Breakfast - what do you eat?

There was a question posted somewhere on this site this morning about cereals, but other than that, what do you eat?

I usually eat either Kashi Go Lean Crunch! or have scrambled eggs with lean ham, or sometimes cottage cheese. I like to eat a higher protein breakfast, it seems to keep me going better.

So how about you?

I start with egg beaters (.5 cup=60 cals), two slices of Hormel micro bacon (70) and three mugs of coffee  ( i need that caffeine!). Fills me up for under 200 calories. I have to try out the Kashi, since I see a lot of people think it is good.

Raz

I have one egg of easy on a piece of whole wheat toast with a side of fruit and a very small glass of OJ. It fills me up until lunch and I don't feel deprived of anything. I think most kashi cereals taste like twigs and nuts! I'm sorry I just can't eat them and I've tried most of them. I do, however, love their granola bars.

OMG! They've just put in a Krispy Kreme right down the road! I just skip down there and get a fresh, warm, sticky donut every morning. I don't like health cereals and the rest of the stuff up there in the thread. It's all about moderation, so I only go once a day. 

I love Kashi cereal as well but most days I have steel cut oats type oatmeal with a chopped up banana! It keeps me full for a while.

Hey -  thanks for the replies. Thankfully our local Krispy Creme closed a while back, although I don't care much for donuts anyways.

I usually have oatmeal and a yogurt for breakfast. Then I go to the gym for about thirty minutes, after the gym I'll eat a sandwich and some mixed nuts.

I tend to eat a big breakfast since I eat it very early and its a while before I can grab a snack at work.  I'll have either 2 eggs and a slice of homemade toast (maybe with a teaspoon of sugar free preserves) or a bowl of steel cut oatmeal.  I usually have a piece of fruit--this week its bananas or strawberries.  Always have coffee with equal and fat free creamer.  Sometimes I will have a small glass of soymilk, but usually I have water.

MM...3/4 times a week 2 boiled egg or fried with olive oil(very littlebut oil)

or cereal (30g) +skimmed milk+banana

I usually eat:

1 egg with 2 slices of whole wheat toast (and some sort of jam or jelly), and 1 slice of bacon cut in half (so it feels like 2 slices!) or...

A bowl of cereal with fruit sliced on top (current fave is Special K choc. delight with strawberries yummy!) or...

A bowl of grits with a little butter or cheese mixed in and a cup of juice.

Coffee is included with all breakfasts! I usually eat a fairly  high calorie and heavy carb/protein breakfast if I know I'm going to be really busy that day. It keeps me full and energized, so I don't feel the need to snack as much or overeat at lunch.

I'm always on the run in the morning so I have a protein shake -

1 cup nonfat milk

1/2 cup blueberries

1 scoop protein powder

2 tbsp flaxseed meal

plus add water if protein powder makes it too thick - it depends on the powder brand

or

1 morning a week I have:

1 whole grain pancake with flaxseed and fruit on top

1 egg

My work week breakfast rarely varies: one whole hard-boiled egg, 8 ounces of OJ, a banana, and a cereal bar.  Sometimes I add black coffee.  Weekends are the killer; I eat out on Saturday morning - today's breakfast was over 1200 calories.  Sundays vary a lot from coffee and danish to yogurt with fruit and granola.  I have yet to track a whole week of calories so I don't know how much damage I am doing on weekends.

I usually have a bowl of (3/4 - 1 c.) Kashi w/ 1/2 c. 2% Milk - I like the Wild Blueberry w/ Flakes or their Cocoa Beach Granola w/ 2% Fage yogurt and some honey and berries.  When I'm up for cooking I'll have a egg on whole grain w/ flax toast and a slice of lowfat Jarlsburg.  Coffee w/ coffee mate and a spoon of sugar.  I try to vary it so I don't get bored...

After years of making myself eat breakfast because I kept reading that it was the most importan meal of the day, I finally decided to stop wasting calories on a meal that frankly made me a little queasy to eat.  Now, I have a Danactive and a cup of coffee or teechino (healthy coffee substitute), and I am good to go till lunch.  Of course, I am not an early riser.  Someone who gets up at 6 might find this insufficient.

Weekdays: Zone bar (210 cal) and coffee. It took all efforts imaginable to quit buying that tempting scone each morning. 

Weekends: Kashi Puffed Honey (120 cal) and Eating Right Light Yogurt (60 cal) with fresh blueberries or strawberries and coffee. 

I have a smoothie with 3 tablespoons of peanut butter, a banana and i cup of skim milk and a rice cake with  1 tablespoon of peanut butter.

or

4 egg whites, 1 slice of whole wheat toast, a serving of fruit and 8 oz of yogurt

I follow a plan by overeaters anonymous and it works really well for me.

It's not breakfast but I have a serious calorie question. How many calories does a chicken salad roller made with rotisserie chicken by (kirkland) costco have in it? I have looked all over the internet for it with no help.  Please help?

I usually try hydrate really well in the morning, especially when it's as hot as it's been here this summer. So I glug down about 16-20 ounces of water right away when I get up, then have a 1/2 cup oatmeal with three or four sliced strawberries at my desk at work.

Larisa: Sorry, but I don't have an answer for you. How much rotisserie chicken? With or without skin? I do have a great "almost-rotisserie chicken" recipe that you can make in a crockpot! Roll up five or six golf ball-size balls of foil, put them in the bottom of the crockpot. Then season a 3-4 lb. roasting chicken with rotisserie seasoning. Set it on top the foil balls (that's so the chicken doesn't sit in its own fat). Cover the crockpot and cook on low about 5-6 hours or until the chicken is tender. If you want to crisp the skin, do it in the broiler. But if you want to cut calories, it's best to take it off anyhow. I make chicken that way all the time. It's great for salads, too!

I try to very my breakfasts so here are some of them

vanilla yogurt with cinnamon, honey and ginger

2 hard boiled eggs

1 scrambled egg with a little butter then I don't add salt

Protein shake with berries

Oatmeal in the winter

Green tea no coffee when I come off of the caffeine I am hungry again. One of these will breakfasts can hold me for 4 hours easily

For my drink  I usually try to glug down my 20 ounce water bottle, which I usually add some protein powder to. But for eating I have either:

• a hard boiled egg with some fruit and a piece of whole wheat toast or,
• cheerios with yogurt and honey, and fruit or,
• piece of whole wheat toast and scrambled eggs and some fruit.

Keeps me full until lunch, and gives me enough energy for my morning run and pilates. Ocasionally I'll have some coffee or green tea if I'm particularly tired,

Most days I am in a BIG hurry, so I make a smoothie out of an 80 cal. strawberry yogurt, a banana, dash of vanilla (or almond extract - yum!), sprinkle of Splenda, a handful of frozen strawberries and an ice cube or two.  Blend, pour in a travel mug and away I go.  If I know it will be a long time until I can eat again I will add an envelope of Instant Breakfast. 

I also pre-pack a few snack bags of Kashi Go Lean Crunch (the Honey/Flax variety) to be able to grap just in case I'm running extra late, along with keeping one or two single serving sized cartons of skim milk in the fridge.

I find that if I stay prepared I am much less likely to "cheat" just for convenience.