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Breakfast is my most favorite meal and only get to celebrate on the weekends Eggs overeasy with cornbeef hash biscuit and gravey, or eggs with a plate size chicken fried steak, carrys me the rest of the day...

I like my sleep way too much to get up early enough to make a proper breakfast during the week, so I'll just make a smoothie with soy milk, yogurt, a banana, flaxseed and another fruit (either berries, peaches or kiwi).

On the weekends, I'll usually make a basic eggs/potatoes/bacon or sausage (patties, not links) breakfast one day and chilaquiles the other day. My ex made the best biscuits and gravy in the world - I need to work on my gravy skills so I can add that back into my weekend rotation.

During the week I've gotta have something small, usually greek yogurt with raspberry preserves, a hard boiled egg, a half a grapefruit, etc. But I have to have something or I pass out in the shower :) Then I usually have a cup of black tea at work (had to cut out the coffee except for extreme situations)

On the weekends I usually have really early lunches...like last Saturday I had mac n'cheese at 10am. Or I'll make a full-out breakfast (pancakes, bacon, eggs, etc etc.) My favorite is all in one egg dishes - not quite an omlette, not quite a frittata. I make bacon, drain the grease, cook peppers and onions in the pan, then add chopped tomatoes, the bacon crumbled, eggs, milk, cheese, salt and pepper, and scramble the whole thing up. I don't know why I like it better when it's scrambled - I guess cause the eggs get browner and the bites are all jumbled up.

I love breakfast! Weekdays it's usually cereal with fresh berries and soy milk, an egg-white omelet with veggies on a slice of toast, or a smoothie with banana, frozen berries, oatmeal, yogurt, protein powder and a bit of agave nectar. Yum! I also have my 2 mugs of coffee (with a touch of milk) before I go. Sounds like a lot of work, but I'm a morning person so that's ok. (Yes, I have a full-time job.)

On the weekend, we eat different things. Omelets, breakfast burritos, bread pudding, bagels w/ cream cheese, etc.

I never not eat breakfast and always wake up starving :)

I have to eat breakfast or I'm useless by 10 am! Weekdays I usually have an egg or 2 (usually hard cooked) and a small bowl of Kashi cereal with either a banana or some berries in it, and soy or almond milk (or Lactaid). One small cup of coffee when I get to the office. Or, if I'm running late, I have instant oatmeal at my desk.

Weekends my husband and I love to cook a big breakfast -- pancakes, waffles or crepes, or some kind of fancy egg dish, usually with turkey bacon and fruit, maybe a little cottage cheese (I'm not a big potato person). Sometimes we compete, where I'll cook Saturday and he'll cook Sunday, though we don't say we're competing. He usually wins -- he's one of those people who can find a can of tuna, some garlic powder, 2 stalks of celery and some toothpicks and make a 3-course meal. :)

Weekday breakfast is on the fly - a kefir smoothie with fruit & flaxseed. On weekends, we get to do proper family breakfasts. Oatmeal with fruit & yogurt in the winter, seasonal fruit and cold cereal in the summer. Sometimes scrambled eggs & toast. We pull out the stops for holidays and family birthdays, though, and have everything from pancake feasts to huge Southern-style breakfasts.

@ Melinda: My family has always been huge on birthday breakfasts, in fact you get breakfast in bed!! I remember a few years ago, I woke up on my birthday and no breakfast was in sight, I was seriously bummed. The fam thought they would "let me sleep in" but I wanted the breakfast!!!

LOVE breakfast. Every day I have an egg, swiss and ham sandwich on an english muffin. When my citrus is in harvest, I top it off with freshly squeezed grapefruit or orange juice.

On the weekends, its the same deal, unless I can whine my way to a visit to the local greasy spoon for some of the best breakfast treats in the world!

I can't do cereal or straight carb foods first thing or I'll suffer a sleepy spell in about 30 minutes following.

I love love love breakfast foods but sadly don't have time during the week to make breakfast since I get up too early and am off to the office, so I usually grab something at the cafe at work, or occasionally, I have a slice of cold pizza or cold chicken. :)

I had fruit and some toast this morning.

I always eat breakfast. Weekends tend to be heartier mostly because we burn more calories on the weekends. No matter what, there is always some assortment of fresh fruit averaging maybe 4 kinds: bananas, peaches, berries, pineapple, mango, grapes, plums, pears, melon, apricots, etc. Never juice always whole (although occasionally I'll make a smoothie).

I have coffee, my husband has tea.

We have a TON of fruit in the yard - 22 fruit trees, 5 kinds of berries, grapes, and mini-kiwis. So, year round I'm trying to use either the fresh, the frozen, the dried, the canned, or the jam. This is in addition to the side of fresh fruit mentioned above.

