I always eat the same breakfast:

Workdays = 2 slices toast and 2 hard-boiled eggs

Non-workdays = bowl of oatmeal and 2 scrambled eggs

Sometimes I top it off with a piece of fresh fruit or a few pieces of dried fruit, that is the variable.

Scrambled eggs, add a dash of hot sauce. Toast or English muffin. For excitement, put the scambled eggs ON the muffin and add a slice of cheese. Egg McYou! (When DH makes this we call it Eggs McDH)

Same weather here, with an ice storm, a bomb cyclone, 60 MPH winds, power outages. Now it's going to be 40 and rain next week, what a roller coaster of weather.

My usual daily breakfast is one egg over easy, one slice of toast, black coffee. Repeat endlessly.

I do like oatmeal, occasionally with fruit and a drizzle of maple syrup, but I like it better with a spoonful of parmesan and lots of black pepper, maybe an egg on top. Any cheese would do, I think. I've also stirred peanut butter into the oatmeal and I have a pan of baked oatmeal with apples and cinnamon in the oven now. I eat it plain but some people eat it with some yogurt and fruit.

I make hash for supper, with or without meat, and warm that in a skillet in the morning with an egg if there's no meat. Chorizo and cheese with warm tortillas is Elery's favorite, and he adds some beans, whatever is on hand. I prefer no meat and that over easy egg.

I made a good batch of bran muffins and those are good with scrambled eggs. I've also frozen unbaked biscuits, then baked them as I wanted them and had sausage biscuits or bacon/egg/cheese biscuit sandwiches (although I like all the pieces separately while Elery likes the sandwich).

My youngest daughter had chicken noodle soup and grilled cheese sandwiches every morning for about two years when she was a teenager, so just because it's morning doesn't mean you can't have soup. Rice pudding or bread pudding is a nice change, or really branch out and make some congee!

Annie

I don't understand your kind of cold, but do feel cold a lot, and I apreciate oatmeal. Have you tried stuff? After a similar question of my own here, I spent awhile making the long cooking,whole grain kind, by making up a number of jars at a time with oats, nuts, seeds, some times dried fruit, spices, etc., with whatever interesting was lurking in the pantry. Day before serving, added a dozen blueberries or other fresh fruit (blueberries are best), and filled with Three Trees oat milk, a jar for each, and put them in the fridge over night. ready to eat cold or to zap until warm. Turns out all that whole oatmeal didn't agree with me, but it's minimal effort and delicious.

I made a batch of rye wheat seed dough. Some were baked as rolls and others as ’english muffins’. Dense but delicious toasted.

My friend makes nice soft granola bars basically baked oatmeal.

The idea of 12 blueberries is funny to me - mostly because the wild local blueberries are teeny tiny.

I'd get bored eating the same breakfast every day. I always have a banana first and then just add a blueberry muffin and call it done. Once or twice a week I have 3 eggs over-easy, scrambled, or an omelette, a couple slices of bacon, and either toast or hashbrowns. Once a month or so, I make biscuits and gravy and have some of that for several days over the next week.

LOL! Wild blueberries are unknown to me. There was a place far north from here, but still in California, when I was little, where there was a little farm stand, where they sold blueberries. This was my first and only taste of them, but I think if we were anywhere remotely near, the folks would stop and get some. Then, when I was a young adult, blueberries came to the grocery stores. One shipment, I think, then gone. Father use to dream of seeing Maine, but I think blueberries were the prime motivation. We have distant cousins near Boston, and the folks did eventually use visiting them as an excuse to go to the NE, and see Maine, finally, but IIRC, not in blueberry season. Nowadays, I think following the antioxidant craze, most of the year we can get nice farmed blueberries at the store, probably unrecognizable to folks used to the wild ones. Ridiculous prices of course, but it gets people to eat their colorful produce. 😁

But...I didn't usually count the berries. Just grabbed about a dozen small (for here) ones. The point was a different texture and flavor.

