Quick & Easy Breakfast

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Here I am, retired comfortably to the lazyboy after breakfast and some minor chores. No, I'm not out scraping ice off the windshield on this frigid morning and heading off to work. Breakfast? Sure, I'll have a second one soon — so nice to have the "coffee break" here at home but I do miss the gatherings of coworkers sitting for a few minutes at a big table.

Many people skip right past a breakfast before leaving the house. The estimates are that it's nearly 1/4 of American adults and the number is even worse for high school kids. Oh my ! Time and hunger are the determinants but motivation increases with the years as, apparently, with the realization that energy reserves become depleted by late morning.

At the same time, nutrition experts say that as many as 90% of Americans don't eat enough fruit and vegetables. I made a conscious effort to increase my morning fruit consumption a few years ago. Three servings before the starches didn't work out as well as I hoped. I didn't have the appetite to eat that much fruit ... not with my boxes of (highly processed) breakfast cereal beckoning me from the end of the counter. Nevertheless, my fruit servings did increase. One way that has continued is by putting stuff in that cereal. I could almost benefit from a larger bowl but 1/2 fruit makes sense. This morning, it was a microwaved d'Anjou pear, chopped. I use bananas, of course, but raisins and dried cranberries often find their way into the bowl. A second breakfast is coming up in moments! What can I have??? Well, I won't put it in with cereal ~ need to switch to whole wheat toast ~ apple sauce. Oh, wait a minute! Apple sauce is good on toast .

Steve, & coffee

 

[Zeedman]

What can I have??? Well, I won't put it in with cereal ~ need to switch to whole wheat toast ~ apple sauce. Oh, wait a minute! Apple sauce is good on toast .

Oh yes it is. I used to make apple butter, but apple sauce is just as good & more versatile.

I often question the relative merits of eating an early breakfast, versus not breaking the fast till noon. Now that I am retired & less active, an early breakfast makes me drowsy in mid-morning. So I just have a coffee or two (with one of those maybe being mixed with a protein shake) and have breakfast as lunch.

But when I was working, I needed to eat a light breakfast to avoid getting weak-kneed in mid-morning. That would be followed by a light lunch at the noon break. I also drank coffee later in the day than I do now.

I too miss the break room banter with my co-workers, it was always a lot of fun.

 

[ducks4you]

Heavy breakfast does weigh you down.
But, no breakfast at all makes me nauseous.
Gotta be a happy medium.
Also, heavy dinner isn't good, either.
We should be looking forward to eating more vegetables from our gardens!!

 

[heirloomgal]

I've always found breakfast is relative to when and what I ate the evening before. If I'm counting calories and have my last small meal at 5 pm, I'm ready for a full Thanksgiving dinner the next morning...EARLY the next morning.

 

[Dahlia]

Breakfast this morning of 2 coffees with cream and toasted homemade banana bread with butter.

 

[canesisters]

I work nights so pretty much everything in my world is backwards.
I get up around 4ish PM. Usually have a large coffee before leaving the house at 6pm or on the way in.
9pm break is breakfast time, usually some fruit.
Midnight is lunch... which could be anything depending on how the last few nights have gone & how much energy I've had between shifts. Might be pot roast, a salad, something fast food grabbed on the way in, or vending machine garbage.
5am break is usually more fruit if anything at all.
7:30am dinner on the way home is often a breakfast biscuit and, if I'm struggling to stay awake, a large iced coffee of some kind.