I just realized I didn’t know any Americans
Nine cans of ravioli.
I call bs. No one wants to admit they ate nine cans of ravioli…
The fourth and fifth, I think I burned with a blowtorch.
The scraps of my children’s uneaten breakfasts, so:
-
half an egg sandwich
-
the dregs of a bowl of oatmeal with maple syrup, mixed with whatever unsyruped oatmeal I can scrape out of the pot
-
about four apple slices and half a bagel
on days my spouse cooks breakfast. When I cook, everyone eats pancakes.
-
Technically nothing, but I do have coffee at the office.
Except on Thursday. That’s doughnut day.
3 cups of coffee. Unless it’s 4.
Anxiety and despair
Nothing. Last thing on my mind in the morning is food.
Appetite usually kicks in the late afternoon/early evening, when I have my first and usually only meal.
Same. Every now and then around 10 I’ll go ape on a proper eggs n bacon or sausage type meal, but 6/7 days I don’t eat til like noon -2:00 p
coffee and weed
deleted by creator
This is me as well. Though occasionally I like 2 hard boiled eggs with hot sauce.
But for every day? Black coffee and that sweet, sweet hydrating H2O.
deleted by creator
Rather than tell you what I personally eat, maybe it will be useful to know what American diners serve for breakfast. You can walk into any locally-owned diner anywhere in the country and order from a menu almost exactly like this:
- Breakfast Combo: Two eggs (scrambled, fried, or over easy/medium/hard), meat (bacon, sausage links, steak, or ham), and a carb (pancakes, toast, a biscuit, or hash browns)
- Biscuits and Gravy: Two biscuits with sausage gravy over the top. Sometimes served with an egg.
- Pancakes: A short stack is 2 and a tall stack is 4. Served with maple syrup.
- Skillet/Omelet: Eggs scrambled with onions, bell peppers, cheese, and meat. An alternate version, sometimes called “loaded hash browns,” uses hash browns instead of eggs.
- Breakfast Burrito: An omelet wrapped up in a tortilla. May be smothered with red or green chili sauce for a Tex-Mex spin.
- Oatmeal: Boiled oats with fruit, granola, syrup, etc.
- Eggs Benedict: Poached egg on an English muffin with ham and hollandaise sauce.
And then each diner will have their own “famous” specialty, like stuffed French toast, “home fries” (pan-fried potato chunks), huge pancakes, or sausage made in house. It’s hard to go wrong though, American breakfasts are consistently pretty tasty.
American Diner breakfasts are not anything like people’s daily meals.
Says who? In a typical month I make myself most of the above at least once.
I might be weird, but I often just have leftovers. Or sometimes I’ll throw a frozen pizza in the oven, maybe have some salad, whatever.
My son straight up just has leftovers for breakfast. Spaghetti, soup, roast chicken. Whatever’s in there he can heat up he’ll have before I even finish my coffee.
AuDHD has me going in phases.
For a while it was rice with a barely fried egg. Optional soy sauce or msg.
Then it was one slice of bacon and a fried egg.
Then it was half a bagel, cream cheese, and a slice of bacon.
Then Greek yogurt with some PB2. Sometimes with whatever fruit I had around.
Sometimes I go for salami and apple slices. Pepper jack cheese too.
I am now on a kick of these granola+peanut butter bar things either dipped in hot cocoa or hot coffee.
Meetings
Cigarette and THC vape normally. I don’t feel hungry for the first several hours I’m awake
Coffee and meds. Peanut butter toast if I’m feeling naughty
Americano, and two slices of multi grain toast with butter