Your seed and grain dough rounds llook delightful!

My current breakfast staple, is all about dark green leafies--and cream. I don't eat a lot of animal fat otherwise, so don't get fussed about a little cheese and cream. Perhaps not the thing to replace oatmeal with, nutritionwise. It's the "egg bake": Pile a pie plate or casserole dish with dark green leafies (my favorite is broccolini and red dandelion leaves or kale) plus whatever flavor you like, aromatics, or fruit, cover with custard, and shredded or crumbled cheese on top, 6-8 portions in a 9" pie. Actually, I should try adding oatmeal.... Could be good. ;)

Maybe too late now for today, but I recently found a yummy and very quick way to make eggs in the microwave.

https://www.thekitchn.com/jose-andres-3-ingredient-microwave-omelet-recipe-review-23748426

I use only a teaspoon each of mayo and olive oil per egg, and you can add a little cheese or other add-ins 🙂

2 eggs take around a minute and a half in my little microwave, a single egg takes 47 seconds, more or less.

During this cold and rainy weather, I like soup for my meal. I've never been a consumer of traditional egg or oatmeal based breakfasts. This morning, I had hatch chile chicken stew. It was warm, delicious and filling.

I had a cheddar cheese & jalapeno bagel with cream cheese this morning. A few days ago I made egg-bacon-cheese on an English Muffin with butter, froze them & will microwave for 2 minutes before eating.

Later this week I'll make bran muffins from scratch.....eaten with herb tea.

They sell wild blueberries in the freezer section. DH usually eats them on oatmeal as you described.

I cycle between the following: steel cut oats (soaked overnight) with side of yogurt, wheatena, cream of wheat with lots of sunflower and pumpkin seeds in the bowl, and a 7 grain flaked cereal. All cereals with salt, pepper, butter, and cream, except no cream with the steel cut oats. All savory, never ever sweet.

Every once in a while I'll have an egg and toast (Mestemacher bread), egg made in any style I feel I want at the time.

Not much help here. Just a mug of coffee. I'm usually not the slightest bit hungry until later. (10-11:00.) So I'm more of a brunch kind of gal, and it's likely to be leftovers from last night's dinner, so it's all over the map. I know I'm missing out on the healthy stuff mentioned here, but I'm OK with that. As far as eggs go, I like them scrambled with leftover roasted potatoes or in a crustless veggie quiche.

Oh Wheatena…. I love it but can’t always find it at Hannafords. Now I am thinking about Wheatena. Very sentimental.

Today’s breakfast was leftover thai curry. Which is in the ballpark of my recent breakfasts flavor profile. With rice, mixed vegs and tofu standing for oatmeal, greens and an egg.

Breakfast is black coffee.

Just out of the oven. Organic Bran Muffins with dried cherries.

I love how your rice bowl stands in for oatmeal. :) It reminds me of when I make "cheeseburger" out of ravioli. :D

Breakfast is a strange subject for me as I have been a night shift minion for my entire adult life. My first meal is almost always what others would call dinner fare, and is usually eaten 4-5 hours after i wake up. However when I return home and cook breakfast for my SO, it would be my "evening" meal, if I eat anything, which I often do not. I always go for protein for both of us. Bacon and Eggs. Cheese omelet. For him I will make a sausage egg and cheese sandwich with different types of breads to mix it up. Croissants, homemade biscuits, regular sandwich bread. Sometimes I will make it with raisin bread. I think protein heavy breakfasts serve their purpose better, if that makes sense. Fuels the brain and keeps you full longer. Carb heavy fare makes me sluggish, so I rarely make a breakfast sandwich for myself, even if it is right before I go to bed for the day. I could never abide oatmeal. My dad would call it "horse food" and I must agree. But to each their own. I think it is faster and easier to scramble a couple eggs in some butter and sprinkle some cheese in than it is to make oatmeal.

