I always have eggs and toast and coffee; every week day without fail. Every Sunday I have pancakes with peanutbutter and syrup and my coffee. I never vary a thing. I am a creature of habit.

breakfast, schmeakfast. i want to know the identity of the "fat obnoxious forward" who fell on your left ankle last year as described in your entry of a year ago today.

Mishka rules !

Often I don't eat breakfast; mostly, given my druthers, I 'd have a gigantic Seattle-style latté. The milk portion qualifies as food, and the espresso portion is coffee bliss. Second choice is milk and cereal, third choice something like toast and bacon or bacon and eggs.

Most often, I wait for Chris to get up and he makes coffee. I'll have coffee with cream and sugar, sit down in front of the computer and then wonder why I'm ravenous when 2:00 rolls around.

the old me was a big fan of eggs and cheeses and liberal dousings with salsas, etc. and the old me weighed waaaay too much.

more recently i've gravitated toward a very small bowl of flax flakes with soy milk (much yummier than it sounds!) or a banana and piece of dry 100% whole wheat toast or 2.

very recently i've taken to skipping breakfast (i know ppl say you shouldn't). i'm only eating once or twice a day now. small meals at that... and playing soccer 3 times a week. weight is dropping off. over 7 lbs in the past 3 weeks. course i'll have another hernia and blow out a knee but i'll lose those pesky 25 lbs!

I usually have two pieces of toast with butter and Steph's home-made strawberry jam (or two Apple Toaster Strudel's, if we have them) and a cup of strong, French-pressed coffee with French Vanilla creamer.

I am a man of routine so I don't vary much at all. If I wake up a little late, I will skip the toast but not the coffee.

My ideal weekend or out-to-eat breakfast is French toast, bacon and hash browns (and coffee, of course).

Did anyone notice how many of my favorite things are "French"? It must be because of my French-Swiss-German Mennonite heritage. ;-)

Yumm-- you're all making me hungry. My favorite breakfast varies seasonally:
Strawberry season: Cinnamon raisin granola w/ fresh strawberries & skim milk.
Every other time: Quaker Oats Instant Maple & Brown Sugar Oatmeal (made w/ skim milk, heated for 1 minute, 42 seconds in the microwave), with golden raisins, walnuts and brown sugar added. If you accidently nuke it for too long, it will explode all over the interior of the microwave. With either breakfast, a steaming mug of Earl Grey is the perfect accompaniment.

Alas, most mornings I make do with a breakfast bar of some type in the car on the way to the Tri-Met stop.

Approximately 160 calories of ham, sometimes accompanied by 140 calories of orange juice. Eaten on my way to the gym where I dutifully look for JD. To no avail thus far, I'm afraid.

Gotta have breakfast to have the energy to work out at 6:30am every morning. 7 grain oatmeal (not instant) with brown sugar, a variety of dried fruits that depend on my mood, and soy milk. This mixed together is awesome.

You don't have to eat breakfast if you aren't doing anything to burn the calories, JD. Therefore, I don't suggest that you start the hearty breakfast without an accompanying work out. Sounds like Dave is there to urge you on to victory.

JD,

Dear Sweet Wife (that's a title) was out of town having breakfast with you at J & M and what did I have a hankering for? Honeycombs...I seem to be reliving my childhood.

Oh yeah! How could I forget my favorite breakfast cereal of all time:

Fruity Pebbles!

They always seem to jump into my shopping cart when they are on sale. Of course, I don't really eat them for breakfast. Three heeping bowls can make a surprisingly delicious dinner.

I mostly skip breakfast, but when I do have it it tends to be one of:

Toast & Juice

Cinnamon & Sugar Quaker Instant Oatmeal & Juice

Cereal of some sort (Froot Loops, Alpha Bits, and Frosted Flakes are all staples, here) & Juice

Eggs & Hashbrowns & Juice

Donuts!

Waffles!

But my favorite breakfast of all time is Danish Puff. (insert Homer drooling noises here)

Every morning, except for maybe one or two mornings when I'm out at the coast on vacation, I eat an organic cereal bar, either blueberry or strawberry (I alternate them), that Fred Meyer carries in their nutrition section. I'm not allergic to anything in them and they contain only 130 calories. Of course, I must have a cup of coffee with my morning bar (they're actually called "cobbler bars", which is I think a very appetizing name.) :-) They also furnish one cereal and one fruit serving, for keeping track for my diabetes and cholestrol. The exception when I'm at the coast may be to buy a fruit- or cream-cheese filled croissant or some other sweet pastry, although I kind of lost my appetite for doing that one time when I stayed in a motel in Lincoln City that had an ant problem and I found a nuked ant in the end of an apple strudel-type pastry after I had heated it in the microwave and eaten most of it. (I'll never darken the door of that motel again!) I rarely take advantage of continental breakfasts because too many times I've gotten up later than most of the other guests and there's been nothing good left, so I just plan on furnishing my own food in the mornings. I'm a creature of habit! :-)

I start everday off with an enormously large iced coffee. If I am lucky and have the time, then maybe a bowl of Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

Sidebar: Saw REM live tonight and the did not disappoint. The sound was incredible. Nothing off the Green album or Fables. When I was at Willamette with JD and Kris, the Green album was released. "Hairshirt" is still one of my favorites.