"I'm of the generation that goes without breakfast."

I think it might well be. When I or pretty much anyone I know of my age does eat breakfast, it's as a special thing, or as a "Wow! Food! In the Morning! What an Idea!" thing.

This fact makes cooking breakfast for one's girlfriend about 60% cuter, by the way.

what generation is this? sounds terrible

it's the generation that eats facebook for breakfast?

I have been listening to some episodes of the Jack Benny Program, the radio show from the 40s, when they were sponsored by Grape-Nuts and Grape-Nuts Flakes. (Who knew the flakes were so old?) Anyway, part of their whole spiel is that the government experts suggest that you really really need to eat yourself some breakfast -- you should get something like 25% of your caloric intake for breakfast. Now, obviously Grape-Nuts had something of a vested interest in this. But the stress -- the government's stress, even -- on how important breakfast is and how it shouldn't be skipped suggests that we are not at all the first generation to go without breakfast.

(N.B. I am eating breakfast as I type this.)

maybe this is why all the kids are so grumpy all the time?

I feel sick if I don't eat breakfast!

me too! and how can you have coffee or tea on an empty stomach, that is craziness to me.

I only eat breakfast on the weekends. During the week, coffee or tea is my breakfast.

I can drink coffee/tea on an empty stomach fine, but I usually prefer to wait til I've eaten if I have the option.

I usually just pick up a croisant or something small like that on the way to work, I'm never very hungry when I've just woken up. Then come eleven I'm always absolutely fucking ravenous.

I feel sick if I do eat breakfast. Generally can't eat anything before 11 o'clock.

i need greases to soak up alkoholz

most days i just don't feel hungry until about 11.30am (altho often do get headache type thing on the bus thru lack of food-based energy) - not sure how this happened but is bad and has been going on for most of this decade.

how were you people raised? aren't you worried to fuck about your blood sugar?

i am worried to fuck up my blood sugar. i get fainty if it dips too much. don't know how those anorexics do it.

i never don't eat breakfast

The only day of the year where I skip breakfast is when my blood is drawn. I have to eat before I shower.

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You guys are making me hungry.

I don't think I was allowed to get away with not eating breakfast before school, but then it never really occurred to me to skip it until I went to uni and did the all-night booze thing. These days I make sure I gulp down a glass of OJ at the very least.

i don't have breakfast.. i do sometimes when i get to work before mcdonald's stop doing the sausage egg muffins, then i get breakfast. otherwise it's only 1.5 hours til lunch........

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Vegan = cannot afford to skip those precious breakfast calories. (Not that I skipped breakfast before I went vegan either, if I don't have it I stay hungry all day, no matter how much I eat later.)

I always eat breakfast.

having a porridge phase right now. weekends only tho.

why the fuck wouldn't you eat breakfast?

No time.

i'm just not hungry when i wake up most the time. and also i'm usually already late for work when i roll out of bed.

I'm lucky enough to be able to eat breakfast at work, so I don't have to worry about that problem.

How is there no time to put jam on a piece of bread?

Or take a granola bar from the cabinet?

I never miss breakfast.

more essential than lunch even.

Breakfast, breakfast
So good, I eat it twice!

I always try to eat some cereal and milk for breakfast. I can't fathom eating sweet stuff for breakfast, though; it makes my stomach hurt. (Meanwhile my husband can happily eat a ton of French toast for breakfast. So UNFAIR)

I always try to eat some cereal and milk for breakfast. I can't fathom eating sweet stuff for breakfast, though

Uh, there is a lot of cereal that is not sweet?

