Dad here, former teen boy. When I have overnight guests, If I cooked the night before, I’ve usually got leftover meat from dinner. Chicken,,steak, pulled pork, even fish, doesn’t matter.

In tepee morning, dice X number of potatoes and X/2 number of onions. Microwave the potatoes for a few minutes to get them started. Sauté the onions. If you have any bell peppers, them too.

When the onions, maybe peppers are softened, add the pre-microwaved potatoes. You’re going to need a decent amount of oil or fat because the potatoes absorb some. I save bacon fat.

Cook this all together in the skillet. Use a metal skillet that can be scraped with a metal spatula. I like cast iron. You need the toasted crispy portions of the potatoes. This is not a job for a delicate nonstick pan with silicone spatulas.

Add some combo of salt, pepper, Old Bay, Tony’s Creole shaker, Worcestershire, to taste.

Add the chopped up ,eat leftover from last night.

Now eggs. You can scramble a dozen and pour the whole thing and mix all together for an egg scramble.

For a smaller group, you can make little holes in the potato hash in the pan, and crack individual eggs in there to cook on their own, yolks intact. That takes more space, so you’d be working in a couple pans here.

Or you can do eggs entirely separately, either to order, or all scrambled.

Add grated cheese to the whole thing at some point while it’s hot enough to melt it.

Very popular.

We do this almost every weekend with my kid's friends. I usually run out and get bagel/egg sandwiches and donuts. If I don't feel like it, I just have cereal and fruit out and they will make peanut butter toast for themselves, as well.

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Anonymous wrote:A dozen bagels + 1 box of munchkins. Done.

Painful. Who the hell can just eat sugar and carbs like this for breakfast and not feel terrible an hour later.

People who burn a lot of calories every day. Like athletes and....teenage boys.

It isn’t about how much you burn. It’s about the fact white carbs + sugar alone is a straight up blood sugar spike. Notice I said you would FEEL TERRIBLE, not GET FAT.

You're a middle aged woman right? No brothers? No sons? Because that's what you sound like. Teenage boys burn those calories and will burn the carbs and will not feel terrible. I'm a father and I was a teenage boy, had a host of teenage males friends and have sons. I can tell you that you are wrong or at least, the ones you are talking about are statistically rare. Teen boys will not feel terrible eating a ton of carbs and sugar for breakfast.

Yes they do.

I am a man. You always feel like absolute trash after eating pancakes, waffles, and bagels, because all it is is basically eating a desert for 'breakfast'. Just a giant bolus of sugar and then subsequent crash hours later.

Back when I played varsity sports in high school, I always made sure load up on protein - spinach/ham/cheese omelettes, cottage cheese with nuts and fruit, eggs and toast, even natto.

Westerners, and Americans in particular, have an extraordinarily strange concept of what defines breakfast food. It makes zero sense why Americans consider what is tantamount to eating a giant slice of cake, a huge bowl of ice cream, or a plate of cookies to be adequate food for a proper meal.

Omelettes, as many eggs as possible, hams/bacons, cottage cheese, yogurts, nuts, even peanut/nut buttter spreads, etc. are all way better than empty plates of useless carbs covered in more sugar like pancakes and waffles that make you feel like you want to vomit hours later.

No large baguettes and rolls for breakfast anywhere in Europe. Ever.

Anonymous wrote:I think the bacon and sausage suggestions are a little pointless and will make your kitchen smelly for no reason. A good egg and cheese sandwich on a good English muffin or good toast is nearly as good, if not sometimes better than an egg, cheese and bacon or sausage sandwich. And even good bread is probably not needed, as teen kids don't appreciate good bread and usually prefer cheap grocery store soft ("wheat") bread.

Good this, good that, good toast. You sound like that morbidly obese TV chef from the Hamptons.

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Make your own breakfast bar.

Some variety of meats (Bake a package of bacon/A package of deli ham/Some microwave heat and serve sausage patties). Scramble a dozen eggs. Put out meats, cheese, eggs, and an assortment of bread, bagels, English muffins.

And then put out a fruit bowl with apples, oranges, bananas.

Unless a special occasion or holiday, I've never prepared a spread like this. It's totally unnecessary.

JFC, this is not a hotel.

Anonymous wrote:I don't know who all these people are suggesting bacon - it's horrible for your health. We do eggs, sourdough toast, bagels, fruit, cream cheese, lox, steel cut oats.

They could do Turkey bacon. Sourdough and bagels unless whole wheat are unhealthy as well as cream cheese unless nonfat.

Slice a croissant in half, add two slices of sharp cheddar, cooked bacon, and either ham or turkey. Wrap in tinfoil and bake for 15 minutes. Plus have Chobani yogurt and bananas and be done with it. Maybe orange juice.

I would do a big frittata or egg bake (they are good to eat room temp, cold, or hot) bagels, cream cheese, fruit

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Anonymous wrote:A dozen bagels + 1 box of munchkins. Done.

Painful. Who the hell can just eat sugar and carbs like this for breakfast and not feel terrible an hour later.

People who burn a lot of calories every day. Like athletes and....teenage boys.

It isn’t about how much you burn. It’s about the fact white carbs + sugar alone is a straight up blood sugar spike. Notice I said you would FEEL TERRIBLE, not GET FAT.

