Thread: Breakfast Ideas

I'm one of those people that has a problem with heavy, solid food first thing in the morning. I'll crash at my friend's house after we go out drinking and the second he wakes up he's ready for a full meal. I just don't get it. I do smoothies for breakfast. I buy those big bags of (Dole) frozen fruit that has pineapple, mango, peach, and, strawberry. I also buy a bag of blueberries. I throw a bunch of it all into a blender and cover it completely with orange juice (otherwise it's too frozen to blend) and let it sit while I have my coffee and a smoke. I come back and add some yoghurt and a banana and blend. I make about a liter worth put it in my Nalgene bottle and nurse it for about an hour. I get all of my servings of fruit this way (though you're probably supposed to eat them throughout the day and not just in a single serving) and don't feel tired or weighed down like I do after say a meal of busicuts and gravy. I think I'm going to start making my own yoghurt soon. I also just ordeed a few pounds of wheat berries from a grower and I'm going to add those to my breakfast. Since I try to limit my time preparing food in the morning, I'll be leaving a batch to soak in the morning until the night at which point I'll put them in a good thermos with some boiling water, nuts, and dried fruit overnight so they'll cook and be ready to go when I wake up.

That all sounds tasty. I'm also a big fan of granola type breakfasts. I may use some of your ideas when I get to Kansas.

Granola is awesome. It's so expensive where I live though I don't every really buy it. Since it's a "natural and healthy" food (trendy) the price is jacked up. It's like $5 for a small bag here. I used to live overseas and it was dirt cheap because it wasn't considered trendy. It was a staple (oats, nuts, and dried fruit) and priced accordingly (pretty cheap). Granola is another another thing I should just make myself. I'm sure it's super easy.

For years I never ate breakfast, when I started doing night shifts again a couple of years back, I started getting back into eating a regular breakfast upon getting up in the afternoons.
I'm a big fan of Weet-bix (anyone from Aussie or NZ will know what I'm on about), I grew up on these things and they have made me the person I am today (fat, lol), I used to be able to eat 8-10 of them in one sitting when I was 12.
I remember in the winter time here having them with hot milk before school, if it got too late to have porridge (another of my favourites).
Believe me, I feel a lot better these days for starting the day off with some food, there was a time when I couldn't even look at food before 2-3 hours after I'd got out of bed.
I have read in quite a few places that sleeping uses a LOT of energy, through-out the night, especially with all of the tissue repair and what-not that goes on, to not replace that energy, starts your day off on a downer.

I normally have 2 eggs at breakfast, whether fried, scrambled, coddled, etc, it depends on what I've got & what I fancy. I was out of bread the other day and had a little time to spare so made a big Yorkshire Pudding and had 2 fried eggs in that!