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Started 1 year ago by Talcott
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Talcott
Clintonville
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What do you make for breakfast each morning?

I tend to go in waves when it comes to breakfast food, and am getting pretty tired of oatmeal every morning, so IÃ¢â‚¬â„¢m looking for something else to shift to.

Ideally, IÃ¢â‚¬â„¢d like to start each day with an egg, sausage, and cheese sandwich on an everything bagel. However, IÃ¢â‚¬â„¢d like to find something thatÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s vaguely healthy, inexpensive, easy/quick to prepare, and tasty. The sandwich option only fits into one of those categories.

ItÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s easy enough to browse the cereal aisle, but there are so many food people around here that I figured it would be worth finding out if IÃ¢â‚¬â„¢m missing an amazing alternative.

Posted 1 year ago #
0Angle
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Breakfast and lunch are my spartan meals. My theory is that way, I can ingest whatever I want (bourbon) in the (bourbon) evening (bourbon). 9 breakfasts out of 10 for me-low sodium V8, seasonal fruit (blueberries right now) with Trader Joe's High Fiber cereal (no hfcs) and lowfat plain yogurt with saigon cinnamon on top. Sometimes I taste test the kids 2-Silos eggs for quality control. Winter's fruit is Wyman's wild frozen blueberries from Costco. Pretty boring, but it works for me...

Posted 1 year ago #
AmyJ

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I usually buy the big containers of vanilla yogurt and divvy them out into smaller plastic containers and top with some sort of seasonal fruit. I keep a separate container of granola at my desk so it doesn't get soggy. I eat a lot of toasted english muffins with crunchy peanut butter and sometimes topped with sliced bananas. I also make a bunch of hardboiled eggs on Sunday and grab one each day for a late morning protein boost.

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Twixlen
Westgate, Columbus
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Tuesdays & Thursdays, I'm lucky enough to have an omelet cooked for me by the nice little man in the cafe in my building, in exchange for money. The other days, I generally do some combination of yogurt + fruit + granola. It's not very exciting.

At home, I do quick grits (yellow corn, so really, polenta) + an over easy egg a lot of days.

Oh, if I make pancakes for dinner, and have some left over (always), I'll schmear a little PB on them, roll them up, and take them to work for breakfast. Even better if you can jam some banana in there, or a piece of sausage, or both. :o)

ETA - It's easy to get the turkey sausage links, cook them all at once, fridge a few, and freeze the rest in individual portions. The turkey sausage is delicious, pretty easy to come by and a good alternative to regular.

Posted 1 year ago #
DavidF
Elysium Fields
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Generally I'm having low fat vanilla yogurt with grape nuts. Fast and fairly tasty. A few fresh berries or some dried fruit might make it tastier.

Posted 1 year ago #
Snarf
Dystopia
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I like a sliced tomato, a little salami and maybe a piece of cheese?

Posted 1 year ago #
takeasiesta
Harrison West
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I usually make a batch of steel cut oats for the week. I take slivered almonds and put them on a tray and toast them on the lightest setting in my toaster oven and then top my oatmeal with that, a little brown sugar, and whatever fruit I have lying around which is usually dried cranberries. I don't have to think about it and I never get sick of it.

The other thing I do is make a veggie hash with whatever veggies need to be used up by using olive oil, garlic, and whatever herbs I have and I'll make a batch for the week and use it as a base for meals. Then if I need breakfast I will just take the veggie hash and heat it up in a pan and break a couple of eggs on it or add leftover meat and top with some cheese at the end to make a scramble.

Don't try to make it too complicated. The best thing to do is plan ahead so breakfast only takes 10 min instead of an hour.

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joev
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I absolutely hate breakfast. I never want to eat before 10 a.m. - I'm queasy actually. And I really hate eggs, any time of day. Cereal isn't really a good choice for me, because whenever I eat it, I'm starving an hour later. So that doesn't leave a whole lot. I'd be content with just a cup of coffee, but that sets me up for getting too hungry at lunch.

When the weather is colder, I like oatmeal (not instant - it's just as bad as cereal in terms of hunger supression) with dried fruit and nuts. During the summers, I can't stomach oatmeal anymore, so I switch to Greek yogurt with fresh fruit and nuts. Sometimes I add in a dollop of mulberry or rhubarb jam. Walnuts and rhubarb jam are a great combo. Of course, even with the most appealing breakfasts, I never eat them until I absolutely have to be out the door.

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Bear
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Steel cut oats in veggie or chicken stock, 1c oats to 4c stock, with 1/2 tsp each salt and pepper, and some interesting variation of herbs and spices (thyme is a favorite). Makes about a week's worth, which I heat up and eat with coffee (cold brewed: 1 lb ground to 10-12 cups H2O, soak 12-24 hours, filter, refrigerate; makes a concentrate that mixes 50/50 with H2O). Good way to balance flavor/nutrition/some variety (and OAngle's "sin in the evening" philosophy!) with need to get out the door.

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Talcott
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Bear wrote >>
Steel cut oats in veggie or chicken stock, 1c oats to 4c stock, with 1/2 tsp each salt and pepper, and some interesting variation of herbs and spices (thyme is a favorite). Makes about a week's worth, which I heat up and eat with coffee (cold brewed: 1 lb ground to 10-12 cups H2O, soak 12-24 hours, filter, refrigerate; makes a concentrate that mixes 50/50 with H2O). Good way to balance flavor/nutrition/some variety (and OAngle's "sin in the evening" philosophy!) with need to get out the door.

