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?
A peanut butter jelly sandwich.
The only thing I have for breakfast on the daily is my zero sugar energy drink and my antidepressant then wait till lunch for a meal.
I used to be similar, but my metabolism must have changed over time.
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
2 slices toast, buttered, with marmite if I feel like it’s worth the effort
On weekdays, bread with something on it. If I’m planning on a really hard day, I might make a sunny egg and put it on a toast so that I don’t starve 3 hours later.
Two slices of toast with Peanut Butter, a glass of Orange Juice and a cup of Coffee.
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.
- Every morning: 2 cups Cafix, 1 cup decaf coffee, 4 prunes
- Alternate mornings: 1 thick slice homemade whole wheat bread, dipped in olive oil
- The other mornings: 1 large sourdough pancake, dressed with olive oil and salt
I usually eat breakfast around 5AM, and this holds me until lunch at 11AM.
Pretty sure I’m not in the mainstream.
Ass.
That’s dinner.
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.
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 limesMy go-to is a bagel with hummus, with a pot of Cuban coffee.
Granola bar in the dark while I rush out the door, as nature intended
Granola with almond milk, blueberries, raspberries, collagen, and creatine.
It’s a bit much, but I like it.
Where do you get the collagen from?
I use a collagen peptides powder from Amazon
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.
