What's your standard breakfast?

zuchy
zuchy Posts: 40 Member
edited September 25 in Health and Weight Loss
I'll start with mine, if I'm not desperately in a hurry I'll go for porridge:
20g Organic Porridge Oats
150g Semiskimmed milk
1 banana (not frozen), chopped
1 tsp brown sugar
cinnamon

It only takes me 10 minutes at the most to cook, it's delicius, keeps me full for a very long time, packed with fiber and good stuff :)

All for the grand total of 220 calories.

So what's yours?
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  • _Jessica_
    _Jessica_ Posts: 216 Member
    Two eggs cooked in olive oil on two piese of village hearth 1/2 calorie toast with a glass of skim milk... about 300 calories
  • Rosie958r
    Rosie958r Posts: 160 Member
    Oven baked fruit muesli
    Strawberries or banana on top
    1/4 cup skim milk
    Green tea sweetened with honey

    Around 250 calories
  • Enchantica
    Enchantica Posts: 117
    I start my day with a Slimfast chocolate milk shake for 220 calories.
    Before I started to loose a few lbs I would have weetabix or cornflakes in the summer and porridge with maple syrup and a chopped banana. I'm not very good at portion control so having the milkshake is ideal for me at the moment - plus it gives me an extra 10 -15 minutes of dog walking time before work!
  • Macacadopai
    Macacadopai Posts: 183 Member
    whole wheat porridge :)
  • lacroyx
    lacroyx Posts: 5,754 Member
    1-2 eggs usually scrambled
    orowheat thin toasted with ½ tsp of light butter
    1 tsp of smuckers sugar free jam
    1 Dr. Praerger's (sp) spinach pancake. sounds gross but it's like having a hashbrown patty. low in calories and sodium too.
    2 slices of turkey deli meat. low sodium, fat.
    glass of oj
  • IanGiles
    IanGiles Posts: 54
    Simple and tasty, takes no time at all... And a tad over 400 cals.

    Flora - Pro-Activ Yoghurt Drink
    Quaker Oats - Granola With Juicy Raisins with Flora Pro-Activ - Milk and topped with blueberries, cranberries & raspberries
  • Greyhawkk
    Greyhawkk Posts: 34
    Its my biggest meal of the day.

    3 boiled egg whites
    6 oz steak
    2 pita bread
    1 tomato
    1 tblsp 0 fat ranch dressing

    bot 600 cals.....but lunch is 300 and supper 150 and snacks 150 ish as well
  • pouka89
    pouka89 Posts: 24
    I have a Muller Vitality yoghurt drink and an Alpine breakfast bar, 189 calories. It's not a lot, but before my diet I didn't have any breakfast at all, so this is a big change for me!
  • Elle408
    Elle408 Posts: 500 Member
    Porridge! Skimmed milk and Dorset cereals porridge oats and a tangerine... Same thing every day! Although now I've started having a protein shake too!
  • carinalewis
    carinalewis Posts: 84
    i did slim fast and lost 7lbs then when i ate food i put it back on. so started again with fruit and fibre with semi skimmed milk for breakfast and have lost 5lb this week!
  • Mountain_woman
    Mountain_woman Posts: 229 Member
    1 whole egg + 3 egg whites with homemade pico de gallo (powdered garlic too!)
    and a banana.

    227 calories. Makes me happy and keeps me full till snacktime.
  • jgoff3003
    jgoff3003 Posts: 189 Member
    1/2 cups kellogs special K
    1/4 kellogs all bran
    1/4 skim milk and 1/4 water
    1.5 cup green tea (my massive mug)
    and a piece of fruit or a tub of weight watchers diced peaches if I am out of fresh fruit.
    150 to 200 cals
  • suzycreamcheese
    suzycreamcheese Posts: 1,766 Member
    2 weetabix with skimmed (187), or 2 shredded wheat with skimmed milk (213 cals)and a bit of splenda. Sometimes dorset cereals apple and raisin porridge with skimmed (160)

    If im not going to be exercising much that day ill have puffed wheat with skimmed (100-120 cals )and splenda

    I drink coffee too
  • kikisf
    kikisf Posts: 58 Member
    old fashioned oatmeal currants dried cranberries milk and a scoop of whole foods vanilla whey protein (stevia) 260 cal 23 carb 22 protein
    or
    2 eggs scrambled topped with casa sanchez fresh salsa and a tbs of sour cream
  • hellen72
    hellen72 Posts: 144 Member
    40 g oats with water
    2 min in microwave
    Then add 10g scoop vanilla protein powder, flakes almonds and maple syrup
    Approx 300 cal
  • fatlass70
    fatlass70 Posts: 136 Member
    Weekdays : Oats so simple porridge with semi-skimmed milk plus a mug of tea and / or a coffee! around 220 cals

    Saturday or Sunday : 1 slice of wholemeal bread spread with 2 teaspoons of ketchup and filled with 2-3 slices of grilled smoked bacon plus a cup of coffee. From memory (as I haven't had it this weekend!) this is about 250 cals and my delicious weekend treat!
  • HollyRutledge
    HollyRutledge Posts: 250 Member
    3/4 cup steel cut Irish oats
    1 tblsp Honey
    1 tbsp natural peanut butter
  • Picky_nikki
    Picky_nikki Posts: 405 Member
    Protein/Fruit Smoothie
    1/2 c 0% Greek Yogurt
    1c raw Kale
    3/4 cup frozen fruit
    1 scoop protein powder
    1 Tsp Chia seeds
    2 scoops of ice

    This makes a HUGE smoothie, and I sip it all morning. It ends up being my snack too... but it is filling, and has lots of protein, and fruit and veggies

    Or I have 235ml of cooked steel cut oats, with 1tsp Chia seeds, either apple sauce (unsweetened) or Pumpkin puree a tsp of almond butter, and 1/8 c nature path granola, or panda puffs, sometimes have greek yogurt on it as well...
    Yummy but higher in calories than the smoothie, and takes more time to make and eat in a sitting.