For bigger weekend breakfasts, I will make rice, scrambled eggs with cheese, bacon, sausage, and homemade biscuits with homemade scuppernong jelly for him. I have never seen anyone eat rice with breakfast before I met him. But he insists its as normal as grits or oatmeal. So what do I know?

I was recently in hospital and was served a bean & potato burrito for breakfast. It was bland, as expected, but it completely opened my eyes as a breakfast option. I now sometimes make a bean & potato burrito for breakfast -- flour tortilla, canned beans, but I nuke and then pan fry the potatoes and make my burritos with lots of onions and cheese, and serve them with my homemade jalapeno-tomatillo salsa and sour cream. yum!!! it's an absolute breakfast favorite! BF loves them too.

Like this….. :)

PM, sorry to hear you were in the hospital, I hope you are all recovered now.

I was served a potato omelette in the hospital which was supposed to be a "farmer's omelette". It had one bit of green pepper, no onion that I could find and some unseasoned potatoes in an omelette that was made from Eggbeaters. It was absolutely terrible and I didn't eat it. I also did not eat the microwaved English muffin, plain and unbuttered. Not even toasted and I get they won't give heart patients butter, but how about some jam? I think they were trying to force people to go home as soon as possible!

Your version of the burrito sounds much better!

Annie

Breakfast is my preferred meal of the day and tends to be a pretty hearty one regardless of the time of year. I am a very early riser so it's black coffee to start and I follow up with breakfast several hours later. Typically it will be eggs in some form with breakfast meat and toast or an English muffin. Sometimes pancakes, sourdough waffles or French toast (no syrup ever - just butter). Now and again I fix loaded home fries. Less frequently in the rotation is a bagel and lox, oatmeal with a sprinkle of demerara sugar or possibly dinner leftovers if I bother to cook that meal (rarely!)

This sort of breakfast keeps me going all day so almost never have lunch and dinner is hit or miss. Often just fruit and cheese or something light and quick to fix.

@party_music50...So sorry you were in the hospital. Hope your better now!

I used to make 64 breakfast burritos, lined up on the kitchen island. Took me several hours, then I'd freeze them. I used rice, cheddar cheese, sausage, then La Palmas Green chili sauce over it all. YUM!!!! They were good for breakfast, lunch or dinner of course.... @amylou321....You cook up a storm gurl!!!!!

Thank you, Annie and Nicole. All better. :)

It is absolutely miserable here… no new snow today but it’s cold, the winds are gusting at 30mph, the snow drifts in the driveway are waist high, and the power keeps going out. However, I decided to make Blintzes for breakfast! I made gluten free crepes, a barely sweetened cheese filling, and rhubarb sauce to go along. It was quick/easy to make, very tasty, filling, and definitely different.

The food at the hospital I try to get into is almost worth getting sick for 😁 you order from a menu and allow for cooking time in order to get the meal when you want to eat it, and it’s delicious. I’ve sent compliments to he kitchen after every meal.

@party_music50...sorry your power is off & on. That would be a bother, I agree.

It's slightly below zero here in Black Forest Colorado. Light blowing snow, the sun should come out Monday.

I made a dozen English muffin breakfast sandwiches with sausage-egg-cheese-butter....and froze half of them. And....the bran muffins+ dried cherries are wonderful with melted butter....

The weather is beautiful here in Oregon. Sunny, blue skies, we haven’t had rain for weeks. I just realized I need to turn my outside irrigation back on! It is so depressing. The snowpack is the worst since modern records began (1980) and the drought and wildfires this summer . . .

Breakfast was the topic? I often don’t eat breakfast. In fact until my late twenties I didn’t eat lunch either, I ate one meal a day. I was skinny too, but I don’t know if fasting for 23 hours every day made a difference.

I’ve tried to get into a breakfast routine, but there isn’t time. By the time I get dressed, feed the cats, tidy the mess people left in the kitchen, make SWMBO a latte and set it on her bedside table, who has time to cook breakfast? The markets open at 6:30 am my time.

