuel for the day. Four eggs, 2 strips of bacon, 2 sausage links, a slice of toast or english muffin and a bowl of fruit. On Sundays I swap two eggs for a biscuit and gravy.
I actually prefer a medium size breakfast.
I would prefer a huge breakfast, as in Monty Python’s Mr. Creosote “I’ll take it”. The reality is coffee before a small breakfast, like a couple of eggs or pieces of sausage, then out the door immediately. If I dont get out and do something right away I’ll just keep grazing.
I like a big ( major) breakfast when camped or stopping along the way. But generally when “rolling” to the or the next destination our stainless “ go” coffee containers & her homemade muffins are the rule until we stop for lunch or stop for the day.
Small, unless it’s breakfast for dinner. The best meal of the day.
Breakfast & lunch are usually about 30 to 40 carbs and dinner is always much smaller, less the 10 carbs. I am a vegetarian diabetic.
I’ve been a small bowl of cold cereal & milk guy for over 30 years. I started with Wheaties, then Cracklin Oat Bran, buts it’s been Quaker Oat Squares for a lot of years now. It fits with my aging metabolism, but I’m all in on special occasion breakfasts any time of day.
I LOVE a big breakfast — chicken-fried steak, hash browns, biscuits & gravy, and a waffle with real maple syrup. But if I ate that every day I’d weigh 500 lbs. So I treat myself to that sort of breakfast about once every 3 – 4 months. Most mornings it’s a bowl of oatmeal, or a slice of warm toast with peanut butter & apple jelly, with a small glass of milk.
I call it medium with 2 eggs over easy, bacon that’s still wiggly, wheat toast w/Apple Jelly or strawberry rhubarb jelly, and a couple of cups of good perked coffee. Being diebetic have to be careful jelly is sugar free.
Most of the time it’s a relatively small meal – almond butter mixed with greek yogurt & a touch of apricot syrup, then Cheerios stirred in. My husband almost never eats breakfast. Once in a while we have a big egg, meat, potatoes breakfast.
Since I’m already taking Statin’s for cholesterol, I have been able to help control the diabetes without increasing the cholesterol levels by eating fried eggs and sausage or bacon nearly every morning. I sometimes skip lunch and am not really starving when it is suppertime. I have shed about 20 pounds doing it this way over the last year. Gotta keep those carbohydrates as low as possible!
Huevos Rancheros with green, eggs over medium and papitas, and a side of chorrizo or bacon depending on my mood! mm-mmm :))
Sounds good! What time do you want me to come for breakfast? And never mind the where?I’ll find some way to get there!
We hardly ever eat breakfast. If we could figure out a way to survive without eating at all, we would do it. Meals like the Jetson’s had in the cartoons would be perfect. Whenever we meet Foodies, we never know what to say to them.
Some people live to eat, others eat to live. I’m in the “eat to live” group.
At home we eat a small breakfast. When camping with a group of friends, We eat a big breakfast.
My typical breakfast is two link sausages, two scrambled eggs, Fiber One and two cups of Joe. I only eat two meals a day. Breakfast is not big one.
We eat a big Southern country breakfast. I make my biscuits and gravy from scratch. We have bacon and/or Goolsby’s sausage and scrambled eggs. But we hardly ever eat lunch.
“Big” is, of course, a relative term. My typical breakfast is something like two eggs,two pieces of bacon, half a bagel, and some juice. I considered that a small breakfast but who knows?
Breakfast is our favorite meal! We eat homemade waffles topped with fresh fruit & whipped cream, or an egg & cheese omelet; bacon or sausage, toast w/real butter & organic preserves, fresh-brewed coffee.
Breakfast for us is 3 egg &cheese omelet,small bowl of grits, glass (small) OJ, toast and coffee
Depends; hard day – big, down the road day – light, hang around camp – brunch.
Again, the poll is missing a choice. I prefer a medium breakfast.
Coffee when we first get up. Then I do a 1-egg omelet with green pepper, spinach and diced jalapenos, a piece of toast and fruit for breakfast. Hubby likes a fried egg, toast and fruit.
My breakfast is normally a bowl of Honeynut Cheerios with 2% milk. The morning of a travel day is usually a breakfast bar or something similar to avoid dirty dishes — do dishes night before travel.
I’m on a “see food” diet. I see food and just have to eat it.
Actually, I usually have a light breakfast during the week. Typically, a cup or two of coffee and a coffee cake, sometimes a bowl of cereal. On the weekend, I usually have at least one big breakfast, pancakes, eggs, sausages or bacon, donuts, coffee, and OJ.
I answered I prefer a big breakfast. That is true, that is my preference, but I don’t usually eat what I consider to be a big breakfast. Most days it’s a couple of buttermilk biscuits and couple of strips of bacon, or sausage patties. Never cereal unless it is a hot cereal. I sometimes fix a frittata hash browns, bacon or sausage, cheese and naturally eggs. a good cup of joe and I’m complete.
Love to have a big breakfast but settle for small.
My husband and I are both retired now and prefer a larger breakfast in the morning as we do more physical things such as gardening, flower beds, mowing, as well as exercises for our arthritis. We only eat twice a day, at 8:30 am and later around 5 pm. We might have raw veggies and dip midway between those times. We have lost weight and feel better. We do have pancakes, waffles, bacon and eggs/one piece of toast, alternating with oatmeal and fresh fruit. It was different when we had to be at work at 7 a.m. Then we brought a light breakfast that we could eat at our desk. A light lunch (soup/1/2 sandwich) and then later for dinner at 6:30 p.m. I don’t recommend skipping breakfast.
We usually do an every other day sort of breakfast. One morning peanut butter toast with fresh fruit on the side, or a homemade muffin. The next morning we have to have a big breakfast. Saturday mornings it’s Big Breakfast Time no matter what! I use to be a Chef and can make whatever my wife feels like wanting that morning. You know what they say? A happy wife is happy when someone else does the cooking 😉
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