You're a middle aged woman right? No brothers? No sons? Because that's what you sound like. Teenage boys burn those calories and will burn the carbs and will not feel terrible. I'm a father and I was a teenage boy, had a host of teenage males friends and have sons. I can tell you that you are wrong or at least, the ones you are talking about are statistically rare. Teen boys will not feel terrible eating a ton of carbs and sugar for breakfast.

Yes they do.

I am a man. You always feel like absolute trash after eating pancakes, waffles, and bagels, because all it is is basically eating a desert for 'breakfast'. Just a giant bolus of sugar and then subsequent crash hours later.

Back when I played varsity sports in high school, I always made sure load up on protein - spinach/ham/cheese omelettes, cottage cheese with nuts and fruit, eggs and toast, even natto.

Westerners, and Americans in particular, have an extraordinarily strange concept of what defines breakfast food. It makes zero sense why Americans consider what is tantamount to eating a giant slice of cake, a huge bowl of ice cream, or a plate of cookies to be adequate food for a proper meal.

Omelettes, as many eggs as possible, hams/bacons, cottage cheese, yogurts, nuts, even peanut/nut buttter spreads, etc. are all way better than empty plates of useless carbs covered in more sugar like pancakes and waffles that make you feel like you want to vomit hours later.

It’s one meal away. They will feel fine.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know who all these people are suggesting bacon - it's horrible for your health. We do eggs, sourdough toast, bagels, fruit, cream cheese, lox, steel cut oats.

Oh my God, calm down Cassandra. Two strips of bacon have less than 180 calories, and after you cook a ton of fat is already rendered out. At least it has protein, versus sugar laden bombs devoid of anything useful like pancakes, waffles, sugary cereals, etc. If it is something like Canadian bacon, even better. Awesome source of protein with low calories.

I think people are referring to the increased cancer risk not the fat content.

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Anonymous wrote:A dozen bagels + 1 box of munchkins. Done.

Painful. Who the hell can just eat sugar and carbs like this for breakfast and not feel terrible an hour later.

Teen boys .

For real. These aren’t middle aged women. Teens don’t care. I remember in high school the most popular lunches people bought was a bagel or soft pretzel and a big cookie

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Anonymous wrote:A dozen bagels + 1 box of munchkins. Done.

Painful. Who the hell can just eat sugar and carbs like this for breakfast and not feel terrible an hour later.

People who burn a lot of calories every day. Like athletes and....teenage boys.

It isn’t about how much you burn. It’s about the fact white carbs + sugar alone is a straight up blood sugar spike. Notice I said you would FEEL TERRIBLE, not GET FAT.

You're a middle aged woman right? No brothers? No sons? Because that's what you sound like. Teenage boys burn those calories and will burn the carbs and will not feel terrible. I'm a father and I was a teenage boy, had a host of teenage males friends and have sons. I can tell you that you are wrong or at least, the ones you are talking about are statistically rare. Teen boys will not feel terrible eating a ton of carbs and sugar for breakfast.

Yes they do.

I am a man. You always feel like absolute trash after eating pancakes, waffles, and bagels, because all it is is basically eating a desert for 'breakfast'. Just a giant bolus of sugar and then subsequent crash hours later.

Back when I played varsity sports in high school, I always made sure load up on protein - spinach/ham/cheese omelettes, cottage cheese with nuts and fruit, eggs and toast, even natto.

Westerners, and Americans in particular, have an extraordinarily strange concept of what defines breakfast food. It makes zero sense why Americans consider what is tantamount to eating a giant slice of cake, a huge bowl of ice cream, or a plate of cookies to be adequate food for a proper meal.

Omelettes, as many eggs as possible, hams/bacons, cottage cheese, yogurts, nuts, even peanut/nut buttter spreads, etc. are all way better than empty plates of useless carbs covered in more sugar like pancakes and waffles that make you feel like you want to vomit hours later.

quesadillas
grilled cheese sandwiches

Anonymous wrote:I think the bacon and sausage suggestions are a little pointless and will make your kitchen smelly for no reason. A good egg and cheese sandwich on a good English muffin or good toast is nearly as good, if not sometimes better than an egg, cheese and bacon or sausage sandwich. And even good bread is probably not needed, as teen kids don't appreciate good bread and usually prefer cheap grocery store soft ("wheat") bread.

The smell of bacon is a bad thing?

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Anonymous wrote:A dozen bagels + 1 box of munchkins. Done.

Painful. Who the hell can just eat sugar and carbs like this for breakfast and not feel terrible an hour later.

People who burn a lot of calories every day. Like athletes and....teenage boys.

It isn’t about how much you burn. It’s about the fact white carbs + sugar alone is a straight up blood sugar spike. Notice I said you would FEEL TERRIBLE, not GET FAT.

You're a middle aged woman right? No brothers? No sons? Because that's what you sound like. Teenage boys burn those calories and will burn the carbs and will not feel terrible. I'm a father and I was a teenage boy, had a host of teenage males friends and have sons. I can tell you that you are wrong or at least, the ones you are talking about are statistically rare. Teen boys will not feel terrible eating a ton of carbs and sugar for breakfast.