Five days a week, my breakfast is cereal (Life this morning, raisin bran and frosted mini-wheats are other common varieties), coffee and possibly half of a grapefruit (no sugar) while checking my email and reading this board. My boss is rarely in before 10am, and even if I get to the lab at 9:30 I usually beat everyone else, so there's no need to rush. Despite this, I only cook real breakfasts on the weekends (scrambled eggs and whatever is handy, especially chorizo, most often). This is surprising, as breakfast is potentially the only good thing about morning, and growing up it was fairly common to have scrambled eggs w/ bacon or crepe-like pancakes (skinny pancakes, as mom called them) for dinner.
Like I said, I work in a lab. I'm a post-doctoral researcher (more pay than being a grad student, but basically still cheap labor for a professor) in my early thirties, currently stuck in the middle of nowhere, aka Rolla, MO.
All this talk about breakfast makes me think it’s time for more coffee...