Off topic, but interested to know your lunch menu.

Well, you certainly haven't ruined the thread!

pecan pancakes at cracker barrel is the best breakfast I've found anywhere . If I stay in its a bowl of some $5.00 cereal......probably cinnamon life..

What ? you wanna live forever........:wine: however I am planning on setting a record !!!

Yep, now we're talking! For me, if I could, every morning it would be Billy's Cafe on 441. Three over easy on corned beef hash, grits and buttered biscuits. Maybe some sausage. Take me out and shoot me. I'm happy.

At home, it's reality time and usually McCann's 5 minute Irish Oats with either Polaner Blueberry or Raspberry or lots of cinnamon, with half and half and at other times, three egg cheese omelet no bread no meat.

2 free range eggs fried sunny side in coconut oil. 2 slices multigrain bread from Philipe of the farmers market with coconut oil. 1/2 biscotti (also Philipe's) and coffee with 1/2 & 1/2. My favorite meal of the day.

Since Philipe vacations in France from July to October I bought 10 loaves of his bread and 50 of his biscotti's and froze them lol.

If it's in the fridge and good I eat it
Left over pizza, pasta, Caesar salad
Or I make eggs, pancakes
I make an awesome country fried steak breakfast

Today?............Coffee. Period.

1/4 cup of part-skim ricotta cheese with a little vanilla and Equal, a few walnuts and fresh blueberries. And coffee! Delicious

Scramble
 

This morning my husband made breakfast and we had what he calls a scramble. Hash browns, egg, bacon, cheese, mixed up and fried in a nonstick pan. Seasoned with paprika and onion and garlic powder. Vegetable juice. Earl Grey tea. Delicious.

We said, just this week, it's time for our Cracker Barrel fix! Love the eggs on sourdough.

I am too ashamed of my unhealthy lunch choices to reveal them.

I wish that would be remembered by all those who read my threads.


Are you lecturing me?

On golf days I either have cereal or nothing - then I have crackers on the course.

On non-golf days, it could be sunny side up or scrambled eggs with bacon or sausage or bagels with butter and either sugar free jelly or hot jalapeno jelly or Jimmy Dean hot sausage on biscuits with mustard or cereal with canned fruit or, if I am luck, a couple of slices of cold leftover pizza with a can of Coca Cola. If I go out for breakfast, it is usually a western omelet with grits and wheat or rye toast, unless I am at TooJay's then it is a raisin bagel to go. I also like the make your own at Denny's - over easy eggs, bacon, grits, two pancakes with sugar free syrup.

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Does the boiling water kill the live cultures in the yogurt? :)

Yummy

How does one eat a quarter of a bagel? Both in the portioning and the "that's not enough to eat" sense. :)

My blood sugar is always highest in the morning so my body is all no no no to food. I've therefore skipped the Most Important Meal of the Day ever since high school when my mother began allowing me to. My line has always been that I can't stand the thought of putting food on an empty stomach.

I get hungry and eat my first meal around 11 am, which -- getting to the point! -- today was a bowl of leftover zucchini soup and 2 sticks of string cheese.

I have a two o'clock feeding and was delighted that Nigella Lawson on the food channel raids the fridge in the middle of the night too. I thought it was just me and Dagwood.

So I will have some kind of leftover and go back to bed. I don't know why.. I always have.

And then I am not hungry for breakfast.

Yogurt that I make every week

Yesterday a friend in Columbus made four of us longtime friends the nicest breakfast. It was sliced hard-boiled eggs in a cheese sauce on whole wheat English muffins, fresh fruit, bacon, orange juice, and poppyseed muffins. A perfect sendoff of food and laughter before driving alone three hours back to hubs and dog and bird in Pittsburgh.

This morning it was coffee and a saltine left on a plate on the kitchen counter. Can't have a vanilla wafer every morning or I'll get in a rut.

Any yogurt bought in the supermarket is dead, there are not live bacteria left due to FDA regulations. If there were live cultures, you could reculture and make more yogurt. Real yogurt has the consistency of buttermilk, which is a drink. The food industry has added sugar and fillers, thickeners, which your body converts to sugar.

