I'm not getting enough breakfast!! How do you manage?

Normally I catch a bus, and get up 20min before because that's the best I can do. I usually grab a piece of bread and a piece of fruit and stuff them down on the way. I don't think I can get up any earlier, but I'm often hungry during the morning. So what's a quick way to have a filling breakfast?? I'm also lactose intolerant.

Make food the night before... or have leftovers for breakfast. tomorrow morning for breakfast I will be having the leftover half of a "crustless quiche" that I had for dinner tonight... basically cooked a thick layer of egg whites in a small pan on real low, then melted whipped cream cheese on top and topped that with sauteed diced mushrooms... once the egg is firmed up I then baked it and there was enough for 2 meals. Tomorrow I can just heat it up in the microwave. you can also do this with any type of omelet...

Other quick options are:

-protein bars/luna bars
-soup in a mug/thermos
-scrambled eggs in a closed tortilla
-hard boiled eggs cooked and shelled the night before
-those drinkable yogurt things
-deli sandwich
-peanut butter spread on low cal english muffin
-handfuls of nuts or granola

Switch out the fruit for a bagel. Thomas' makes a whole wheat bagel that has ALOT of protein and fiber. Add an apple or a banana to that and your made in the shade.

Get up earlier....   If you need to eat more to gain weight you have to give mealtimes a degree of priority.  You can give yourself terrible indigestion stuffing food into an empty stomach that's just woken up.  If you're trying eat, wash & dress in a 20 minute window it's never going to happen.

Relax into your day... set the alarm half an hour earlier.  Have a hot drink to get the ball rolling and then sit down and take a little more time over your breakfast.   It's important.

The best thing to do would be to wake up earlier. If that is NOT possible, or probable, make your breakfast the night before. There is no one who says breakfast food has to be cereal. If you can stomach it, a ham or turkey sandwich with whole grain bread can be eaten in the bus without too much difficulty. At least this way you are sitting when you eat and not stuffing food down your throat. You can also get juice boxes (all natural or sugar-free are the best choices). Protein bars and even yogurt (Soy, Rice, or another non-lactose yogurt) can be eaten on the bus.

Have to agree with get up earlier, as a first rule. Set your alarm or get someone else in the house to wake you - after a while, your body'll adjust to your new routine.

If you're unwilling to wake up earlier (though I really do suggest you go that route), then the other two suggestions already made are spot on - though 4theloss' suggestions are perhaps too light for you if you're gaining in some areas. Still, you either then prepare your meal the night before so it's ready for you to grab and prepare/reheat if needs be, or you make your small meal much more dense while still filling - a bagel being a perfect suggestion.

Perhaps a wholegrain (seeded optional) bagel with nut butter and whole fat soy cheese, or nut butter and banana. If not a bagel, then another similarly high-cal bread like a wholegrain granary loaf or sourdough for your toast, and make sure you spread a high-calorie condiment like (again) nut butter, set honey, jams and preserves on it. If you're having fruit go for the higher calorie options - bananas, or dried fruit over fresh.

Honestly, though, I'd say get up earlier and make yourself a big, dense bowl of porridge - whether with oats, or another grain like millet or quinoa and your choice of plant milk - topped with nuts and dried fruit aplenty. Accompany it with soy yoghurt and berries, a hot drink and a hard-boiled egg. Filling, energy providing and nutritious. Enjoy more of your meal and less of a rush to the bus stop!

It is all about planning and scheduling. Pack something the night before if you have to. I cook on Sunday and pack my lunch for Monday, Tuesday and Wed. Put in the frig in Tupperware so I can grab and go. Same with breakfast. If it is something I have to cook I do it the night before. Successful weight loss/maintenance is all about planning, scheduling ahead and not making excuses. Same goes for exercise. Plan it and do it. Without will power and determination nothing can be done. No one can do it for you. Set your alarm 10-15 minutes earlier.

All of these ideas take less than 5 minutes to make

Peanut butter and banana sandwich

cereal

bagels or English muffins

Egg beaters in microwave

oatmeal

Cheese on toast

fresh fruit

Yogurt

Well, I'm not a big fan of getting up earlier... so when I know I have an early morning coming up I make myself a peanut butter and banana sandwich the night before. I eat it on the way to the bus stop.

I need to eat like 2500 cals to get a 1000 cal deficit (I'm trying to lose, not gain) so I hear you on that - the best breakfast I've found to keep me going is homemade granola.  I make it on the weekends, takes about 20 minutes, and I eat it dry or like cereal every morning.  It's all natural and calorie-dense, and very good for you (and lasts a long time!).  You can also make it into bars for an on-the-go breakfast.  A cup of it has close to 600 calories, which is a good start for the morning especially if you have to eat a lot of cals.  Do some googling, there's tons of recipes and I've found it really worthwhile to make it to have on hand, to the point where my body feels "wavery" if I don't have the right breakfast.  Of course I also exercise in the mornings so that has something to do with it too :)

I used to have this problem because I cannot eat within an hour of waking up. It makes me ridiculously sick. So I take cereal and an apple to work with me. Cereal is a lot less calories when you don't use milk anyways. I also like granola bars and muffins. Breakfast is actually pretty easy to travel with.

Please look at the forum you are posting in before you post, this is the Weight Gain forum and the OP is looking to gain. Thus, low-calorie suggestions are not advisable.

Bring food with you, wherever you are going! I always eat breakfast at my desk at work. When I was in school, I brought food with me to class.  I throw the day's eats in a tote bag, which is cheaper then buying out, anyway. Today I brought: yogurt, a homemade banana muffin, homemade butternut squash/green onion/bacon pizza (2 slices, leftovers from Saturday), an apple, and a baggie of popcorn. I picked up coffee with soy milk on my way to work, and have extras stashed in my desk in case I get hungry (energy bars, toasted tamari pumpkin seeds, more fruit...)

Good gaining foods that are portable: trail mix, granola, cereal (in a baggie or tupperware), pop tarts/toaster strudels, Cliff bars, hard boiled eggs, sandwiches, bagel with PB/Nutella/other nut butter... I think I just made myself hungry :)

Night before: boil eggs. Take 4 with you in a sack; eat them on the bus = lotsa cals & good protein

Banana & PB sandwhich (great idea & very filling)

Granola (Great idea also)

Trail mix. I make a good trail mix of macadamia's, peanuts, sunflower & pumpkin seeds, banana chips or cranberries (dried), and sometimes I'll even throw in some diabetic chocolate (just because I can't consciously eat regular candy w/o feelin' guilt). It's HIGH in cals, high in protein/fiber, and fats... will keep you going until you get to work at least.

Shaker Bottle: 1 Tbs PB, 2 Scoops Soy (no whey since your lactoid) Protein Powder, 1 cup Silk Soy milk unsweetened. That'll put some pounds on ya too.

Beef/Turkey Jerky

Good luck

Another thing you could do with the hard boiled eggs littlemalynda suggested would be to make an egg sandwich. Get some hearty, whole grain bread (or make your own!) or a bagel (the asiago cheese bagels from panera are so tasty!), slice up 2 or so eggs, add some soy cheese, tomato, whatever, toast the sucker and hit the road.

Mm, I love egg sandwiches. : )