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When do you eat in the morning?

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Daisychain67 · 15/01/2026 00:10

I struggle to eat in the morning but am trying to put on weight and want to start eating breakfast. I don’t usually have time to eat before I take my child to school and if I’m working I don’t eat until after 8pm when I’m finished, or I will start doing chores and end up just snacking during the day when I’m at home.

At what point in the morning do you eat breakfast?

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Jambags · 15/01/2026 00:14

At anytime I have 5 minutes to inhale some toast but I have a 6 month old 😂.
One thing I keep telling myself I must do (because I used to do it on my WFH days) - and one day shall (again)...
Is create a little lunch box for myself that can be eaten at any point of the day whenever I'm hungry or have a chance to get some fuel. Doesn't have to be breakfast food or lunch food, just a few things that I can put together and portion out that are there ready to go if I fancy them.

fishtank12345 · 15/01/2026 00:19

I have started having brunch, can do it between 11 and 12. Works for my schedule better. Then I aim to have a snack around 4pm to keep me going, then dinner when I can make it normally around 7pm sometimes later, then some supper maybe a yogurt bowl or whatever. I must add I do not get up early so brunch isn't too much to wait for me, but I tend to drink tea when I get up.

Mistyglade · 15/01/2026 00:25

Nothing except a black coffee or 2 til 2/3 o’clock. I feel sick if I do.

Arlanymor · 15/01/2026 00:28

fishtank12345 · 15/01/2026 00:19

I have started having brunch, can do it between 11 and 12. Works for my schedule better. Then I aim to have a snack around 4pm to keep me going, then dinner when I can make it normally around 7pm sometimes later, then some supper maybe a yogurt bowl or whatever. I must add I do not get up early so brunch isn't too much to wait for me, but I tend to drink tea when I get up.

Pretty much exactly the same here - if I eat before 11am I tend to feel sick. I'll have something like shakshuka - really easy to prepare the night before, just need to make the eggs and heat it up. Then I'll have yoghurt and seeds/fruit in the afternoon and then dinner between 6pm and 8pm depending on what I am doing that day. I drink herbal tea in the morning and then water in the afternoon, or maybe squash if I feel I want something a bit sweet.

Ihad2Strokes · 15/01/2026 00:31

Around 12/1 I have Greek yougurt & an Actimel, but only because I need to take medication that's better taken after food I never used to.

I'm trying to eat earlier in the evenings, but I'm just not ready for anything until 9pm.

Mañanarama · 15/01/2026 00:33

A couple of cups of tea then I have a boiled egg and a pint of water around 10am. That generally means I don’t each much lunch but I’m bloody ravenous by tea time. And then it all goes to shit.

If you’re trying to gain weight I heartily recommend lying on the sofa of an evening mainlining cheese and chocolate. Works for me. Pah.

suki1964 · 15/01/2026 00:33

Im away out the house at not long after 5am and busy in work till I finish at 10an, Now some mornings it may feel like my throat is cut by 8am when Ill take a yoghurt or something smilier but usually I hold on till 12 ish and Ill start with fruit and yoghurt and move on to eggs or fish if still hungry

I dont eat to the clock. Eat when hungry and to my fill

Oooonoooeee · 15/01/2026 00:40

I find the earlier I eat ,particularly carbs makes me eat rubbish food for the rest of the day.
So I don’t eat until 4pm ,quick snack and then protein meal about 6pm .

mondaytosunday · 15/01/2026 01:33

10 or 11. I don’t work in an office. When I did I didn’t eat breakfast. Can you prepare something the night before to take with you to eat when you get a moment?

EmpressaurusKitty · 15/01/2026 03:09

On normal days, overnight oats with yogurt, kefir, nuts, seeds & fruit when I get up, which is between 5 & 6am. It takes 5 mins prep the night before.

If it’s a gym morning, a protein snack after exercising.

Then main meal at 12 or a bit earlier, some fruit around 3 & nothing after that.

I know most people do it the other way round but I wake up hungry.

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