Dinner For Breakfast

Brandolin11
Brandolin11 Posts: 492 Member
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When dieting, a lot of people struggle with what to eat for breakfast - especially when they're trying to reduce their fat and sugar macros during the day. I think we start to feel trapped in an endless cycle of oatmeal, kashi cereal, and egg white omelettes. Blah, Blah, Blaaahhhh......

So I decided to do something about it for myself.

I opened up the definition of breakfast to mean ANYTHING I WANTED that morning.

I mean.....why do you have to eat breakfast food for breakfast? Who says? It's your life - do what you want!

When you look at it this way - you realize that the possibilities are ENDLESS.

Now I eat dinner and lunch stuff for breakfast all the time! For example:

-I eat soup a LOT. Love soup for breakfast. It's warm in the tummy and satisfying.
-Warm spinach salads with hard boiled eggs and bacon and fruit on them.
-Homemade baked asian chicken meatballs with spinach in them and rolled in panko.
-Black bean veggie burgers topped with avocado and fresh salsa
-Rolls of prosciutto or ham around a pepper jack cheese stick and some fresh basil leaves, with sliced pears, or apples, or cantaloupe on the side
-Whole wheat tortillas spread with cream cheese and stuffed with smoked turkey, cucumbers, salsa, and spinach leaves.
-Make savory oatmeal - cook up your oatmeal and top it like a stuffed baked potato with sour cream, bacon bits, shredded cheddar, chopped scallions, and diced tomatoes.
-Make (whole grain) savory pancakes the same way - top with veggie sausage and a fried egg and some salsa

Or just make any casserole, salad, sandwich, etc. you want! Get creative! All that matters is the calories anyway, so who cares if you fit the American norm of breakfast? :D

Any other ideas/suggestions?

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  • GorillaNJ
    GorillaNJ Posts: 4,024 Member
    I do the opposite and have omelettes for dinner!
  • ktsimons
    ktsimons Posts: 294 Member
    Me too...dinner for breakfast and breakfast for dinner...I eat all sorts of food at the wrong time...
  • Zylahe
    Zylahe Posts: 772 Member
    I like cake for breakfast. ( i'm going to eat the cake anyway, at least i save myself the breakfast calories)
    Also in asia they often eat what we consider dinner for breakfast

    And i often do sweet cereal for dessert
  • awtume9
    awtume9 Posts: 423 Member
    I could eat breakfast for any meal of the day so this doesn't apply to me, lol.

    But none of that boring breakfast food, it's all about eggs, bacon, toast, coffee. yum.
  • Brandolin11
    Brandolin11 Posts: 492 Member
    I like cake for breakfast. ( i'm going to eat the cake anyway, at least i save myself the breakfast calories)
    Also in asia they often eat what we consider dinner for breakfast

    And i often do sweet cereal for dessert

    Chocolate Cake For Breakfast! (Bill Cosby)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuamlBQ2aW4
  • Zylahe
    Zylahe Posts: 772 Member
    Also i forgot to include my references
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9069276/Chocolate-cake-breakfast-could-help-you-lose-weight.html
  • WhataBroad
    WhataBroad Posts: 1,091 Member
    I do the same thing; dinner for breakfast and breakfast for dinner! Your body really doesn't care in what order you eat!!
    Besides... I'm a rebel!! :tongue:
  • WhataBroad
    WhataBroad Posts: 1,091 Member
    I like cake for breakfast. ( i'm going to eat the cake anyway, at least i save myself the breakfast calories)
    Also in asia they often eat what we consider dinner for breakfast

    And i often do sweet cereal for dessert

    I make an awesome greek yogurt cake... totally awesome food for breaking the fast!! :happy:
  • RunBrew
    RunBrew Posts: 220 Member
    Hell Yeah. Scrambled Eggs and potatoes for dinner washed down with Irish Coffee (ok, coffee and whiskey).

    And leftover Pizza and sriracha for breakfast in the morning. maybe with beer. Breakfast Guinness is awesome! BooYah.
  • WhataBroad
    WhataBroad Posts: 1,091 Member
    Hell Yeah. Scrambled Eggs and potatoes for dinner washed down with Irish Coffee (ok, coffee and whiskey).

    And leftover Pizza and sriracha for breakfast in the morning. maybe with beer. Breakfast Guinness is awesome! BooYah.

    Guinness for breakfast for the win!!
  • PhoenixStrikes
    PhoenixStrikes Posts: 587 Member
    I'm a fan of Brinner and everything, who doesn't like bacon for dinner? But, I think my issue with dinner for breakfast is that it just takes longer to prepare. Personally, I don't wake up early enough to cook a meal and I'm usually not hungry enough for anything heavier than a bowl of cereal. More power to you though. :drinker:
  • TheEffort
    TheEffort Posts: 1,028 Member
    Love it!
  • RunBrew
    RunBrew Posts: 220 Member
    Guinness for breakfast for the win!!

    I'm a little ashamed to admit this publicly, but in my 20's when my metabolism was a raging inferno, and I ran collegiate Cross Country and Track, my roommate and I agreed that we would see who could go the longest on a diet SOLELY consisting of Guinness and Bacon.

    I think we both regretted the decision by about the 6th day. When I caved on the 8th day and quit, my roommate told me he had simply stopped eating after breakfast on day 7, and would rather be hungry than ill from beer and pork.

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