Uh, there is a lot of cereal that is not sweet crappy

milk is sweet, dude

even if you're eschewing chocolate frosted sugar bombs, cereal and milk don't fall on the savory side of the divide

true

I guess I don't think of milk as sweet. It tastes like milk.

gabbneb talks sense.

if eggs and slices of ham and salami was readily available at my house without me having to pay for or prepare it i'd totally have it.

i need a butler or a traditional loving housewife, obv.

gabbneb just alluded to calvin and hobbes

breakfast is the most important for me, definitely

YUMMMMMMM bacon egg cheese bagel

Sur, are you a morning person?

milk sugars taste less sweet than other sugars do, but they're still sugars

milk's sweetest when it's from a boob

a chocolate boob, maybe

yea i love breakfast. the only part of breakfast that can be frustrating is that i'm normally rushed, at least during weekday mornings.

but on weekends, breakfast is so enjoyable - fresh juice, some steel cut oats, bagels, home fries, fresh fruit. even just some bread and olives will do. right now i'm mostly doing bagels and a grapefruit - grapefuit is such a good breakfast fruit. i don't eat eggs but i love tofu scramble.

weekdays i normally have green tea, but i grind my own coffee and use one of those italian stovetop espresso makers on the weekends.

i definitely favor savory breakfasts over sweet ones - if i have something sweet like pancakes, i always need to have something savory with it.

I used to think that black women... oh nevermind xpost

hamilton's familly

Unless you fast without end, you must eventually break your fast. It used to be very common to work for a few hours before eating a meal, especially among rural folk who arose in the dark hours to tend their farm animals. They still called it breakfast.

So, if you go to work and put in a few hours before eating, is this much different?

especially among rural folk who arose in the dark hours to tend their farm animals. They still called it breakfast.

pig jizz probably does fall into the savoury category of breakfast.

*hurl*

go to work and put in a few hours...of ILX

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I always eat breakfast. Sometimes I eat it once I get to work, though.

ILX. Farm animals. My point is made.

I eat breakfast about 75% of the time.

i very often just forget to have breakfast. by the time I remember to eat its already midday which means it becomes lunch instead.

i work shifts and often have brekky at 5pm or something but i stil always have it. i coudn't drink tea or coffee without lining my stomach with food first. i even feel sick if i eat an apple on an empty stomach.

I ALWAYS eat breakfast - generally just a bowl of cereal or a slice of toast and glass of smoothie. I might occasionally miss it on a weekend if my routine's out. I view it as very important.

I just have a glass of orange juice in the morning. I'm usually not hungry before lunch time.

I was picking at junk all day at work until I started eating a breakfast of cereal and toast. Feel a lot better for it.

How is there no time to put jam on a piece of bread?

-- Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, February 4, 2008 11:05 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

Yeah, I've never gotten this argument either. I wake up pretty much every day and have a bowl of cereal with a glass of orange juice. Takes about five minutes, then I take a shower and get dressed. It's not like I'm frying up bacon.

The only time in my life where I didn't routinely eat breakfast was when I was in college and I'd stay up really late and sleep in until like 11 AM, and then by the time I got to the cafeteria it was lunch time.

I eat b'fast against my will b/c I have no energy if I don't. This has been the case since i turned 29.

hardly ever go without it, exceptions being on weekends after a bender.

even if you're eschewing chocolate frosted sugar bombs, cereal and milk don't fall on the savory side of the divide

Fiber One Honey Clusters plus skim milk vs. husband's cinnamon rolls, French Toast, or doughnuts

I'm not sure I'd call Fiber One Honey Clusters "savory," but they are not-sweet enough that they don't make my stomach hurt.

Full disclosure: long, ago, when I was in high school, I routinely started my days with VERY sweet stuff - usually a bowl of Lucky Charms in milk, followed by a Mountain Dew. I couldn't do that anymore at any time of day. ;_;

milk may be full of milk sugars but it tastes savory. I've never heard anyone call it sweet. U crazy.

i AM a big morning person remy. i work really well in the morning too.

milk IS sweet!!

i can see the savory too tho, i mean it's used in so many dishes

altho see i'm weird for breakfast, i do pizza and burgers sometimes. i like eating heavier in the morning so i can burn it off. is that weird?

also i'm hungriest in the morning. like starving. like my kitty

i eat breakfast b/c i know i will crash and burn w/o it and the caffeine will become soul/stomach-destroying force

but while egg on toast or egg + fruit is ideal breakfast for my personal nutritional needs, sometimes i can't deal with the egg cooking or the egg cooking smell.

