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[Horangi Munshin]

I almost always have a mix of cereal and milk.

First a nice slice of barley bread cut up in the bottom of the bowl. Then regular cornflakes, sometimes all bran on top, then almond cornflakes. Topped with walnuts and strawberries (at the moment) usually a sliced banana.

Then usually one cheese toast. Nice multigrain from the decent local bakery. Rosenheim sliced cheese on top, thrown in the toaster oven. The Rosenheim cheese slices aren't bad actually, don't taste or feel like the the orange colored plasticky crap.

[eamo]

I've had exactly the same breakfast everyday for the last 20 years. Coffee and a cigarette.

I never eat until lunchtime. I just don't feel hungry in the mornings.

[VanIslander]

[ttasawah]

For me Milk, toast with cheese or strewberry jam, Juice and my daily vitamin for my breakfast
Husband, usually coffee for him and his good to go till lunch. Once he had coffee he won't feel hungry.

[merlot]

en mi officina aqui in Costa Rica, mi amigo brings about 20 of us bowls of fresh fruit from his mother's fruit business todos dias-- fresh cut mango, grapes, cantelope, various mellons, grapes, berries, e mas...for 500 colonies per dia (about a buck)

es muy bueno

[nobbyken]

I just love oatmeal porridge (bought 7kg of the internet) in the mornings.
Add a coffee and biscuit (cookie), and it's great.

Sometimes we have cereal, toast or fruit depending on time available.


[At first, making porridge with water here left a bitter, metallic taste in the mouth. These days, we filter and boil the water we use for cooking and drinking, the porridge tastes lovely with some honey and milk added for taste.]

[pharflung]

I make my own hot cereal using brown rice and barley, plus a bit of sesame seeds. Put a cup or two in a blender and chop it to bits. Cook with a dash of salt and a few raisins. Add a dash of cinammon, some butter, perhaps some milk and brown sugar. And, voila, hot cereal that has some fiber. A bit of canned peaches and syrup is good on top, too.

Say, anyone find any artificial sweetener anywhere. I tried asking at the pharmacy, and she insisted they had saccharine next to the sugar in the BigMart. But the cashiers just shook their head. Saccharine, sucralose, heck, I'll even use the dreaded aspartame (Nutrasweet).

[Carmy]

Either fruit and yoghurt or Coffee and toast for me.

It's interesting how different countries place different levels of importance on the 3 meals of the day, brekkie, lunch and supper/dinner

Here in SA I would say that supper is the most important meal of the day and it is often quite a heavy meal at about 5 or 6p.m
Most people can go without breakfast and then have a sandwich for lunch but they MUST have their supper at night.

When I lived in Brazil breakfast was bread and coffee with maybe some fruit, then lunchtime was a BIG affair with everyone stopping their work to eat at 1p.m and consuming copious amounts of foods. Dinner time was no big deal, maybe a sandwich.

And then there are countries who say breakfast is the most important meal of the day, placing less emphasis on the other two meals.

[thebum]

usually granola (mixed with lots of nuts) with denmark plain yogurt and fresh fruit (bananas, strawberries, etc) plus some more fruit, like grapefruit or something. home roasted coffee too. once in a while scrambled eggs/omlets, bacon, and pancakes.

i'd kill for grapenuts though.

[tzechuk]

Toasts and cups of tea (English style).

Sometimes cereals.. sometimes pancakes, sometimes juk porridge.

Always have fruits and yoghurt and sometimes juice - for Letty mostly.

ttasawah - your little girl is gorgeous!!!!

[everydavid]

Also, aside from my costco bagel and coffee, I do have McDonalds now and then, their breakfast is almost just as good is is back home IMHO.
Also, their best meal served too!!!

[kimchi_pizza]

Bagle sandwich with egg, bacon, slice of cheese and mayo and mustard. On the weekends I'll make pancakes or french toast. Good stuff...

Man, I miss breakfast restaurants back home....Bob Evans Sausage and Gravy with a steam'n cup of coffee...

[Natalie]

How about the worst breakfast you ever had?
Mine was a dare (at University) to finish a warm/flat keg with a room mate on a Sunday morning after a heavy night drinking.
Hair of the dog at its worst.
There were about 3 litres left.

[theatrelily]

[Novernae]

I always start my day off with a nice cappuccino complete with late art made by my coffee geek husband who roasts the beans himself.

Then I move on to some fresh pseudo-sourdough bread that comes out of my oven with a nice crispy crust thanks to the no-knead super wet dough process. I usually top that with cheese or labneh.

OR

Some muesli with homemade plain yogurt. Sometimes with fresh fruit added.

OR

Raisin Bran with milk (until our stash runs out -- damn you costco!)

OR

Homemade blueberry muffins.

OR

When we are feeling like something big, often on the weekend, but usually only a couple of times per month, we have any of the following:
1) Pancakes (sometimes plain, or blueberry, all depending on our fruit stash, or buckwheat, or sourdough) with maple syrup, plain yogurt, apple juice and/or smoothy, and homemade breakfast sausage.
2) Hash browns, eggs (poached or fried), fresh (still warm) bread (sometimes with labneh or caper or pepper labneh), homemade breakfast sausage, apple juice and/or smoothy.
3) French toast, with maple syrup and homemade breakfast sausage, apple juice and/or smoothy.

I'm a food geek, my husband is a coffee geek, and we're both the first to admit that we're snobs about most anything that goes in our mouths. Very little that we make at home is not made from scratch, and when we get back home, most of what we eat will be grown and processed on our land. But we're happy and well fed!