What do you eat for breakfast?

[Grip72]

2 eggs - sunny side up or over easy
one whole wheat english muffin
2 slices of fried bologna
put the bologna on the english muffin, egg on top. if i have cheese i may put a slice on top or some hot sauce

i have this alot, usually a protein shake before hand (power + water only though)

other days i'll have plain yogurt with oats and frozen berries

[Soofy]

I love eggs, don't think I could ever get sick of them, they're so versatile. But I usually eat oats with raisins or cocunut (dessicated) or muesli in the morning (no added sugar or any chemical nasties) with plenty of fruit. Oats are hardcore to eat by themselves, the best way to eat them is with fruit or honey.

[mjh]

my default 'big' breakfast is as follows:

• 1 cup oatmeal with 2 teaspoons of milled flax seeds
• 1/2 cup of mixed nuts and seeds
• 2 big pinches of shredded coconut
• 1 chopped apple or some other fruit
• 1 shake made of 500ml milk, whey, and coffee

Some of the shake gets poured over the oats, as they can be a bit gluggy with the flax seed and nuts in there. This is all well over 1000 calories. With the last of my shake I take my multivitamin, glucosamine tab, and 3-4 fish oil tabs.

I can't stomach all of this every day, so sometimes it's just 3-4 eggs on toast, maybe with some bacon, and a big mug of milky coffee.

[Demian]

• 1 Shake with Whey and water right after getting up
• 3-5 eggs either boiled, scrambled or fried, with 1-2 tomatoes salted(as a side, not cooked)
• Cup of green Tea
• Fishoil Tabs, Multivitamin or ZMA

[itsbruce]

my default 'big' breakfast is as follows:

• 1 cup oatmeal with 2 teaspoons of milled flax seeds
• 1/2 cup of mixed nuts and seeds
• 2 big pinches of shredded coconut
• 1 chopped apple or some other fruit
• 1 shake made of 500ml milk, whey, and coffee

Shredded coconut goes wonderfully in porridge, indeed. But I hate flax seeds in porridge, even ground flax seeds. Ruins the flavour for me.

Some of the shake gets poured over the oats, as they can be a bit gluggy with the flax seed and nuts in there. This is all well over 1000 calories

1000 calories? If you're not eating 6000 calories a day, what is your total and how do you vary the proportions over the day? I more or less do 1/6th of my intake in each meal (maybe a bit more at the regular meal times and a bit less at "snack" times).

[Shox]

i have a small bowl of porridge, 3 rashers of bacon, 2 eggs, a banana and a protein shake, works a treat

[mjh]

@ itsbruce:

My goal is 3600-4000 calories per day. I don't do the whole 6 equal measures thing. usually 3 meals plus snacks. This is how it worked out for me yesterday:

9am: breakfast- as described. Approx 1350cals.
12pm: p/w- store bought shake, protein bar, glass of milk. Approx 850cals.
2pm: snack- 2 boiled eggs, a glass of greens powder and water. Approx 200cals.
4pm: snack- protein bar (not my preferred option, but this was the best quick and easy option from the supermarket). Approx 300cals.
6.30pm: dinner- 250g beef, avocado, spinach, homemade salsa. Approx 850cals.
9.00pm: desert/pre-bed snack- cottage cheese, yogurt, frozen berries. Approx 200cals.

This totals about 3950 calories, and had 280g protein. It's not my ideal day's eating, but pretty close to it. The protein bar at 4pm would have been replaced with a tuna salad, and the store bought shake and protein bar would be a single home made shake, in a perfect world. I'm not scared of carbs, but I try and keep them to before lunch time or after workouts.

Unfortunately this is a 'good' day, and I have been very slack in consistently achieving good days, due to uni pressures and general laziness. But I have some free time ahead of me and making every day like this one is my #1 priority.

Remember that about 500 of those 1300 breakfast calories are from half a cup of nuts and seeds. Those little bastards are calorie dense as all hell.

[killerdude494949]

I used to eat fried eggs every morning for a year. I got absolutely sick of it. Recently I tried smoothies in a blender. I threw in 6 raw eggs, 2 bananas, 2 cups of milk, maybe some peanut butter, strawberries or whey protein.

[ricepower]

I usually have:

4 Poached eggs - haven't seen anybody else eating these, although they are sort of similar to boiled.
Banana
Fish Oil
Milk
Green Tea.

I would like to have some cooked spinach with the eggs, but it would probably take me 30+ minutes to eat

Most frequent breakfast is 2 eggs (scrambled), 2 slices toast, spinach/broccoli, maybe some cheese, tea & a banana.

Just wondering, what bread do you use?

Im not one to avoid carbs, I am trying to gain weight and cycle everywhere which keeps burning my precious calories!

I just go for regular wheat bread tin loaf from supermarkets or some part rye from real bakeries if I get the chance. I only really avoid factory made bread which contains Soya flour & emulsifiers etc.

[luco]

i have a small bowl of porridge, 3 rashers of bacon, 2 eggs, a banana and a protein shake, works a treat

This sounded familiar.

- Bowl of porridge, 2 rashers of bacon, 3 eggs, a banana and 2 glasses of milk. (on long schooldays that is, otherwise I split it into 2 meals) - 70g protein, 35g fat, 70g carbs, 875 total kcals... Damn, I never calculated that before.. That's alot. Sleep makes me hungry I guess.

[Kingace]

I used to eat fried eggs every morning for a year. I got absolutely sick of it. Recently I tried smoothies in a blender. I threw in 6 raw eggs, 2 bananas, 2 cups of milk, maybe some peanut butter, strawberries or whey protein.

I was going to try raw eggs, but avoided it because of the 1 in 10,000 chance of salmonella, and have read multiple times that you can only absorb half the nutrients/protein from a raw egg. Are you aware of this, or don't believe in it?

Im not one to avoid carbs, I am trying to gain weight and cycle everywhere which keeps burning my precious calories!

I just go for regular wheat bread tin loaf from supermarkets or some part rye from real bakeries if I get the chance. I only really avoid factory made bread which contains Soya flour & emulsifiers etc.

I don't really avoid carbs either, the issue for me is finding 'healthy' bread. I have no idea what bread would be suitable, every loaf I have checked is full of emulsifiers and crap. Bakery bread doesn't last too long either?

[coreJack]

I was going to try raw eggs, but avoided it because of the 1 in 10,000 chance of salmonella, and have read multiple times that you can only absorb half the nutrients/protein from a raw egg. Are you aware of this, or don't believe in it?

I don't worry about salmonella. Just rinse the egg before cracking. Even if you get it, it's not fatal to healthy adults. I've heard about the lower nutrient absorption issue, but I don't worry about that either. Just eat more of them if that's a concern.

[ricepower]

I was going to try raw eggs, but avoided it because of the 1 in 10,000 chance of salmonella, and have read multiple times that you can only absorb half the nutrients/protein from a raw egg. Are you aware of this, or don't believe in it?

I don't worry about salmonella. Just rinse the egg before cracking. Even if you get it, it's not fatal to healthy adults. I've heard about the lower nutrient absorption issue, but I don't worry about that either. Just eat more of them if that's a concern.

My dad and most of his colleagues ate a few raw eggs in the morning before work at a foundry. It was hard labour, it was the 60's - most of them didnt know any english let alone anything about nutrition. they just did it instinctively and it helped them get through the hard work.

My dad continued this habit long after retiring, but us kids convinced him to stop when he was around 70 because we were afraid of the salmonella thing.

But he never ever had a problem for it, and it was cheap battery eggs he ate too.