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?
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.
I'm -starving- 4 hours later, instead of just 3 or 3 and a half.
Still have time to refine :)
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.
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.
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.