and so i know that there is egg protein isolate powder out there but it is full of other things and super processed. all i'm saying is that i want some fruity egg puff cereal okay

I have a crack in my 33-year-old Planet of the Apes cereal bowl. :(

hahahahaha

i love eggs, but u know i can't eat them toooo much cuz cholesterol

huevos rancheros are the best of the best breakfast, but i only eat them when i am out.

breakfast is probably the best meal to get with friends.

these are my declarative statements about breakfast.

that is sad about the cereal bowl
a couple weeks before christmas i broke my 22-yr-old (whoa geez i didn't even realize it was that old until i typed it there) mickey mouse mug that a friend gave to me when i was 11. i mean i don't even like mickey mouse but it was a solid mug and sentimental value was v high and it broke only a few days after my cat died so :( again. at this time i'm using other mugs, i mean, obv, but b/c i don't actually have anything its equal yet the whole thing has taken on symbolic meaning, even though at the time all i did was sigh v heavily and swear and pick up the pieces

the best breakfast is fish, either some sushi or fish soup or a ton of lox. i would eat this every day if possible.

but i usually eat a muffin or oatmeal

Get up in the PM, compose a beat.

while i wld probably eat sushi of some sort for breakfast simply b/c it is sushi, i don't know how i feel abt fish for breakfast in general. i bet if i lived back on the west coast or in japan i wld feel great abt it tho.

i remember when i used to like going out for breakfast

Even in the morning like the flavor of juice,
A blunt adds spice and a blunt can spruce
Up your day

:-)

If I eat breakfast, I am super fucking Hobbit hungry the rest of the day, wanting to eat every two hours the rest of the day a great big meal. Does anyone else have this?

Has anyone ever tried to eat the "balanced breakfast" that the cereal in commercials is part of? Oh holy shit I felt like fucking Henry VII.

Unlike Henry VIII, he was well known for his love of easily prepared fruits and grains in revolting portions as a morning tradition.

"balanced breakfast"

that's liek ceral,toast,fruit and juice?

TOO MUCH!

if i eat cereal i am hobbit hungry (haha) but if i eat 1 egg and some fruit i am okay for like 4 hrs
no word yet on the egg puff cereal

i think my favourite breakfast was the polish style breakfast - fresh rye, butter, some kind of lunch meat, some kind of cheese + tea

fresh rye does not need any kind of toasting and made me think that maybe toasting was invented b/c of stale bread issues

it depends what kind of cereal...whole grain cereal, like the ezekiel 4:9 stuff, or granola with lots of nuts, give me more sustained energy than something processed. not to be all hippie. but i think it's basically about protein w/out being too greasy. if i have fish i feel AWESOME for hours and hours but bacon and eggs just makes me sleepy.

I never ate breakfast growing up, it was hard enough to wake up in time to get to school.

Now I try to eat a pair of whole-grain waffles (dry) with a glass of orange juice, but if I miss it I don't notice any difference in my day.

my mom kind of forced breakfast on me throughout highschool i guess b/c i wld wake up late and was tired/lazy - orange juice, earl grey, toast & cheese - i think i then ate made this breakfast automatically every day until i was 23. it's a good breakfast though. i might go back to it unless i get my very own sushi chef.

I've taken to often having japanese-style morning food like soba noodles with boiled eggs, or a miso soup. I love savoury food and I cant stand cereal/milk at all. I cant think of the last time I ate cereal. Milk. Bleeeugh.

Otherwise I'll just have toast, or a toasted sandwich with tomato and cheese or something, if I've time. Sometimes, just coffee and nowt else, but I end up being hungry and eating at 10am if I do that.

The first good thought I have in the morning goes something like "Oh, I'm awake, but at least I get to eat breakfast now, that something at least."

otm

This thread made me go make an egg, lettuce and tomato toastie for breakfast haha.

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"Don't call it that."

