What do you guys eat for breakfast?

bobman1235

treitz3 wrote: »

I heard from a friend that Organic milk also stays fresh longer than regular milk. Haven't verified it but she said that it keeps about twice as long. It works out great for her, as she doesn't go through milk that often and she doesn't have to keep throwing out the lower costing regular milk because it spoils before she has a chance to use it.

It seems to stay fresh "unopened" a lot longer - the expiration date for the organic milk I buy is often like 3-4 weeks away - but once I open it I feel like it's starting to smell funky by the 6th or 7th day like normal milk.

newrival

bobman1235 wrote: »

It seems to stay fresh "unopened" a lot longer - the expiration date for the organic milk I buy is often like 3-4 weeks away - but once I open it I feel like it's starting to smell funky by the 6th or 7th day like normal milk.

It could have something to do with the distribution process rather than a inherent property of organic milk. It may simply get to the store quicker.

Jstas

treitz3 wrote: »

I heard from a friend that Organic milk also stays fresh longer than regular milk. Haven't verified it but she said that it keeps about twice as long. It works out great for her, as she doesn't go through milk that often and she doesn't have to keep throwing out the lower costing regular milk because it spoils before she has a chance to use it.

Organic milk is still pasteurized. Like bobman said, unopened, it lasts a long time. Once you open it though, tends to spoil a bit quicker. Mainly because the organic stuff doesn't contain the added preservatives, stabilizers and anti-bacterial stuff that the other milk does.

Jstas

newrival wrote: »

It could have something to do with the distribution process rather than a inherent property of organic milk. It may simply get to the store quicker.

Typically, yes. Mainly because it lacks the preservatives that the other milk has so it can't survive long trips. So organic stuff comes from local dairies with short trips to the stores with the dairies them selves often acting as their own distributor.

At least around here that's how it works. However, large dairy companies like Lehigh Valley and Hy-Point also offer distribution services to small dairy farms to get the organic stuff out there as well and get their cut of the profits. I've seen various local, small dairies selling organic dairy products with "Distributed by Hy-point Farms" or something similar.

Either way, it's choices and that's what America is all about the freedom to choose.

outlander

6 ounce tub of Chobani yogurt with fruit on the bottom and one cup of coffee. I like the idea of the extra protein that comes with Greek yogurt. If I?m still hungry after the yogurt I?ll grab a handful of grapes.
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cfrizz

tonyb wrote: »

Whatever boys and girls, just posted the milk thing as a FYI, nothing more or less. Organic milk though, is still processed. My own problem lies with takeing out the good stuff and just leaving fat to be consumed. Much the same happens in the dairy world as does the farming world. Think Monsanto,Dean, and the money they throw around to get their way.
Since us audio geeks research stuff 9 ways to sunday before making a purchase, doing a little research into what goes in your mouth only seems logical. Unless you don't care then all is mute. I like to think we all try and balance our lives with our obsessions for bad habits and good. Hell, I have plenty of bad ones, smokeing, ice cream, cookies, gotta offset some with some good stuff is all I'm sayin'.

Sorry Tony, but all the good stuff you might be eating will never offset the destruction you are doing to your lungs with smoking.

I drink Lactaid 2% even though I'm not lactose intolerant. But I discovered that it does last alot longer than regular 2% milk, which is a good thing since I only put it in my coffee & use it to make my oatmeal.

George Grand

Oatmeal & all KINDS of pills @ 5:30 every AM.

cnh

Some kind of Bran cereal, OJ, and coffee. We use a milk that has enzymes and Lacto-bacillus reintroduced into it after pasteurization but it's 1.5 percent fat. I'm a bit lactose intolerant so I can't take too much milk. And I also count the old calories for B-fest and Lunch since my return from the Far East.

Concerning some of the discussion above. Man, just about everything has 'something' in it. If you thought about it you wouldn't eat anything. lol

As one example, anything that has a porous skin (fruit or vegetable) absorbs any and all chemicals, pesticides or whatever else is in the soil, rain or atmosphere. Such thinking could turn anyone into a hypochondriac. But expanding on tonyb's list, above, I just consider eating 'everything' I eat a bad 'habit'. But I have to eat....something?

cnh

inspiredsports

So all six of us were home because I work from home, my wife teaches, all the kids are in school, and everything was closed due to the blizzard.

My son and I spent hours uncovering the 3 cars that sit out and shoveling almost 3,000 square feet of driveway.

When we came in, the smell of scrambled eggs with shredded cheddar mixed in, bacon, Jimmy Dean sausage links, coffee and toast was wafting through the air. My wife and 3 daughters did a really nice job.

