What was your favourite breakfast as a child?

[tvguy]

From the time I started Kindergarten until I was in 9th Grade my mom worked graveyard shift, got off work at 7 am, home by 7:20 am, and fixed me scrambled eggs before I headed off to school. Never had an issue with that. When I started 10th grade my mom moved to Dayshift, having to be at work at 6 am. I was on my own and I really don't remember having a favorite breakfast, but there were always eggs, cold and hot cereal and Carnation Instant Breakfast in the house.
I do remember when I was about 10 the three girls next door came over for breakfast before school because their parents had to be somewhere very early.
I remember that day, even though it was over 50 YEARS ago. My mom had no idea what they liked so she fixed eggs, bacon, pancakes and had cereal available. I ran into the oldest girl about 10 years ago and SHE was still talking about the fact that she had never seen that many breakfast options. Her family didn't have a lot of money and I guess breakfast was a little different in her house.

 

[TippyThomas]

As a child it was always some sort of cold cereal.

 

[AuntieMe3]

Pigs in a blanket.

 

[bcla]

We had espresso for coffee - not "american coffee. You warmed up milk and put a little espresso in it (like regular coffee here/but more milk/espresso is stronger) and poured in bowl. We would break up day old/left over bread and throw it in. We might add a drop of cinnamon and sugar.

I went to a place that had breakfast and lunch like that. They called it a cafe au lait, but it was really a single shot of espresso with foamed milk. Once it was consumed they would give free refills with drip coffee. They had a really nice Faema machine and the coffee came from a supplier in Oakland, California called Mr. Espresso.

 

[Praying Colonel]

About once/year my Dad would make a big breakfast of homemade biscuits, gravy, eggs, sausage and fried apples. Dad was a great breakfast cook.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

Why the breakfast of champions of course
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Leftover Pizza.

 

[Kittyblue]

My favorite was cereal, I remember Lucky Charms and Crackling Oat Bran the most but there were others.

For a short stretch, we did Steak'ums. Today I would never touch a Steak'um.

That’s funny, I hadn’t had Steak Um since I was a kid and recently wanted to buy some. I couldn’t find them ANYWHERE. Finally with the help of their website store locator I found some at Dollar General They make a pretty good breakfast sandwich with mushrooms, bell pepper, onion, and an egg

 

[scbruno]

Fruity Pebbles

 

[BlueStarryHat]

Just cereal, always Cheerios because that's what the government allowed. Once in a while we'd go to a diner with my grandparents and I'd always get creamed chipped beef on toast and home fries. My grandfather called it S*it on a Shingle.

 

[MrsCobraBubbles]

Grammy's dippy eggs and bacon. She would fry up a pound of bacon first, then cook our eggs in the bacon fat. We'd make some buttered toast and then when we sat down to eat we would break open the yolk and spread it on the toast.

 

[PollyannaMom]

Fruity Pebbles

I never really liked those as cereal with milk, because they got soggy fast, but they make really good "Rice Krispie" Treats!

 

[AnnaS]

I went to a place that had breakfast and lunch like that. They called it a cafe au lait, but it was really a single shot of espresso with foamed milk. Once it was consumed they would give free refills with drip coffee. They had a really nice Faema machine and the coffee came from a supplier in Oakland, California called Mr. Espresso.

Everything looks good there. What you are describing is a "cup of coffee" yes, cafe au latte - coffee with milk. Picture that bowl but not foamy - chop up bread - let is soak and we called it - pane e latte or latte e pane

 

[RamblingMad]

Lox. But my mom thought it was gross. Now who was the kid?

 

[bcla]

Everything looks good there. What you are describing is a "cup of coffee" yes, cafe au latte - coffee with milk. Picture that bowl but not foamy - chop up bread - let is soak and we called it - pane e latte or latte e pane

The picture might not be the same place, which closed in 2012. It might be the new place that took over. I just found the photo randomly and it doesn't look quite like what I remember.

It was rather expensive, but if I was feeling like spending, they had poached eggs and prosciutto on top of pain au levain. They also had an ordering lingo. That would be "poached on prosciutto", and the cafe au lait would be ordered as "one/two/three for here". A cafe au lait to go would be "one/two/three to go".

But this wasn't when I was a child, so I didn't necessarily bring it up. If I wasn't feeling like spending as much, they had steel cut oats (served as "Irish oatmeal") and beignets.

This is also in Berkeley, which is supposedly the birthplace of the cafe latte. Or at least the claim goes that someone thought that a cappuccino was too strong and asked for a lot more milk at Caffe Mediterraneum on Telegraph Ave.

 

[MrsPete]

We always had it on Thanksgiving morning: Stuffing topped with a soft boiled egg. SO GOOD.

Pancakes were a close favorite.

Today I love a good Bacon-Egg-Cheese biscuit, which we tend to eat for dinner instead of breakfast.

But my favorite today is Huevos Rancheros, especially the way they make them at Famous Toastery.

 

[Meriweather]

bacon sandwich

fried pound cake with melted butter on it

soft boiled eggs

cinnamon toast

 

[E&Cmom]

Honeycomb

 

[Lehuaann]

Cream of Wheat

 

[Deb]

Loved ready break

am I the only person who has no idea what ready break is?

 

[EMom]

My favorites would have been the days my mother made pancakes OR fried eggs with sausage gravy over biscuits. My teenage brother once ate 14 pancakes before school. (medium size) Amazingly, he can still eat like a horse as a senior citizen, but has never become at all pudgy.