Daddy's Home by Tony Rubino and Gary Markstein for March 04, 2016

I’m with the boy on this one. Why did the father even ask?

Small talk, maybe.We eat porridges for breakfast.

I had Eggs, scrambled or over easy, usually, but winter some Quaker Oats or Cream of Wheat! Dad and Mom would both cook to feed all of us!

@TonyNormally, toast with peanut butter on it. Sometimes (like this morning) cottage cheese mixed with peanut butter (yes, I’m weird, I know). Used to be cereal most of the time. As a kid, I didn’t like most cereals, so I really bounced around a lot. Couldn’t find anything I liked. Pop-tarts (liked that, but eventually said no to that), various cereals, frozen waffles/pancakes, muffins, real pancakes (that just took more time than I usually had).If I have the hankering, I’ll cook eggs or pancakes.

Crumpets, OJ and lots of coffee!

@Tony Have a heart, I’ve only been up for 30 minutes. In a while, I’ll probably have a yogurt and some fruit, or a crumpet with peanut butter and jam.

Jack Ryan movies: “Do you want toast? or… toast?”

My first memory of having breakfast is eating Cheerios. As a kid, I remember a variety of the usual – cereal, pancakes, french toast, eggs etc. Now I usually have a whole-grain bagel with peanut butter, honey and lots of cinnamon. Once or twice a week, I might have oatmeal with pecans. We go out to breakfast once a week and that’s when I have the eggs, bacon, pancakes etc.

At boarding school we had a choice of hot or cold cereal. I imagine the cold cereal varied from day to day, but most mornings I chose oatmeal. Every once in a while we’d have Wheatina (?), which I loathed, or Cream of Wheat, which never filled me up. I could eat it all day and still be hungry.

I was born pre- Pop-tarts, and waffles were for Sunday supper.

QOTD #1: Haven’t had breakfast yet today but I make various things throughout the week except for oneday when I eat out with my parents. Breakfast is never cereal, stopped eating that when I was 10 and never looked back.

QOTD #2: Yes, it is nice to make my own breakfast. That way I always get what I want.

Most mornings Carnation Instant Breakfast (they call it Breakfast Essentials now). Weekends, 1/2 a Costco muffin (whole one is too big so 1/2 on Saturday and 1/2 on Sunday).Occasionally I’ll have toast or strawberry bread.

@Tony

“What did you have?”

Uh, this morning it was coffee and Baileys…

Was what you had what you wanted?

You’re kidding, right? Who doesn’t want Baileys?

My grandmother used to give us grapefruit, with the sections cut out with the curved grapefruit knife, bless her.

I love grapefruit, and would peal and eat it just like an orange! Rarely have it anymore because it doesn’t work well with the cholesterol meds I am taking. I do cheat, once in a while though…

What did I have for Breakfast? Is that the question? Maple & Sugar Instant Oatmeal with fresh blueberries and a cup of yogurt.

Oh and coffee, OF COURSE, COFFEE! Black! Thank you very much! :-D