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Tuesday, March 29. 2022

Maggie's Scientific Survey: Breakfast

Is pizza really healthier than cereal for breakfast?

Remember when experts were claiming "Breakfast is the most important meal of the day"? Perhaps that concept was paid for by Kellogg's Corn Flakes.

Of course, it is not true. Some people are hungry in the morning but as we have documented many times hunger does not necessarily indicate a need for food. Overweight people are always ready for a meal or a snack. Same for growing kids who need lots of food.

I like coffee for breakfast. While I do not lift weights, I can not argue with the need for 30 gms of protein after heavy weights. However, anything more than coffee in the morning just slows me down. If my work entailed manual labor, I am sure I would see it differently.

I will admit that, on vacation. I like European breakfasts. In Italy they might give you a hard-boiled egg, a little toast or mini-muffin, and an espresso or two. Nice. Or in England, a plate of bacon, black sausage, maybe some eggs and toast and jam.

The survey question is this: Do you routinely eat a breakfast and, if so, what sort of stuff?

Posted by The Barrister in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 13:16 | Comments (34) | Trackbacks (0)

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Oatmeal (14 oz) with walnuts and raisins; 3 oz Greek yogurt. Im usually working out around 10:30AM. 5-6 days a week

#1 Scipio on 2022-03-29 13:40 (Reply)

Coffee. Midmorning I have a V-8 juice.

#2 Assistant Village Idiot on 2022-03-29 13:43 (Reply)

I eat breakfast everyday. Some form of eggs - fried, poached, scrambled, or an omelette with vegetables and cheese. At least a couple of times per week I will have bacon, likewise toast or english muffin. Coffee, of course, and a big glass of water.

#3 steve walsh on 2022-03-29 13:47 (Reply)

Breakfast, the most important meal of the morning. COFFEE, Cheerios mixed with granola and pecans (or walnuts). Did I mention COFFEE? Once a week (Sat or Sun) Two over easy with lots of bacon and or sausage, fried potatoes, toast. COFFEE.

#4 Ralph Kinney Bennett on 2022-03-29 14:04 (Reply)

wake about 6:15, drink coffee until 8, maybe 2-3 cups (when considering a warm up) whilst I read the scum on the internet. First solids between 11:00 and 1:15. Although today it is 2:00 pm, small crown of broccoli steamed with butter, salt and pepper. I will be done with solids by 8, but sometimes (outside of Lent) I have an ice cream treat about 9.

Full disclosure: 55 y.o., female, 5'5", 122 lbs. haven't been above 128 lbs. since my last pregnancy at 29. I have some fatish sisters.

#5 jpac on 2022-03-29 14:11 (Reply)

Ah, breakfast. After the obligatory COFFEE and juice (anti-gout cranberry), I like to mix it up. One day oatmeal with sliced fruit, one day some hardboiled eggs, another day yogurt with fruit.

But to the larger question: Why not have Breakfast Pizza?
Top a (lightly baked) pizza crust with peppers, red onion, mushrooms, sauteed chorizo, and scrambled eggs, top with mozarella, and broil until the eggs set and the cheese is melted. Serve with mimosas.

#6 Mike Anderson (Link) on 2022-03-29 14:24 (Reply)

Had a slice of cold pizza for breakfast this morning. On lifting days I will have a little bit of cereal or a slice of toast before heading to the gym. A couple of days a week it is coffee only before noon.

#7 Mike (Link) on 2022-03-29 14:55 (Reply)

I rarely eat breakfast. When I do it's a few eggs, boiled, omelet, or fried. with maybe a few slices of bacon and/or cheese.
Add a large glass of water and that takes me through the day to dinner.

Being on a ketovore diet makes breakfast easy :)

#8 JTW on 2022-03-29 15:11 (Reply)

32oz of water, 30-40 oz black coffee, always.
Four or five days a week two fried eggs from local chickens. Single slice whole grain toast with butter, or maybe nut butter and fruit preserves, again four or five days a week.
A few walnuts, plain Greek yogurt and berries every day, usually blueberries but sometimes change it up with raspberries or blackberries if they are looking particularly good.
I walk six to fourteen miles daily and lift weights unless my back is acting up. Minimum breakfast is water, coffee, yogurt and berries, a few nuts.

#9 Rob on 2022-03-29 15:29 (Reply)

I think it actually was the Kellogg brothers who said "Breakfast is the most important meal of the day."

#10 Talnik on 2022-03-29 15:37 (Reply)

"Overweight people are always ready for a meal or a snack." You truly believe this?

Breakfast is black coffee for me.

#11 Donna B. on 2022-03-29 16:08 (Reply)

Coffee now, 30 years ago breakfast was a smoke and a Coke.

#12 Curtis on 2022-03-29 16:20 (Reply)

That made me smile.

It's been a long time since I've started my day with the breakfast of champions. Nothing gets the digestive system moving in the morning like a Pall Mall 100.

#12.1 jack walter on 2022-03-30 07:13 (Reply)

In bygone days of round engine transports, that was a Navigator's Breakfast. A pilot's breakfast was a Puke and a Coke. If you ever flew the north Atlantic at 10,000-16,000, you would understand.

#12.2 BillH on 2022-03-30 10:09 (Reply)

My daughter was an Air Force navigator. While staying with her following leg surgery and attempting to keep her meals normal, I asked what she had for lunch. "Coffee," she said. I guess it is a navigator thing.

