Breakfast

[Healing Hands]

What does everyone eat for Breakfast. This morning I have made some pear and ginger muffins for a change. I normally either have porridge (winter) sometimes either with honey or prunes, sometime a boiled egg and toast, scrambled egg on toast, if in a hurry I will have a banana smoothie. Saturdays Ken and I always go out for brunch and I have bacon, eggs, sausage baked beans and tomatoes washed down with jasmine tea. Sundays can sometimes be pancakes either with bacon, or with maple syrup (naughty I know but lovely) and it is not every Sunday. As I go to church sometimes I am in a hurry so it maybe just a couple of slices of toast with homemade marmalade.

Summer time I eat a lot of fruit with yoguart or friut smoothies depending on what fruit is around. :)

[SummerSkye]

It is summer here so usually we have fresh fruit especially mango followed by toast, (home made bread) sometimes eggs or just sliced tomato drizzled with balsamic vinegar and freshly picked basil on top. I always make a large pot of really good Italian style plunger coffee. OH loves croissants with his coffee.

[Crocus]

Mostly a slice of toast with sometimes tomato, sometimes cheese, and very rarely an egg. Saturdays I will sometimes cook a English Breakfast, but not very often. Sunday's before church hubby will only have fruit. I love fruit a lot, but mostly have it for lunch. Off the topic sorry, but yesterday evening we had chicken and fruit for supper - very nice. Lovely sweet lemon, sweet pineapple and chicken. It goes together very well. Oh for boys I had some potatoes as well.

[lily]

Porridge or muesli, fruit juice or grapefruit and very often eggs in some guise or other- we work hard to keep pace with the egg production.

[eleanor2]

am i the only boring one.i love my organic cornflakes with jordans 4 nut cereal on top.iwill alernate with rice crispies and the new oat abix with honey on top.always have soya milk.every morning before breakfast i chew well a handful of pumpkin seeds.after i have an evening primrose capsule with a half glass of home made kombuchi.

[Crocus]

One healthy lady, Eleanor.

[Redstart]

I love a banana smoothie or, in summer a smoothie made with fruit from the garden and I always make it with soya milk. Or I just have toast and honey if I'm really busy. I often do boiled or scrambled eggs and toast - scrambled eggs is my son's favourites and in winter I often make porridge; I usually accompany any breakfast with fresh fruit juice, usually freshly pressed apple or orange juice, which I can buy locally. And I always finish with a nice strong black coffee from our coffee machine (this grinds the beans and then forces steam through them - it makes lovely coffee). Sometimes, at the weekend, I make French Fried Bread (egg dipped in egg and milk and fried in butter) - this common dish was called this and cooked by my father every Sunday morning when I was a child. It has lovely memories for me, even though I now make with home-made spelt bread and he used Wonderloaf.

Whatever we have, I always make sure there is some form of fruit and the quickest breakfast we ever have is a (directly marketed) banana.

[Crocus]

Ooh lovely French toast - the boys love to have this when they come home from school! Bananas are very healthy, but I don't like it completely ripe. I like when it's still quite firm and somewhere between green and ripe.

[Redstart]

Me too! I always buy them slightly green so that they don't go overripe before we eat them.

[Ivy]

Do you really want to know?
I am going without food until the children return from school at 1:30 for lunch ( the main meal)
If ever I should go hungry during the morning I 'll have a fruit (banana, orange, apple)
I simply do not get hungry and it was the battle of my childhood to persuade mum I could not eat breakfast at 6:30 and have sandwiches in school and return to a cooked lunch at 2:30

I must admit I get hungry at around 1 o clock but than it's too late for breakfast and too early for lunch as I want to eat with the children.

[Oola]

I'm usually getting up too late to warrant having three meals in a day. I'm trying to stop going to bed so late and get up early!

In the instances where I do get up relatively early, I'll just have a bit of wholegrain toast with jam or local honey. I sometimes have that granola mixed with bio live yoghurt, although it's not as healthy as I like to think. Rich and I are crap with our laziness and getting up late, must make amends!

[franbee]

Eleanor, I will join you in the boring stakes. OH makes porridge every morning, summer and winter. I have a spoonful of chopped dates and a spoonful of chopped nuts and seeds with mine and a splash of milk. If I'm at work I have a banana mid morning as lunch is sometimes quite late. If OH is away I have a bowl of Weetaflakes or Special K with a spoonful of Jordans 4 nut and skimmed milk.

[fife]

On a week day (school) we all have cereal very boring compared to some of your lovely suggestions. I have special K with strawberries and the rest have rice krispies or weetabix and sometimes cornflakes. On a weekend it is english breakfast on sunday and saturday is homemade muffins if i have time or something on toast, or pancakes. At university and when i was younger i never use to eat breakfast my mother use to dispair but i never felt like it. After having children i got into the routine, maybe because instead of getting up later i was having to get up at 6 as my son has always got up at this time. By 8 iam starving.

[Healing Hands]

Redstart I forgot about French Toast, my daughters love it and when they want to come back home and having a mummy weekend the first thing they ask for is "eggy bread" that is what they call their french toast. My mum used to make it for me as a child, it was quite a cheap breakfast then for her. I have to wait until the end of Feb when Natalie is coming over for her mummy weekend so I will cook some then. ..Yummy

[Redstart]

Yes, I said "whatever it's called" because I've seen what my family call French fried toast called "how to make one egg serve 4 people" so perhaps it did begin as a frugal breakfast. I find it so yummy!

[sheddie]

I have a small glass of orange juice, shredded wheat, dates, coffee and lots of fruit which I share with Jess X

[dinger]

Well I'm dead boring I just have one weetabix and a cup of tea . thats about all I can face.

[Crocus]

Made me awfully hungry, reading through all these breakfast menus!

[Healing Hands]

This morning I have just had chopped tomates on toast drizzled with olive oil and seasoned with pepper, got a bit messy eating it while trying to read threads on RM!

Prunes are very good for Sheds, you dont't give those to Jess do you?! :eek:

[Redstart]

I've had a banana smoothie and a glass of orange juice. I finished the carton of orange juice my daughter left behind - it doesn't even taste of oranges! I shall stay with my freshly pressed version.

[eleanor2]

whilst out shopping today i went to the juice bar and had a healthy juice with a shot of liquid herbs for dinner.i have to get in shape for the pancake race.

[Healing Hands]

Good for Eleanor, very healthy. I am looking forward to tomorrow as it is my brunch day with bacon, eggs and all the trimmings!

[Crocus]

Hi HH, in a way it reminds me of one morning when we had a cup of coffee in Sainsbury's cafeteria (Taunton). There was a couple sitting opposite us and they had a big breakfast with all the trimmings.

[eleanor2]

i must admit just been out for tea.but did have salad.then flame grilled salmon peas and chips.did not eat many chips.oh had a starter of melon.i am full to the brim.