Only the best and true yogurt is one that you make yourself, with cultures....it is very easy. I get mine from New England Cheesemaking. One packet will make endless yogurt, using a small amount of finished yogurt to culture the next batch. And yes, heat will destroy cultures, temperature is very important.

It was my understanding that some yogurt contains live cultures. I learned to look for the Live Cultures emblem on yogurt containers. You can read more about it here Live Culture, but to paraphrase, all yogurt is made with pasteurized milk, after which the cultures are added. That is why it is allowed. Some yogurts are heat treated afterwards, which kills the cultures, but some are not. There is a list on that site of companies approved to use the Live Cultures seal.

I prefer the Greek yogurts that have not cut the corner and added thickening ingredients instead of draining their yogurts. Fage and Chobani are two still making their yogurts the old-fashioned way. Although Fage is not listed on the site as having live active cultures, it and Chobani do. I have made yogurt from adding a bit of Fage, but I can't match their taste that I like.

Butter instant grits with some half and half.

Try unpasteurized milk you will get the results you want. It is as good as fage but better. Add honey from our bees and it's good to go.

The Medium Is The Message:
 

I finally figured out the overall message: It is that no one breakfast is better or worse than any other. They are all equal in that they are meaningful individual choices.

If this message comes from a composite of many posts, you can't call it a lecture!

I still think you might be over-thinking the intent of the thread. I believe it is just for fun.

Well, okay. I'm in an agreeable mood today. :)

Yay! Thank you for your eloquent defense of my favorite Greek yogurt. Chobani. Nobody does it better.

Since I found Chobani, a few years ago, that was it for me.

I like Chobani's texture better than any others. And it is not over-the-top sweet.

Also, Chobani's carton is a dog-friendly design. Makes it so much easier than trying to polish off the bottom of a Yoplait carton.

Glad to hear Chobani is a good and proper and cultured Greek yogurt. I often have it for breakfast.

It may. We eat it because we enjoy eating the cereal. The yogurt adds some creaminess to the cereal. We also add some sugar or honey for sweetness if the berries are not in season.

Grits, two eggs sunny-side up. Break the eggs on the grits and add hot sauce.

Oh, gawwwwwwwwwwwwd! Ah LOVVVVVVES grits!:icon_hungry::icon_hungry::icon_hungry:

I went out and bought Fage on your recommendation. I am not sure how to say it.

It is thick and has not quite enough fruit for me. But I think my innards need some ALIVE lactobacillus whatchamacallit to get things going.

It's pronounced Fy-Yay, accent on the Fy. And it's Greek, so quite a bit different than, say, Dannon or Yoplait. Might not be to your taste.

My favorite is the fat-free plain. I drizzle honey over it and sprinkle granola and berries on top.

But Gracie, look for the Live Culture symbol on American yogurt.

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Here's what I eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner: Natural plant-based whole foods. No need for long conversations. :icon_hungry:

This is a fun thread. I enjoy hearing the variety of breakfasts.
I found the discussion about breakfast making Barry and Dr. Boogie and CFrance hungry to be very interesting. I realized I'm the same way.

Some of my morning options are protein smoothies, greek yoghurt and fruit, steel cut oatmeal, turkey bites, vegetable tortilla wrap and egg salad, left over pizza, whatever. I try to include flaxseed and some protein, and I often delay breakfast until late in the morning. I'd be bored stiff if I ate the same thing every day.

What is an unnatural plant-based whole food? Would that be a GMO?

Leftover Fried Ice Cream from last night's dinner at a Mexican restaurant.



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Gracie girl, try starting with a bowl full of berries and use the Fage like whipped topping. Sprinkle a little Grapenuts or wheat germ on top for crunch. Yummy! Also enjoy a pancake full of blueberries and sugar free syrup or a breakfast of good cheddar cheese broiled on a toasted English muffin til bubbly and then top it with a slice of home-grown tomato. It's my favorite meal of the day!

Special K - Cheerios - Crispix........ nuff said...

I swap between a fruit smoothie and oatmeal with fruit. Coffee too.