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I don't eat. I run on thoughts, prayers, and the power of friendship.
Poor guy starved to death. 😔
I love a nice breakfast burrito.
Ooh. What goes in the burrito?
Egg, potato, cheese, chorizo, hatch green chile, wrapped in a large tortilla. If you're not a green chile guy, grab some red chile powder and make some red chile sauce and pour that on everything right before rolling.
Usually potato, egg, cheese, and a protein (e.g. chicken, sausage, beef, beans, etc.)
The scraps of my children's uneaten breakfasts, so:
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half an egg sandwich
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the dregs of a bowl of oatmeal with maple syrup, mixed with whatever unsyruped oatmeal I can scrape out of the pot
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about four apple slices and half a bagel
on days my spouse cooks breakfast. When I cook, everyone eats pancakes.
Usually nothing. When I do have breakfast it's either pancakes and eggs or milk and cereal. Every now and then I get a wild hair and have oatmeal.
Technically nothing, but I do have coffee at the office.
Except on Thursday. That's doughnut day.
“Benefits package”
Ctrl-F'd for doughnuts.
It sounds bizzare from where I am, but I do have to admit it's not that different from a pastry.
Honestly, my favorite "doughnuts" aren't doughnuts at all. We get a variety, and I go for the cinnamon rolls, fritters or eclairs before I'd grab an actual doughnut.
Also, most Americans can't spell doughnut, so you're better off ctrl-fing for donut.
Nine cans of ravioli.
I don't generally eat breakfast. I honestly don't know how people do it, when I wake up the last thing I want to do is eat.
We tend to eat breakfast using mouth
You don't buttchug food?! Absolutely barbaric.
Coffee and cigarettes
I find the lack of cheese in the comments very concerning.
What’s your favorite cheese for breakfast and why is it comté??
Comté (FTFY) - Now you can impress all of your friends with your knowledge of good cheese AND spelling!
Cheese for breakfast is crazy, unless you're talking cream cheese on a bagel or melted cheese on a breakfast sandwich.
bagel and cream cheese, with coffee.
I rarely eat breakfast, but if I feel like getting a treat on my morning break at work there's nothing better than a toasted everything bagel with sliced onion, tomato, and cream cheese.... Well, lox could make it better, but I'm not getting a $15 bagel lol
It's sooooo damn goooood...
When job hunting, I will genuinely check to see which office has the best bagel shop in walking distance.
Mmm. I’ve been eating better, but I miss my toasted salt & pepper bagels with butter and cream cheese🤤
Greek yogurt, walnuts, craisins, pumpkin seeds, hemp hearts, chia seeds, maybe cinnamon, maybe a dash of honey, possibly some frozen fruit if I feel like waiting for it to thaw a bit. Coffee with a dash of oatmilk.
I am genuinely floored by how many people here are claiming to actually eat breakfast. Tf is all the chia pudding bananas toast eggs shit??? For me, and everyone I know, breakfast is a special occasion for days off. My wife and I make breakfast maybe 10 times a year. I've always heard Lemmy's average age is on the higher end, and this thread has confirmed it for me.
Well I mean you put oats in a jar overnight and take them to work or school in the morning. Easier still is keeping instant oats at work if you can. Breakfast is important man idk about skipping it everyday.
If you're doing office work, breakfast really isn't that important
Uh... you're shocked that people eat breakfast? That's so insane to me
Maybe those who don't eat breakfast or eat nothing fancy don't feel motivated to comment so there could be some bias in the comments.
There are some of us who wake up early to work out and have breakfast with our significant others before work. You don't have to be old to appreciate spending time together, or make room for it in your life.
My wife leaves for work at 7:30a, I've been up since 5:30a spending the morning with her. Sometimes those two hours are the highest quality time we'll spend together all day, fewer distractions.
Nothing. Last thing on my mind in the morning is food.
Appetite usually kicks in the late afternoon/early evening, when I have my first and usually only meal.
The amount of Americans in the comments who don't eat breakfast is shocking
As an American who doesn't eat breakfast, I'm curious why that is shocking to you?
I see breakfast as part of the time when you're getting ready for the day. I am not sure what else to respond to why it's shocking to me, it just is. I am also more likely to skip lunch than breakfast.
Food can be expensive, and sometimes you gotta prioritize your money for something else. (Or just eat a bigger lunch)
Two questions though. One, if it is time, why eat a big lunch rather than a big breakfast? Two, if it is money, why not split lunch into breakfast and lunch?
To answer question 1: Night shifts are quite common in the US (due to the desire of customers to want to visit at any hour), so it's often an easier choice to be productive at night and sleep through the morning. Even if you are a day shift worker, most of your free time will be at night, so you may focus on waking up later and avoiding breakfast to avoid being late (Had to do that plenty of times). Also, if you eat late, you likely will not be hungry in the morning.
