Planning breakfast around an 8-5 job....

[speed dawg]

I am not a morning person. I also work an office job (half out, half in, but not labor intensive nontheless). I have trouble getting up in time to make a healthy and big enough breakfast every morning, which counters what I'm trying to get accomplished. I want breakfast to be one of my bigger meals of the day.

So my question is, what are some breakfast foods that can be cooked and stored well throughout the week? I usually do fruit-protein-milk smoothies when I have the time, but I'd rather eat more than that, some solid food too. And the smoothies don't keep too well.

Can eggs be cooked and refridgerated? Sounds gross to me. Toast, oatmeal maybe? What have you guys gotten good results from. And remember, breakfast is a hard meal for me to eat unless it's good food. Like i said, I'm usually pretty cranky in the morning and not in the mood to do much until I get my coffee at work.

 

[dbot]

I'm not a morning person either. I eat a fast but functional breakfast and get on with my day. Here it is:

1 banana
4 raw eggs
16oz glass of milk
1 tsp flax oil

That's what I eat every morning. I buy all the groceries a week in advance, so everything stores well. It gives me plenty of energy and doesn't take a lot of time.

 

[Hockey Playa]

-Oatmeal + green Tea
Boil water 3 min, eat 2 min = 5 mins

-Eggs unless raw - a bit more timely

-i buy fruit bowls throughout the week , no preparation, healthy, fairly cheap

- I also buy a thing called "breakfast wraps" it is kept frozen, takes 3 min in the microwave, contains, egg, veges


But yah Oatmeal/fruit is enough to get you by, and very quickly prepared

 

[WC2]

Boiled eggs. Leave them in their shells and they'll last even longer.

Oatmeal takes 2min to heat up. I'll usually do 2-3 eggs/bowl of oatmeal/fish oil in the morning.

 

[Quiksilver]

Here's a nice breakfast:

-6 whole eggs
-6oz steak
-few strips of bacon
-couple piece of fruit


Cook it all the night before, wrap it up and toss it in the fridge. In the morning, bring it all out onto a plate and microwave it for a 1.5 minutes. Tastes good as new.

Eat the eggs first then if your in a hurry eat the bacon and steak in the car.

Oatmeal takes 2min to heat up. I'll usually do 2-3 eggs/bowl of oatmeal/fish oil in the morning.

Sounds like my breakfast

It used to be 6 eggs, 1 cup of oats, mug of green tea, 1L of water. Could never stand taking the fish caps first thing in the morning tho...

 

[Fuglydude]

Dude, when I'm on day shifts I go 0700-1500 or 0700-1900 or even 07-2300...

My breakfast looks like this:
1-2 bowls High fiber flax/omega-3 cereal w/ some skim milk. Its super quick to eat this stuff, and its got a good amount of calories and some protein.

40-50 g whey isolate: Take my supplements with this. (multi, B complex, thermo, fish oil, etc) Oddly the multi, B complex and thermo is like my wake up stack!

1-2 pieces of fruit...stuff like orange or bananas, etc.

I also take cottage cheese to work with me. A 500 ml container will last you 2 meals at work and provide 60 g of slow release protein for around $3. I find bringing cottage cheese along with my regular meals helps ALOT!

 

[speed dawg]

All good ideas. Thanks for the responses. Anyone know how long boiled eggs last in the fridge?

Oatmeal and bananas I like, so they'll be a staple. I'll do the bacon too, and try to cook up some meaty cheap sirloins to eat throughout the week. Cottage cheese too.

What I'm trying to do is set up my workouts for first thing in the morning, breakfast with everything I need, then slowly decrease the size of my meals the rest of the day. Ultimately I'd like to end the day with nothing but a fruit/protein shake.