"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

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

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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!

http://www2.kelloggs.com/ServeImage.aspx?BID=23781&MD5=6fb4e18ddc197444b6af10f8f49831f9
vs
http://www.kelloggs.com/cgi-bin/ca_database/fileBlob.pl?md5=5172fee29e1409fcab8f1f75bc9b309b

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