[calr]

I have skipped breakfast since college when I was much more concerned about bulking up. I drink two coffees and that gets me through til lunch. I’ve never really considered alternatives to this routine. If I wanted to experiment with breakfasts what do people recommend eating? The priority would be energy levels, and mental clarity since I tend to work better in the morning.

[sonofhans]

A good breakfast, in my experience and readings, is mostly fiber, with some fat, and a little naturally-occurring sugar. Peanut butter toast and a banana does that perfectly. Yogurt with honey and a banana. Bread, cheese, and an apple. A boiled egg and butter toast. Cold leftover pizza :)

The fiber is most important, to provide some grist for your digestive system. The fat quenches some hunger and allows you to put off your next meal/snack with less discomfort. A little sugar provides some early energy.

[Kukumber]

morning:

    - infusion: ginger + mint + lemon + green tea (or yerba mate) 

    - fruit: banana or dried fig

    - seeds: slice of whole grain bread or almonds or any else you like, vary 

middle of the day:

    - eggs with spices and herbs

    - vegies with lot of fiber or veggies pasta

    - minutes later: infusion: ginger + mint + lemon + green tea (or yerba mate) 

evening (only if hungry):

    - toast with eggs and lot of different spices and herbs, put anything you got

night:

    - infusion: what ever you want without caffeine, example: ayurvedic infusion

Occasionally: beer, wine or anything fermented with some alcohol

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No meat, no added sugar, no added salt, no transformed food, no fridge, just spices and herbs

[sh4rks]

You eat a 1000 calories a day?

[Kukumber]

I don't know, i don't count, try to listen to your body and what it needs, blood analysis every so often to make sure you don't have deficiencies in certain nutrients

[0x64]

I do overnight oats; in the morning, all you have to do is pop the lid.

* Wholegrain oats (1.5 to 2 dl)

* Greek yogurt (1.5 to 2 dl)

* Milk, skimmed/whole (3 dl)

Then, throw in whatever. A sliced banana or berries, honey, a pinch of vanilla extract. Prep it in the evening, chuck it into the fridge, and it's done in the morning.

[vasco]

Boiled egg(s) and a banana are my go-tos when not skipping. Most days I skip.

[krona]

I'm the same as you but I'll usually have half a banana or an apple.

[amalgamated_inc]

"Give me all the eggs & bacon you have."

[will5421]

Banana on toast, or just a banana to begin with

[calr]

Will try this for sure. Love that bananas are portable by design.

[crdrost]

The "endless eggs" are somewhat of an Americanism but you can try that. If you want to be a little more cosmopolitan, most regions have some tradition or other of a morning porridge -- barley porridge in Nepal, rice as congee in China, a millet porridge called hausa koko in Ghana all come to mind. The American version of this is the morning oatmeal.

Europeans sometimes have patterns of eating yogurt or quark, typically with fruit slices and muesli. On the other hand I have a bunch of Dutch relatives, they mostly eat untoasted bread spread with butter and topped with either a meat or cheese or sprinkles (fruity sugar sprinkles or chocolate sprinkles or bigger chocolate flakes).

The classic American southern farmer's breakfast was biscuits and gravy. The biscuits are fluffy and bready while the gravy is a white sausage gravy, rich, milky, buttery, peppery, with chunks of sausage. Libby's makes a good can of this stuff, but you should add some cayenne or hot pepper flakes or both. "Sticks to your bones" while you go out to the fields, I think there's something to the refined grains of the biscuits giving you short-term energy so that you don't feel bogged down, while the oils and meats set you up to have longer-term energy as the day winds on.

You're asking about food but maybe I'd mention something about patterns... Back when I was a Tibetan Buddhist I got to know some monks. Apparently the ancient history of mendicants in India was that they'd go door-to-door begging for whatever food the people in their neighborhood would offer them. Now, in the present day, where conditions are different -- the monks "beg" from the monastery which is staffed by lay practitioners who manage the money and purchase food and so forth.

But a lot of the monastic rules simulate that earlier lifestyle. For example, the monks I met were not allowed to sleep on any sort of mattress, because the earlier mendicants slept on the ground outside. And where this gets interesting is that they also have to eat all their food by noon, "otherwise we'd have no time for meditation." (We also speculated that maybe Indian mendicants didn't want to be perceived as greedy, so if they could get a solid meal maybe they didn't push their luck.) I think this only applied to solid foods -- Tibetans traditionally drink a butter tea, which is exactly what it sounds like, tea leaves that we'd regard as way-way-way oversteeped, churned together with yak butter and salt, and I think they were allowed to drink this in the afternoon. Similarly I think a bowl of broth would have been okay for dinner as long as it didn't have solids in it?

But yeah, suggests a large population of folks living for a long time without dinner, and I think I even have a vague memory of the Dalai Lama commenting one of his times in the USA about how it's much harder to be obese if you don't have the concept of dinner. (Although I can imagine as he said those words, probably all the fat monks he has ever known flashed before his eyes, haha.) And like I said, I think the usual starting meal is a sort of barley porridge and then for lunch a "dal bhat" - a spiced dish of rice, lentils, and at least one "vegetable" (which is in scare quotes because it could be for example potatoes). But I might just have had weird friends who liked weird things.

[xoac]

Eggs and some veggies.

[StanislavPetrov]

Steel cut oats.