We tend to alternate between a standard line up that includes:
- cereal/granola with soy milk,
- eggs and whole grain toast (over easy or scrambled/frittata/omelet with tons of veggies and occassionally poached placed on some sort of vegetable base),
- whole grain french toast (currently I like spreading sesame seeds, black mustard seeds, flax seeds, and cracked black pepper in a pan then placing a couple of bananas sliced lengthwise on top and letting that cook and carmelize a bit while the french toast cooks. When ready to serve, break bananas up and place on top or sandwiched between two slices of the french toast -mmm.),
- pancakes (whole wheat with banana inside, cornmeal with berries inside, buckwheat with bananas or poppy seeds - and sometimes I'll make a lemon sauce to go with),
- giant, baked pancake with fruit (either home canned or fresh)
- rolled or steel cut oatmeal with soy milk (I sweeten with - you guessed it - fruit. Add banana slices and they are perfect natural sweetners or I use some of the canned peaches/apricots and then dried fruits are great: raisins, dates, figs, apricots and then I like to toast some nuts and sprinkle on top),
- ful with wheat pita and feta and veggies (middle eastern fava bean breakfast),
- sometimes muffins - low fat/low sugar/fruit/nut/whole grain - varieties are endless here too.

Even my most elaborate breakfasts are maybe 20 minutes hands on time. If something requires baking, just finish getting ready while it's in the oven. I don't find it takes a lot of time. But then, I hate to rush in the morning so I always go to sleep early. It probably helps that we don't have kids, too. I think I'm in a rut with this breakfast lineup - dinner and lunch have a lot more variety - but I think having a list of standards that you have ingredients on hand for helps with the time issue.

They are more egg-y than regular pancakes. For the batter I use 3/4 cup whole wheat pastry flour, 3 eggs, 3/4 cup soy milk or buttermilk, vanilla, 1/8 tsp salt, cinnamon or some spice. Then I slightly cook some sliced fruit - just until soft. Apricots, peaches, apples, nectarines, plums - all work well. If I'm using canned - it's a quart size mason jar packed with fruit in light syrup. I usually reduce the syrup and just warm the fruit in that instance. If it's fresh, depending on how juicy, you might need to add a tsp of butter to the pan and add about 4 cups of fruit and cook until soft. I usually add some more cinnamon or spice to the fruit. Spray an 8 in square baking pan and add a very thin layer of the fruit liquid and some small fruit pieces - just enough to cover or almost cover the bottom. Then I add the batter and layer the rest of the fruit and juice on top. Bake for 30 minutes at 425.

Depends.

When I'm at school (yay for summer vacation, but I still heart university), I'm up by 8:30 every morning. I usually don't have classes that begin before ten (or at all on Fridays) but I need to be up. I live above a Starbucks (the elevator actually goes INTO it) so needless to say, I spend a good deal of time there. I go just about every morning for a coffee fix. I also have nonfat yogurt, fruit and some granola most mornings.

On the weekends, I take the time to cook myself vegetable egg-white omelettes or fritattas. I was never really into waffles or pancakes, instead I stick with savory/salty things in the morning. My coffee is always sweet though, so I suppose it balances out.

I'm still on the college "two-meals-a-day" diet though. I eat my breakfast and become so busy during the day, I don't eat a single thing until dinner. So healthy, I know. :)

On weekdays, I usually eat breakfast at work. I'll have either Honey Nut Cheerios with milk or two slices of whole wheat toast with peanut butter. I'll have a side of fruit (an orange, blackberries, whatever looked good at the corner fruit stand) with both options. I don't drink coffee, so I'll have a Diet Coke instead. Can't start the day without it.

On weekends, it's pretty much the same thing, with the toast and fruit. My big splurge is a toasted bagel with lox cream cheese. YUM. I love pancakes, waffles and omelets too, but for some reason when I make them at home, they never turn out as well as they do when I go out to eat. :)

two slices of toasted homemade bread slathered with homemade plum jam plus fresh coffee roasted the night before and ground that morning. Yum!

@--dafly133: I want to live at your house with all those fruit trees. I love fruits, any fruit and every piece of fruit I can eat.
I love breakfast, I don't want my patients to hear my stomach growling and rumbling. Although, I am not sure if they can hear it, since almost all of them are hard of hearing.
My mom makes my breakfast during weekday, uncle bob museli (whole wheat berries, oats, tracle-i think that's what its called, sunflower seeds, almonds, dates and raisins) with skim milk or water OR a banana with almond butter. 2 hard-boiled egg whites.
On weekends, I eat an early lunch around 11 am.

Weekday: Coffee
Weekend: Coffee, donuts, bagels, eggs over-hard, hashbrowns and fruit. I love donuts.

Dear hubby loves making us breakfast every morning he's home (he travels for work). We tell him he must have been a short-order cook in a previous life.

We get home fries with onions and peppers, eggs any way we want them, whole grain toast, thick-sliced bacon or sausage. Sometimes he makes cheesy breakfast burritos which are to die for! I had him switch mine to a breakfast quesadilla because the burritos were too fat for me to bite into. If we're in a hurry, we get breakfast sandwiches to go: 15-grain toast, cheese and a "sandwich egg" -- cooked over medium and squished around to fit the size of the toast.

I love making homemade pancakes with sausage, too.

Most weekdays I'm a coffee and peanut butter toast kind of gal. Once in a while I'll live dangerously and add honey and bananas to my PB toast! LOL
Occasionally my Honey will want eggs, oatmeal or French toast for breakfast, then I will eat with him.
Weekends are WAY too crazy busy to even think about breakfast. If I have a batch of fresh, homemade muffins on the counter, I'll grab one of those though.

