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I wish people would lighten up on Paula. She's more an entertainer than anything else, and a darn good one for people who enjoy and appreciate Southern culture and cooking. As I once heard her comment, followed by that charming cackle of hers, "Honey, I'm your cook, not your doctor."

For those who want a healthful emphasis, there's certainly no shortage of personalities, ideas and resources out there (so let's enjoy Paula for what she is). Personal favorite on the healthy side:

http://eatingwelllivingthin.wordpress.com/

2 beers!

Protein is important at breakfast. Your brain need protein to function properly. School children need a healthy breakfast to help them through the day, brain food is protein. So foods rich in eggs are always a good choice for breakfast, cheese, milk, lean meats, whole grain breads and cereals and a little fat won't hurt to stick to your ribs.
The reason you are hungry all day after a carbo laden starter meal is that your body processes them quicker and leave you hungry again. Not so with protein. Same at night with a snack before bed - eat cheese and crackers or some protein like yogurt or egg and you won't wake up famished either.

I usually wake up starving and head to the gym that way. When I get back, I'm really super starving, so breakfast is never optional. Usually it's steel cut oats with a fried egg and sriracha, mini babybel cheese on the side. On weekends, breakfast burritos.

And 2 cups of coffee with milk. Also non-optional!

If I eat a healthy breakfast, I eat healthy all day. If I eat a pastry, the next thing you know I'm devouring Snickers and fries. For me, that's why it's the most important meal.

Ooh, I NEED to eat breakfast! I can sleep in with the best of them but if I start to get hungry my body won't leave me alone until I put something in it. Usually some variation of hot or cold cereal (lately oatmeal or Cheerios) with fruit and soy milk, along with my giant cup of gunpowder tea. It definitely helps my metabolism throughout the day. My breakfasts are never high in protein but I'm a vegetarian who loathes eggs and no longer buys fake meat so there you go.

For at least 40 years, even the idea of breakfast before being up at least two hours made me sick; eating it made me sicker - my digestion just plain didn't work. Now things have changed a little, and if I'm hungry after I've been up a while (minimum of an hour), I eat - usually leftovers from yesterday's dinner. If I'm not hungry, I save them for lunch. Coffee, however, is necessary upon awakening, and I have always thought of that as my breakfast. Other people, other practices - it all depends on what works for you. It's silly to follow a rule just because it works for someone else.

It happens to me too, I love breakfast (not always eaten around 6-9 am though), irrational love for pancakes perhaps. I'm not a doctor, biologist or anything of that sort. I will tell you though that I'm generally in a better mood and more focused on classes since I started eating something in the morning (a few times it's actually pancakes).

People of the past and still who do/did physically hard work in all sorts of weather conditions would eat a big breakfast for energy. Now more and more people have desk jobs really don't need to have such an huge breakfast unless they do some sort of vigerous work out before work. I do love breakfast (the hearty kind) but I do not like to eat it in the morning, so I have breakfast at dinner lol. For me in the morning all I want is chai tea latte.

Living in the upper midwest, I spend about 9 months out of the year being cold. It's not a scandalous sneak, but I like smuggling coffee/latte/gas station cappaccino into theaters--the key is a travel mug with a good seal.

I live in a relatively low-income neighborhood that, for some reason, has a pretty snazy movie theater. I kid you not, I have seen families carry pizzas into the theater. The worst was a family of four that brought a medium-sized watermelon and four Subway sandwiches. I felt so bad for whoever was in charge of cleaning up after them.

This has also been discussed here:

http://www.seriouseats.com/2009/05/large-movie-popcorn-with-butter-1220-calories.html

Sort of sneaking in reverse...

When in college, my son and a half-dozen fraternity brothers spent - lost -a weekend in a fancy Chicago hotel on Michigan Avenue. (Could only afford it because they all stayed in one room.) When they regained consciousness (late) on Sunday morning, they noticed the self-serve refrigerator-bar was completely empty. They pulled out the inventory/price list and realized they owed the hotel just a little over $400.

My son remembered there was a Walgreen store with a liquor department a few doors up the street. He took the list there and found miniatures to match virtually everything in the inventory. He sneaked them into the hotel, restocked the bar, and it came to a couple bucks over $50.