For a while, I was eating an “overnight oats” recipe that a friend sent me. The recipe was in the form of a spreadsheet, because that’s how he thinks, with fifteen ingredients of the dehydrated, probiotic, powdered, expensive, hard-to-order kind. It was kind of like luxury backpacking food. K____ claims his $5 oat breakfast has transformed his health and shrunk his waistline, but I didn’t stick with it long enough to be transformed or shrunk.

I have also tried drinking my breakfast, in the form of protein shakes and even cartons of “Soylent”. This was convenient but unsatisfying, and I stopped the liquid brekky thing before sliding down the slippery slope to sports nutrition mixes and sucking packets of carbohydrate gels.

Sometimes SWMBO stocks my mini fridge at work with things I can microwave for breakfast - hash browns and egg bites and suchlike. These are food, I guess, but gulping down a half-thawed egg bite at my desk is depressing.

So, my occasional breakfasts are bought from the coffee shop by my office. A croissant, breakfast burrito, or bagel with cream cheese, with a paper cup of coffee. Gosh, that is kind of depressing too.

In a few months I’m moving offices, and will have a full office kitchen all to myself. I’m excited about the possibility of cooking real breakfasts and pulling real espresso shots. I’ll leave a laptop in the kitchen so that I can watch the screens while making my omelette. Multitasking!

Either a toasted gouda cheese sandwich or 4 egg yolks and a slice of toast. When I peel a boiled egg I peel the white together with the shell. I hate egg whites as much as I love egg yolks.

Always a pot of strong French press coffee with heavy cream. Breakfast is my favorite meal.

Had a guy stop me @ the grocery store and ask me which was thicker: Half & half or Heavy cream. I wondered if he was using it in coffee...maybe a request for a future house guest...? Obviously not his usual fare. ;0)

wintercat, I'm also not a fan of egg white, especially when it's boiled. I can make myself eat it if it's part of my over easy egg and cooked well, not slimy.

John, I tried the overnight oat thing, I just can't eat those. It's cold uncooked oats, even my old horse got a warm mash! And, since it was -30F here last night, warm breakfast seemed more appropriate.

I'm also not very good at planning breakfast and didn't eat breakfast for most of my life, but Elery LOVES breakfast. I usually end up having one egg, over easy, one slice of toast, now unbuttered and black coffee. This morning it was oatmeal with a little maple syrup. It's just too much bother to find fruit which I don't particularly like, or nuts or whatever, I got for quick and simple and get it over with. Elery, on the other hand, will eat anything from last night's enchiladas to corned beef hash. Put an egg on it and anything can become breakfast for him from chili to refried beans to shakshuka. I, on the other hand, cannot even think of facing something full of tomatoes or spices first thing in the morning.

Annie

Annie, I'm with you on first thing--I try to avoid early mornings, including food--but the best breakfasts I've had were shakshuka (authentic kind), huevos rancheros (ditto) and chilaquiles. Better no earlier than 9:00 a.m. and made by someone more awake than I. :D But I'll often add a hard boiled egg to whatever I scrounge together when I eat the first meal of the day. Just saying I'm happy to take up the slack... ;)

I like to bake a Dutch Baby and serve it with powdered sugar and a squeeze of fresh lemon.

I like to bake a Dutch Baby and serve it sprinkled with confectioners sugar and a squeeze of drops of fresh lemon.

I don't do breakfast. When DH gets up (much later than me) he has his little bowl of cereal. I eat some leftovers from last night's dinner, when I'm hungry (around 10-11:00.) However, we both enjoy the breakfast for dinner thing. Either a spinach, mushroom quiche or eggs, onion, green or red peppers and potatoes, or sausage, egg mcmuffin type things, and breakfast burritoes with all kinds of wonderful things stuffed inside. Yum.