If I make some bacon vodka I'll start having that for breakfast.

who's that guy he's cute

i am trying to get back into the habit of eating breakfast again in the last week or so. although i skipped it this morning, tsk.

I think it's Jason Bateman.

Breakfast, like most meals, is a moveable feast that depends upon cuisine, culture, and class. Food historians agree on these three points when it comes to breakfast:

1. Most people, in most times (including today) were lucky to partake of this meal.
2. For most people, in most times (including today) this meal was very simple.
3. Breakfasts composed of multiple dishes are the priviledge of the leisured wealthy.

This is secretly a class war thread.

Breakfast is u+k. The idea that 'I don't need breakfast' etc is some bullshit.

Yeah, and it goes a long way towards explaining why people are such high-strung stress cases nowadays-- hardly anyone eats enough (or gets enough sleep). I mean, those are just basic, basic fundamental needs of the human body, and most of us are deprived.

Plus everybody's all hopped up on too much caffeine.

Yeah, that whole 'I only need three hours of sleep' thing doesn't wash with me either.

I used to think chocolate was enough for lunch.

that's all kind of totally otm i think - esp b/c even though we (generalizing) have a lot of information about nutrition and plenty of food choices, people often defer to that information, right or wrong, science or marketing, rather than listening to their own bodies and actually being able to decipher what those body signals mean.

in many cases we just don't know quite how to react anyway and all the signals seem mixed up, but as someone who grew up with a diabetic brother and who has blood-sugar issues myself (fainting, craziness - rare now) and whose mother is super vigilant re: eating (e.g., doesn't matter how poor we are going to eat nutritious food and enough of it at the sacrifice of all else save shelter), i've observed over the years that a lot of people treat eating as an event or entertainment or maybe more accurately 'a mood' rather than a regular thing you need to do at certain times throughout the day to maintain stability and physical and mental health.

btw i have cut back on the coffee lately and feel waaay better even though i thought i felt fine enough - gotta listen to self, really

but certainly eating can be part of an event/entertainment/mood but not primarily that - primarily it should be food, however socioculturally inscribed (b/c obv you can't take away that kind of broader meaning from food, you can only make the meaning something healthy/nurturing)

Yeah, I think I agree with all of that. A big part of the issue here, I guess, as you mentioned, is in being able to decipher all of the signals that are coming in regards to hunger. If stress chemicals and whatever other crazy distractions are bombarding us, then it becomes that much harder to ascertain what our bodies truly need at a given moment. Figure in eating or not eating for emotional reasons, and you've got the makings of a low-grade eating disorder on a wide scale. Maybe I am just projecting wildly here, but I think that this is actually the case, similar to how so many people in contemporary western society seem to be plodding along in a low-grade depression sort of funk.

Take me on! Be rough to me!

otm about hunger signals. Many of them (including tiredness, funnily enough) are just signs that you're dehydrated and need water. Most people in English-speaking western society read these as hunger and try to stop them by eating.

We have food shoved down our necks (figuratively) in advertising as well. If you've had to fast for religion or a charity event or surgery, you'll have noticed that most advertising is food products.

see also: night eating

i'm eating my breakfast now

Glaaahhhhh AA yeah I have been totally dehydrated and eating instead. But once you're out of the habit of drinking water it gets kind of challenging in a peculiar & subtle way to drink water often. Like I realized a few days ago and drinking more water, and now it is off to the ladies' room every half hour! Can someone who drinks healthy amounts of water (I was on avg maybe 6 oz a day!) tell me if this notable side effect wanes?

Like my classic breakfast for months has been 2/3 a can of vanilla coke. I had 4 prunes and some water and 2/3 a vanilla coke today.

um

Can someone who drinks healthy amounts of water (I was on avg maybe 6 oz a day!) tell me if this notable side effect wanes?

-- Abbott, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 16:23 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Wanes, yes. Goes away completely, no.

I've been drinking 2-4 litres of water per day for years and I still have to go loads.

