What do you have for breakfast?

Our south Indian breakfast looks something like this.
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The accompanying dish would be coconut chutney. The white round disks are Idlis (steam-cooked) made from rice flour. The dough-nut type ones are vada (deep-fried) and the folded thing is the Dosa made on a pan. These are very popular here. Sumptuous and nutritious and just a few of the large variety of Indian snacks we have here. We also have bread sometimes.

Looks lovely Dinu. I have fruit first thing in the morning, mid morning I have a sandwich or a bowl of oatmeal. Not anywhere near as exciting as your breakfast :)

Very interesting breakfast Dinu' Looks very tasty'
Good question'
Usually start by drinking 8oz.water followed by eggs(cooked in olive oil)hash browns,wheat toast(no margarine)juice(6oz.)fresh veggies(carrots,tomatoes,whatever I have available) My favorite is a fresh frittata with garlic toast,fresh fruit on the side'

Don't know what I would do if I ate that much for breakfast. My breakfast consists of coffee,coffee,coffee, and more coffee and my daily pill. I usually don't eat anything till around 2:30 or 3:00; when I fix my DH something before he leaves for his second job. Once in a very great while I will fix a slice of toast but that's it for my breakfast.

That's me too Coco, sometimes I don't eat anything until dinner. I know it's not healthy, but if I eat in the middle of the day, I lose any momentum I had. Toast if anything in the mornings.

Must have TEA and lots of it!

This morning I had a small bowl of Mulit-grain Cheerios. Sometimes I have a bagel or a piece of toast, or two eggs in the microwave. I try to eat light in the morning so I don't bog down.

I know it's so BAD, but I do the coffee thing in the morning. I keep telling myself that breakfast really is the most important meal of the day, but (here come the excuses) getting three kids ready for school takes all my energy and concentration. Then after I get everybody where they're supposed to be, I sit down with a second cup of coffee (my reward!) and check up on DG happenings. Then the rest of the day starts to scoot by with chores and errands. Next thing I know the kids are home, and it's time to think about dinner.

Occasionally I do get hungry enough for lunch, so it's soup or leftovers to silence the hunger pangs. Bad, bad habits.

coffee and if I have to eat something before noon, its going to be a nice healthy,fruity, yummmy POPTART!
*ANY flavor-prefer cherry or blueberry =]

Coffee and whatever we had leftover the night before if I eat anything at all. Usually just coffee.

Too much for me Dinu, til at least noon! Unless of course we are on a trip and hit IHOP! (International Pancake House}or Denny's for a Grand Slam Breakfast. Since we are retired, just do coffee til about 11:00, then Pa Pa will make omlets, pancakes, French Toast, Sausage, etc & orange juice. More like brunch.

I'm a 3 cup coffee morning person as well,... I try to follow that up with fruit or something good for me but it doesn't always happen.

Coca-cola and M&M's. Ok, that's what I had for years... now I'm a little healthier? Water and potato chips? Been drinking tea when I get to work to stay warm as I get in so early, they don't have the building heat on yet.

BTW, I love indian food, especially currie. There is a buffet place near my old job, and I miss it. I don't recall the names of things, but the tandori (?) chicken and the rice and the bread are also scrumptious. There was something made with chick-peas (garbanzo beans to some) that I also liked. Mmm, your post is making me hungry!

Take care.
Karla

I hate to admit it, but I am a cofee person also.
But the perfect breakfast for me is french bread, feta cheese, olives and tomatoes. This is a traditional turkish breakfast, unfortunately, I don't have time to partake on weekdays, we have it on the weekends.
My kids don't particularly care for this, they prefer a traditional american breakfast.

Mmmmm Pebble. The Turkish breakfast sounds like something I would love for dinner!
I make quesadilla's with spinich, feta and olives... those sound similar and are yummy as well.


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3 cups of coffee )
1 cup bran flakes ) Every morning
1 cup nonfat milk )

I have been eating this for over a year on my weight loss journey. I find that if I don't eat in the morning, I am starving by lunch time and then I will want to eat ANYTHING instead of a low calorie meal. It has worked for me, so I will stick to it.
Donna

Breakfast is: Whatever I can scrounge when I get to the office.

Lately I've been drinking a cup of coffee most every morning accompanied by any number of things like croissants, biscuits, doughnuts, granola with yogurt, fresh fruit, pie, leftover birthday cake, various pastries, cheese and crackers, to name a few. Around here we don't eat to live, we live to eat!