Now I wouldn't advocate that for anyone over 50 on a daily basis, BUT WOW WAS IT TASTY !!

inspiredsports

Lasareath wrote: »

Any flapjacks or waffles?

We do those from time to time as a stand-alone breakfast, but not generally with the eggs, etc,

My son does make a sandwich out of toast, scrambled eggs, and sausage with syrup on top!

cristo

On work days:

Grits with hot sauce (something interesting with habeneros - not Tobasco, etc.) when the cafeteria has it.
Otherwise eggs with hot sauce, hash browns with hot sauce, or diet custard.

At home:

A couple fried eggs over medium and a half a Weisswurst (both with hot sauce),
with some Kambucha and/or juice (orange/mango with a little POM added - my wife
makes a face and says the juice mix looks like amniotic fluid).

jcandy

jflail2 wrote: »

I always hated oatmeal growing up. I think it was a texture thing. I tried some apple-cinnamon instant oatmeal a couple of months ago and am hooked.

No, no, no! Too much sugar. Choke down plain oatmeal. Do not add sugar.

I eat a bowl of plain oatmeal each morning with a very healthy sprinkle of cinnamon:

http://www.healthdiaries.com/eatthis/10-health-benefits-of-cinnamon.html

This is cheap, fast, simple and very healthy. Although it tastes like cardboard you'll live (and live longer).

ben62670

I eat candy for breakfast.












Sorry Jcandy:biggrin:

jcandy

Oh, and coffee until it pours out of my ears.

coolsax

on work days usually a Lenders Bagel or 2 Eggo Waffles and then I usually pick up a sausage biscuit from Mc Ds on the way in to work, unless I stop for Chickfila Chikin minis (best fast breakfast ever).

weekends.. usually out somewhere at least once (IHOP, Einsteins, Chick Fila, McDs, Breakfast tacos), sometimes I'll cook up waffles on the waffle iron or make my own bacon cheese bagels.

jcandy

ben62670 wrote: »

I eat candy for breakfast.

Sorry Jcandy:biggrin:

That sounded a bit too homo-erotic for my taste.

Anyhow, this is an important subject and has such a huge impact on quality of life.

bobman1235

jcandy wrote: »

No, no, no! Too much sugar. Choke down plain oatmeal. Do not add sugar.

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This is cheap, fast, simple and very healthy. Although it tastes like cardboard you'll live (and live longer).

No one's going to eat plain oatmeal. However, if you add some fruit, and a little honey, you can still have a very nutritious but TASTY breakfast. I like Craisins in my oatmeal. And maybe a few chopped almonds or something.

jcandy

bobman1235 wrote: »

No one's going to eat plain oatmeal. However, if you add some fruit, and a little honey, you can still have a very nutritious but TASTY breakfast. I like Craisins in my oatmeal. And maybe a few chopped almonds or something.

Adding fruit is fine, but you must be careful to limit the amount (i.e., go heavy on oatmeal light on raisins) because fructose itself triggers only a weak insulin response, raises blood glucose levels, drives up triglycerides. For example, people should be very careful drinking orange juice because you can drink a day's worth of fructose in a few seconds.

Plain oatmeal (or with cinnamon) has none of these issues, and it really isn't that difficult to eat. Its very common among athletes and extremely beneficial for those who have a diabetes/insulin resistance risk (i.e., fat people). IMO, the "ability" to eat food that isn't overly sweet or salty can be developed simply by not eating unprocessed food for a while.

bobman1235

Plenty of non-processed and nutritious foods can be good for you. Teaching / telling people that only by eating flavorless gruel (ie plain oatmeal) can they stay healthy is exactly why no one in this country ever stays on a healthy diet.

jcandy

bobman1235 wrote: »

Plenty of non-processed and nutritious foods can be good for you. Teaching / telling people that only by eating flavorless gruel (ie plain oatmeal) can they stay healthy is exactly why no one in this country ever stays on a healthy diet.

I think many people don't stay on a healthy diet because too often they don't know what one is. Seeing "diet" on a label is often taken to be the primary indicator of a "healthy" diet, when in fact the opposite may be true. Consider that the American public consumes far too little unsaturated fat in proportion to sugars, which is ironic because of the useful appetite suppressing effect of fats. Moreover, processed alternatives (energy bars, cereals) are everywhere, so there is a great but unfortunate convenience in just using something pre-packaged. OTOH, in trying to make healthy food palatable, people come up with recipes that are much too complicated. To add fruit and nuts to your oatmeal you need fruit and nuts. What happens when you have no fruit and nuts? What will you eat? Will you stop for fast food?

