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Do you bother with Breakfast?

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  • 13-11-2007 10:03am
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 337 ✭✭


    It just dawned on my that i'm the only one in this house who ever eats breakfast. And come to think of it, quite a few of my friends don't eat breakfast either. They usually wait until 11 or so in the morning and then just grab something to nibble on.

    Do you bother with breakfast and if so, what would you normally have?

    Typical breakfast for me would be a bowl of Special K Sustain and a cupán tae.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    If I manage to drag myself out of it on time, I'll usually have a cup of tea with toast or cereal.

    Mostly just manage to get myself out of it on time to dash to the bus though, so usually wait until my first break.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 668 ✭✭✭mise_me_fein


    When I get into work I have a bar of chocolate and a cup of tea. Thank fcuk I'm quitting my job soon coz this is not a good way to live.


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,437 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


    The most I'll ever manage in the house is a glass of oj... But if I'm not running late I'll sometimes stop at the Esso and get a roll or something.. Failing that I'll get something in Spar beside my job.. I never go beyond 10am without eathing something though...


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,311 ✭✭✭xebec


    Cereal, juice and yoghurt for me... when I get up in time. Regretting my late start this morning now, sitting in a lecture and I'm absolutely starving!


  • Registered Users Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    I'm usually up by 10:30-11:30am. Sometimes I have food around 1pm and start work at 2-3pm. I will have something eat again between 9pm and midnight.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 15,381 ✭✭✭✭rainbowtrout


    yep, i make a point of having breakfast now, no matter what, i used to skip it and ended up eating junk food on the way to work and put on a lot of weight as a result, so i'm on the special k now and it's made a big difference


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,563 ✭✭✭connundrum


    Last Friday I didn't eat till 7pm, having been up since 8am :(

    More often than not I'll simply forget that eating is quite important. 4 days out of 5 I'll not eat till 1pm or there abouts.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    Im rarely hungry first thing in the morning. I sometimes force down some toast, but usually dont bother. I get a cup of tea and Mars in college, or else just hang on til 12ish and get a roll/lunch.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,047 ✭✭✭bill_ashmount


    I never have breakfast


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Gazza22


    I tend not to eat breakfast, i've been like this for years now. Main reason is that i'd rather have those few extra minutes in bed than use them preparing breakfast! ;)


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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,962 ✭✭✭GhostInTheRuins


    I never eat breakfast, probably couldn't if it tried, I just can't eat loads of stuff in the mornings


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,637 ✭✭✭kev_s88


    normally i'll have a cup of coffee and some cereal. sometimes if i have the time i'll thow in a couple of slices of toast and a glass of OJ.if i dont have time before i leave i normally stop in Spar or Centra and get a few jambons to keep me going til lunch


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    The most important meal of the day!!
    Tea, toast and OJ before I leave for work, then a big (I mean big) bowl of museli when I get in around a half hour later.
    If I didn't have brekkie, I'd be in a slump by around 10am and as good as asleep.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,367 ✭✭✭✭watna


    I'm just not hungry in the morning and I'd always rather have the extra time in bed. I do eat a bowl of cereal in work at about 9.30 though /me goes off to get cereal


  • Registered Users Posts: 421 ✭✭Aseth


    I'm too hungry in the mornings not to have breakfast so usually it's a chocolate croissant and coffee/smoothie :cool:


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,598 ✭✭✭Saint_Mel


    I'm not much of a breakfast person during the week. Usually up at 7am
    so its hard to stomach anything at that hour. Usually just have some OJ
    and then a cereal bar or something at 9am and then some fruit at 10am.

    Weekends are a different story altogether. Even though Im up around 8am
    most Saturdays, I could, and often do, murder a fry up :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 912 ✭✭✭chakotha


    Got to have coffee and cereal - only takes 2 mins if in a rush.

    Leaving the house with an empty stomach sounds miserable now - though I used to do it all the time!


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,672 ✭✭✭s_carnage


    I went through a phase of not eating until lunch at 1. I've started just having the bowl f cereal in the morning now and it makes a big difference. I've got way more energy and feel more awake in the mornings.


