I just realized I didn’t know any Americans
3 cups of coffee. Unless it’s 4.
Coffee and water. Used to have a banana too, but they self destruct my digestion now.
A lot of people I know just skip breakfast, but I personally eat whatever food with no regard for social acceptance. Sometimes it’s a fruit and grain bar and a protein shake, sometimes eggs and bacon, sometimes it’s vegan stir fry noodles with some soy sauce, idgaf
Coffee, with some kind of yogurt/granola combo. I’ve been into overnight oats lately. Sometimes I’ll make breakfast sandwiches consisting of Canadian bacon, egg and cheese. I try not to have to much sweet stuff to not crash so early in the morning…
Rather than tell you what I personally eat, maybe it will be useful to know what American diners serve for breakfast. You can walk into any locally-owned diner anywhere in the country and order from a menu almost exactly like this:
- Breakfast Combo: Two eggs (scrambled, fried, or over easy/medium/hard), meat (bacon, sausage links, steak, or ham), and a carb (pancakes, toast, a biscuit, or hash browns)
- Biscuits and Gravy: Two biscuits with sausage gravy over the top. Sometimes served with an egg.
- Pancakes: A short stack is 2 and a tall stack is 4. Served with maple syrup.
- Skillet/Omelet: Eggs scrambled with onions, bell peppers, cheese, and meat. An alternate version, sometimes called “loaded hash browns,” uses hash browns instead of eggs.
- Breakfast Burrito: An omelet wrapped up in a tortilla. May be smothered with red or green chili sauce for a Tex-Mex spin.
- Oatmeal: Boiled oats with fruit, granola, syrup, etc.
- Eggs Benedict: Poached egg on an English muffin with ham and hollandaise sauce.
And then each diner will have their own “famous” specialty, like stuffed French toast, “home fries” (pan-fried potato chunks), huge pancakes, or sausage made in house. It’s hard to go wrong though, American breakfasts are consistently pretty tasty.
American Diner breakfasts are not anything like people’s daily meals.
Says who? In a typical month I make myself most of the above at least once.
If you wanna try something different but really good, a lot of breakfast places near me have a variant of Eggs Benedict usually called something like Irish Eggs Benedict, which replaces the ham with corn beef hash. Add a side of home fries, and you’ve got something that’ll really stick to your ribs and keep you full and happy for half the day.
Workout days (3 a week) I eat an egg/feta cheese/spinach scramble with 1 chicken breakfast sausage and about 1/4 cup of sweet potatoes. I meal prep these and keep them in the freezer.
Any non-workout day it’s non-fat Greek yogurt with half an apple, 1/4 cup protein granola, and 2 TBSP of PB Fit powder.
A glass of water. About an hour later a cup of coffee. For lunch I usually have a slice of bread toasted, with butter and jam followed by a cup of coffee.
This pretty much every day.
eggs sausig bacon horsemeat potato and coffee
Every day?
every day.
Well I’m Asian and don’t really do the typical American breakfast. I just eat whatever, leftovers maybe. I’ll have coffee over tea though, so that’s pretty American of me lol
You and millions of other Americans eating leftovers for breakfast. Since the Mayflower for sure, and probably for centuries before that. Although they probably didn’t have the Breakfast of Champions, cold leftover pizza.
Technically nothing, but I do have coffee at the office.
Except on Thursday. That’s doughnut day.
“Benefits package”
Uh huh huh huh. You said package.
Ctrl-F’d for doughnuts.
It sounds bizzare from where I am, but I do have to admit it’s not that different from a pastry.
Honestly, my favorite “doughnuts” aren’t doughnuts at all. We get a variety, and I go for the cinnamon rolls, fritters or eclairs before I’d grab an actual doughnut.
Also, most Americans can’t spell doughnut, so you’re better off ctrl-fing for donut.
I did that first. One other mention, but right alongside pastries, maybe because OP knew other places think of them as unsuitable for a full meal.
Coffee and meds. Peanut butter toast if I’m feeling naughty
I’ll make a latte and snack on some nuts sometimes. Wife has avocado toast or two eggs
Weekdays: 5g psyllium husk, 5g creatine, 30g whey protein, double Turkish coffee, 1 liter of water.
Weekends: 3 thick cut slices of bacon, small potato grated and fried into hash browns, 2 eggs sunny side up, pour over coffee, in addition to the weekday supplements.
My wife eats oatmeal or a French omelette during the week, which I make. And something more hearty on the weekend, depending on her workout schedule.
What is the psyllium husk for?
It’s a fiber supplement, helps stuff move along and kind of fends off hunger until lunch since I’m fasting (except for the protein powder) 18 hours every weekday.
I drink coffee mixed with protein shake.
Then I eat more of a traditional breakfast around lunch time. I saute a bunch of veggies and a but of sausage (just enough to grease the pan) and then add some eggs, put it in a tortilla for breakfast burritos.
On weekdays I don’t eat breakfast, but I’ll usually make my wife an Eggo waffle with some peanut butter and cinnamon sugar for breakfast as an incentive for her to get up in the morning, since she’s not a morning person. Sometimes if I’m feeling motivated I’ll make her a real waffle instead. On free weekends she’ll make scrambled eggs and I’ll make some sort of protein - bacon, sausage, biscuits and gravy… whatever we have on hand, then we’ll eat together.
