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Oreen Scott · Joined: 11 Jan 2008 Posts: 179 Location: Oaxaca, Mexico

Some of you may have misunderstood my question regarding coffee. I do not have a particular liking for coffee. Just need two cups to get me going for the day.

Each morning I have two cups of coffee and tend the internet news, emails, banking etc. in my pajamas, Don't want to go to a cafe for caf� americano first thing in the morning.

So, ideally, necesito caf� y internet conectarme en mi habitaci�n. (Feeble attempt at Spanish).

The other thing I have before meeting the world is oatmeal for breakfast.
This is not a necessity.

So, I'm wondering what do you expats from Canada and the U.S. have for breakfast. Same as when you were at home? Different? What is the typical Mexican fare for that first meal of the day?

I think if I eat as the latinos do I'll save money, besides as far as I'm concerned cuisine is part of a culture. Why would I go to Mexico to live if I wanted to live like I did at home?

hlamb · Joined: 09 Dec 2003 Posts: 431 Location: Canada

Breakfasts in restaurants are often eggs, tortillas, salsa and beans. You can also add chorizo or bacon or ham. Hotcakes or fruit plates are usually available too. I happen to love the egg breakfasts when I'm out but try to limit that because they are often high fat.

At home, I eat oatmeal almost every day. It's easy to find in the larger supermarkets, and very cheap. You can also find most major cereal brands from home, hot cake mixes, yoghurt, etc.

Hope this helps!

MO39 · Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 3:19 am Post subject:

When I'm feeling lazy in the morning (which is most days), I have my favorite easy breakfast - Cheerios with bananas. I love "huevos a la mexicana" (eggs scrambled with diced onions, chiles and tomatoes) but only indulge in it occasionally because of my high cholesterol. I also love "molletes" as they make them at Sanborn's - refried beans spread on bolillos (nice oval-shaped Mexican rolls), covered with cheese and put under the broiler until the cheese melts. Yum!

CharlieBaloney · Joined: 17 Nov 2007 Posts: 52 Location: Ciudad de Mexico

When I have time for breakfast at home, I vary between oatmeal (without milk) and fruit, and scrambled eggs with cheese and longaniza and frijoles refritos. Prunes, walnuts, and a bagel or English Muffin accompany either one. Yes, I'm a big morning eater.

On the coffee, Starbucks (I can't help it) is my favorite outside and Blason or Los Portales in my coffee machine my favorite outside. I really don't like anything but fresh brewed cafe americano (Columbian, regular roast).

Charlie M.

MO39 · Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 3:39 pm Post subject:

chola · Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 4:10 pm Post subject: breakfast....BAGELS!

Here's a recipe for Bagels. Eat them in good health.

http://www.jewish-food.org/recipes/brea0007.htm

Guy Courchesne · Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City

Fresh fruit is always available in Mexico year round and is a big breakfast item. Street stalls selling freshly squeezed fruit juices of all kinds are a common sight in Mexico City. You can get a 1 litre strawberry milkshake for 10 to 15 pesos.

I'm one to skip breaky in the mornings, but weekend breakfast at home usually includes eggs, hash browns, toast, and bacon. Sometimes I'll make something of a breakfast burrito (for lack of a better name), using tortilla, scrambled eggs, beans, salsa, etc.

notamiss · Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 1:02 am Post subject:

No need to worry. If I were breakfasting your menu, I would get a vacuum bag of ground coffee at the supermarket. You can either buy a small coffee maker or a box of paper filters and a filter holder. Plain oatmeal is also for sale at the supermarkets, as well as the instant flavoured oatmeal packets.

My breakfast is a cup of cappuccino (we have a machine at home) accompanying a bowl of combined Bran Flakes, Kellogg's Nutrid�a cereal and Post Great Grains (raisin-date-pecan) with homemade yogurt.

A typical light breakfast is a piece of bread from the panader�a with a cup of caf� con leche. A more substantial breakfast could be eggs, or beans or a tortilla dish like chilaquiles.

danielita · Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 281 Location: SLP

I always ate a more traditional North American breakfast, either yogurt with fruit and granola, cereal or toast with PB & honey. Of course when I went out for breakfast at the restaurant, you couldn't tear me away from Chilaquiles verdes (con pollo) or huevos a la mexicana.

MELEE · Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 12:00 am Post subject: Re: Breakfast - Silly Question

Phil_K · Joined: 25 Jan 2007 Posts: 2041 Location: A World of my Own

My wife converted me to a heathly breakfast! ... papaya, yoghurt, cereal bar and milk.

When she's not there, toast and Marmite or bacon buttie or better still, a Full English! Shame I can't get black pudding... moronga is not the same.

...and MO, the Mollettes are delicious with bacon (I use turkey bacon, as Mexican pork bacon is all fat) and homemade Salsa Mexicana.

GueroPaz · Joined: 07 Sep 2007 Posts: 216 Location: Thailand or Mexico

Speaking of breakfasts in Mexico, and about turkey meat, I was asked to consider Merida, Yucatan. So, when I visited a website about Merida, turkey seemed to be used in most of the foods. That sounded healthy.

ls650 · Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 3484 Location: British Columbia

Weekdays I'd just eat a bowl of some semi-healthy cereal such as granola or Raisin Bran.

On weekends, though, I'd spoil myself and walk down to one of the zocalo cafes to treat myself to a cafe con leche and an omelette or some other big breakfast. I really liked the local version of machaca...