Readers speak out about breakfast routines
You know the saying – breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Or is it? Some recent diet trends, such as intermittent fasting, have you skipping that first meal of the day, in favor of more of a brunch-type schedule. Some people can’t face food after just rolling out of bed. So, what’s your typical work-week breakfast routine?
I have a full breakfast first thing in the morning. 35%
I grab-and-go on the way to work/school. 12%
I skip breakfast and wait until lunch. 17%
Other 36%
Editor’s note: The response “I wait until I get to the office to eat breakfast” received no votes.
Comments: Share any secrets you have for quick breakfasts on the go.
• Wait and have a late breakfast around 11 a.m.
• No day is ever the same for me.
• PB and honey on rye. Every morning except for the occasional bagel with cream cheese from Ruby’s - a guilty pleasure.
• My standard breakfast smoothie is half a small ripe banana, handful each of frozen blueberries, frozen raspberries, frozen chopped kale, and almonds (or cashews or pistachios), topped off with rice milk, then blend! It’s delicious, tons of nutrition, low cost, ready in less than 2 minutes. Yum!
• Quick breakfast at home!
• Coffee at work (and on the way) along with a handful of almonds.
• Protein balls.
• I just keep it simple and stick to a quick bowl of cereal which I laid out the previous morning.
• Aussie bites from Costco.
• Get up earlier and you don’t have to rush. I will get up before 5 a.m. so I have time to fix breakfast and read at least one newspaper.
• Blondies bagel with a light smear of cream cheese or another protein like egg salad or tuna salad.
For more comments on this and past surveys go online to bit.ly/45vehL9.
Next week: Pumpkin spice - nice or not?
Is it fall y’all? Even though the temperatures are still in the 90s, fall officially starts in just a few days on Sept. 23. Pumpkin-spice flavored coffee, candles, air freshers, toilet paper, beer, Wendy’s Frosty, and just about everything you can think of has been back on the market since early August. So, are you a pumpkin-spice fan? Or is it too early for the warm spiced flavoring? Share your thoughts at surveymonkey.com/r/PumpkinSpiceNice or by Sunday, Sept. 17, at 5 p.m. And share with us the oddest pumpkin-spice item you’ve seen for sale.