Savory oatmeal? Savory oatmeal?
That's the most amazing thing I've ever heard of!
Does it heat well in the microwave, or would I need to reheat it on the stove?

It sounds like the general consensus is that I should start making something on the weekends and eat it through the week. I like the hard boiled egg idea as well.

The problem I tend to run into is that I don't have as much of a sweet tooth, especially in the morning. Even as a kid, I preferred Cheerios to Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs.

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somertimeoh
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Yeah, same here. I can't stomach sweet stuff in the AM. Who are all these people eating candy in the mornings, lol?? A bowl of chocolate cheerios is the most delicious late night snack ever though :)

Savory oatmeal sounds delicious, I'm definitely going to try this over the weekend. As of now I have sriracha eggwhites to offset the sweetness from my oatmeal with nuts and berries.

Posted 1 year ago #
osulew
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My aunt makes steel cut oats in her slow cooker on Sunday and eats them all week...
http://www.eatingwell.com/recipes/overnight_oatmeal.html

I'm sure you can sub out that sweet stuff for whatever savories you like...

Posted 1 year ago #
manticore33
Delaware, OH
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I eat whatever I want for breakfast.

Do not limit yourself to the paradigm of having to only eat eggs, cereal, etc, etc. Eat last night's leftovers as breakfast. (Which reminds me, mmmm, cold pizza...)

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Talcott
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manticore33 wrote >>
I eat whatever I want for breakfast.
Do not limit yourself to the paradigm of having to only eat eggs, cereal, etc, etc. Eat last night's leftovers as breakfast. (Which reminds me, mmmm, cold pizza...)

Oh, cold pizza is a breakfast staple for me, but I don't tend to order or make hot pizza often enough to do that every day.

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takeasiesta
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@Bear - Brilliant! I love the savory oatmeal idea. Thanks!

I have to have an idiot proof plan in the morning cause I'm such a zombie. If I don't plan ahead then I get screwed both timewise and financially cause then I'm forced to get something on the go.

@joev and Somer - I've never liked eating right after I wake up. I read in an article in some health magazine somewhere that the first thing you should do when you wake up is rehydrate since you've been asleep for (hopefully) 6-8 hours and your body needs it. After maybe 45 min of being awake move to coffee or tea and then 30 min later introduce breakfast.

I usually get up way earlier than most people just so my body and brain both have time to wake up. There's usually a Married With Children (5am) or Saved By The Bell episode on TBS. I have to do that just so I'm awake enough to operate a car without killing someone. I tried going to the gym in the morning but really wasn't alert enough to handle driving at that hour even when no one was on the road.

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Bear
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Yes, savory oatmeal. Other cultures do savory grain dishes but we don't: we add cream and brown sugar, which kinda kills a lot of the health benefit. I tried making this up out of curiosity and stuck with it, though it's definitely not for everyone.

Heats just fine in microwave. And thx Takeasiesta :-)

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Twixlen
Westgate, Columbus
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osulew wrote >>
My aunt makes steel cut oats in her slow cooker on Sunday and eats them all week...
http://www.eatingwell.com/recipes/overnight_oatmeal.html
I'm sure you can sub out that sweet stuff for whatever savories you like...

YES... I was just about to post this and there you are! I do this a lot in the winter. I do them overnight - turn the slowcooker on low right before I head to bed. When I wake up in the morning, breakfast!

Posted 1 year ago #
catnfiddle
Giant Corncob District
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I had been eating Kashi GoLean the last few weeks but now will have to try the overnight oatmeal soon. The biggest thing is finding something that will keep me full for more than an hour.

Posted 1 year ago #
bastardsuperstar
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Talcott wrote >>

Ideally, IÃ¢â‚¬â„¢d like to start each day with an egg, sausage, and cheese sandwich on an everything bagel. However, IÃ¢â‚¬â„¢d like to find something thatÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s vaguely healthy, inexpensive, easy/quick to prepare, and tasty. The sandwich option only fits into one of those categories.

i have a $5 solution that'll change your life, or at least change your mornings like it did mine.
at harry & david @ easton by the registers they have a tiny li'l microwave egg pan, looks like something made by ronco in the 70's: two little plastic clamshells with a snap-together hinge. bought it on a lark, like i said, only a fiver, so f*ck it, yaknow?

this thing changed breakfast for me overnight. for YEARS now, actually ever since i worked at coffee table, my breakfast has been a bagel (or a half bagel) with peanut butter, and that's only been to cut the acid-burn from my morning 4-shots-of-espresso. within a day or two i discovered that this li'l microwave pan makes the PERFECT egg-mcmuffin style fluffy egg patties in a minute-15. two eggs cracked into the little pan, pinch o' salt, stir it up with a fork and nuke it. toast the english muffin/bagel, nuke up or foreman up two morningstar maple-flavored veggie-sausage or a slice of canadian bacon and grab a slice of munster. total cook time about 4 minutes, total cleanup time about 1. most perfect simple, filling and delicious breakfast i've ever had.

seriously, everyone reading this NEEDS this thing. it's the perfect breakfast tool.

Posted 1 year ago #
osulew
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^^^^^
I have one of those too! I got mine at Target. Those suckas really do work.

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