I’ve never been a breakfast person, and I don’t wake up hungry. I used to go a few hours without eating anything and then have a breakfast of two scrambled eggs, 1/2 cup of brown rice, and a sliced avocado with some salt or soy sauce. That’s a very tasty and healthy breakfast, but I get hungry again within a couple of hours.
Normally I don’t eat much carbs, like bread or pasta or potatoes, and I don’t get my fats from butter or dairy.
This week I started eating a butter sandwich as soon as I wake up in the morning. And when I say “butter sandwich” I’m talking about eight pats of butter between two slices of whole wheat bread.
Why is this so satisfying? I’m not hungry until late in the afternoon, at which point I just wait until dinnertime.
I’d like to lose some weight, and with these butter sandwiches I’m consuming much less food during my day, but they can’t be healthy for me. Clearly I don’t know how nutrition works.
What do you eat in the morning?
Varies quite a bit. Looking at the past week:
Homemade sourdough toast, sausages, grapes
bagels with cream cheese and lox
hash browns with fried egg and homemade Hollandaise sauce
Carribean-style coconut-rice porridge with mangoes and limesI made a habit out of making overnight oats.
I have a base mix of oats and seeds, like hemp, flax millet, sesame… I mix it usually dried fruits, peanut butter, maple or beet sirup, banana, cocoa powder and not to forget a pinch of salt.
Add the twice the volume in milk and well, let it soak overnight. Just grab in the morning and ready to go
Yes, can confirm. Overnight oats are good and tasty… also so much easier than standing over a pot when I’m waking up in the morning.
I also add chia seeds, turns it into chia pudding almost
This is it. If you want reasonably healthy but filling. You can add nuts, fresh or dried fruits, honey or maple syrup for some extra sweetness. Of course it’s as healthy or unhealthy as you make it.
Trader Joe’s muesli. But maybe I should just make my own - might be cheaper in the long run? Only thing is, my body isn’t adjusted to the fiber amount and it sucks being bloated at work.
yeah I think store bought Müsli is much more expensive than the raw ingredients. You can mix to your own liking and unless you get moth’s in it, it will stay good to eat for a while
This! I’ve been having this consistently for months and months and don’t get sick of it. My overnight oats are pretty utilitarian though: oats, chia, vanilla yogurt, water. Some sort of fruit on it in the morning.
interesting, I’m assuming these are ‘regular’ oats?
I only have ‘quick’ oats which would probably turn into a disgusting mush overnight, I think I’ll buy normal oats and try this out
Probably, but mush is the consistency I strive for tbh. I use standard roled oats which come in an either soft or crunchy variety, with the former taking on more liquid
6 scrambled eggs made with butter, sour cream, salt and pepper.
I prefer to start the day with a big breakfast, eat a light lunch and then nothing until a moderate supper with a small, low carb dessert in the evening.
I find the large breakfast starts my day well and fatty foods keep me satisfied longer so I’m not tempted to snack throughout the day, especially while working from home where food is always available.
Snacking is my problem too. I don’t eat anything unhealthy. I just eat too much. I’ve taken to chugging water before i reach for a snack. It seems to be working.
God, I wish my stomach could handle a heavy, fatty meal in the mornings. That sounds perfect for my own snacking problems.
To be fair I certainly didn’t start with that many; I started with the keto diet roughly 10 years ago, found eggs to be my most convenient breakfast food and slowly built up the number while reducing the size of my lunch.
My current go to for the past few years is oatmeal. I mix oats, dry milk powder, frozen cherries, and water. Then I throw it in the microwave for a few minutes to cook. Once it’s done, I add cinnamon and a handful of chocolate chips and mix it all together. It’s probably not the most healthy option, but it’s tasty and reasonably nutritious.
What does the dry milk do for the mixture? Do you add extra water to account for the dry milk or does it mix fine without extra liquid? Never seen that addition before.
I recently started tracking what I was eating for nutrition/weight loss purposes and realized I should be eating way more protein. I’ve tried protein powders in the past (a lot of online recipes for oats recommend adding protein powder) and hate how strongly they are flavored. I saw a lot of diy protein powder recipes have a base of dry milk powder which I already had in my cupboard, so I just use that. It’s fine with the same amount of liquid.
You could just use normal milk instead of milk powder + water, but this was lower calorie and never goes bad.
A bowl of nails, without any milk.
Try boofing it.
500 kcal of Soylent. Weekday or weekend, doesn’t matter.