Wow, all the people who don't eat breakfast!

No way do I go out of the house without first having a cup of tea and something to eat. It would have to be a real emergency for me to do that LOL.

Kedgeree is a great breakfast and quick to heat up if you make it the night before if you have no time in the morning.

Start off with a can of Coke when I get up, and then either a bowl of oatmeal or a bagel or an English muffin (tosted and with light butter spread. Then orange juice with my daily pills!
Baa, I've never made kedgeree, that's with rice and eggs and fish?

Thats the one!

I'm another coffee-for-breakfast person. I really should take SoCal's lead and eat something and make it healthy, but at any AM hour eggs, toast and bacon (DH's fave) just doesn't sound good. Sometimes he likes egg-in-the-holes and I might have one with him. But always coffee, hot and black!!

Not a breakfast person for most of my life, as it made me nauseated to smell food first thing in the morning. I do like to have breakfast when I travel, not sure why. When in Florida on a business trip in the late 60s or early 70s, I had toasted buttered English muffins with lox and cream cheese, (can't stand bagels) black coffee, fig preserves and a sort of cherry sauce my colleagues used for dipping everything. Also on the table were some figs in cream, but not my kind of figs. Afterward, since we sat around talking work for an hour of so, we had a cheese blintz that was simply wonderful, with more coffee for me. Some drank tea, and I had a cup at some point. The waiter brought a basket of little rolled pastry snacks, some filled with minced dried beef that was highly seasoned, others with some kind of cabbage and nut mixture, and fresh cherries. I took an assortment of these things with me and had them mid-afternoon with tea, as suggested by our local colleague. It was probably the longest breakfast in history, and one that forever holds the place of honor in my mind for a leisurely repast that stays until a late dinner. Plus, we had enough energy and free hands to get the paper work done.

Breakfast? I thought they passed a law against that when women joined the workforce. LOL! Well, at least we passed a family law when I joined the workforce. This breakfast law in the Jurgens household reads as such:

The cereal is in the cupboard. The milk is in the fridge. The bowls are in the cupboard above the cupboard where the cereal is. The spoons are in the drawer beside the sink, unless they are all dirty, then they are in the sink. Oh, and we have no sugar, as the cereal already has enough and you're already sweet enough. If by chance the above instructions don't work for some reason, just eat whatever is handy, promise to eat all your well-balanced lunch I pay the school to provide, leave Mom a note, send me a fax or email, or leave a message on my voicemail as to why it didn't work. I'll fix it ASAP! See you at suppertime! Love Mom.

Okay, before someone turns me in for child neglect, it's not really that bad! LOL! The kids, who are teenagers now, are on their own for breakfast. There is always cereal, milk, juice, fruit, poptarts, and those neat little waffles you pop in the microwave for them to eat. I just grab a cup of coffee in my go-cup on the way out of the house and drink it on the way to work, (that is if I remember to get it ready and set the timer the night before). I'm so NOT a morning person.

A little off the subject but cute I thought. One a.m. I decided to fix pancakes for my 2 grandsons who spent the night. The 5 year old informed me that he liked them raw, I figured out later that she got the ones to put in the toaster oven, lol.

I actually start off with two glasses of water stored overnight in copper tumblers. Then coffee (with milk and sugar, we don't think of black coffee at all!) follows in my garden. This would move the bowels. It is more a habit than anything else. After an hour and a half, I have breakfast and that is at the office itself- no time for that at home, since we first have to leave the kids to school before coming to the office. It is always better, they say, to 'wash' the throat after breakfast with good coffee! It's quite filling. Then again at half past ten we have our coffee break and my colleagues spend a few minutes in the canteen.

I get up and have a 32 oz glass of water, big cup. Then I make coffee and have two to three mugs. About an hour and a half later we make lunch. We get up at 11:00am or noon so we don't have a traditional breakfast most of the time. A lot of time it is soup and a sandwich or leftovers from the night before. On the weekend at least one of the days I like to have 2 eggs fried and 2 pieces of toast and a glass of skim milk, that is my favorite breakfast.

I think my favorite breakfast is sausage gravy on bisquits. Never had it til I moved to the south - soul food for sure!!

