April 16, 2012 - 7:02 am
Maura eyes my bowl of oatmeal, apples, and mandarin oranges.
When bloggers dispense advice like this what they’re really saying is “Blog about something that matters! Don’t just use this technology to showcase your narcissism.”
But there’s good reason to share what we had for breakfast: to start the conversation about what we should eat. Anyone have any suggestions for what they consume in the mornings to charge their batteries for the day?
A survey Kraft foods conducted in February telling us what we already know:
P.S. Previous Siberian Husky slide show here. The last image also featured her in begging mode.
love that picture and subtitle! Maura is acting just like my dog, Charlie.
I guess that’s true unless you’re a food blogger like moisture lol. During the work week I prefer oatmeal with some sort of flavoring. Brown sugar and maple perhaps. When I have more time I like sausage and a good over medium egg.
For breakfast I like:
One bowl lamb & rice kibbles
The pizza crust you left on the coffee table
Anything interesting I find in the yard
A sock I found lying around somewhere
After this I have just the right amount of energy to follow you around until you leave for work and then lie down on the couch you always kick me off of until you get home.
Beautiful dog, she is.
you can find hulled barley at Whole Foods. It was cheap- 99 cents per pound. One cup in a small crockpot overnight, with 2 1/2 cups water and some salt. You can add 1/4 tsp cinnamon, to make it more breakfasty. Add sugar and milk in the morning.
I feed this to my kids in winter. It keeps them going until lunch, easily. I eat it before Thanksgiving, so I don’t binge.
I met someone who stirred low-fat cottage cheese into her oatmeal. She’d add frozen berries, or canned peaches, if she was running that morning.
I don’t know that egg mcmuffins make the grade, healthwise, but it seems like the sort of thing an atkins diet person would eat. The kids eat that and the fruit and walnuts with yogurt, on sundays, if we’re out of the house.
eggs on soft tacos with salsa is pretty standard, here.
When I get up I feed our two cats and make some coffee – in that order. (No, I don’t let the cats get into the coffee; coffee makes cats sick.) If I eat anything at all it’ll most likely be a banana. I’m over 55 and not a big eater anyhow, so it’s no big deal that I rarely eat much in the morning.
Despite what the survey graphic contends, I find that a substantial meal, in the morning or any other time, makes me tired rather than energized.
After a 90 minute commute I stop in a local chinese restaurant daily for a sausage, egg and cheese bagel washed down with a black coffee. The cook starts grilling it up when she sees me walk in, usually has it ready by the time I make it to the register. Not many other breakfast options in walking distance that time of day so they tend to be busy. I’ve recently started dialing back sugar, starches and carbs and this is my daily treat.
Barbarians! Here, let me straighten you out…
Schlepp on down to the Whole Foods and get steel-cut oats (NOT rolled oats). The night before, in a small saucepan heat one cup of water (ratio is 2/1), get it boiling, and grind in a pinch of sea salt. Toss in one-half cup of the aforementioned steel-cut oats, sprinkle in some currants (raisins too big for me) and bring it back to a boil for a few minutes. Remember not to leave the kitchen so you don’t forget about it and smell it burning ten minutes later.
Then put a lid on it and place it in the fridge. Overnight, it will soak/cook/whatever thoroughly. This works for other grains too, by the way.
Next morning, take it out, remove the lid and fire it up just long enough to get it good and hot (you may need to add a little more water as you stir it up). Now, you don’t have to get quite this elaborate but what’s worth doing is worth doing well:
A dab of butter
A shot of maple syrup (or agave nectar)
A dash of cinnamon
A dash of allspice
A few drops of almond or vanila extract
This is how you do oats. I gotta have something meaty as well. I like to microwave a lump of corned beef hash, or fry up a little bacon or even a few slices of spam (Canadian-style, so I’m told). Remember to have an apple or orange or a few kiwis, strawberries, blueberries, pineapple chunks, etc. so you’ll get your fruit ‘n’ fibre and have nice poops.
I don’t eat breakfast…unless coffee counts as food.
I sleep between 3 and 5 hours a night. I have black coffee in the morning, usually between 4:30-5 AM, and nothing else. I usually don’t eat lunch either. I find eating during the day makes me want to take a nap. I eat one meal a day and it is almost always after 3 PM.
lately, I’ve been trying the high protein low carb diet. I have found that two hard boiled eggs and a couple pieces of bacon go a long way to keeping me full and happy for quite a while. I get all the way to lunch before I need to eat again.
I’ve done that diet recently too. Might try it again. I go back and forth about focusing on nutrition vs focusing on weight gain.