What are those special things Pillog? I'm also not a morning person and only want coffee. I don't fancy anything to eat early in the day and there's no food that makes me want to get out of bed. I have porridge for breakfast because I know I need something and it's good for me.

Well, the one that inspired this was coctel campechana from a local joint. I was in the doldrums between time to get dressed, and reading in bed, remembered it was in the fridge, and that motivated me to get up and eat some (I'm a protein and veg for the first meal type). A friend has a similar get out of bed reaction to the thought of going out with her family because she likes the pancake syrup so much.

I don’t eat breakfast every day, only if I wake up hungry. I did eat breakfast on weekdays when I was working my last job as it was a long time to lunch time. But the smell of frying bacon is hard to resist. 😁

I love bacon but couldn't eat it in the morning. Nor eggs, and definitely not meat or fish. If I don't have porridge I'll have toast and marmalade or marmite and occasionally, on holiday, croissants. I also like fruit.

I don't eat breakfast. According to some studies, breakfast is a commercial idea, not a health idea.

dcarch

I am a very early riser and after a trip to the loo, my first foray of the day into the kitchen is to make coffee. Coffee is all I need for the next few hours but then I get hungry and unless I have early appointments (rarely), I fix myself a proper breakfast. I almost never eat lunch so breakfast is a big enough meal to keep me fueled till dinnertime. Maybe more of a brunch than just a breakfast :-) Eggs play a major role but really anything one can find in a diner for breakfast could be on the menu.

But it doesn't get me out of bed.......specially since I am the one that would be doing the cooking!

eta: breakfast is my favorite meal. I would rather eat breakfast - or typical breakfast type foods - than anything else. Other than maybe French fries.

You're all welcome to contribute whatever you like, but I wasn't asking about typical breakfast, but special temptations.

I’m also not a big breakfast person, and can’t think of anything that would really tempt me enough. It’s pretty rare I wake up hungry. I’m much more of a lunch and dinner fan.

ETA - Something that I always enjoyed was my mom would often make Eggs a la Goldenrod for breakfast when I was a kid. I loved them but they wouldn’t yank me out of bed.

Chipped beef on toast (with real chipped beef) but I don't make it very often. Or hash browns and eggs. My mother made Eggs a la Goldenrod too, but not my favorite.

I will have a couple krispy kreme donuts, please.

My favorite breakfast at a restaurant is an omelette and cripsy hash browns.

I don't make at home, though. It's either plain oatmeal and scrambled eggs, or on workdays 2 slices toast and 2 hard boiled eggs. Usually have some fruit, too.

Breakfast never gets me out of bed, but I eat it every day without fail, trying to get at least 20 grams of protein - lately my breakfasts are plain whole milk Greek yoghurt, sliced fresh strawberries, crushed walnuts and honey, and a boiled egg on the side, along with 1 big cup of jasmine green tea and a big cup of coffee with half & half.

I never used to eat breakfast until I had a prescription med that required it with a meal first thing in the morning, and the habit has stuck with me for years now even tho I no longer take that med.

An alternate breakfast would be cottage cheese, fresh fruit and an egg - or - a 2 egg omelet with cheese and fresh fruit, same tea and coffee, in that order.

I always save the coffee til last since that's the best part 😀

Since I live alone, it would be anything someone showed up and fixed for me! I like almost all breakfast foods, but don't like to eat right away, usually. But fix it for me and I won't say no!

I'm NOT hungry when I get up. Food doesn't sound good at all. About 10am, break time, I'm ready to eat....a breakfast burrito! I cut one in half. A cup of green chili! Or...eggs benedict. Or...a sausage-egg-a-muffin sandwich. Biscuit + gravy. All sound wonderful when you've had 4 -5 hours to build up an appetite. 🥙

Orange Danish on Christmas morning. Otherwise coffee only until 10 or 11 am.