Oh, now THAT is a breakfast I'd eat every day, Azalea! Mom taught me how to make gravy from scratch and I figured out the baking-powder biscuits on my own. Sausage gravy is better, but I won't turn my nose up at plain! I put some homemade hot sauce all over 'em (salsa to y'all). Got a great recipe from a little old Mexican lady ~ great stuff! I think I'll go post it on the recipe forum...

On my Joan! You must live in the same house as I do... then the kids call at work and you get pulled out of a meeting to tell you something very, very important like... "we're out of milk" quickly followed up with an "so-and-so is bugging me" lol
Yogurt tub's are a good standby in the fridge for them and I can plant in the empty ones too....

Karla, is the chick pea dish you're thinking of channa masala? Oh I love that. And Indian food in general. If someone would fix a traditional Indian breakfast for me every morning it would be like heaven on earth.

Generally, I have coffee and peanut butter toast

The only thing I have for breakfast is ideas for what to have for Dinner!
Candee

Wingnut, would you post your sausage gravy recipe too? I printed out the salsa recipe. Sounds like a great recipe to use in the winter after all my canned runs out. We love bisquits and gravy, but I use the packets and it's just not as good as homemade.

Oh, Joan, sure! I'll post it on the Recipe Forum. Might take a bit as it's one of those "A little of this and about this much of that" kinds ~ gotta' figure it out first. Off I go...

Thank you! Now I can't wait for a free weekend morning to make these. Even the kids really like it when we have this.

3 coke-a-colas and 2 chocolate chip cookies,or if I'm on a health kick ,i'll eat a pop-tart

Oooooh this thread makes me feel hungry. Fruit juice, cereal (milk, no suger), toast and a mug of tea. If it's a weekend I might have something cooked, sometimes a grapefruit.

First I have a big mug of herb tea, and 2 pieces of whole wheat toast with butter. Then I go outside and do about an hour's worth of work. By then my fast metabolism has eaten that up and I need more fuel so I have a bowl of oatmeal, or scrambled eggs with rice and onions and another piece of toast. If I don't keep the furnace stoked on a regular basis I have low blood sugar attacks that are no fun at all. Plain yoghurt (not sweetened) is handy for pulling me out of a low sugar episode, so is milk and bread. I try to stay away from sweet things as they just turn the sugar burner on and that gets me into trouble without enough protein and carbohydrate to go with it. I have to eat, my metabolism is in high gear most of the time. Low blood sugar is a big problem for a lot of us, I think I will start a thread on the health forum about it.

Digging up this old thread as I have pictures to show! In reference to my opening post.

The above is Idli and Vada. Idli is the white disks and Vada is the other one with a hole in the centre (to facilitate full frying) This is the Dosa. Masala (meaning spicy) Dosa. Crispness is the key! It will have a potato and onion "palya" inside. The "correct" way to start is to tear open at the centre to find the palya, which has to be eaten with dosa. Hotels are famous because they are able to tickle the taste buds of thousands! Many develop an addiction to it - the temptation is so great!

Four of us colleagues had formed a 'team' with a purpose of eating Idli and Dosa at a certain hotel here. This was way back in 1983 when India won the Cricket World Cup. Our 'team' functioned well for about 17 years. Then it stuttered as the quality of that hotel suffered. We would go monthly once before we went to office on plan and we paid by rotation. There was a unique feature in this 'team' when it was formed. The four of us: I was in my 20s, my next senior was in his 30s. While the two other seniors were in their 40s and 50s. Our plan was executed less frequently after the senior most retired on completing 60.

Just last month, after a break of many years - by now the man who was in his 40s had retired - we planned to travel to Bangalore to have breakfast and it was a 3-hour journey. Here we are, in one of its old reputed hotels, tickling our taste buds. A bit disappointing, the quality here too - it appears (it was my first visit there), has suffered. We spent a couple of hours and returned after visiting a famous Botanical Garden (a couple of pix posted in PF). Now, the age group we belong has moved by 20s. The senior most is in his 70s!

Dinu

The attraction of that hotel is that this 'waiter' piles up plates on his entire left hand at the kitchen and gives them one by one to those that have ordered for. If anyone has followed 'Blondie' (Dagwood Bumstead, cartoons), he does what Dagwood is adept at... balancing all the foodstuff from palm to shoulder while he takes them from the refrigerator to the table! Here he has finished off the top most ones and is giving the last ones.

Dosas have to be eaten by hand to get the full relish. Nobody eats with spoons, esp. these. The aroma left behind in the fingers after eating it, is something unique! Such is the beauty of a good masala dosa.