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A healthy hearty breakfast, consisting of...

Something of questionable nutritional quality, consisting of...

I start the day with coffee/nicotine/alcohol alone.

Breakfast?  Who needs it?

[wombat]

Even just putting bananas in the fridge makes the skin turn black, you don't have to freeze them. And it stops them from getting riper. I have tried this but it doesn't really help. I think I usually miss the moment - apparently there is generally about a two hour window in the life of a banana when it's exactly as ripe as I like it - and a slightly too ripe, ice cold banana is just not a very appealing thing.

Speaking of freezing bananas - cut up a ripe banana, freeze it, and then run it through the blender with some milk. It's almost like banana ice cream.

But basically so far this thread make me think, you know what would be a great breakfast?  Little Debbie oatmeal cream cakes and a cup of tea and some milk.  There's oatmeal in them, see?  Without the Mountain Dew it's practically health food, right?

[side_show]

Hey, a frozen banana, chocolate milk, and some peanut butter in a blender makes a Chocolate Monkey, which is the best damn thing ever.  It's not so much a breakfast thing but it's good use for an overripe banana or two.

[V-Adore]

Yes, a blender saves bananas, as I learned this fall (when my roommate had this tendency to buy bananas and not eat them, until they were sufficiently soft that she didn't want anything to do with them -- and I would end up having them as smoothies, which suited me fine as someone who prefers a banana all blended up with ice and milk).

Regrettably, I still haven't figured out how to make an orange smoothie from actual orange sections that doesn't have nasty little floating chunks of seeds and orange ligament.

[Doc]

For most of uni I used to have one of those liquid breakfast poppa thingies but I got royally sick of the wide range of 2 flavours.

These days I normally grab a couple of bananas and maybe a mandarin or a peach or nectarine or something from the fruit shop which is right on my way to uni. Fruit eaten immediately after being purchased from a high quality grocer is, I have to tell you, the best way one can consume it in a city environment. Usually I'll have a banana or two and black coffee for breakfast and save the rest for later in the morning.
Sometimes I'll have a croissant and substitute the coffee for an orange juice.

[Doc]

Today however it turns out I had fruit loops. I saw them in the store yesterday and thought 'I literally haven't had those in almost a decade'.

[CortJstr]

I generally just don't get hungry until I've been awake for two hours, regardless of how long I've slept or what time I wake up. For emergencies I have a box of CUNT yogurt Cherios at my desk.

I'm always afraid to order smoothies out because so many places tend to sneak in banana, even when it's not listed in the ingredients.

[AugustWest]

But basically so far this thread make me think, you know what would be a great breakfast?  Little Debbie oatmeal cream cakes and a cup of tea and some milk.  There's oatmeal in them, see?  Without the Mountain Dew it's practically health food, right?

Sigh.  I've tried this very rationalization so many times.  Yep, there's some oatmeal in those cakes.  There's also some nasty-assed transfatty lard infested shortening too.  And I'm not even going to think about what is in the cream filling.

I still eat 'em though.  And Star Crunches.  And Fudge Rounds.

DAMN YOU LITTLE DEBBIE!!!!

[chuanoplast]

Most of the time I eat a decent breakfast of some sort of cereal or leftovers fron dinner. But lately, I've been eating choco-banana muffins and pie, because there's fruit in that, and fruit is good for you!

[Arachno-capitalist]

Breakfast is usually a glass of water or tea with an array of multivitamins and pills from gnc before I have to catch the bus uptown. One day, when I'm retired, I think Ill know what a real breakfast feels like.

[theinevitable]

A-CAP... tea and multivitamins... GNC...

DOES NOT COMPUTE DOES NOT COMPUTE *head explodes*

[V-Adore]

Man, that is a straight-up Pat breakfast. All it needs is for one of the supplements to actually be a best-stitute, like, I dunno, Auntie Marzipan's VitaNOTMean "See."

[Lister]

I make breakfast burritos featuring fake sausage but real cheese and guacamole and potato wedges.  And onions, peppers, black beans, spinach, and Egg Product.  Between the vegetables and the whole wheat tortillas I pretty much get my RDA of fiber at the start of the day, which along with the protein means I'm not hungry until lunch.  I like that.

I don't get all Pat with the substitutes -- I like whole eggs and all, but scrambling them is an additional step, PLUS it requires a second vessel.  The fake sausage doesn't taste like the real thing, but it's still pretty tasty and adds protein.

I never used to like making real breakfasts (I'd nuke TV dinners or make sandwiches or something), but this sequence seems to work really well, plus I don't get all tired of my lunch foods twice as fast any more.  On weekends I'll tend to have a big lunch at 10-11 and dinner at a normal time rather than mess with breakfast.

If I could wake up with breakfast made/no cleanup, I'd have pancakes, eggs, grits and (real) sausage or bacon.  And some fresh fruit of some kind.  I'd also have a selection of fresh fruit in the house without it always rotting before I eat a third of it... I guess what I'm saying here is I need to win the lottery for the breakfasts alone.

[robot_god]

For me it varies unpredictably between all the choices, the decision being most strongly influenced by what I ate the night before.

[Doc]

The concept of a breakfast burrito scares me like the dickens.
I've never seen one and I'm sure they are actually a harmless egg/sausage/bacon/whatever combo in a tortilla but the concept just fills me with images of the most disgusting greasy meal ever.

[theinevitable]

they are so good.

I am having one tomorrow. I am eating that food.