thesurfer

My girlfriend,

Oldfatdogs

I was thinking that but thought id be more politically correct and say Muffin!:cool:

bobman1235

jcandy wrote: »

I think many people don't stay on a healthy diet because too often they don't know what one is. Seeing "diet" on a label is often taken to be the primary indicator of a "healthy" diet, when in fact the opposite may be true. Consider that the American public consumes far too little unsaturated fat in proportion to sugars, which is ironic because of the useful appetite suppressing effect of fats. Moreover, processed alternatives (energy bars, cereals) are everywhere, so there is a great but unfortunate convenience in just using something pre-packaged. OTOH, in trying to make healthy food palatable, people come up with recipes that are much too complicated. To add fruit and nuts to your oatmeal you need fruit and nuts. What happens when you have no fruit and nuts? What will you eat? Will you stop for fast food?

Look, if someone's going to be lazy and fat, they're gonna be lazy and fat. If they're going to spend two minutes trying to be healthy, they're going to be more likely to stick to it with something they like, not something that tastes like bigfoot's dick. I'm sorry, but it's true. Pouring raisins and honey into oatmeal to make it palatable is not overly complicated or unreasonable when you're already talking about cooking non-instant oatmeal.

The abundance of overly-processed and unhealthy foods IS NOT GOING TO CHANGE. You cannot change it. Instaed you have to teach people that eating healthy isn't a chore and isn't about chewing on dirt. If someone learns to love fruit more than they love Snickers, that's the best case scenario. And yes, fruit, even with its "high glycemic index," is still good for you.

thesurfer

bobman1235 wrote: »

Look, if someone's going to be lazy and fat, they're gonna be lazy and fat. If they're going to spend two minutes trying to be healthy, they're going to be more likely to stick to it with something they like, not something that tastes like bigfoot's dick. I'm sorry, but it's true. Pouring raisins and honey into oatmeal to make it palatable is not overly complicated or unreasonable when you're already talking about cooking non-instant oatmeal.

The abundance of overly-processed and unhealthy foods IS NOT GOING TO CHANGE. You cannot change it. Instaed you have to teach people that eating healthy isn't a chore and isn't about chewing on dirt. If someone learns to love fruit more than they love Snickers, that's the best case scenario. And yes, fruit, even with its "high glycemic index," is still good for you.

Now thats a classic, How you like that, Candyman

bobman1235

thesurfer wrote: »

Now thats a classic, How you like that, Candyman

I'm not trying to be a jerk to Candyman, he obviously cares about health, I just wish people with healthy agendas had more reasonable expectations about what they could actually do to help people.

jcandy

bobman1235 wrote: »

Look, if someone's going to be lazy and fat, they're gonna be lazy and fat. If they're going to spend two minutes trying to be healthy, they're going to be more likely to stick to it with something they like, not something that tastes like bigfoot's dick. I'm sorry, but it's true. Pouring raisins and honey into oatmeal to make it palatable is not overly complicated or unreasonable when you're already talking about cooking non-instant oatmeal.

The abundance of overly-processed and unhealthy foods IS NOT GOING TO CHANGE. You cannot change it. Instaed you have to teach people that eating healthy isn't a chore and isn't about chewing on dirt. If someone learns to love fruit more than they love Snickers, that's the best case scenario. And yes, fruit, even with its "high glycemic index," is still good for you.

You know, I get your point, and think we are in rough agreement. I agree 100% that fruit is fine and better than so many other things if one doesn't go hog-wild. Nevertheless, there are two issues that need to be separated:

1. Education: I think we agree here. There are those who think raisins and sweetened oatmeal are health foods, and they're not. There are people who think knocking back a litre of OJ every morning is "healthy" and they are WRONG. The nuts you suggested are great, too, yet there are people that completely avoid nuts because of the fat content, believing that, say, fat-free donuts are better. I am serious -- I bet there are some people reading this post who are more likely to reach for fat-free processed snacks than those awful fat-filled peanuts for "health" reasons.

2. Simplicity: The deal with oatmeal is that compared to many other aspects of diet it is easy to prepare and to habitualize. You suggest that taste is the main issue in connection with choice, but my feeling is that (1) ease of preparation and (2) in-home availability are the main factors affecting choice. There are many people who would stick to a diet of raw oatmeal and stir-fried vegetables IF those were the only available foods in the house. On the other hand, if there is a bag of chips or cookies or other garbage available, these things will generally be consumed. They will be consumed even though the eater knows full well that they are unhealthy. Smokers do the same thing. There are also binge eaters, who eat a great breakfast, lunch and dinner, and then add an extra 600 calories in cookies and chips at 10:00pm. If the chips were not available, they would not get eaten.