The healthiest breakfast?

[Part-timah]

What is actually best for us for breakfast? Is there any decent research on the topic?
Is the answer going to be a frustrating “depends”?

 

[discokermit]

For mental health, full english.

 

[souljacker]

Coffee and a joint.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Coffee and a joint.

And a wank.

 

[MrSki]

In the olden days when I used to holiday abroad & spent a fair bit of time in Spain I used to find that garlic eggs with warm fresh bread, a bottle of Cava & a joint were a good way to start an enjoyable day of relaxing. Followed by a few hours with your head in a good book & then sipping a few cold beers through the day.

 

[MrSki]

And a wank.

If you are alone.

 

[xenon]

Pickled onion monster Munch and a Dr Pepper.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Noodles for me. With some beans and veg and stuff...

 

[SpookyFrank]

Scrambled eggs on toast with hot sauce and a pint of coffee.

 

[editor]

I almost always go for a doorstep slab of toast with a selection grapes and blueberries - sometimes melon - juice and an Earl Grey. Coffee to follow around an hour later.

 

[Riklet]

It does depend though! Porridge is great if there's other stuff with it. Walnuts, bananas, maple syrup.. blueberries.

Chuckchooka. Yes eggs yes.

Fry up... can be relatively healthy even. Especially compared with eating shite like sugary cereal! Start the day full and with energy.

Fruit and yoghurt and chia seeds and juice and all that healthy jazz to cleanse you a bit.

And tea. Tea with breakfast. Hug in a mug def healthy.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Porridge is great if there's other stuff with it.

Porridge with frozen fruit chucked in is good - keeps you going for hours.

 

[Riklet]

Porridge with frozen fruit chucked in is good - keeps you going for hours.

I need to try that! Im normally too rushed to do anything aside from bananas and I'm too stingy to buy blueberries or quality red fruits out of season. Freezer fruit sounds ideal.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I need to try that! Im normally too rushed to do anything aside from bananas and I'm too stingy to buy blueberries or quality red fruits out of season. Freezer fruit sounds ideal.

Dead cheap in Aldi too. I've got a freezer drawer full of it, although I need to start using it as I've not had porridge for months.

I go for about 50/50 oats/fruit - it turns all jammy and nice.

 

[Baronage-Phase]

Dead cheap in Aldi too. I've got a freezer drawer full of it, although I need to start using it as I've not had porridge for months.

I go for about 50/50 oats/fruit - it turns all jammy and nice.

Think I'll do this for breakfast. I've a punnet of blueberries that are begunning to go over ripe.. So I'll pop them in some porridge.

 

[maomao]

Current best breakfast for a work day is (water based) porridge with peanut butter and chocolate chips (lovely warm gooey mess), a couple of boiled eggs and a black coffee. I'd like to say it stopped me being hungry till lunch but very little does.

Days off it's corn porridge (grits) with cheese and fried eggs. Tend to leave it till 8 or 9 as trying to wean myself off eating as soon as I wake up.

 

[dessiato]

Media tostada con aceite, tomate y jamón. Or media tostada con aguacate. With a nice cup of decaf.

Have either of these breakfasts while sitting on the veranda watching the sea.

 

[Proper Tidy]

Have a banana

 

[dessiato]

Have a banana

Thank you.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I wait until I get into work. . Then boiled egg, mixed salad and carrot and celery sticks with a home made chick pea dip. Picking at this all tends to last me until lunchtime, at which point I pop out for a walk. I'll eat my real lunch around 3pm.
I know that first bit sounds kind of health, but it's more to do with cutting dangerous snacking. If I've already prepared it (night before) and it's in front of me, that's what I'll eat. The egg satisfies my need for some energy, and the salad etc my need for munching.

 

[krtek a houby]

Bread, soup, juice and fruit. Sometimes natto with rice and kimchi.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

What is actually best for us for breakfast? Is there any decent research on the topic?
Is the answer going to be a frustrating “depends”?

I think the answer probably is "it depends".

I would imagine that the best breakfast would contain carbohydrate, protein and some fat but this is based on years and years of consumption of information around what suppsedly constitites a healthy diet. Much of which has been bullshit and most of which I have now rejected.

I read some articles a while back about healthy diet being a way more individual proposition than we usually suppose. What works for one may not be ideal for another.

The best for me seems to be yogurt, museli and some fruit. I think I'm getting a good blast of fuel from that and it seems to fill me up. Porridge on the other hand leaves me hungry again after about an hour. Go figure.

I think that we all know really what a good/healthy diet is. We all know that eating cake all day is probably not going to be all that good for you. That fruit and veg and whole foods probably are. Having said that, no food is intrinsically "good" or "bad". The idea of forbidden foods or being "naughty" for having a few chips or some icecream has been incredibly damaging for millions of people.

I also think everyone obsesses far, far too much about all of it which is an enormous luxury brought about by the sheer abundance of food that surrounds us all the time.

 

[8ball]

I almost always go for a doorstep slab of toast with a selection grapes and blueberries - sometimes melon - juice and an Earl Grey. Coffee to follow around an hour later.

Quite impressively healthy. For some reason I can’t face fruit til about mid-day.

 

[bellaozzydog]

Couch kebab

Healthiest I go is egg white omelette and avocado

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Muesli or porridge topped with fruit, nuts and seeds or is pretty good. Smoothies are great too because you can throw whatever you want in them and down them quick.

 

[polly]

Quite impressively healthy. For some reason I can’t face fruit til about mid-day.

Same here! Something about the coldness and acidity for me, I think.

 

[8ball]

Same here! Something about the coldness and acidity for me, I think.

Yep ditto.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Same here! Something about the coldness and acidity for me, I think.

It's the opposite for me - can't beat an apple fridge-cold, the tarter the better. But then I used to eat whole lemons by themselves when I was a kid, along with cooking apples and crab apples so maybe I'm weird.