    I tend to try and keep my breakfasts around 300-350 calories so I stay full longer, and have the energy to take on my day.
  • karenjoy
    karenjoy Posts: 1,840 Member
    a banana....I know I will get told off. But I will qualify, I used to eat more, cereal or toast etc and would ALWAYS be hungry mid morning, also I have a VERY noisy digestive process, my stomach growls and pops like you would not believe, I work in School Nursing and would have to tell the children I ate a lion for breakfast!
    I have found for the last 7 months that if I have just a banana and a coffee first thing then I am fine, sometimes I have a second piece of fruit at about 11 am with a coffee, but it has worked for me. I used to eat loads for breakfast and spent all morning feeling hungry, I now eat a banana and hardly ever get hungry. It's weird I know.
  • Lewzy
    Lewzy Posts: 54 Member
    I like to change it up :) some of my choices include:

    30g Cheerios with 125ml skimmed milk (170 cals)
    30g Cornflakes with 125ml skimmed milk (150 cals ish?)
    2pcs wholemeal toast with 1 scrambled egg (210 cals)
    An apple with an alpen light cereal bar (130 cals)

    It really ranges from day to day depending on my mood, if I'm going to be walking/exercising a lot that day, how hungry I am. If I'm going to work out shortly after breakfast I'll add in a petits filous yoghurt (100 cals) or a piece of fruit to keep my energy levels high until lunch.
  • thestrand
    thestrand Posts: 6
    2 weetabix with semi-skimmed milk and a bit of sugar on the top. Only 198 cals and it keeps me going till lunchtime.

    also, although i'm up about 6.45am i only have water and a cup of tea before i leave the house - i eat my weetabix in work at about 8.15am.
  • cowlover22
    cowlover22 Posts: 309 Member
    2 pieces of diet toast with parkay spray butter, cinamon, and equal and occasionally an apple and ensure and then about 23 pills lol
  • DenShort
    DenShort Posts: 39
    175gskimmed yoghurt
    half a grapefruit
    2 tbsp milled flaxseed

    takes no time at all, 220 calories :)
  • LukeEalden
    LukeEalden Posts: 38
    1 packet of Oat-So Simple Porridge with semi-skimmed milk
    1/2 red grapefuit
    200ml clementine juice
    1 small Actimel yogurt drink
    1 multivitamin

    Really gets me started for the day, and to think I never used to eat breakfast at all!
  • mandysjourney
    mandysjourney Posts: 260 Member
    either 60g oats with 200ml full creammilk honey and an orange juice about 495cals
    or
    museli with skim milk and an orange juice about 350cals

    on 1 day of the weekend
    1 egg, 75g bacon rindless, slice of wholemeal toast and an orange juice about 450 cals

    all of these get me through to lunch
    will reduce amount of parridge as my weight drops saving a few cals. and makje it with reduced fat too
  • missy1970eb
    missy1970eb Posts: 1,209 Member
    just plain old weetabix with water instead of milk:smile:
  • lalilalu
    lalilalu Posts: 102 Member
    My two absolute favourites - Mango Smoothy - a mango (i love perth, i'm getting them for a dollar each at the moment!!!), cinnamon, some vanilla yoghurt and a bit of milk. Then I pour it into a bowl and top it with some cereal and wheatgerm.

    Or - Homemade Bircher muesli - Rolled oats soaked overnight in water, then in the morning mix in vanilla yoghurt, grated apple and cinnamon. Topped with LSA and wheatgerm...

    My favourite meal of the day!!!
  • kkellam1
    kkellam1 Posts: 182 Member
    I have either of two breakfasts. My favorite is a bowl of soup. Yes, soup. I have always been a soup junkie and I have one that I make that is a shredded chicken soup in a tomato base, loaded very heavily with 8 or 10 different vegetables and some lentils. A little on the spicy side. I make a batch once a week and portion 8-10 portions into tupperware. I have one every day, either breakfast or lunch. It's multiple servings of multicolored vegetables, loaded with fiber and comes in at about 165 calories, depending on how I make that batch.

    If not that, then a bowl of 3/4 cup fiberplus cinnamon oat crunch and 1/2 cup skim milk with a banana sliced into it. I typically have breakfast and hit the road for my morning walk. Then after the walk, have some fruit. A banana, apple or orange, depending on my mood.

    I leave for work full and loaded with nutrients and energized from a brisk walk, but typically in the net negative on calories. Breakfast is under 300 calories and my walk burns right about in that neighborhood. I pack a snack of either a fruit or a few pretzels for midmorning.
  • Kelly_Pete
    Kelly_Pete Posts: 6
    old-fashioned oatmeal and blueberries (or sometimes blackberries). with some cinnamon and a tsp. of whole flaxseed.
  • BrownEyedG1rl
    BrownEyedG1rl Posts: 625 Member
    I usually rotate the following:

    3 eggs white, 1 whole egg scrambled with a little salsa and low fat cheddar cheese
    Chobani plain yogurt with 1 packet of Splenda and a pack of 100 calorie almonds or walnuts
    Breakstone's 100 calorie cottage cheese doubles
    2 whole wheat waffles with 1 Tbsp whipped cream cheese, 1 Tbsp reduced fat jelly

    A cup of coffee or chi tea is always included as well.
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