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What do you eat for breakfast - and where are you from?

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RomanticWalksToTheFridge · 01/05/2017 07:25

I suffer from inspiration failure over breakfasts so am curious what people eat and what they were brought up with.

My DM had Scottish parents (but did not live there) She ate porridge with butter and salt, or mince and peas on toast.

DF grandparents were Russian and they usually had bread with butter and sausage/ fish

I grew up mainly with toast and butter and a glass of milk.

We have usually toast with jam/ nutella or eggs.Rarely to never cereal and pancakes at the weekend. School days DS very often has a ham sandwich in the car as we have a 40 minute drive to school.

Just curious really as I am thinking of making French toast today and realised I have never ever made it in my life!

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Cantseethewoods · 01/05/2017 12:30

From the uk, live in Hong Kong.

Really varies tbh- sometimes I'll just have a soy latte and that's enough. Sometimes mashed avocado on oatcakes, sometimes chia pudding made with almond milk, sometimes 2 hard boiled eggs.

DameDoom · 01/05/2017 12:30

Yorkshire here. I low carb so have:
boiled eggs
kippers
slices of Emmenthal with cherry toms and cucumber
egg, bacon, black pudding
avocado
cold meats

roarityroar · 01/05/2017 12:34

Gently scrambled eggs with avocado, sometimes crumpets

MusicToMyEars800 · 01/05/2017 12:34

I'm always ravenous at breakfast time so try and have things that require as little prep and time as possible.
Egg on toast
scrambled egg with smoked salmon
crumpets with butter
marmite on toast
porridge with apple pie fruit filling ( the princes one it's in a blue tin ) sprinkled with cinnamon
cereal
bacon sarnie
warm pastries
I'm in the UK, SE to be precise.

WorraLiberty · 01/05/2017 12:35

UK (Irish parents)

I haven't eaten breakfast since Junior school.

I love a full English, but would eat it for lunch.

Natsku · 01/05/2017 12:42

Usually either yoghurt and banana with muesli or toast with cheese and tomatoes (sometimes do a toasted sandwich with cheese, onion and tomato if I'm very hungry)

At weekends often eggs in some form e.g. baked eggs, scrambled or fried with bacon.

And sometimes leftovers from the night before.

Hangover breakfast is usually nachos with pico de gallo and sour cream

LBOCS2 · 01/05/2017 12:44

Well, for breakfast today I had a salami toastie and a large Petit Filous.

Generally I have toast, occasionally a bacon sandwich (with a fried egg if I'm feeling decadent).

DC are usually offered toast/cereal/eggs/porridge for breakfast. Sometimes I do French toast (comes under the heading of 'eggs'!). I've just bought some bagels in the most recent shop we did.

I don't think there's anything particularly regional about our eating habits, apart from the fact that DH and I are quite fond of a slice of black pudding with a cooked breakfast. We're both from London.

shockofthepops · 01/05/2017 12:55

Australia- weekdays green smoothie (spinach, banana, chia, almond milk) and smashed avocado with poached eggs or yum cha on weekends

MusicToMyEars800 · 01/05/2017 13:03

I forgot to add my all important cheese on toast with Worcestershire sauce!

MrsCobain · 01/05/2017 13:09

At the moment nothing (diet before holiday) but usually toast with marmite, (bacon sarnie or smoked salmon scrambled eggs for a treat.) I'm from Wales/England.

Dh and ds however have a full cooked breakfast everyday. Usually blueberry pancakes with maple syrup or French toast with syrup. Dh is from Maine/Sweden.

noeffingidea · 01/05/2017 13:53

If I go swimming I usually have a fried egg on toast when I get home (about 11 am)
Otherwise I just have some toast with whatever I've got in, whenever I start to feel a bit peckish. Today it was beans on toast at about 10am.
I used to have cereal when I was growing up. I still would but I end up snacking on it throughout the day , so I don't buy it.

YetAnotherHelenMumsnet · 01/05/2017 14:06

Hi gang,
We've been asked a few times to move this to Food/Recipes so that it doesn't just disappear, and we are happy to oblige.

Katedotness1963 · 01/05/2017 14:06

Scottish.

Haven't eaten breakfast since I was in high school. Hate food first thing. I'm now trying to bite my tongue over my high school aged children not wanting breakfast.

I eat an early-ish lunch (11:30/12:30) and evening meal is between 6/7.

MumBod · 01/05/2017 18:25

Porridge with peanut butter.
Weetabix with raspberries and blueberries.
Porridge with Nutella.

Toast with butter and Tiptree tawny marmalade at the weekend.

High days and holidays is full English/pancakes with bacon and maple syrup/croissants and pain au chocolat.

MumBod · 01/05/2017 18:26

Sorry, I'm in Yorkshire.

dilapidated · 02/05/2017 07:01

Tea and porridge with honey or toast / crumpets

Cereal (coco pops) when I have less time available

Weekend sometimes a fry up

Marble2302 · 02/05/2017 07:14

I live in Wales. I have poached egg, toast, tomatoes and mushrooms. If I eat cereal I am starving by 10am.

MrsRedFly · 02/05/2017 23:51

Slice of toast - half peanut butter and half jam every day - don't know why I never tire of it!

DC are having banana sandwiches every morning so no wonder why we keep running out of bread

DH likes tried eggs In the morning too!

In Scotland

Persemillion · 03/05/2017 02:08

Londoner, my mother is French, living in Brazil.

Milk and coffee,
Buttered crunch bread and half a Papaya, every day
Marmelade and soft cooked egg, occasionally.

Husband's breakfast; tea, buttered toast, eggs and bacon.

My toddler loves plain Greek yogurt with strawberries or peaches, buttered bread and bananas.

BlueChairs · 03/05/2017 02:20

Usually an egg variation - preferably poached - sometimes with avo toast, or mushrooms and radish or tomato/basil.
If in a rush I have a protein bar.
I'm from the NE, live in NW and at moving SE soon lol x

DistanceCall · 08/05/2017 11:49

Three biscuits and some cold tea with no sugar. Spain.

WombattingFree · 08/05/2017 11:55

Poached eggs, with either bacon medallions or smoked salmon. I'll normally have half an avo if they are in season. I'm British but live in the U.K. Low carb high fat has always been my brekkie though. Sometimes I have wholemeal toast.

Malgonia2000 · 12/05/2017 12:32

Originally from Poland, lived 15 years in UK and now in Switzerland. I grew up having rye bread with ham or cheese or cooked wienierli sausages. Also tomatoes and cucumber or lettuce as we try to eat vegetables with every meal.Now I have weetabix with water and milk, my son likes wienierli with rye bread or toast with Parma ham, also yougurt and actimel. Or French toast or scramble eggs. My husband (British) toast with Marmite. During weekend we have cooked Bratwurst with mustard, or scrambled eggs, also sometimes pancakes. I try to make breakfast big as I think it's a foundation of the day!

StoatofDisarray · 12/05/2017 12:44

Either 2 scrambled eggs on plain toast, or (if I don't have time) a slice of cold ham, cheese and leek frittata.

On the weekends, or if friends are staying, I will offer them granola, milk and buttered toast, marmalade, and scrambled eggs.

StoatofDisarray · 12/05/2017 12:45

London, BTW.