I had 3/4 cup of bran flakes with half a banana with 1/4 cup skim milk and 14 cup French vanilla creamer poured over it. I know, I know. What good does it do to use skim milk, if I add sweetened creamer to it? My excuse is that Maggie (cat) loves what's left in the cup. I add water, so that she gets some extra liquid. :>)

I'm not sure I even know what a grouse is!

1 strip bacon,1 hard boiled egg and a piece of whole grain bread toasted....and i think thats enough darn cooking before 9am.

Grape pie? Rendering hooves? Goodness. Actually, there is a thread on the cooking forum about oxtails in quite the same manner. Guess things don't change too much over time.

I don't eat breakfast either. The HealthPlus people keep telling me it'll help me lose weight if I were to eat breakfast. I don't see how eating eggs benedict smothered in hollandaise causes you to eat less, but, there it is. Maybe they mean more like Pam and M eat??? (((grins)))

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Same every morning -- cappuchino froma Mr. Coffee with skim milk, artificial sweetener; about 1/3 cup oj; English muffin, toasted, with my salade de thon piquant a la creole, namely, tuna mixed with olive salad, minced scallion, a lot of dijon mustard, a touch of mayonaise and some Louisiana Hot Sauce.

My uncle and I had breakfast at a restaurant at the Minneapolis airport, where we both had a two-hour layover on our way back to our respective cities from my uncle's and his brother's funeral. I had chorizo con huevos and he had huevos con queso. This might be the longest, un-interrupted, one-on-one conversation I've ever had with my uncle, who now lives in Dallas. I am grateful for having had the layover.

Calliope, up until a couple months ago, I could have sent you a spare grouse. (Not that you're not perfectly capable of getting your own!) My dad's bird dog, who will fetch any other game bird with textbook precision, will not put a grouse in his mouth. Either Izzy or my brother's dog needs to retrieve those.

My paternal grandma used to cook like the description in your post. She and my grandpa had 11 kids and at times other relatives lived with them... and a lot of other people just "happened" to show up around dinner time. Her ingredients were not gourmet, but her cooking was top-notch. They lived in a 900 sf 3-bed 1-bath house, but she cooked for an army, and usually made veggies three different ways to accommodate picky eaters. They were dirt poor, but ate like kings. There were never leftovers.

Not having a dog anymore, I usually end up eating the small leftovers from the evening before. Today it was carrots and beans, a scrambled egg and a thin 2x4" slice of turkey breast. If I don't have any leftovers, it's oatmeal and some fruit and always tea.
What I would prefere is a good old German breakfast, fresh, still warm hard rolls, butter, jam and or cold cuts.

Pop Tarts and chocolate milk. I know, I know. It's better than nothing.

I have nothing against a good breakfast, but the thing is I don't want it the first thing in the moring. I have been known to have breakfast for lunch, and even supper, on occasion.

First thing is a mug o' very milky tea. I cut out the sugar a few months ago. Just ain't the same. Crunchy p-nut butter on multi grain bread eaten in car as drive to work. I always have crumbs on me when I walk into the office. Then it is my first cup of coffee. My staff gets to work a 1/2 hour before me and always has the coffee made. She never has to worry about getting fired.

Pretty standard breakfast. Half grapefruit, bowl of oatmeal. Yes, there is cream on it. 2 cups of strong tea and an English muffin with jam. This morning I sneaked one of Leone's oatmeal cookies to, they are healthful, they have oatmeal in them

Two cups of coffee/two toaster strudel without the glaze--the coffee while I check the news online, the strudel while I am throwing myself together for work. I love the strudel and probably prefer it to the eggs, biscuits and sausage that is our usual Saturday fare.

No breakfast consistency here. Yesterday, nothing. And I'm out of chicory coffee, my most consistent breakfast treat. For the past couple of weeks, I've been rationing out to myself some really nice fresh-laid eggs from the Madison farmers market. I haven't found any local ones anywhere near as good. Otherwise, I usually eat leftovers or toast. Maybe today I'll whip up a banana-and-skim smoothie.

Neil--olive salad? Do you have a local source for the real stuff (meaning something along the lines of what they use at Central Grocery)? I've been hoarding my last jar of NOLA-bought stuff.

About olive salad --

Hyde Park Produce sells something called "Yo Yo's Olives" that includes hot pickled celery and peppers and other odds and ends. I use that, chopped up, when I've got it.

Otherwise, I just chop up regular pimento-stuffed olives or use salad olives and then maybe liven things up with some chopped gardiniera. If I happen to have some pickled watermelon rind, I'll chop up a few pieces and throw that in.

I've tried making it with Zatarain's Creole Mustard, and it works fairly well but you need to increase the hot sauce to maintain the bite.

King syrup on oatmeal pancake (already made up, so just popped the frozen disk into the microwave); apple cider. The syrup made it sorta high calorie, but the rest is healthy enough. Glass of skim milk.

I think the size of the breakfast is directly related to the usual physical activity of the consumer. Back when I got up at 0430 to bike-deliver papers over a 5 mile route, I probably tucked in a couple thousand calories via pancakes, eggs, bacon and several pieces of jelly-topped toast. But that was followed by a full school day, a couple hours doing yard and garden work, an hour to fix dinner and make breads and desserts, cleaning house the old fashioned way - no vacuum or steamer; then babysitting and homework. No car, so transportation was shank's mare or bike. Oh yes, and I played baseball with the neighbor kids a couple times a week and eventually took up other sports at school which involved biking 8 miles to/from the school.

I think you're spot on with it relating to one's activity level meldy, as I have to think ahead when I am remodeling and eat well the night before and then stock up in the morning too. Forget either one and I am waning come midday.

For me it definitely has to do with what my activities are.
Most days I have walked 4 miles before breakfast. If I don't walk I usually have a cup of tea and 2 to 3 hours later eat something.