What do you have for breakfast?

What a wonderful tradition..not just filling the tummy but spending time with old friends...
With leaving at 7 am and travelling 1 1/2 hrs. to work each morning, I usually have a coffee while watching my 2 christian shows 5:00 to 6:00 by then I need another but put it in a cupt for travelling..mid point we hit Barrie and stop for breakfast..usually pancakes..from there we reach the office at nine and it's coffee time...and I wonder how I'm putting on some weight? better find a job closer to home so there will be less eating or start a diet..lol.

Depends who is cookin.

If it is me, Good Earth or gren tea and oatmeal with blueberries, usually more berries than oatmeal.

I get my coffee on weekends.

If it is my better half, could vary but usually egg sandwich on sprout bread...sometimes with pastrami.

We ate two of those pancakes (dosas) and felt heavy. We walked around the park a little and chatted on a stone bench. Here is the hotel, almost a narrow passage. The kitchen is indoor to the right (not seen of course).

I find pancakes way too heavy to start the day, but I can eat a large number of fresh croissants filled with Nutella. Not every day, however! My usual breakfast is a large glass of water, a grapefruit or some freshly-squeezed orange juice, and a bowl of muesli with fresh berries and two-percent milk. Only when I am traveling will I have coffee for breakfast, and and then it has to be black, no sugar. I discovered my perfect breakfast coffee in Italy: espresso lungo - it's guaranteed to wake you up.

Espresso coffee has more air than stuff, but the flavour is there alright, am I right? For those of us used to have filter coffee, this does not appeal at all. Fruits are good to start the day, but then very few people follow it.

I can't handle breakfast type foods very often. Pancakes
make me sick to my stomach, as do overly sweet foods, heavy
doughnuts and the like.

Enchiladas, casseroles and big meals are what I like for breakfast.
Give me lasagna in the morning any day. Cavitini even better. A Dagwood
sandwich and a pickle would make my breakfast divine. While
I do drink coffee, it doesn't take long before I'm dumping it down the
sink for iced tea. No sugar, please.

:-)

What is Dagwood sandwich? Similar to what I referred above???

Where do people get the fibre in their diets there? Studies say that there are much IBS cases there.

Espresso coffee is very strong and very dark and usually served in smaller amounts per cup. I think you are thinking about Lattes.

A dagwood is simply a hoagie, sub, etc usually piled high with different meats and veggies.

IBS is also caused fro stress. My better half has always had a healthy diet and developd it during a very stressful period of his life.

Fiber comes from the same food many people it, problem, usa is a very fast paced society who loves quick meals that can be gulped down or very rich foods....doesn't make a body good. lol

Oops, I wonder how the same post appears thrice above.

Espresso is what I have thought to be a foamy thing served from a machine. The word Latte is not in use here. May I know more about it?

Oh yes, you are right. Stressful life and 'fast food' is also a cause for IBS. Green leafy vegetables are available here and that will supply the fibre as well as iron. Picture here is from a mall counter.

Breakfast, of sorts, is a necessity. Several cups of strong black coffee from freshly ground French Roast beans, a bowl of oatmeal, cream of wheat or rice, or Zoom. Then some fruit, frequently whole grain toast with Gjetost (a Norwegian cheese) or other cheese. Would dearly love sausage gravy and biscuits with a couple eggs and Tabasco sauce, except for the cholesterol. A coke for breakfast ? only with a healthy tot of Rum and a squeeze of lime.lol

edited: Latte is espresso and hot milk
"Dagwood" sandwich as per the comic strip was a pile of assorted things between two slice of bread that appeared to be
a foot or so high.

This message was edited May 6, 2007 8:30 AM

According to a study a good breakfast reduced chances of a heart attack.. I'm not too sure as I have to search my inbox for this particular mail which had more information on the study. I'll see if I have it.

Thanks Bal for the info on Latte and Dagwood SW.

What my mother called "a good breakfast" was definitely not healthy. She would serve the traditional English breakfast of eggs, salty bacon or sausages, and bread, all of which were fried in lard! If we were in too much of a hurry for a fried breakfast, there was toast, spread thickly with salted butter and topped with sugary marmalade or jam, or a bowl of cornflakes with plenty of sugar. As a special treat on Sunday mornings, she served us with grapefruit halves that had been marinated in sugar all night and had a maraschino cherry in the middle for decoration. In the winter, she sometimes served up porridge, with salt and brown sugar stirred into it. In those days, unfortunately, nobody knew that too much salt and fat would cause high blood pressure and strokes.

The traditional liquid accompaniments to breakfast were tea and creamy milk, lots of it. For some reason, I hated both and drank water instead. After years of ridiculing me for not drinking either tea or milk, my mother and brother both developed kidney stones, which I am convinced was a result of their excessive tea and milk intake!

dinu,
that was a interesting breakfast,thank you for sharing i find it
very interesting about the water in copper tumblers,
please tell more on that.

LIZ

Hi June,

I was just curious, did you have hard water in your area?

KM

Almost always cold cereal for me---it's one of the few times I use milk. I don't mind cooking but hate cooking breakfast---I need food and fast when I wake up to get me going.

DH likes a cooked breakfast and I LOVE whatever he makes but real oatmeal (no instant or minute oats here) it is the BEST!

KM, in answer to your question, I believe the water was hard where we lived, because I remember my parents talking about how to get rid of lime deposits in the kettle and the electric water heater.

Do you remember the method of removing those deposits? I too had read in a magazine, some quick tips, but am not able to remember. Here our water is luckily soft and nice. No deposition problems as of now. Water source is River Cauvery.

Regarding the lime deposit, although I remember my parents talking about it (or to be more exact, my mother complaining to my father about it), I don't know what they did about it. At the time, I was too young to have any interest in that sort of thing!

"She would serve the traditional English breakfast of eggs, salty bacon or sausages, and bread, all of which were fried in lard! If we were in too much of a hurry for a fried breakfast, there was toast, spread thickly with salted butter and topped with sugary marmalade or jam, or a bowl of cornflakes with plenty of sugar. "

My better half's grandfather ate like this every morning for 95 years and smoked a pipe daily. All his family ate heavily and all lived into their 90's.

My grandfather eats like this very morning and is 85, has lived through 3 heart , 2 shoulder surgeries.

Had a pacemaker put in about 12 years ago...it's the only thing keping him alive..the kickin bugger. lol

Hi
I am Cindy, A newbie! I can say my breakfasts are like kmom, only this morning I had coffee & crackers with peanut butter! Although, I am drinking my water! LOL!