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I asked the other day about good alternatives to McDonald's breakfasts and it got me thinking.

My usual brekky is porridge with salt, sweetener and a sprinkle of seeds or nuts. About twice a week I'll have fried eggs on toast with a coupe of slices of faken, (Fake bacon) very occasionally I'll have a full blown fry up.

But what do other people do about breakfast when they're at home? Do you have breakfast at all? What to you eat? When do you have it?

If I were guessing I would say for instance that Ralph is a toast and marmalade man, Barry Carter is bran flakes and Tony is a cup of tea and a croissant that he bought last night from Tesco Express.

Scrambled eggs actually

I hope we can still be friends

Never have breakfast, with just 2 exceptions;

1) When Gill is with me.

2) When I stay in an hotel.

That apart, never partaken of breakfast since I was a boy.

I don't know yet. I mean, is there any toast, butter, juice, tea etc, or is it just the eggs like a wierdo?

Do you have croissants when Gill is there?

When you were young did you shovel all that sand and gravel on an empty stomach?

Standard breakfast at home daily is a bowl of Raisin Splits and a smoked salmon and cucumber farmhouse bap with an orange juice.  

Treat breakfast (once or twice a month maybe) would be a full on large english breakfast at Wetherspoons with a pint (usually around 1130am when i am in town early in the morning so i have been up a while before i have a pint!)

Toast and orange juice the vast majority of the time.  Fruit, if my food intake was particularly poor the day before.

When in hotels, fruit plate first, then optional cooked breakfast with any leftover space.

Wow! That sounds great, but what are the logistics? How often do you buy your salmon and how do you store it?

Normally smoked salmon, spinach and boiled egg with a celery and lime juice.

When in Vegas I let go and have fried chicken with maple syrup and waffle at the Wynn.   Non stop for 10 days.

This sound's great too. Like something James Bond would order.

I've gotta get me on the smoked salmon bandwaggon.

BTW- Is it served hot or cold?

Personally i think the unbolded breakfast sounds greater and would be my preferred choice daily!  

Salmon is bought weekly and stored in fridge.  What are the other options regarding storing it?

I can't eat the fruit first, I'm too impatient to get at the bacon.

Just eggs, rocket and this plummy balsamic vinegar that is much nicer than it sounds. If I am feeling a bit fruity, I'll chuck a bit of cheese in there.

Huge coffee as well

It's cold with pepper and lemon.  If I have time I make it myself, but otherwise Pret do these little pots with the same thing.  Bit of a rip off though!

Well what I meant was we buy some really nice frozen salmon fillets from Lidl, and I wondered if you bought frozen or fresh.

I didn't know fresh would keep for a week.

I love balsamic vinegar but we've just discovered balsamic glaze. We have it on loads of stuff, it's delish.

Cheese and egg. Fabulous. (speshly a bit of extra mature cheddar).

Up until a year ago i never had breakfast**,just a coffee and a cigarette.  Now i partake of a biscuit as i need to consume something prior to taking tablets,and a glass of water.


**Apart from a fry up if staying in an hotel

If it's not too forward of me Boo, can I ask if you're still smoking?

I also purchase smoked salmon from Lidl (big Lidl fan generally over Aldi as they have fresh bread/rolls etc baked on site). Salmon fillets won't be smoked and sliced i wouldn't imagine. Cracking value.  200g for £2.65 i think.  I usually buy 3 packs a week which lasts me the week and they have a sell by date of a week roughly so never had a problem. Never looked for frozen smoked salmon tbh as i have never seen the need.  The stuff in the fridge in Lidl has probably been frozen prior arrival at the shop anyway.  I don't know tbh.  The farm house baps at Lidl (29p) are the best you can buy taste wise in any supermarket imo.

Another breakfast option i like if the Salmon is running low is mushrooms and spinach on toast.

Yeah but that way round, the fruit never happens.

During the week, sausage sandwich. At weekends I'll make myself scrambled eggs with smoked salmon on toast.

Had four rollups since last October over the course of a particularly stressful week about two months ago.

Weetabix sprinkled with oatbran. At least twice a week fresh duck egg on toast. Treat BLT.

If I'm being sensible I'll have a protein shake with oats, and if not, I'll have toast & peanut butter.

