I would sooner miss any other meal than breakfast.

It has to be the best meal of any day. Fiber, some protein, calories, fluid. Followed by siting down for 15 mins.

Does anyone else love breakfast?

Does anyone still think they can miss it?

I miss it all the time, often lunch too.  I probably have bf twice a week and I always make an omelette.

I love breakfast too....my weakness is waffles or pancakes with loads of syrup and strawberries.  I only have time to cook and sit down tho on nonworking days:( Through the week, I normally jusgrab a yogurt or granola bar on the run....I only totally skip breakfast altogether maybe once a week.  Most important meal of the day:)

I can go without any meal, but breakfast. It gets my motor up and running. Typically at 5AM I like a couple of cups of coffee along with an apple and a banana. I'll do my emails and Susan's during that time and then have a dish of fat free cottage cheeze with lots of pepper. I can go all day on that alone. Usually by 5PM I'm ready for a small dinner, about five ounces of meat, fish or chicken and a salad or green beans. Since I'm no longer working and older, I don't require all the calories I did when I was younger, unless I want to increase the size of my love handles. 

I love breakfast every day. During the normal work week, I usually have a breakfast sandwich (bacon. Egg and cheese) and a big glass of orange juice. Sometimes on the way to work I will follow it up with a protein shake. I love going out for breakfast on Sunday mornings after I take my Sunday morning Zumba class

As a diabetic I have to be more careful with breakfast than any other meal.  My system seems to go crazy if I have more than a few carbs for breakfast.  Two eggs, one slice of bread and 4 oz of orange juice or low sodium v8.  Any more than that and my blood sugar reading is off the chart no matter how much insulin I take.

Quote from: Shantel on January 29, 2013, 10:09:18 AM
I can go without any meal, but breakfast. It gets my motor up and running. Typically at 5AM I like a couple of cups of coffee along with an apple and a banana. I'll do my emails and Susan's during that time and then have a dish of fat free cottage cheeze with lots of pepper. I can go all day on that alone. Usually by 5PM I'm ready for a small dinner, about five ounces of meat, fish or chicken and a salad or green beans. Since I'm no longer working and older, I don't require all the calories I did when I was younger, unless I want to increase the size of my love handles. 

And you have the *awesome* body to show for it... ...I read somewhere here that us older women have to eat like we're...well, older women. It is way too easy to pack on the pounds, and not so easy to take them off!

Since I don't start work till February, I've been cooking much more than I use to. Breakfast especially. This morning was simple: an omelet and toast, but I love making those biscuits for breakfast, adding in some cheese, peppers, a slice of meat, and egg. Yum!

Quote from: Beth Andrea on January 29, 2013, 10:29:00 AM
And you have the *awesome* body to show for it... ...I read somewhere here that us older women have to eat like we're...well, older women. It is way too easy to pack on the pounds, and not so easy to take them off!

Hi Beth!
      Gee honey, you're going to make this old thing awfully self conscious! I have these talks with other grown adults that seem to struggle with belly fat. When we were young running through the jungles in 110 degree heat and all that gear on, we could eat like hogs and drink like fish and still be skinny. When we were kids playing sandlot football, back yard B-Ball, baseball and all that activity we could fill up our plates using two pieces of toast for sideboards and go back for seconds and never put on excessive weight. Now that those days are over and we spend the better part of the day on our butts we no longer need or use all that energy, but the pattern is long since established in our brains and habits are hell to break. Start out by retraining your brain to the visual aspect of size and amounts by eating only one portion and use only a salad sized plate from now on. Drink lots of water and start reading labels at the grocery store. You want to limit or do away with sodium and sugars. Diet soda is loaded with sodium (salt) it will blow you up and bloat you out. Sugars come hidden as fructose, high fructose means a concentrated amount of corn sugar is in the product. A good rule is if it didn't grow out of the ground and if it didn't live on a farm or swim, it isn't fit to eat. Get daily exercise, even if it is just a brisk walk for 30 or 40 minutes, anyone reading this that follows this advice will get on top of their weight problems. It's always a very satisfying feeling to be able to drop a size or two and give the clothes to Goodwill or Vinny's and go shopping for some new duds. 

Back when I was working I also would purposefully get up early so I had at least an hour to wash, dress and have a decent breakfast, sitting down to eat it.

I was happy to rush through or even miss other meals, but for me, starting the say, clean and calm, just seemed to make it easier to get through. And lest face it, when the first problem is driving to where you need to go, being calm is a help.