I used to drink Soylent. Love that stuff, but for the price, I can just eat real food.
Yeah, it’s a great filler, and I like having some after a long run because the protein is super bioavailable. But if you want the pre-made bottles, they’ve gotten pricey.
I’m southern european and some of these answers are giving me culture shock… Normally, a coffee would get me through the day until lunch and, if I’m especially hungry, I’ll eat some pastries too. But the thought of having to eat plenty of eggs or anything that involves cooking so soon after waking up is giving me upset stomach. I realize this may not be healthiest option tho
What do you eat for lunch though? For a lot of people where I live, lunch is a quick snack. Breakfast needs to keep you going until about 8pm, with a few light snacks during the day, and the typical work schedule doesn’t really allow anything else.
Here lunch is our biggest meal of the day and usually around 2 or 3 pm. Most people will have lunch at home, even if they have to go back to work later and many eat a small meal between “breakfast” and lunch. But most people either won’t eat anything for what you’d call breakfast or just have some coffee and toast/pastries. I really don’t know anybody who wakes up and immediately starts cooking.
Cereal, mostly. Or other ‘breakfasty’ carbs. On the weekend I might “spice it up” with bacon and eggs and a glass of orange juice.
EDIT: also, wanted to add that consuming a bunch of fat tends to make you less hungry. So that’s normal. It should in fact be condusive to making you eat less, so long as you don’t eat way too many calories in fat.
Granola bar in the dark while I rush out the door, as nature intended
My go-to is a bagel with hummus, with a pot of Cuban coffee.
12-18oz of black coffee, a fried egg over last night’s leftover rice or a packet of instant oatmeal. I eat very early so I’m hungry again around 10:30 so I have a Second Breakfast. Usually some canned fish since I find it pretty satisfying and because it can easily be prepared different ways. Usually “Mediterranean” sardines over chopped onions, herring over hopped giardiniera, or the classic plain sardines on hot buttered toast with hot sauce.
Ooooh canned fish over onions actually sounds really good - I wanna try that!
It’s been my favorite in an attempt to eat less garbage. Cheap and easy. Pairs well with a cold yellow beer or a shot of vodka and pickle brine chaser.
Hell yes or chopped pickles with the onion… god damn canned fish and pickled sour things are amazing together
I also eat the oily fishies. Love them with a salad for dinner.
Not much. Sometimes nothing. There’s a Salvadoran bakery a block from my house though, so that’s always tempting. Pastry, empanadas, or just a few rolls.
I make a smoothie every morning. Right now it’s with frozen banana and berries, beet powder, moringa powder, and hemp and chia seeds. I used to do banana, berries, fresh spinach, and protein powder, but protein powder is too expensive right now.
Not sure if this has anything to do with me being Autistic but I eat the same thing every meal… pasta, with veggies and protein (depending on what I have). Breakfast just means additional coffee. If I really don’t have time then it’s bakery and fried burrito from the nearby supermarket.
Tried to have a more “typical” American breakfast for a while until I realized I’m lactose intolerant so that never went anywhere…
I’m pretty close to yours - I eat one half avocado, two eggs sunny side up, and then a dash of mayo in the center of the avocado and fill it generally with shrimps. For me this keeps me full for a good while and I feel healthy and with a good stomach.
I usually only eat one full meal before dinner, but I’ll often have a banana, protein shake and apple as well.
If I’m working from home I try to wait with “breakfast” until there is a good pause between meetings, usually around lunch.
I’m the same regarding schedule. This early eating is new for me.
I’m actually opposite. I’ve always eaten early breakfast regardless of hunger since in Norway it’s supposed to be the most important meal of the day that sets you up for the rest of the day.
Lately though I’m trying to get 14-16 hours of fast every day (night), and it’s just easier skipping early morning than to have to go the whole long evening without anything.
I don’t do this fast because it’s supposed to be extra healthy or anything, I just do it because it seems to put my body into a good state of burning energy (combined with eating regularly and exercising fairly often), which is something I’d like to do more of currently.
I’ll regularly fast for 12 hours, but I’ve also done up to 16. There’s no real point in it for me. I just naturally fast for about 12 hours daily. Sometimes I screw it up by eating an apple before bed.
It’s not really the hours that means the most to me, it just gives me focus on it and help to avoid evening snacks. I get to a really nice phase of burning when I manage this properly for a while.
Edit: and I would never worry about an apple if I was hungry.