No kitchen in our house at the moment, so no Sunday fry-ups here :(

I could easily only have breakfast food for every meal, I love toast, fry ups, cereal, porridge, all that shit

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Don't usually bother but if I do it's usually toast.

Why do you have fake bacon?

No, I'm not a croissant type. Gill loves them, even stores them in the freezer if she does not eat them all. They never escape the freezer, of course, ever. There's frozen home made Turkey Soup in there, all sorts of dreadful stuff which will never escape.

She generally rustles up scrambled eggs on toast or similar. Our "treat" is an American-style brekkie, pancakes, maple syrup, bacon, that sort of stuff. We are into USA style food. I took her to Walmart in Las Vegas & she purchased a trolley full of nonsense - 5 tins of Baked Beans for example (5 different styles) just because they were American. Then we had to get them home.  

When I was first in the building game, still no brekkie as such, but I frequented a café in Blackhorse Lane Walthamstow that did the best egg, sausage or bacon sarnies on hand cut doorstep bread ever.

It was an Italian place, "Rodi's", run by the Mum & Dad, (Cyril & Louisa) & children, 2 girls & a boy. It became quite famous, might even still be there as the kids were the same age as me.

Strange how we remember these things - it would have been nearly 50 years ago.

oioi, wp google, here it is.....

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Even better, I found a history of of Rodi's Cafe, which is wonderful, as I spent so much time in their, dated one of the daughters for a while too.

So I read this little tale & it filled me with joy. Until I got to the bit that said.......



http://thegrandremonstrance.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/last-days-of-rodis.html?zx=1ed270d256aac4c8

 

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Behave Fen Boy, I've already replaced it with one a tad smaller. It was for Tom, he has bad eyesight.

Too slow, sunshine, way too slow.

WP

That's an astounding piece in so many ways, not least that you should stumble across it like you did.

My Rodi's was called Josie's. It specialised in simple, filling meals for men who got dirty at work. If a stranger looked inside he would quickly walk away. The walls and floor were covered in oil and grease, but the kitchen was spotless.

My regular meal was roast beef with stew poured over it, two buttered doorsteps, a pint of tea and treacle sponge with custard.

Oh for the days when I could work that lot off in an afternoon and arrive home asking what's for tea.

Can't be doing with duck eggs. they taste like fish.

Wierdo.

FISH? behave. You sure there's not something lingering on your tash?

Maureen, please.

Where has your kitchen gone?

Have you though of getting one of these?

What were you cooking on it Tom?.

Home cured bacon. We got through about four stone of it that morning.

My brother knocked it down last month, and it is currently being rebuilt/extended.

We've a plethora of good restaurants in town, so not taken to cooking outside yet.

It's not that big a problem. Well, it's becoming a bigger problem, but that's more about me, than it is about the lack of kitchen :)

Banana, strawberries, spinach, grapes, carrots, broccoli, cashew nuts & a scoop of protein powder. Add water and smashed up in a blender to drink on the way to the gym.

Choice of veg/fruit may vary slightly but the spinach, grapes, banana and protein are ever present.

I've been threatening to try this for ages.

What does it taste like on a one to ten yummy scale and how many cals are in it?

You need plenty of fruit to overpower the earthy flavours of the veg. Scoop of chocolate protein eliminates all trace and makes it taste really quite nice. Get rid of the veg altogether and some of them rate in the 7 to 9 region. You can obviously vary the fruits to get something you really like.

Not sure about the exact calories but I'd guess in the region of 600. I need it to be reasonably high because it's a pre-training breakfast but you could cut this drastically by removing the nuts and protein powder. Probably be down to 250 or so if it was just fruit/veg but surprisingly filling. Kept me going for 4 hours when I was trimming down.

Poached eggs on Crumpets black pepper no butter.

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Regards

M

I haven't eaten breakfast properly for a good few years now. Mainly due to working nights so the first thing I eat after I get up is usually a full size dinner at 5pm.

Though back when I was 18-19 I would be out for breakfast almost every morning at the same place. A truck stop in the middle of the A30 in Cornwall called Smokey Joe's. It started as a stop for truckers, and turned into a haunt for people trying to eat their way out of a hangover at 8am.

