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[Cohiba]

I'm not sure I agree with your international breakfast stereotypes,
but I have strong, fresh coffee a 1/2 bagel w/cream cheese.

PS: Now THIS, is the kinda post I was looking for!

[Sleepy in Seoul]

Wouldn't have an "Australian" breakfast if it was the only choice. I have a "Kiwi" breakfast, minus the Weetbix (so hard to find here).

[pollyplummer]

Breakfast, breakfast, breakfast, ALWAYS, or Fainting happens. A bacon/egg/cheese breakfast sandwich can easily be made at home in your skillet. Lots of coffee.

[simone]

Can't reply to your poll because I'm a bit of a freak, I guess. I just don't fit.

I start off the day with a mug of coffee and a big glass of fresh vegetable juice. Mmmn... Seriously, once you start juicing, it's hard to go without it.

Then I whip up a protein smoothie made with whey powder, yogurt and frozen strawberries. I usually pour it into a bottle and drink it during my commute, or keep it in a cold pack and drink it just before or just after my workout. Don't want to get light-headed with 5 kilo handweights held precariously over my skull.

Once at my desk, I usually have a wee bit of cereal (I like the Kashi GoLean available at Costco) and yogurt. I also mixed up a container of instant oatmeal, powdered milk, and sweetener, and when I feel like something warm, I add a little boiling water and presto! Oatmeal.

Coffee throughout the day. Bought a great little Bodum mug that gives me a perfect size dose of caffeine. I Try to keep it down to three mugs a day in total. I will NOT drink machine coffee. Spent years drnking that poison -- life's too short.

Then lunch - today it's chicken chili that I made in the crockput yesterday. Kept it cooking on the balcony all day because it was too hot to actually cook inside... a mixed green salad, and a whole wheat dinner roll. Picked up a second hand breadmaker last week and am having fun trying to make the perfect healthy rolls -- a mix of ground oat flour, whole wheat, ground flax seeds, and buckwheat.

Tomorrow it's Chicken Tagine and Rice... Wednesday Chicken Parmigiana and a bit of pasta... Thursday more chicken Chili. I guess I eat a lot of Chicken. Dinners are often pork loin or red meat at some restaurant.

In the afternoon, I'll have a small handful of almonds and an apple.

Dinner is usually pretty small... a couple of beers and whatever the husband wants to cook or go out for.

All in all, I eat something at least once every three hours or less. I try to eat most of my carbs before 3pm. (Except for beer. ) I find it keeps my energy levels high, and I haven't gained any weight, despite the increased summer heat beer consumption. Sometimes I'm just so hot I'm happy to just have a beer.

This little eating regimen is great for me, but the only problem is, when I get hungry, I get HUNGRY. Before, I could wait to eat until an hour or two after I felt that first little twinge of hunger, but now, it's a slight twinge and then I'm ravenous in another twenty minutes. I guess it's because my body has gotten used to being fed regularly. Supposedly it's good for keeping your metabolism high.


Simone
Life is too short to eat crap food

[Freezer Burn]

Glad to see that people here do try to keep a good diet, I dont live in Seoul so I have to make do with Home plus so its hard to find all the healthy options that I really want.
I usually mix the almonds with yoghurt, excellent snack.
I wouldn't mind the breadmaker, but I'll have to make do with Barley bread from La Paris Baguette.

[Qinella]

I usually eat a bakery item like a cake or sweet bun, or cereal, or eggs, or peanut butter jelly sandwiches, or those miniature peanut-cream bread loaves, or yogurt. Last week I made hamburgers from ground beef at 8am and had a beer also. It just depends, I guess. Always coffee.

[paperbag princess]

a bagel cheese melt (sometimes with tomatoes and artichokes on top) plus coffee and fruit.

[endofthewor1d]

coca cola and cigarettes.

[JongnoGuru]

Oh yes, artichokes -- fresh as they come -- are wildly available in Korea...

Just wildly.

[mithridates]

[mithridates]

[paperbag princess]

[pet lover]

I eat oatmeal with fruit in the winter. I drink my breakfast during the hot weather. I buy the powdered grains and fruit stuff that E-Mart has and then I add my own stuff to it....like "Vitamineral Green"...great stuff. Just mix that up in some soy milk and yum yum. Oh, and some acgave nectar to sweeten it all up. Sometimes I also eat fruit--if I'm really hungry/have time. Kiwis are all the rage with me now. Looking forward to apple season.

[simone]

[JongnoGuru]