Now I'm not working, it's a lot easier of course.

I don't have a cooked breakfast myself. A decent high wheet cerial with milk and some tea or similar.

Waffles seem to have become more common here is the last few years. Not so long ago, the word was used as a degrotory term for talking without purpose.

I think I tried some once, came from a packet and needed to be toasted. Given the enthusiasm that many Americans seem to have for them, I can only assume the packet versions are a poor substitute.

I once knew a guy in Scotland who always made himself a cooked breakfast. Usually, Beans, black pudding, saussage, fried egg, tomato, mushrooms with chips. Loads of tomato ketchup.

But as I said, prefer a decent wheet cerial myself.

QuoteI think I tried some once, came from a packet and needed to be toasted. Given the enthusiasm that many Americans seem to have for them, I can only assume the packet versions are a poor substitute.

They are indeed a poor substitute...real waffles don't come in plastic, they're made sorta like pancake (batter), but put in a waffle maker (looks like a round egg carton, with smallish pockets for the "eggs"). Typically about 1 1/2" thick and 8" around (3-4cm x 20cm), fluffy, very delicious with butter, syrup and/or jam (I like blackberry jam, m'self)

http://www.thecurvycarrot.com/2010/07/20/buttermilk-waffles/



(These are rectangular, but I've only had round...no difference in taste etc. Volume of one round waffle is about the same as 3 rectangular ones (the round ones are often pre-"cut" into fourths for portion control...if you do that sort of thing  )

I also have been known to put an egg or two on top, a couple torn up pieces of bacon...and drizzle the whole thing with maple syrup.

I'll have to remember to put all that on a salad-sized plate. (Shantel--does a smaller plate really reduce calories? Or do I have to actually reduce the serving size as well? OMG I hope not...j/k!!! LOL)

Big breakfast I only have once a week, on one of my days off...typically bacon, eggs, toast and jam. I have discovered I luv Huevos Rancheros, though.

During the week, I'll have a tall glass of OJ, and either a bowl of cereal (Cheerios, corn flakes, rice puffs, etc) or instant oatmeal. And a 5 hour energy.

Quote from: Beth Andrea on January 29, 2013, 12:08:22 PM

I'll have to remember to put all that on a salad-sized plate. (Shantel--does a smaller plate really reduce calories? Or do I have to actually reduce the serving size as well? OMG I hope not...j/k!!! LOL)

Goofy Girl!  First we have to train your eyeballs if we are going to train your tummy. 

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Eggs Benedict

Quote from: Alexis on September 12, 2012, 01:51:39 AM
So at the request of Jamie D...how to make the plate above, Eggs Benedict.
It's about two things, poached eggs and hollandaise. Hollandaise is a notoriously tricky sauce since it's very easy to overcook the eggs, or add the butter too fast which causes the emulsion to break and the sauce to separate. It's also not very diet friendly...

Hollandaise
Ingredients:
2 Sticks (1/2#)     Unsalted Butter
2 ea                      Egg Yolks
2 T                        Cider Vinegar
TT                         Salt
TT                         Fresh Ground White Pepper
TT                         Lemon Juice (usually <1 tsp)
TT                         Hot Sauce (usually <1 tsp)

• Melt the butter in a sauce pan
• In a metal mixing bowl, add the two yolks, the vinegar, a pinch of salt, and a pinch of pepper
• Put a second saucepan on the flame over high heat, with some water in it. This is going to serve as a steam bath to cook the eggs
• Whisk the yolks until they start to turn a paleish yellow
• Continue to whisk them, but start putting them over the steam heat, going a few seconds on, a few seconds off. The purpose here is to heat the yolks, but without scrambling them. Hence it's important to take them off of the heat so they don't cook fully.
• Once the eggs are a canary yellow, remove the bowl from the heat, and begin to whisk in the butter. Start very slowly, constantly beating it. Continue adding until you've used all the butter
• Adjust the seasoning with salt, pepper, lemon juice, and hot sauce

Keep warm (not hot, because it will cook the eggs) for no more than 2 hours, then throw it out. This sauce is notorious for culturing salmonella

For the various sandwiches it's an English Muffin, Poached Eggs, and for
Benedict - Canadian Bacon - Seared
Florentine - Sautéed Spinach
Neptune - Crabmeat

Perfect for a Sunday brunch!