Breakfast for me is normally four multigrain ryvita with vitamin pills and water. Some days - like today - I'll add some homemade flapjack to that as well.
Then its a minimum of a half hour wait before I have coffee; drinking anything with caffeine in it just after taking vitamin pills is kinda self-defeating when it comes down to it after all.
I've been adding raisins when I make porrage of late; I also tend to add quite a bit of mixed spice as well... along with a good amount of maple syrup :)
"other cereal": either Alpen or Harvest Crunch with nuts. I eat the former on work days and the latter at weekends and on holidays, which has the nice effect of causing me to know viscerally that I'm not going to work that day as soon as I take a mouthful of breakfast.
"milk": but only because it's poured on the cereal. I don't usually feel a need to drink a separate glass of anything with my breakfast.
As for the cereal, the variety in Germany seems to be wider, from what I see—especially the many variations on "Müesli". And I don't eat a specific kind but tend to have a different kind each time I'm done with one box.
Though I wish one could get hold of Shredded Wheat here... it brings back memories of a holiday in England, eating Shredded Wheat over mashed banana with warm milk in a caravan. Mmmmm. (Two biscuits, by the way.)
Sausages. And grilled tomatoes. And potato scones. (But only when I'm having a grill-up, which is usually only at weekends. Most of the time it's just cereal [Country Crisp, usually] with milk and optional toast.)
I didn't tick bacon and egg because I only have them at (some) weekends. Similarly kippers (and not every weekend, the fish van delivers on alternate Fridays (we used to get fish from him at Framlingham market (near my mother-in-law's previous house), and when we said we would miss him when we moved he said "I go to Newmarket once a fortnight, I can come and see you too"). And croissants. Not all at once.
A small yellow and green pill followed by bran flakes with raisins on. Or crunchy nut bran flakes if I'm feeling self-indulgent, or toast if we've got home-made bread or I'm feeling queasy. Porridge sometimes in winter, with cinnamon and brown sugar or golden syrup, and the occasional "having a red day" vast pile of sausage'n'bacon :)
Breakfast? What is this breakfast thing of which you speak?
Mostly, I suppose it's the cup of coffee I usually manage when I get to work. Sometimes, it's lunch.
Weekends, occasionally, I do real food. Full english, continental or occasionally american. But often I don't remember to eat before dinnertime at weekends.
Ticked rice crispies because we do actually have a packet in the house. I have been known to eat Weetabix or Shredded Wheat (though not recently). Would it be cheating to tick "three or more" by virtue of the fact that they are the miniature ones? :-) I think I did once eat three of the full-sized ones, just to prove a point; but generally I'd only have two.
This week I have discovered an unusual breakfast cereal which resembles miniature chocolate chip cookies. When I finish that I'll be on Shreddies (this does not mean I approve of the evil Nestlé corporation). Other things I've eaten recently include Weetos. There just isn't enough variety in the poll questions.
If I am on holiday and they have porridge then I'll quite often have that. And the bacon-sausages-and-eggs type breakfast too, if it's on offer. If in the USA I might have pancakes.
There was a time when I always had a cup of tea at breakfast time. These days I don't generally bother (except, as some people say, that there's milk in the cereal bowl). If I do bother, it'll generally be a glass of Ribena.
I'm slightly surprised by the number of people who say they take large numbers of pills with their breakfast (I bet you wish you'd taken the blue one).
I'm slightly surprised by the number of people who say they take large numbers of pills with their breakfast
If your pills are to be taken with food (or you're an odd sod like me who can't take pills without food) then breakfast is a sensible time to take them as it's the meal you're most likely to be home for (which means that for one-a-day pills you don't have to worry about carrying a stash around with you).
Currently just on one multi-vitamin+iron. Run out of dried frog (not that I'm sure it was doing me any good anyway). Cereal of preference at the moment is Tesco's nut clusters with chocolate -- they're about half the price of the Kellogg's equivalent and nicer.
There appears to be no tickybox for "last night's pizza", quite a popular choice of breakfast at my house, likewise for "Coke" or "Lucozade", which I usually have in order to get my heart started first thing in the morning before putting the kettle on.
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Date: 2004-05-25 03:43 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-05-25 03:56 am (UTC)Then its a minimum of a half hour wait before I have coffee; drinking anything with caffeine in it just after taking vitamin pills is kinda self-defeating when it comes down to it after all.
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Date: 2004-05-25 03:59 am (UTC)Today I had a mug of Complan, but I usually have cereal of somesort, unless I get up at the same time as
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Date: 2004-05-25 04:13 am (UTC)"milk": but only because it's poured on the cereal. I don't usually feel a need to drink a separate glass of anything with my breakfast.
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Date: 2004-05-25 04:36 am (UTC)As for the cereal, the variety in Germany seems to be wider, from what I see—especially the many variations on "Müesli". And I don't eat a specific kind but tend to have a different kind each time I'm done with one box.
Though I wish one could get hold of Shredded Wheat here... it brings back memories of a holiday in England, eating Shredded Wheat over mashed banana with warm milk in a caravan. Mmmmm. (Two biscuits, by the way.)
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Date: 2004-05-25 04:26 am (UTC)Mostly, I suppose it's the cup of coffee I usually manage when I get to work. Sometimes, it's lunch.
Weekends, occasionally, I do real food. Full english, continental or occasionally american. But often I don't remember to eat before dinnertime at weekends.
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Date: 2004-05-25 05:23 am (UTC)Normally, my first food is elevenses, sometimes lunch.
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Date: 2004-05-25 05:21 am (UTC)In profile, she'd disappear.
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Date: 2004-05-25 05:37 am (UTC)This week I have discovered an unusual breakfast cereal which resembles miniature chocolate chip cookies. When I finish that I'll be on Shreddies (this does not mean I approve of the evil Nestlé corporation). Other things I've eaten recently include Weetos. There just isn't enough variety in the poll questions.
If I am on holiday and they have porridge then I'll quite often have that. And the bacon-sausages-and-eggs type breakfast too, if it's on offer. If in the USA I might have pancakes.
There was a time when I always had a cup of tea at breakfast time. These days I don't generally bother (except, as some people say, that there's milk in the cereal bowl). If I do bother, it'll generally be a glass of Ribena.
I'm slightly surprised by the number of people who say they take large numbers of pills with their breakfast (I bet you wish you'd taken the blue one).
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Date: 2004-05-25 05:49 am (UTC)If your pills are to be taken with food (or you're an odd sod like me who can't take pills without food) then breakfast is a sensible time to take them as it's the meal you're most likely to be home for (which means that for one-a-day pills you don't have to worry about carrying a stash around with you).
Currently just on one multi-vitamin+iron. Run out of dried frog (not that I'm sure it was doing me any good anyway). Cereal of preference at the moment is Tesco's nut clusters with chocolate -- they're about half the price of the Kellogg's equivalent and nicer.
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