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A big heaping bowl of FASCISM!

No, actually, usually just a bowl of cereal. Sometimes eggs and/or bacon as well on weekends when there's more time.

The amount of Americans in the comments who don't eat breakfast is shocking

I find the lack of cheese in the comments very concerning.

Rather than tell you what I personally eat, maybe it will be useful to know what American diners serve for breakfast. You can walk into any locally-owned diner anywhere in the country and order from a menu almost exactly like this:

• Breakfast Combo: Two eggs (scrambled, fried, or over easy/medium/hard), meat (bacon, sausage links, steak, or ham), and a carb (pancakes, toast, a biscuit, or hash browns)
• Biscuits and Gravy: Two biscuits with sausage gravy over the top. Sometimes served with an egg.
• Pancakes: A short stack is 2 and a tall stack is 4. Served with maple syrup.
• Skillet/Omelet: Eggs scrambled with onions, bell peppers, cheese, and meat. An alternate version, sometimes called “loaded hash browns,” uses hash browns instead of eggs.
• Breakfast Burrito: An omelet wrapped up in a tortilla. May be smothered with red or green chili sauce for a Tex-Mex spin.
• Oatmeal: Boiled oats with fruit, granola, syrup, etc.
• Eggs Benedict: Poached egg on an English muffin with ham and hollandaise sauce.

And then each diner will have their own “famous” specialty, like stuffed French toast, “home fries” (pan-fried potato chunks), huge pancakes, or sausage made in house. It’s hard to go wrong though, American breakfasts are consistently pretty tasty.

bagel and cream cheese, with coffee.

Cigarette and THC vape normally. I don't feel hungry for the first several hours I'm awake

Greek yogurt, walnuts, craisins, pumpkin seeds, hemp hearts, chia seeds, maybe cinnamon, maybe a dash of honey, possibly some frozen fruit if I feel like waiting for it to thaw a bit. Coffee with a dash of oatmilk.

Used to be Coffee and cigarettes, but now it's just Coffee and shit posting.

2-3 Eggs, a Sauage of some kind or bacon on on rare occasion, and a fruit smoothie usually. That's been my thing for the past 15 years or so. If it has to be quick I do oatmeal with peanut butter and fruit.

Last night's leftovers or oatmeal and fruit, usually. Maybe some toast or eggs depending on the mood. I'll occasionally go to the ma and pa diner down the street for some waffles or pancakes, but that's more of a treat than a real breakfast.

Edit: also coffee or tea. A strong irish breakfast with cream and honey is my favorite

Nothing, or very little. Today I had a piece of white bread and cut of cheddar cheese before I went to work. The bread pairs well with Prozac and other anti-depressants.

I might be weird, but I often just have leftovers. Or sometimes I'll throw a frozen pizza in the oven, maybe have some salad, whatever.

On work days. Coffee and a banana when i wake up. Some oatmeal a bit later. On non work days, nothing.

it varies

been enjoying granola, some berries, and a coconut yogurt recently

breakfast burritos are popular if I have time

sometimes I just drink 14 grams of ground flax seeds mixed into water and a spoonful of peanutbutter

a lot of times it's just whatever leftovers are in the fridge

on a Sunday I might make a more traditional breakfast (toast with jam, eggs, sausage, and cooked greens)

If I have time, espresso + avocado toast with adobo & chili flakes, topped with a fried egg.

Otherwise, just a coffee.

Coffee, coffee, toasted English muffin with peanut butter and banana during the week. On weekends eggs n such.

Bagel with cream cheese is my goto

Edit: 11 hours later, I can confirm: it was my goto

Always coffee. It's about a 50/50 split between yogurt bowls prepped the night before with cacao nibs, bananas, some other fruit, walnuts, some natural peanut butter and a little real maple syrup. If not that then we will have eggs (from backyard chickens) and toast.

On the weekends we will make pancakes or breakfast tacos (normal go to is bacon and egg, but really like potato, tomato, onion, egg, and cheese).

Americano, and two slices of multi grain toast with butter

Workout days (3 a week) I eat an egg/feta cheese/spinach scramble with 1 chicken breakfast sausage and about 1/4 cup of sweet potatoes. I meal prep these and keep them in the freezer.

Any non-workout day it's non-fat Greek yogurt with half an apple, 1/4 cup protein granola, and 2 TBSP of PB Fit powder.

I like toast, eggs, and coffee for a work day and whatever Im feeling for a free day (which tends to be toast, eggs, sausage, and coffee lol I usually do wheat toast and i get ground sausage tubes because they're easy to freeze and such)

Normal day:

• Breakfast cereal (my favorite is corn flakes with sliced banana)
• Oatmeal
• Eggs and toast (scrambled or over medium)
• Leftovers (may or may not bother to reheat)

When I'm feeling fancy:

• Breakfast burrito
• Biscuits and gravy
• Loaded hash browns
• French toast

Sometimes I'll also just be in a weird mood and make dinner for breakfast, just as I often make breakfast for dinner or lunch.

My usual breakfast is:

• 3 slices lean breakfast ham
• 2 eggs over-easy
• 1/2 avocado, mashed, with lemon juice, salt, pepper, and Japanese 7 Spice
• 300g strawberries
• Yorkshire gold tea
• Water

I toss that ham in the frying pan, brown it and put it on the plate, top it with the avocado mash, and then top that with the eggs. Strawbs go on the side.

It's 478 calories and has a decent amount of protein (28g) to start my day, plus 10g fiber, and it gives me good energy for my workout. Plus I never get tired of it!

Banana pancakes - just an egg and banana mixed together into a batter and fried for a few minutes. I throw on some frozen strawberries usually and its quite good