Describe your "typical" breakfast (what do you eat before lunch)

[NY2TX]

Generally, I have a 2 oz. Egg Beaters omelet (28 cals) on either a Mission Carb Balance tortilla (80 cals) or a Thomas English Multi-grain wheat Muffin (100 cals). I add a half slice of Hormel Canadian Bacon (35 cals) or 2-3 slices of Turkey Pepperoni (5 cals/slice) and a 1/3-1/2 oz of 2% Kraft Sharp Cheddar Cheese (90 cals per ounce). Total = 162 to 180 calories.  Nothing between breakfast and lunch.

[Dracconia]

I have recently started making breakfast sandwiches on Sunday to last the week. My fiance' gets whatever he wants on his (usually sausage, an egg and cheddar or colby jack on a biscuit) and  I make mine a little lighter. I will toast English Muffins and lay them out to cool, then add sliced oven roasted turkey and usually some swiss cheese and top it off with an egg that has been baked in the oven. Wrap this in saran wrap and stick them in the fridge for the week. In the mornings I have one cup of coffee and one breakfast sandwich and total calories are under 400. They are under 300 if I choose to have a cup of tea instead of coffee and I'm full until it's time for a snack mid morning which is usually about 4 oz of yogurt and a piece of fruit. This has really helped me start my morning off right and stay satisfied throughout my day. 🙂

[MammaMN]

Usually I just grab a yogurt light and add 2 TBls. of FF cool whip to it and drink my water or coffee. If I don't have a busy morning I will make a one egg,  2egg white omelet with one ounce of chedder cheese, fresh mushrooms and half a glass of unsweetened grapefruit juice. I am a creature of habit and really don't have much variety in my meal plans. 😞

[TracyMae]

Leafy green salad makes a good breakfast, along with 2 cups of water, although nothing is a "typical" breakfast for me, I have tried this and I felt good all day.

I tried eating cauliflower, browned with olive oil, salt and a very small amount of pepper for breakfast... it left me with gas that was quite painful.  I think I should have eaten something else also. 

[shauna1968]

I would like to know also

[jman1283]

Hi NY2X!

Yes, I too have been surprised at how helpful the food log has been. It does keep you honest. I would like to see more a generic database but I realize many do eat out at fastfood and restaurants and it's important to have that data available too. I have been losing the wait I think mostly due to increased activity. It's encouraging!

Good Luck!

[Ninaross]

I need to get back to it. I cheated big time during the holidays.

[EmersonFitbit]

I'm in agreement that it keeps you honest. 

@jman1283 One of the cool things about generic foods is that once you've added unique information once, you won't have to add it again generally speaking (since the app remembers recent/popular foods). 

I can't tell you how many times I've logged egg whites in less than 10 seconds!

[jman1283]

Yes. I know. Very handy. Sent from my iPhone

[CelinaL]

175 g of Oikos 2% Greek Yogurt

14 g of All Bran Buds

14 g of Dragon's Blend Holy Crap cereal or

    14 g of Kashi Go Lean cereal

ADD cut up fresh fruit: an apple, banana, pear, raisins, craisins.

This is my go-to. It usually runs between 325 - 400 calories. I still measure everything and I've been doing this for almost a year.Also, this is my "first" breakfast, I always have a hearty snack of at least 250 calories at about 10-ish with cheese or some kind of protein, depnding on whether or not I have time to prepare something more intense..

Choice # 2 would be fridge oatmeal in a mason jar.

[SlimDreams]

I've been using MyFitnessPal to log my food.  It has a better database, as far as I can tell, and I can copy recipes into it and it will figure out the nutritional information for my home cooking. The nice thing is, MyFitnessPal talks to Fitbit, so what I add to MFP shows up in Fitbit. I'm loving that feature of both apps.

[RexFeral]

I don't know if I replied to this thread before but my breakfast has evolved since then anyways. Now its:

2 free range/organic scrambled eggs
1 cup organic spinach
1 Jones sausage link (will never give this one up, LOL)
1/2 cup of grass fed heavy cream
1/2 cup grass fed milk
1 TBSP grass fed butter

I can eat that at 5 in the morning and by noon, I'm still not hungry even after an hour and a half of walking/jogging.

That heavy cream is to DIE for. Its pure heaven. I travel 40 miles just to buy it at the Whole Foods. The typical heavy cream is garbage because it has mono-diglycerides or carrageenan. The only good one is Natural By Nature and those cartons fly off the shelves.

[ErickFitbit]

@SlimDreams MFP definitely has a very robust food database and you're right, it does sync over the information to your Fitbit account, as long as the integration has been set up. If anyone is interested, check out the instructions for setting it up, here.

[EmersonFitbit]

I can agree that I log just about everything that I eat through MFP @ErickFitbit @SlimDreams. Works like a charm!

[Ms.C]

Typically it's a smoothie

1/2 c frozen mango chunks  - 70cal

1/3 c source fat free vanilla yogurt - 35cal

1 c skim milk - 90cal

1 banana - 90cal

1 T of ground chia seeds - 30cal

1 scoop of 10g protein powder - pgx vanilla so far is my fav - 60cal

If i have fresh pinapple on hand, I will use half a banana and a chunk of pineapple about the size of half a banana - makes it less thick and adds a brightness to the taste.

This keeps me saisfied until lunch time without a mornig snack.  I tend to front load my calories, so this may be more calories than someone is willing to use on breakfast.  

[Knaidel]

My favorite breakfast is oatmeal made from 1/2 cup of rolled oats, a tablespoon of natural peanut butter, a tablespoon of low sodium tamari, and a cup of strong coffee with unsweetened soy milk and two teaspoons of sugar. 

I often have a mid-morning snack, especially if I'm going to the gym at lunchtime. I want to eat something an hour before I work out, so I can exert myself and eat a late lunch. Usually that's 1/3 cup of nonfat Greek style yogurt, a chopped apple, and two tablespoons of high-protein granola. (Bear Naked Original!) If I work out later in the day, I don't have the snack--I just eat lunch, and save the snack for post-workout recovery. 

Occasionally I have a spinach omelette instead, either with whole eggs or egg whites, but lately I like to save those for lunch. 

[12thAngel]

often I just have a bowl of museli with yohgurt and fruit

[RobertoME]

I'm starving with just to read all the good breakfast listed on this thread. 

My typical breakfast, I wouldn't consider the most healthy but its my favorite.  I like to start with a bowl of Capn' Crunch followed by an omelet made with chopped tomato, onion and turkey ham, prepared with olive oil and no salt at all; only a little of pepper, along with ciabatta bread and a glass of orange juice. Sometime I like to add a cup of chilli beans. 

[Robcorc]

Lately, my typical breakfast is two slices of Ezekiel 4:9 bread, double toasted, then spread with half a medium avocado and dotted with cherry tomato halves.

But I also enjoy a bowl of oat razor still cut oats with a tablespoon of olive oil and a grind of Himalayan sea salt or a couple of hard boiled eggs with Ezekiel toast.

[Robcorc]

Ha! I do not have a CLUE how "oat bran or steel cut oats" turned into "oat razor still cut oats"...

[FrenchieMama]

@Robcorc lol!!! Gotta love auto correct! Your breakfast sound so much like mine!! Love steel cut oats and I make my every few days and then just nuke the portion in the morning...saves time and I am a bit lazy! Ha!