@Josdean.......do you have a recipe for your strawberry creme muffins or do you buy them somewhere? I have visions dancing in my head and I'm going to need a bib for the drool. Please, please, please have a recipe?

Once or twice a week I make a 12-muffin pan full of what I call mini-stratas: scrambled egg, milk, two pieces of ww bread cut into tiny cubes, ground turkey meat (browned with chili garlic paste), and whatever veggies I have around (this week: spinach and portabellas) baked for 35 min at 350F. I eat two or three each morning at the office, sometimes with a piece of fruit and/or coffee. If I'm out of these or just feel like a switch, I go with granola (homemade if I've been feeling ambitious), berries, milk, and plain yogurt. I usually eat at my desk regardless of what I eat. If I don't have something to bring in, I make the shameful stop at Wendy's and pick something up and then feel guilty all day, so making breakfast ahead is crucial for me (or at least my goal of eating healthier/losing a little weight!).

My weekend favorite is crepes - simple but just involved enough that it's not a weekday thing. I'll also take the time to cook up omelets, or if we're headed out with friends for the day, I'll make migas or breakfast burrito makings and make everyone eat with us :P

Oh, and my all-time favorite breakfast is ethnic food leftovers - from lamb saag to a nice, spicy pad thai mmmmmmmmmmmm.

tons of fresh fruit, especially in the summer. i'll fill a big container with berries, grapes, apricots, whatever looks good, and munch it on the subway. this morning it was really good fresh raspberries and a mango.

if i'm home and have time i'll have homemade granola, old fashioned oatmeal, or a couple of eggs and toast. washed down with a big french bowl of hot tea, milk and sugar. i just splurged on some adorable little egg cups for soft boiled eggs, but haven't tried them out as yet.

if there's company, i love to make german apple pancake, scones, shirred eggs, swedish cardamon bread, stuff like that.

tacroy80 - Please elaborate on your bread pudding muffins...that sounds so good and so easy for us and the kids mid-week. I'm trying to come up with some ideas, but some suggestions would be great!!

@Perky - As usual you go right for the delightful and creative, while I sit here longing for the hunk 'o cheese. :-o

@izatryt........so funny you said that! When I saw your note to Josdean about :
~splurge with some double cream brie on french bread with a Granny Smith apple.

I said to myself, "Self, how did you miss THAT? Wow, that sounds awesome!"

I want to try some breakfast muffins next time I have overnight guests.

There were so many great ideas here - seems that most of you eat really healthy breakfasts everyday and I pledge (hope that word works better than resolve, as in New Year's resolutions) to start having fruit smoothies with yogurt and granola and other things that are good for me and don't involve the words chocolate donut.

Let's see...

Weekday: Water and a banana (or some fruit) around 8:30-9ish. If still hungry, then a little bit of cereal (most likely Special K Vanilla Almond) with skim milk around 9:30-10ish. That's about it. Sometimes, a coffee or iced coffee is thrown in the mix.

Weekend: Cereal (again Special K), or scrambled eggs or omeletes (my fave being broccoli and cheese). Every once in a while French Toast (my favorite!) or bagels with cream cheese (LOVE cream cheese). But, I do like to have pancakes and waffles-for whatever reason they are rare (usually only get when I eat out and get the choco chip variety.:)).

My mom used to make a french toast sandwhich (bread was fresh baked french loaf) that had pineapples and cream cheese in the middle! Oh. My. God. So good. I just can't explain.

I am a huuuge breakfast person - I can eat breakfast foods at any time of the day! On weekdays, I typically have a bowl of cereal (usually a few kinds mixed together), milk, and a cut-up banana, but sometimes I'll have a whole grain English muffin with either a fried egg and a slice of sharp cheddar or blueberry preserves. On the weekends, I'm a big fan of omelettes, pancakes (regular and German), and freshly baked muffins. Mmm now I have to go and fix myself a snack!

@Josdean........I just knew there was a great story behind that name and I was right. Thanks for sharing. I'll definitely be on the lookout and I'll think of you when I get my first strawberry creme. ;-D

During the week I try to set a good example for the kids, I'm big on having some protein for breakfast so I always try to get an egg, in some form, down their little gullets. I also have, at any given time, 6-7 tupperware containers full of washed, cut-up fruit in the fridge, which makes it easy to toss some on our plates in the morning. I love cheese omelets, oatmeal, chocolate malt-o-meal, hotcakes and turkey bacon...those are our weekday staples.

On weekends we usually head to out to eat for breakfast and we eat a lot heartier foods, corned beef hash, hash browns, eggs, turkey sausage. Sunday is always hotcake day with either turkey sausage or turkey bacon....I like to try a different hotcake every Sunday....last Sunday we had strawberry hotcakes, next Sunday we'll be having buckwheat with apple topping (or chocolate chip, pumpkin, sweet potato, blueberry, peach, whole wheat hotcakes, hotcakes made with cornmeal, banana pecan, german, pb&j hotcakes, buttermilk hotcakes....we are a family obsessed with our Sunday hotcakes.)