It was standard to leave the local nightclub at 3am and see the same people you were getting plastered with in Smokey Joe's a few hours later still half cut wearing the same clothes. They did a lot of business selling cans of lager under the table for £1.50 because of it, even though I am sure they weren't licensed. The place smelt of stale beer, fags, bacon and shame.

Standard order was the Hungryman's. £5 including a mug of tea the size of a small bucket. If you felt particularly rough you could have a shower for a extra couple of quid.

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I haven't been there in a couple of years now, but I'm sure it's got a new generation of pissed teenagers queuing up outside at 8am for breakfast. I don't think I could stomach a full breakfast there now, but back when I was a teenager I would rather have food there than anywhere else. Had a Christmas dinner there one year, and it's still in the top 5 meals I've ever eaten. 

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The place will be open forever. If you're ever in the middle of Cornwall and want a massive breakfast cooked by a 15 year old kid working his first Saturday job, go to Smokey Joe's.

What happens in the middle of nowhere in Cornwall between 3am (leaving nightclub) and 8am when it is breakfast time at Joe's?

That is an incredible bfast for a fiver btw!

oh yes!

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It's like food porn.

From prior experience - you wait until 4am for a taxi, finally get to bed and at 8am the only person who didn't go out (and is fit to drive) is banging on your front door for the usual Smokey's run.

The place has been open since the 1950s, don't think they've made many changes to the menu at all. The still serve the old timey stuff like liver and onions.  

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Ok i thought the story would be more exciting that there was an illegal all night rave every weekend til you head straight to Joe's at 8am without sleeping!

Toasted bacon sandwich every day. Red sauce or hendos relish is the first decision point of the day :D

Back in my self medication days, the last thing I was doing after a Thu/Fri/Sat/Sun night was a brekkie first thing :D

Toasted bacon sandwich.....





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Having parents who have always owned cafes and having owned few myself in the not so distant past I love a full breakfast, 3 bacon, 2 sausage, fried egg, beans, tinned tomatoes, fried slice, 2 crusty toast and all topped off with brown sauce. I would eat that every day if I could without the fear of imminent heart failure. The reality is I have this maybe once every 6 months. I sometimes even construct a triple decker sandwich with Most of those ingredients. When I do I religiously start with one layer buttered toast followed by 2 sausages and the egg. The next layer is the fried bread with bacon and tomatoes, brown sauce and then the final piece of toast. I'm actually dribbling now :)

I'm usually up and out by 6:30 most mornings and don't really feel like eating at that time. On the weekend I may have 3 weetabix, half teaspoon of sugar and 3/4 pint of milk.

I bought a man pan the weekend. It's a bit gimmicky but quite useful at the same time.

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What happens in the middle of nowhere in Cornwall between 3am (leaving nightclub) and 8am when it is breakfast time at Joe's stays in the middle of nowhere in Cornwall between 3am (leaving nightclub) and 8am when it is breakfast time at Joe's?

 :D

Took me 4 read through a before I understood that :)

Same here!

- 2 for no barrier between beans and tomatoes

Otherwise a decent looking plateful.

Weekdays normally either cornflakes, special K or weetabix, and cuppa tea.
Weekends vary, poached egg on toast with brown sauce, fry up at cafe, or my fav a homemade bacon and fried egg sandwich , with brown sauce on outside of bread, and eaten with a knife n fork..........

Too posh for this forum!

Haha, if only you could see the mess i get in trying to pick em up ! you would understand why :)

That, Mr Ransom, is a proper breakfast.

Usually Crumpets with marmite and freshly sliced tomatoes or avocado but my absolute fav probably once every 3 or 4 months is cold chicken madras from the night befores takeaway with nan bread. In fact I've been known to buy two curries just so as I can have one cold for brekkie :)

So many weirdo's in this thread.

working away at the minute.

Definitely going through a smoked salmon and scrambled egg phase.  Hate it when they overcook the scrambled egg.  Normally throw on a slice of black pudding or salami to make sure I am not too healthy.  Followed by toast and marmalade/jam or yogurt and fruit combo.  All served with black tea and orange juice.

I feel a lot better after that than eating the full cooked breakfast.  If I eat that, I feel a bit sluggish for parts of the day.  Doesn't stop me enough though.