Abbott, I am pretty sure you are dehydrated because your breakfast is comprised of a dieuretic and a stool-loosener

Abbott, what the hell? Are you sick or fasting or something?

Eat, child, eat!

(xp to remy) That's a really really good point.

Breakfast is bloody important. You really do need to eat well at breakfast, because it sets up your body for the whole day. People say that all the time, but it's not as glib as it sounds.

I haven't been getting any fiber, either, and goddamn if I can eat much more than that in a morning. The coke is to wash my pills down; they taste like modern death.

Though yr point is right-on and hilarious.

the whole water craze has been good at selling a whole lot of bottled water. i mean eesh i'm from the land of nalgene water bottles hanging off backpacks and even i think the great need to drink water at 10 min intervals is whoa. drinking water instead of soda is obv better for you but also obv there's water in soda too! and in fruit and vegetables and milk and etc. what seems to be practical is if you feel hungry or yknow thirsty, drink something of a liquid form that is not caffeinated or made of dehydration materials and if you are still hungry eat something

Don't worry about me, dell, I also ate a bean burrito and 2 big bowls of rice & curry and a banana and a microwave dinner. Later in the day.

rrrobyn you are so amazingly and reassuringly sane. OTOH the ads for 'hydration.cocacola.com' on their 12-packs are fucking funny.

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i don't drink a lot of pop but vanilla coke wld be my choice when pop is needed

xpost
oh i'm glad you ate good food! was worried for a minute
haha i am pretty sure the parts of me that are sane are being balanced by the not-sane parts - i mean haha srsly this is the real reason i do yoga and etc

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Yeah, I thought that was all you had eaten all day!

if bottled water were gasoline, it would cost $7 / gallon

Haha dell I meant that was what I had for breakfast.

Bottled water is a real bugbear of mine as it is so bad for the environment but it is a soapbox I have to not climb on in public bcz it is so tasteless to be a snot.

See, you drink so much Coke and eat so much prune that your snot has no taste.

Prune juice is the Klingon drink of warriors!

p'tahk

i skip breakfast on weekdays because i prefer those extra 10 minutes of sleep, also I don't like to eat when I'm up at 7am. weekends i do a nice big brunch around 11 or so with eggs, bacon , toast and all that good stuff.

if i'm hungover at work (this has been known to happen) i'll grab a bacon n egg sandwich on a bagel to steady me, but i can't do that shit every day.

I've got pancakes today, bitches.

I love breakfast. Yum!

i just had last night's curry, complete with pillau rice and naan bread, for breakfast.

hi dere rondal mcdoandl

aujourd'hui je mange une banane.

instant oatmeal today at my desk. and a cookie right when i woke up which makes it easier to face the day somehow.

i also toasted myself a nutri-grain bar. (once i got into the office)

^^^ this is an ace idea

proving that nutri-grain bars are basically pop-tarts repackaged for adults

they smell sorta like the things out of the toaster!

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vs
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while i at times loath being in marketing, things like this are so brilliant they make me want to go over to the dark side

ah, ingredients!

"corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup"

wtf?

uh

i'd like a medium fructose

i think you've got the medium fructose thing down

High fructose corn syrup is the worst.

Things taste better with multiple types of corn syrup!

Srsly does anyone actually use corn syrup when they cook? I do, but just once or so a year when making Xmas candies like divinity.

weird - i'm checking the nutri-grain label here in front of me and there's WAY less vitamins and calcium/iron etc than the one posted up there.
huh.

i bet b/c it's canadian

wtf? i think you might be right! damned can-con!

dif federal standards re: food & drugs! we are a different country!

but in fact SUNRYPE is a cdn company (kelowna!) that has good 100% fruit snacks - and tho obv fruit itself is preferable to processed, sometimes it's just easier or more practical to have snack-type food like this
http://www.sunrype.com/nutrition.php

hey! i just remembered today is pancake tuesday!

i'm eating breakfst RIGHT NOW

no i'm not

what are you wearing?

ricotta and blueberry pancake loincloth
two eggs over easy bra