I'm so fed up with breakfast food.

[CarterBeatsTheDevil]

It's not that I don't like things like cereal or porridge or eggs on toast or waffles or whatever in principle. I'm just really bored with breakfast being this unique category of meal where you can only have certain things without being considered weird. I'd rather just have a normal meal. Maybe I want a roast dinner for breakfast. Maybe I want a Greek salad. Maybe I want a curry (do not say "kedgeree", which is just a notorious breakfast food (kippers) disguised as curry).

Is this just me? Am I a weirdo?

Eat what you want

But you can't, because other people start pulling faces and saying they couldn't possibly eat (name of perfectly normal meal you fancy) in the morning. It's a whole thing.

No, I just make what I want when I want. Reheated pizza with hot sauce is a favourite, as is curry. My friends make a face but I'm like why?

Just skip breakfast entirely and say to anyone remotely interested that you are doing 16:8.

Who sees you eating breakfast on a regular day? Surely just your household and surely you can explain it fully to them?

If you look at what people eat for breakfast around the world, almost anything goes.

Personal favourite with me is fried rice.

Who is judging you though? Surely you're eating breakfast at home so the only people there are those who live with you?

Just eat whatever you like.

I think it's cultural expectations to have certain food for certain meal times.

I personally hate the smell of savoury food first thing in the morning. So I would pull a face if you offer me a full English or even scrambled eggs or a bacon butty.

I will eat it if I know I have a long day in front of me with no plans when I can eat lunch but it's a struggle.

So the idea of non-breakfast food for breakfast is stomach revolting for me but whatever rocks your boat you can eat.

Who exactly are these "other people " who have so much sway over what you eat?

If you want a curry or lamb chops for breakfast, have them. Don't tell other people what you eat if they're going to mither at you about it.

Oh, maybe that's the problem, actually. I tend to eat breakfast out as I start early and am not normally hungry much before 8am. It wouldn't be an issue at home.

I'm the opposite, I would love to have breakfast food for every meal!

How about something like nasi goreng? Traditional breakfast food in Indonesia. Or miso soup with rice and fish, as they eat in Japan?

Can you pack breakfast and take it with you if it's hard to eat before you leave home? I don't suppose anyone else will really care that much about what you eat!

I do love a nasi goreng, it's true! But I bet we could find another thread somewhere on here where someone's posting about how antisocial it is for office workers to eat strongly smelling food at work and at least 50% of posters firmly agreeing...

I often have noodles in miso broth for breakfast 🤷🏻‍♀️ It’s lovely

I think the only weird bit is you fussing about what you think others might think about it. People don’t care and overall, they eat vastly different breakfast meals around the world

DD used to have chicken soup and bread for breakfast, preparation wise it as no more difficult than porridge. Fairly sure the salt content wasn't great but it balanced out over the day.

Yeah, that's probably true. Do you need to eat at your desk? That makes it more tricky I suppose...

You're a bit weird for caring so much about what other people think about your breakfast choices! Eat what you want.

I do agree that eating something smelly in an office is unacceptable though, so eat in your car/the canteen/somewhere that isn't you desk if it's likely to be particularly smelly.

I used to teach English to foreign language students and I remember this one class where we were talking about breakfast and at the end a quiet girl from somewhere in Asia came up to me and said she didn't want to be rude to her host family but she couldn't believe it because they served the same things for breakfast every day. In her country it would always be different. I've never really thought about it until then how weird it is that we have such a limited choice. Especially back in the 90s!

Honestly, eat what you want & just say it's what YOU like!

Due to a health issue, the food I can eat is very restricted. If I could eat what I wanted I would give a FF what anyone thought or said!!

Just have what you want, who cares what others think? I’m fed up of fruit ‘n’ fibre, but it’s my go to. Tried weetabix today and reacted poorly to it. Might try yoghurt tomorrow, or a protein bar, dunno.

I think as long as it’s not fish it’s fair game isn’t it?

No one cares what you eat for your breakfast, babe. No one cares what anyone eats for breakfast. Liberate yourself and eat what you like.

This is why I love breakfast when staying in foreign hotels. There’s always such a huge range of different types of breakfast, although I can’t say I miss roast dinner of curry not being on offer.

Leftovers from the night before always make a good breakfast.

I think the weirdest thing about me might be that I am surprised at how many people think I'm weird literally for asking the question. Breakfast food wouldn't exist if there wasn't a shared social assumption somewhere that it's what we eat for breakfast. I've never in my life, as an adult*, been offered cold pizza or curry or lamb chops for breakfast in this country, and that includes people from non-British cultures. Why? Because they think it would be weird to offer those things here, because it's assumed that you don't eat them for breakfast.

*obviously as a student you and whoever passed out on your floor the night before will reach for whatever is most readily to hand

I’m not sure, though, because I’ve definitely read that there are different traditions about what is eaten for breakfast in different parts of the world. Asia is a vast area and I’d be surprised if all countries within it habitually serve meals of infinite variety as the first meal of the day