My first meal is sometime between 9-noon, though often around 10, too. Interesting that so many of us are the same in that. I do have to break fast fairly promptly after getting vertical (I can digital nomad from bed without) for the energy. But the special thing to eat (without prep!), like the coctel campechana, or even eggy breakfast bread pudding, makes the prospect of eating in the morning delightful rather than a chore.

Today's run of the mill first meal around noon—today's usual Sunday morning was postponed (different foods if I'm eating with the beloveds). Normal for my first meal is a sandwich or a bowl of stuffed pasta in sauce or soup with sausage and veg, or an artichoke with a meat side, or a salad with protein, ... What most would call llunch”.

Today's sandwich is a medium width slice of peppers and pickle bread, mustard and sriracha, a slice of American, a garlic chicken sausage, a slice of baby Swiss, and as much arugula as would stay on (several handsful steam down to a reasonable amount). Sides of shaved beef and grape tomatoes (nibbled, not eaten up). I would have put kimchi on but the jar is stuck.

Good ”breakfast“ but the thought of it doesn't get me out of bed.

Crab. Anything crab. I like it under poached eggs and with a drizzle of hollandaise. Any breakfast potato. Homemade tater tots, or the thin rounds you could get at local restaurant until COVID-19 hit. Even better if it's both and has a side of mimosa (deconstructed preferred. Or a dash of OJ in the champagne).

OR! the huevos rancheros I make. I keep the tortillas at a minimum, and crispy. Thin spread of refried beans and runny eggs.

Biscuits and sausage gravy would be my morning guilty pleasure, but it's hard to find good versions when eating out and fixing it in the morning lasts well into brunch time.

I will admit that the thought of cold pizza in the fridge can be a motivator to get up. And I do look forward to leftover trifle on the mornings after Christmas :-) My MIL always makes trifle as her contribution to our family meal, and I'm one of the few who really likes trifle. I don't make it myself any more as it would be only me at home eating it, so I look forward to MIL's as I take home a container of leftover trifle and enjoy it as a special Christmastime breakfast :-D

I'm another person who is not a "morning person" and really just want coffee, there is no food substance in the world worth getting out of bed for. I now take a morning med that needs some food with it, and usually it's oatmeal or whole grain toast with peanut butter because it's just not worth thinking about or going to much of any effort at all. Coffee, now? That's a whole 'nother story, I might get up for that!

Annie

Usually have some toast, butter and either jam, marmalade, honey or marmite...... but none of those would get me out of bed. On the other hand, the smells of coffee and bacon would get me jumping! A big mug of coffee and a bacon sammie with butter - no sauces.... yum.

That’s how I like my bacon sarnies as well 😋

As a night minion for my entire adult life, breakfast can be a strange concept. I eat non breakfast foods for my first meal of the day usually, especially if I am working, as they are more readily available.

But if you are talking about foods that are considered "breakfast specific," I do have one. I am almost ashamed to admit it amongst such distinguished culinary company, but it is what it is.

McDonalds Sausage egg and cheese McMuffin. I do not know why I find them so irresistable. I have not gotten one in a reaaaaally long time because that just makes me want one every single day and who has the calorie allocation for that?

And yes, I can make myself a sausage egg and cheese sandwich on an english muffin at home. It is not the same and I do not know why. But if someone showed up with an extra sausage egg and cheese mcmuffin up for grabs that would for sure get my attention.

Late here, but since I just answered the counterpart thread....

a good benedict (traditional, bacon, crab cake, florentine.... maybe not salmon)

a good breakfast sandy (rustic sourdough, cheese, over easy egg, bacon)

a fresh pain au chocolat from one of 6 nearby boulangeries will get me up and out for the quick walk (<250yds)

My late husband was a fantastic cook, and would regularly make the most delicious blueberry buttermilk pancakes and waffles with yeast that rose overnight, and Dutch babies when he was feeling lazy:). I’ve never had better.

Amy, a homemade McMuffin is pretty close if you wrap it in baking paper and zap it in the microwave for about 30 seconds 😉