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[thoreau]

So - for the past year - every morning when I get home from the gym - I've had a bowl of Oatmeal Squares with a Yoplait Yogurt mixed in. Today as my latest box ended (wipes tear from eye) - I wondered if there was another high fiber and still yummy way to get my breakfast.

I then follow it up with a Chocolate SuperProtein drink from Odwalla from the Rite Aid on the way into the office (making sure I get my protein surge after the gym).

Then - once at work - I walk over to Peet's Coffee for a Sugar Free Soy Mocha.

So I'm curious - what do other folks do for breakfast on a work-day morning?

Comments

[fuzzyjay.livejournal.com]

Um, I eat food. ;-)

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

wow, Jay. Thanks?

care to share an example of this "food" you eat. It sounds simply fascinating. (wink)

[eric-mathgeek.livejournal.com]

Kashi Go-Lean high-protein fiber cereal -- the one with red on the sides, with 1% milk.

On days I do upper-body workout, I also have a protein shake. Current configuration is milk, Stonyfield french vanilla, scoop of whey protein powder, and some frozen strawberries.

[eric-mathgeek.livejournal.com]

This is the cereal:
http://www.kashi.com/products/golean_cereal_original

[geometrician.livejournal.com]

Joey's Morning Hug

I make these up a week in advance by putting all the dry ingredients in individual storage containers. Each morning I add 1/2 cup of soymilk and nuke it for a minute and a half.

1/2 cup organic, thick-rolled oats
2 tablespoons organic raisins
2 teaspoons organic turbinado (demerara) sugar
1/4 teaspoon organic cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon organic nutmeg

1/2 cup organic, unsweetened soymilk

298 kcal, 5 grams fat, 0.8 g saturated fat, 48 mg sodium, 53 g carbohydrate, 6 g fiber, 0.5 g sugar, 11 g protein, 168 mg calcium.

[kitchenbeard.livejournal.com]

[bootedintexas.livejournal.com]

My rice krispies talk to me most mornings. But they get jealous because at least one day a week i have special K with berries.

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

Variable for me: occasionally (although I want to do it daily, but don't) a small bowl of hot oatmeal, and/or a glass of juice with fiber mixed in.

Then at work, I'll have a fruit yogurt about 10:30am and a piece of fruit about 11:30 and 1pm. Spacing it out thru the day. I don't have lunch at work any more.

I've never gotten the habit back of having breakfast every morning. I'm better at it now, but for years, I'd have nothing until lunch...a bad habit.

[eireangus.livejournal.com]

I usually have instant oatmeal, fruit, and a latte. I make the latte myself as we have free high-tech espresso machines here at Genentech.

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

sorry about the cancer though....

[fuzzyjay.livejournal.com]

OK, Cheerios and milk sprinkled with Grape-nuts. And coffee, black. Or oatmeal with maple syrup and raisins and a dash of salt, and milk. Juice.

I'm Danish, so milk is my friend. (Supposedly, Danes are one of the few ethnic groups that don't generally have lactose intolerance.)

[dr-scott.livejournal.com]

There is no beauty without pain!

[bruinwi.livejournal.com]

"Break...fast"???

What is this "break fast" of which you speak?

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

brilliant!

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

this might help...

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break·fast [brek-fuhst]
–noun
1. the first meal of the day; morning meal: A hearty breakfast was served at 7 a.m.
2. the food eaten at the first meal of the day: a breakfast of yogurt and Oatmeal Squares.
–verb (used without object)
3. to eat breakfast: He breakfasted on yogurt and Oatmeal Squares
–verb (used with object)
4. to supply with breakfast: We breakfasted the author in the finest restaurant.

[abqdan.livejournal.com]

For the past 18 years, without fail: A bowl of raisin bran with Orange Juice (I can't have milk products, and surprisingly, adding OJ to cereal is very good!) and two cups of coffee. That's all the cafeine I get all day.

[bukephalus.livejournal.com]

I have 2 PowerBars on the way to the gym. Afterwards, I consume a protein smoothie of my own making:

10-oz of organic mixed berries
2 scoops whey protein powder
3 capsules of branch chain amino acid emptied into the mix
2 teaspoons glutamine powder
1 cup skim milk

On weekends when I don't eat out, I have the very same cereal that eric_mathgeek mentioned, only I mix mine with nonfat yogurt and the aforementioned 10-oz package of mixed berries.

Since you asked.

[bukephalus.livejournal.com]

Your brekkie is remarkably like mine (see below). Why haven't I run into you before, like in my kitchen ....

[dr-scott.livejournal.com]

Posted an analysis rather than commenting.

[cuyahogarvr.livejournal.com]

coffee!!!
DID I MENTION COFFEE!!!!!!!!

... at least two cups, then I think about breakfast.
Usually it's oatmeal with raisins and brown sugar or whatever fresh fruit is in season (DON'T go there). However, now that I'm living in the grand ole South, grits with lots of cheese and butter have begun to creep into my morning ritual. I'm still trying to decide if this has been a good influence or a "not so" good influence.

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

are you treadmilling or running like you used to?

if so - bookending your day with cheesygrits and ColdStone is probably okay.

(wink)

[eric-mathgeek.livejournal.com]

I'm usually hiding.