#12.2.1 SgtBob (Link) on 2022-03-30 14:13 (Reply)

Most often, between 8-10am, scrambled eggs with sausage or bacon mixed in along with some or all of the following: cheese, onion, jalapeno, spinach, zucchini. I change it up sometimes with a green smoothie made of almond milk, spinach, small piece of cauliflower, couple of baby carrots, kale, protein powder, a couple of frozen strawberries, 1/4 avocado, some non-sugar sweetener, all whirled in the blender till a nice thick, creamy texture. Keeps me feeling full till early dinner. If I stay away from carbs I don't have cravings.

#13 Annie on 2022-03-29 16:27 (Reply)

Always coffee with 1/2 & 1/2 and a yogurt. Maybe 10% of the time I'll work up sausage, eggs, possibly toast. Once in a blue moon I'll do the Full Monty: eggs, bacon, sausage, beans, baked tomato/cheese, hash browns, etc. If pizza is left over, it might be a mid-morning snack. I've drifted into a 1 big meal/day type of subsistence now, with a couple of snacks. My last 3-meal day was some years ago.

#14 Aggie on 2022-03-29 17:20 (Reply)

I love breakfast. Two eggs, as much bacon and sausage as I can get, pancakes or hash browns, English muffins, coffee 4 cream, 4 sugar. When we are traveling I will order breakfast for lunch or dinner if it is available. When I was in the military I would get up at midnight to eat the midnight breakfast and of course breakfast in the morning too. Breakfast may not be the most important meal but it is important enough to eat twice a day.

#15 Anon on 2022-03-29 17:23 (Reply)

2-3 cups of fresh ground coffee, two poached eggs on English muffin halves, three pieces of bacon

OR

Half a can of corned beef hash with hot sauce and two fried eggs on top

OR

Half a can of chopped spam (1/4" cubes) with hot sauce and two fried eggs on top

OR

A big bowl of Special K with Red Berries, in whole milk

OR

Just go to Waffle House and order anything on the menu

#16 Traditional breakfast Guy on 2022-03-29 17:52 (Reply)

Typically I drink six cups of coffee from 8am - 4pm with some combination of whey protein, collagen peptides, creatine, and prebiotic soluble fiber.

Then I eat whatever I want from 5pm - 8 pm.

#17 Joe B. on 2022-03-29 18:30 (Reply)

A little hair pie and a shot of leg.

#18 RL on 2022-03-29 19:14 (Reply)

Coffee, two eggs with 1/2 slice of bacon, every day.

#19 barney on 2022-03-29 19:55 (Reply)

3 mugs of coffee.

#20 Jerryskids on 2022-03-29 20:23 (Reply)

Depends on if I get hungry in the a.m. and what we have. I have made “breakfast “ of miso soup, leftover pizza, bacon and eggs, leftover spaghetti, fruit salad, veggie salad, you name it. Are there any other eclectic people reading this?

#21 Princess Cutekitten on 2022-03-29 23:13 (Reply)

Breakfast is for hangovers and lazy Saturday mornings. I like a Full English or something resembling it.

#22 jack walter on 2022-03-30 07:20 (Reply)

2 cups of coffee, banana, English muffin with peanut butter 5 days a week. Weekends, whatever special my other half cooks up. Bacon and eggs, waffles, pancakes, French toast, Dutch pancake, corn bread, muffins. Whatever, I will be delicious and appreciated.

#23 Galway Boy on 2022-03-30 08:45 (Reply)

I drink a carafe of decaf (regular boosts my blood pressure) from 5:30 - 7 AM. Then 2 fried eggs over easy, sprinkled with cheese, and a side of sauteed edamame for the added protein.

#24 Jane G on 2022-03-30 09:09 (Reply)

Usually, two large mugs of very strong coffee, and a peanut butter granola bar. Rarely, the coffee with a couple of sausage patties and two or three lightly scrambled eggs. Eggs fill me up, I usually skip lunch that day.

#25 Hairless Joe on 2022-03-30 09:57 (Reply)

My breakfast rotation --
MWF: 1 hard boiled egg, sliced cucumber, coffee w/ 2% milk
TThSat: The Foreign Legion Breakfast (coffee w/ 2% milk)
Sun: 2 eggs, sausage, slice of toast, coffee

Disclosure: male, 61 yrs, 5'9'', 200 lbs, still lifting, minimizing carbs

#26 pilsnerfan (Link) on 2022-03-30 10:00 (Reply)

1 Slice of bacon
1 slice of toasted bread (whole wheat)
4 cups coffee

#27 Franknbean on 2022-03-30 13:30 (Reply)

We eat breakfast every morning (or at least before noon). I prefer a protein, sometimes bacon and eggs or bacon sandwiches, and sometimes what I call a "scromlett" (scrambled eggs with chopped ham, cheese, and vegetables). But sometimes we'll go with homemade pancakes or oats with fruit. To tell you the truth, I'll eat anything to hand in a pinch. Then we don't eat again until early evening.

#28 RebeccaH on 2022-03-30 14:07 (Reply)

Grits and Sausage. If feeling wealthy will add some cheddar to the grits.

#29 WillB on 2022-03-30 16:23 (Reply)

Protein shake Tuesday-Thursday and bacon and eggs or omelettes or hash and toast and coffee.

#30 Stephen Lawrence on 2022-03-30 19:09 (Reply)

decaf coffee, banana, and a small whole wheat English muffin with a small amount of reduced fat peanut butter.

#31 jvo on 2022-03-31 13:04 (Reply)

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