I love going out for breakfast on any day except Sunday. Too crowded,screaming kids,harried waitstaff. Not for me. I eat breakfast out often though. I don't order things I could easily do at home. I like to have things like omelettes, burritos stuffed with eggs,chili and topped with Spanish sauce, steak and eggs, pork chops and eggs, Hawaiian waffles, and other things like that. Breakfasts that I don't usually keep the ingredients on hand for and would have too much leftover if I bought them. We are fortunate enough to have several good mom and pop places to eat at so i don't have to deal with the chain food "steamed" eggs and pre-cooked bacon stuff. We have a lot of Mexican places that serve a killer breakfast too. There's one place I love that serves breakfast all day a bit farther away. I don't normally like "skillet" breakfasts but they have a breakfast called the "Kitchen Sink" on the menu. It is potatoes,onions,peppers,ham and cheese topped with eggs however you want them. What makes it sooooo good is the potatoes are diced teeny tiny and are brown and crispy on all sides without being hard. It's served with your choice of toast,pancakes or biscuits Gravy if you want. I can't even finish a half order. I get mine with bacon instead of ham because I only like ham as dinner or fried really well. They always do the bacon diced and crisp before mixing it in. Yum.

For years, every Sunday I prepared a big breakfast for my family. It varied little from: sausage or bacon or both; homemade biscuits; fried or scrambled eggs; hash browns; gravy; and orange juice, tomato juice, or apple juice. Occasionally, we would have pancakes instead of the eggs, hash browns, and gravy, but always with homemade apple syrup, as well as maple syrup (not home made). Those were the days we could afford calories every week.

I had overnight oatmeal, milk, an orange and coffee. I had mixed apple cinnamon greek yogurt into my cereal, not a type I tried before. I love apple and/or cinnamon but for some reason it didn't seem right with the oatmeal. I think I will stick with my usual yogurt flavors of orange, pineapple or lime.

I also like oatmeal, sometimes I like it savory with a sprinkle of parmesan and salt and pepper. Other times I'll have it with a drizzle of maple syrup or a spoonful of homemade jam. I seldom have it for breakfast, though, it's more likely that I'll have it for a quick supper. Here it was a special breakfast, my grandson spent the night and it was his 14th birthday. Breakfast request was scrambled eggs with cheese, bacon and crepes with Nutella and powered sugar. The smell of bacon got him right out of bed, LOL. I had one egg, over easy, and a slice of toast, like pretty much every other day. Black coffee for me, chocolate milk for the birthday boy. Annie