Ask Lemmy

Coffee and pills

I don't eat. I run on thoughts, prayers, and the power of friendship.

I love a nice breakfast burrito.

The scraps of my children's uneaten breakfasts, so:

• half an egg sandwich

• the dregs of a bowl of oatmeal with maple syrup, mixed with whatever unsyruped oatmeal I can scrape out of the pot

• about four apple slices and half a bagel

on days my spouse cooks breakfast. When I cook, everyone eats pancakes.

Usually nothing. When I do have breakfast it's either pancakes and eggs or milk and cereal. Every now and then I get a wild hair and have oatmeal.

Technically nothing, but I do have coffee at the office.

Except on Thursday. That's doughnut day.

Nine cans of ravioli.

I don't generally eat breakfast. I honestly don't know how people do it, when I wake up the last thing I want to do is eat.

Coffee and cigarettes

I find the lack of cheese in the comments very concerning.

bagel and cream cheese, with coffee.

Anxiety and despair

Rather than tell you what I personally eat, maybe it will be useful to know what American diners serve for breakfast. You can walk into any locally-owned diner anywhere in the country and order from a menu almost exactly like this:

• Breakfast Combo: Two eggs (scrambled, fried, or over easy/medium/hard), meat (bacon, sausage links, steak, or ham), and a carb (pancakes, toast, a biscuit, or hash browns)
• Biscuits and Gravy: Two biscuits with sausage gravy over the top. Sometimes served with an egg.
• Pancakes: A short stack is 2 and a tall stack is 4. Served with maple syrup.
• Skillet/Omelet: Eggs scrambled with onions, bell peppers, cheese, and meat. An alternate version, sometimes called “loaded hash browns,” uses hash browns instead of eggs.
• Breakfast Burrito: An omelet wrapped up in a tortilla. May be smothered with red or green chili sauce for a Tex-Mex spin.
• Oatmeal: Boiled oats with fruit, granola, syrup, etc.
• Eggs Benedict: Poached egg on an English muffin with ham and hollandaise sauce.

And then each diner will have their own “famous” specialty, like stuffed French toast, “home fries” (pan-fried potato chunks), huge pancakes, or sausage made in house. It’s hard to go wrong though, American breakfasts are consistently pretty tasty.

Greek yogurt, walnuts, craisins, pumpkin seeds, hemp hearts, chia seeds, maybe cinnamon, maybe a dash of honey, possibly some frozen fruit if I feel like waiting for it to thaw a bit. Coffee with a dash of oatmilk.

I am genuinely floored by how many people here are claiming to actually eat breakfast. Tf is all the chia pudding bananas toast eggs shit??? For me, and everyone I know, breakfast is a special occasion for days off. My wife and I make breakfast maybe 10 times a year. I've always heard Lemmy's average age is on the higher end, and this thread has confirmed it for me.

3 cups of coffee. Unless it's 4.

The amount of Americans in the comments who don't eat breakfast is shocking

Nothing. Last thing on my mind in the morning is food.

Appetite usually kicks in the late afternoon/early evening, when I have my first and usually only meal.

coffee and weed

Coffee and a water.

Last night's leftovers or oatmeal and fruit, usually. Maybe some toast or eggs depending on the mood. I'll occasionally go to the ma and pa diner down the street for some waffles or pancakes, but that's more of a treat than a real breakfast.

Edit: also coffee or tea. A strong irish breakfast with cream and honey is my favorite

Most of the time, nothing. I tend to drink tea in the morning (usually, an hour after I wake up do I do that). Green tea with a dairy-free creamer is something I love to do a lot, actually.

Black coffee and patience.

Used to be Coffee and cigarettes, but now it's just Coffee and shit posting.

I might be weird, but I often just have leftovers. Or sometimes I'll throw a frozen pizza in the oven, maybe have some salad, whatever.

Not sure if people just don't eat cereal anymore, or they just don't care to admit it. Love me some corn chex in particular. I'll do toast and scrambled eggs and bacon if I'm feeling like taking the time though, sure.

Cigarette and THC vape normally. I don't feel hungry for the first several hours I'm awake

Most commonly one the following; granola with nuts and dried fruit topped with yogurt, peanut butter and banana sandwich, eggs and toast.

Americano, and two slices of multi grain toast with butter

Nothing. If I eat breakfast I'm hungry by 10 and that sucks.

If I don't have a choice about eating breakfast, but I do get to select what to eat, eggs and hashbrowns.

But I also eat those for lunch and dinner because they are yummy.

I like toast, eggs, and coffee for a work day and whatever Im feeling for a free day (which tends to be toast, eggs, sausage, and coffee lol I usually do wheat toast and i get ground sausage tubes because they're easy to freeze and such)

Three options each with a couple of options, depending on factors:

If short on time or lazy:

• Cold cereal with milk
• Granola + yogurt

If motivated:

• Scrambled eggs with cheese, salsa, breakfast potatoes / toast, hot sauce or spicy chicken mixed in
• Pancakes with butter + jam

If depression:

• Nothing and then early lunch