At home, normally just no added sugar alpen, weetabix or similar. 

Needless to say when I am away, the pounds go on.

I'm intrigued by this. You took a photograph of your breakfast a few years ago in anticipation of this thread?

Not really a breakfast person unless in Vegas when I have the full works every day although it becomes more brunch than brekkie. I have been known to be led astray and share a stack of pancakes as a brekkie dessert on occasion too.

At home I have a small glass of OJ followed by three cups of filter coffee followed in turn by a bowl of raisin bran around noon.

Tesco's Finest is the best supermarket smoked salmon imnsho.

Did you know that Tesco's empire was built on smoked salmon? As a lad the local nascent Tesco's supermarket on High Street Kensington was a convenience store with the sign "Cohens(smoked salmon)Ltd above it.

Post incoming. Got pretty excited when I saw this thread. That's all for now.

4 soft boiled eggs with 3 slices of toast (cut into soldiers) and a large cup of tea, 1 sugar. Beautiful.

I grabbed the pic off Tripadvisor, surprisingly there are a lot of folk who just happen to take pictures of their breakfasts on there.

wow they proudly show off there breakfast with the food of the devil on the plate and no tattie scones or black pudding
they need to buck up there ideas

Now I don't go to site any more and am office / home based its weetabix n fruit usually
Whereas when I was on site it would be a cafe 3/5 times a week depending on the quality for eggs n bacon etc
In the autumn winter months there's a couple of cafes nearby so it's once a week ish
My downfall now is the bakers in fletton high St next to barclays - I came out the other day with a scotch egg n Cornish pasty got to the van before I'd opened it the dog was licking her lips ! As she gets a little pinch off whatever I get she seems to know where we are

Sigh...

It's GreekStein all over again.

I have a pretty unique breakfast. Tailored to perfection since my primary school days. The core has remained the same, in it's simplest form, it is still very much "Cereal" but what started out as a bowl of Bran Flakes has flourished and developed into a masterpiece of Cerealship, a rare formula, chastised by the masses, understood by few, copied by none.

The cupboard.

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With backups behind. With the exception of Sultana Bran (on the shopping list), anything you think is missing is just not worth having. IMO of course.

The foundations.

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Weetabix. The building blocks of any bowl. A feature in every bowl I've eaten for 20+ years. However last year I discovered the banana flavoured edition, and oh my it's unbelievably tasty. I've never looked back.

The healthy layer.

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Was Bran Flakes until 2011 when Special K took over and yet to be usurped. Occasionally Sultana Bran is used instead but limited to twice a week.

The cement.

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Alpen seems to make everything stick together, subtly flavours everything and those raisins are to die for.

The kick.

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This is where the daily variation comes in. This can be any of the sugary options. A daily rotation of golden grahams, honey loops, golden nuggets, frosted shreddies, frosties or crunchy nut cornflakes.

The boost

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A finely chopped up Banana, or a layer of Raisin Wheats to bulk the breakfast out, if' I'm feeling extra hungry.

Add semi skimmed milk so it just reached the surface around the circumference and devour in a bowl fit for a king.

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Can't start the day without it.

What do you have as a hotel breakfast?

Or do you pack a big bowl and some variety packs?

Alex, that is excellent, really good.

Just one thing. Talk to me about that bowl.......

I mean, I know you are posh & all that, but seriously?


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I Lurrve it!

A bit OCD but don't get me started on that....

That bowl looks like something you'd find on Antiques roadshow, dug up from Ancient Rome.

I imagine Her Majesty The Queen has one similar, ditto Ian Gascoigne.

Fantastic isn't it!

I'm sure its a fruit bowl but a wonderful idea Alex.

Normally nothing but as no graft today i'll let this do!

Did you forget to cook the tomatoes?

Did you iron the bacon or did a piano fall on it after you'd cooked it?

No- when i cook my breakfast i love a full uncooked and fresh tomato.

Yes- technically using a griddle with lid would do the same as a iron i guess.

Went down a treat.

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Why all the love for this plate full of shite by the way?

Would have struggled to crack a 5 on the rate my breakfast thread.

This has to be judged at 8am with a hangover.