To answer question 2: In many restaurants and quick service places (fast food/convenience stores) in the US, bundles are often in favor of buying a large quantity of food once rather than purchasing two separate meals (ubiquity of combos), and you can always save leftovers in a lunchbox for later in the day if needed. This changes when you are at home and have the luxury of time to cook, but during longer commutes (car-centric due to the lack of density in the US), it makes more rational sense to stay on the road and just pick a bundle up at a drive-thru to save time and money (can make two $10 purchases into one $12-15).
This is me as well. Though occasionally I like 2 hard boiled eggs with hot sauce.
But for every day? Black coffee and that sweet, sweet hydrating H2O.
I might be weird, but I often just have leftovers. Or sometimes I'll throw a frozen pizza in the oven, maybe have some salad, whatever.
Used to be Coffee and cigarettes, but now it's just Coffee and shit posting.
Rather than tell you what I personally eat, maybe it will be useful to know what American diners serve for breakfast. You can walk into any locally-owned diner anywhere in the country and order from a menu almost exactly like this:
- Breakfast Combo: Two eggs (scrambled, fried, or over easy/medium/hard), meat (bacon, sausage links, steak, or ham), and a carb (pancakes, toast, a biscuit, or hash browns)
- Biscuits and Gravy: Two biscuits with sausage gravy over the top. Sometimes served with an egg.
- Pancakes: A short stack is 2 and a tall stack is 4. Served with maple syrup.
- Skillet/Omelet: Eggs scrambled with onions, bell peppers, cheese, and meat. An alternate version, sometimes called “loaded hash browns,” uses hash browns instead of eggs.
- Breakfast Burrito: An omelet wrapped up in a tortilla. May be smothered with red or green chili sauce for a Tex-Mex spin.
- Oatmeal: Boiled oats with fruit, granola, syrup, etc.
- Eggs Benedict: Poached egg on an English muffin with ham and hollandaise sauce.
And then each diner will have their own “famous” specialty, like stuffed French toast, “home fries” (pan-fried potato chunks), huge pancakes, or sausage made in house. It’s hard to go wrong though, American breakfasts are consistently pretty tasty.
American Diner breakfasts are not anything like people's daily meals.
If you wanna try something different but really good, a lot of breakfast places near me have a variant of Eggs Benedict usually called something like Irish Eggs Benedict, which replaces the ham with corn beef hash. Add a side of home fries, and you've got something that'll really stick to your ribs and keep you full and happy for half the day.
I like toast, eggs, and coffee for a work day and whatever Im feeling for a free day (which tends to be toast, eggs, sausage, and coffee lol I usually do wheat toast and i get ground sausage tubes because they're easy to freeze and such)
Nothing. If I eat breakfast I'm hungry by 10 and that sucks.
If I don't have a choice about eating breakfast, but I do get to select what to eat, eggs and hashbrowns.
But I also eat those for lunch and dinner because they are yummy.
Not sure if people just don't eat cereal anymore, or they just don't care to admit it. Love me some corn chex in particular. I'll do toast and scrambled eggs and bacon if I'm feeling like taking the time though, sure.
I don't eat cereal - too many calories and too much sugar, plus I'll just be hungry again in 45 minutes. I need protein and fat in my breakfast.
I quit buying it, and am raising my son without it. For these reasons. It's not a good breakfast, nearly wholly empty on calories.
If I cook him breakfast, it's usually eggs and turkey sausages. That's the "go to". Most days it's leftover dinner though. He loves that shit at 8am
I don't have breakfast (coffee usually). But like today, I broke my fast with some crackers and hummus.
I think it's because make have realized cereal isn't really healthy.
Cigarette and THC vape normally. I don't feel hungry for the first several hours I'm awake
Most commonly one the following; granola with nuts and dried fruit topped with yogurt, peanut butter and banana sandwich, eggs and toast.
Three options each with a couple of options, depending on factors:
If short on time or lazy:
- Cold cereal with milk
- Granola + yogurt
If motivated:
- Scrambled eggs with cheese, salsa, breakfast potatoes / toast, hot sauce or spicy chicken mixed in
- Pancakes with butter + jam
If depression:
- Nothing and then early lunch
My kids and I typically have a bowl of cold milk and cereal, and (separately) a chicken egg cooked in one of several ways.
On the weekends I cook eggs in a different style for each member of the family, bacon or sausage, pancakes or waffles or crepes with jam/maple syrup.
A big heaping bowl of FASCISM!
No, actually, usually just a bowl of cereal. Sometimes eggs and/or bacon as well on weekends when there's more time.
Well I’m Asian and don’t really do the typical American breakfast. I just eat whatever, leftovers maybe. I’ll have coffee over tea though, so that’s pretty American of me lol
Whole wheat toast topped with peanut butter, sorghum syrup, and bananas. The toast has fiber and the peanut butter has protein. The bananas and the tiniest drop of sorghum add enough sweetness to round out the flabor but contain less added sugar than most cereal.

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