I've seen you around. :)

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

since he's standing at 6ftgazillion naked in the corner of your kitchen - - Buke-y is hard to miss.

[bruinwi.livejournal.com]

"The first meal of the day"...?

Sounds like lunch, unless coffee counts.

[joebehrsandiego.livejournal.com]

Bagel+cream cheese

Glass of V-8 + a nectarine or apple

Coffee

[scorpioatl.livejournal.com]

"We breakfasted the author in the finest restaurant."

Sounds like somebody ate a waiter for breakfast.

[quirkstreet.livejournal.com]

I rotate among a few different options for variety:

1. Kashi GoLean Crunch cereal, usually the Honey Almond Flax subspecies. Usually with chocolate soy milk.

2. Peace Organic Raisin Bran cereal. No help to you if you have a no-flakes rule, though. Also usually with chocolate soy milk.

3. Quaker TakeHeart oatmeal

4. Kashi blueberry frozen waffles.

All of these are chosen to ramp up the protein and fiber while cutting down on sugar as much as I can, though there is probably more to do on that front.

[tbone1961.livejournal.com]

standard bowl of Honey Nut Cheerios. With two cups of standard Folgers coffee. I'm just a standard kind of guy! There was a LONG spell of brown sugar cinnamon Pop Tarts. But I started thinking better of those, not that they're totally out of my diet!!

[theoctothorpe.livejournal.com]

Gym days: 2 slices of Honey Grain Boule (made fresh at my Whole Foods.. zero sugar, whole multigrains) with organic (chunky) peanut butter (just peanuts and salt, no sugar). Protein shake (50g slow release protein) in skim milk. 1 small banana. 1 cup of unsweetened greek yoghurt (2%).

Non-gym days: 1 slice of the above, protein shake (as above).

With breakfast, you've been catabolic for quite some time, so you need to spike your insulin levels. The banana helps with that. You also want good complex carbs (slow digesting) to aid in protein absorption (the bread). A good mono-unsaturated fat from the PB adds calories, and is better than many other fats.

[theoctothorpe.livejournal.com]

beware the sugar in your soy. Check the label, you may be unfortunately surprised.

When I remember and haven't woken nauseous...

[airporter.livejournal.com]

it's a banana and a variety of mixed organic cereals - most often unsweetened corn flakes. I've been slowly (very) training my brain to accept food within one hour of waking.

On weekends I'll have polenta with raisins and a bit of butter and syrup, or go out to a favourite restaurants that offers gluten-free pannekoek.

[cuyahogarvr.livejournal.com]

After four months off to heel my heals, I'm back on the treadmill - thank goodness. Now, after three months of being back on track, my "numbers" are getting back where they should be so I don't feel guilty about the cheesy grits every so often.
And thank goodness Coldstone is not close-by and/or I don't know how to get there by myself.

[quirkstreet.livejournal.com]

I suppose I should preface and postface any comment on sugar or fat consumption with "bearing in mind that one can always cut more, and compared to my former dietary habits here's the reduction I've already made." ;-)

But thank you.

Actually, according to my mother I shouldn't be drinking soy at all, because it's processed in some weird way that is toxic to my body, or mother earth, or whales, or her feelings, or something. ;-)

[grizzlyzone.livejournal.com]

I've been eating the Special K Protein Plus cereal with Silk Lite Vanilla Soymilk in it.

The Protein Plus has soy grits in it, so it's high in protein. Combined with the soymilk, it's a very high protein way to start my day.

[starzinked.livejournal.com]

i have a DanActive for HIV/Digestive health, a couple of hard boiled eggs and usually a cup of steel cut oatmeal with some raisins and nuts (according to my doc, slow cooked steel cut oats with nuts is one of the best meals ever)

my brekke

[castrowoof.livejournal.com]

Kashi GoLean Crunch with Flax seed
mixed with
Activia Light Fat Free Vanilla Yogurt
mixed with
1/2 cup frozen blueberries.

I also have 1 cup of espresso made on my stove with 2 tablespoons 1/2&1/2 and 3 splendas :-)

[wrascalbc.livejournal.com]

Brecky 1: peanut butter on toast, a banana and earl grey tea.

Brecky 2: raisin bran (TWO SCOOPS!), a banana and some toast.

Brecky 3: drained fruit salad or pineapple chunks, lovingly smothered with blueberry or fieldberry yogurt.

[greyguy-sf.livejournal.com]

on a technicality, I don't think that Maryland is part of the South (It and Missouri were the last two stars on the Stars and Bars, but never left the union.)

[septimuswarren.livejournal.com]

10:00 - roll out of bed
10:05 - consume king sized snickers bar
10:20 - break open little debbie nutty bars
10:30 - lather wonder white bread with nutella

Actually, this is what I do. To have something in my system and some before I work out I make a half portion (about 4 bits) of oatmeal with some wheat germ mixed in; the real stuff, not the package stuff. Coming home from the gym I do a Muscle Milk shake (they're very good in all regards). After a shower I do some some low fat, low salt cheese.

[truthfeather.livejournal.com]

Souls.

Serious answer
Coffee 2 cups with sugar and half and half
1/2 C cereal w milk or a protein shake poured over the cereal
Fruit or juice.