  • Moderators, Regional North East Moderators Posts: 12,739 Mod ✭✭✭✭cournioni


    I didn't bother with breakfast at all up until I was told my one of my football coaches that I had to lose some weight as ironic as that sounds. It is true what they say though, breakfast is the most important meal of the day and I have a bowl of Special K or Weetabix every day now. I lost 2 and a half stone since the 1st of February and am feeling great!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 114 ✭✭aido182


    Breakfast.... Irun out of the house (late as usual), stop at a garage for a coffee and chocolate. Hardly ideal :(


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,106 ✭✭✭MoominPapa


    I usually have porridge, oj and two cups of coffee first thing and then something else when I get to work, this morning potted herring on toast yum! Then a tracker bar or some such with tea at 11ish, all interspersed with fruit snacks until lunch.
    Wait a minute:
    First breakfast!
    Second breakfast!!
    Elevenses!!!
    Snacks!!!!
    I'm not a Moomin, I'm a frekin Hobbit:eek:


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,817 ✭✭✭podge018


    I've been forcing Flahavan's Quick Oats porridge into me for the last month. Don't really be hungry then till 11ish, I could make it to lunch but I have a bag of popcorn to tide me over.


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    PORNAPSTER wrote: »
    I didn't bother with breakfast at all up until I was told my one of my football coaches that I had to lose some weight as ironic as that sounds. It is true what they say though, breakfast is the most important meal of the day


    Yup, I'd believe that.
    If you don't brekkie, your depriving your body of it's most important meal / energy source for the day ahead.
    Anything you put in after that, your body will try to conserve as fat as 'backup'.
    If you eat well and regularly, you can actually lose weight!
    (*part of balanced lifestyle etc...)


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,383 ✭✭✭emeraldstar


    Porridge all the way, my man!! And tea of course. Couldn't function without tea in the morning.

    I can't understand people who don't eat breakfast, I'm always starrrrving when I get up, no matter what time it is.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    whiskeyman wrote: »
    (*part of balanced lifestyle etc...)

    bah, always a catch!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,497 ✭✭✭✭Dragan


    Omlette

    4 egg whites, 2 whole eggs
    chopped cherry tomatoes
    chopped red onion
    chopped mushrooms
    sometimes i stick in some cheese.

    2 pints of water.

    Thats everyday.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    Dragan wrote: »
    Omlette

    4 egg whites, 2 whole eggs
    chopped cherry tomatoes
    chopped red onion
    chopped mushrooms
    sometimes i stick in some cheese.

    2 pints of water.

    Thats everyday.
    sounds sorta nice...

    I've been meaning to get some suggestions actually. I think part of the reason why I dont eat breakfast is because I dont know of any interesting meals to have. It's all toast, cereal, weetabix, scrambled eggs......

    I have no trouble eating breakfast on the weekend, cos there's usually left over pizza or fry :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 345 ✭✭thebiggestjim


    Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Your body has not been fed for approx 8 hours, so even if your not hungry its crying out for food, especially if your training, getting any sort of exercise or yes even trying to loose weight.

    Moi
    Flavans oat flakes with milk
    100g cottage cheese (high in protein low in fat)
    Glass of Water

    or

    Flavans porridge with milk and honey
    two scrambled eggs
    water

    Three - four proper meals a day cuts out the temptation for eating rubbish. Its been said before but here goes again

    You are what you eat.


    Jim


  • Registered Users Posts: 442 ✭✭H.O.T.A.S.


    I chose a healthy routine of cigarettes and coffee in the morning. Ah breakfast of champions


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  • Registered Users Posts: 10,407 ✭✭✭✭justsomebloke


    Dragan wrote: »
    Omlette

    4 egg whites, 2 whole eggs
    chopped cherry tomatoes
    chopped red onion
    chopped mushrooms
    sometimes i stick in some cheese.

    2 pints of water.

    Thats everyday.


    see I just couldn't do all that, cause I would be dying for a pee well before I got into work with 2 pintts of water.


    For me as I am in a rush first thing in the morning it is a protein shake with a couple of pieces of fruit, then when I get into work it is scrambled eggs with 3 full eggs (probably some eggs whites aswell) with some milk


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