Need New Breakfast

I need to eat breakfast. Otherwise, my stomach hates me and I'll have a migraine before lunch.
So here's my problem. I'm spending 4-7 dollars a day on breakfast.

On a typical day, my breakfast consists of:
One breakfast sandwich, typically sausage, bacon or porkroll, on english muffin, croissant (not buttermilk), or bagel (not like, a NYC bagel, it's kind of a fake roll-like bagel). Cheese, fake egg.
One container of yogurt of various flavors or brands.
A drink, usually fruit juice, white tea, or V8

With this breakfast, I typically eat by 8am and I feel pretty good and can make 4-5 hours before I eat lunch (my biggest meal of the day, usually.)

I've tried, over the last couple years, to "cheap out" my breakfast, by buying the 52-packet Quaker Oatmeal box from Walmart or warehouse stores, combining that with fruit (banana, pear, peach) and water, but for two problems:
1 - Oatmeal gets really farking boring every day, even WITH pre-flavored packets
2 - I'm starving by 10:30am.

On days that I work a later shift (2-4 days a month) I eat cereal (frosted miniwheats or Raisin Bran Crunch) around 7:30/8am, then eat a small lunch (hot dog or small sandwich, yogurt, water or tea) around 10:30/11am. Then I have "lunch" at 4pm.

I would prepare a breakfast of some sort, but for the fact that my "getting ready for work" time slot of an hour is more often than not taken up by toilet time than anything else.
Also, I can't eat earlier, as my little purple pill (nexium) needs to be taken as soon as I wake up, and I need to wait at least an hour to eat, otherwise I have terrible heartburn throughout the day.

I briefly tried having a bagel for breakfast - just a bagel - but that left me feeling weighted down and tired.

I also tried doing a Tuna-like atkins breakfast, with a quarter pound of tuna salad, fruit or yogurt, water/tea, but I ended up having a mercury reaction... Yeah, so I don't do tuna daily anymore.

Any thoughts or suggestions?

Mileron 14 years ago
haha, Roz.

funnily enough one of the guys in my office asks me monthly or so how I can eat anything at all, since I have so many caveats and gotchas and conditionals to the slightest meal.

took me 2 and a half years to figure a lot of it out.

night-before bacon sounds like a good idea... On an english muffin... Or in a wrap/burrito... I'll have to price out fake eggs or egg powder.
Kelefane 14 years ago
have you found a new breakfast of champions yet Mil.
Mileron 14 years ago
Oatmeal, yogurt, nuts, water...

I'm -starving- 4 hours later, instead of just 3 or 3 and a half.

Still have time to refine :)
Lessa 14 years ago
pack a granola bar in your pocket.
Jetamio 14 years ago
Can you eat Muesli? Do you even get it over there?
Mileron 14 years ago
I'm not a fan of Muesli, no. And I do keep granola bars in my desk drawer, as well as a large jar of peanut butter.
Vulash 14 years ago
Mt Dew and a Cig - works for me
Mileron 14 years ago
Except for the 4 days in DC with m'Lady, I've kept to oatmeal, yogurt, nuts and water. It's still not enough, as I am fully hungry, stomach rumbling, by lunch. A granola bar helps a little. Even tried a banana and a peach. I'm still eating more for lunch than I was before because I'm so much more hungry. While I did also try managing how much I eat for lunch, I'm still very hungry after, and then even hungrier for dinner (which used to be a smaller meal than lunch.)
Gongaa 14 years ago
Mileron;108560
I'm not a fan of Muesli, no. And I do keep granola bars in my desk drawer


Y'all done confused me. Does muesli mean something in English other than granola?

Also, I'm sticking to my story with coffee and clay. If you find some clay with a high concentration of calcium carbonate, it'll even balance out the stomach woes caused by drinking too much coffee.


You could get all Asian up in here and make some clumpy rice the night before and eat it with some kind of sauce in the morning.




edit: Peanut sauce would probably be the most filling. Coconut milk and curry would be really good, too, but every other kind of "milk" mentioned here makes you explode, so that might not be such a great idea.
ROzbeans 14 years ago
Stick with it for a couple weeks and you'll shrink your stomach. Problem solved.

You're hungry because it's a habit to eat larger portions. It's in yer head, yo. Break the habit and stick with it. Or try drinking more water to fill you up.
Verileah 14 years ago
I think you need a 10:30/11:00 snack (or "second breakfast"). 11:00 is always banana or apple time for me, and if I'm really hungry I'll add a dollop of peanut butter. But then, I sincerely do eat like a hobbit, so that might be what my stomach is used to.

Gongaa, here granola is toasted somehow and muesli is just the raw ingredients tossed together, but it might be different in other parts of the country.
Mileron 14 years ago
There is an actual brand cereal "Muesli" that is not very tasteful or textureful. It ends up tasting like milky wheat snot.
Lessa 14 years ago
Ice chips and IV bags of saline has been my diet for the last three days. Does wonders, highly reccomend! lol