"Breakfast" foods

**Lori Biever-Launder** · 10-21-2008, 01:11 AM

We eat breakfast for dinner at least once a week. Many of my friends say their spouses won't eat "breakfast" food for dinner. Why are eggs and hash browns "breakfast" food and potato salad (made with eggs and potatoes--same foods!) not? In our house, food is food. It is not tied to the clock!

FWIW, we also eat leftovers for breakfast (on the rare occasions we actually HAVE leftovers with two teenage sons in the house!).

**Momto2Boyz** · 10-21-2008, 07:05 AM

We eat breakfast foods for dinner all the time! Our nieghbors think it's weird, and I've had the same conversations with them. Meat and mashed potatoes are ok for dinner, but sausage and hash browns aren't? I don't get it!

Biscuits and gravy is also a big dinner thing around here. We probably eat that for dinner more than we do for breakfast. That isn't much different from chipped beef or chicken a la king!

**joyofsix** · 10-21-2008, 07:10 AM

We often have waffles or pancakes for supper. That's when I actually have the time to make them fresh, not 5am. My kids also like traditional breakfast foods (tacos anyone?) for breakfast. If it's healthy at one meal it's healthy at another I figure.

**TheRootedNomad** · 10-21-2008, 07:16 AM

The only time we do a BIG breakfast is when we eat it at dinner. I'm not home weekday mornings. On the weekends I'll occassionally make french toast or something or DH will cook bacon and eggs. Dinner on the other hand may be scrambled eggs, sausage, biscuits, pancakes, and fresh fruit. Then I freeze th eleftover pancakes and they grab the left over sausage and biscuits for breakfast.

**IntlMom** · 10-21-2008, 07:39 AM

When we first were married,we didin;t do it, dh was from a "traditional" meat and potatoes for dinner kind of household, But I have converted him YEA! Several years ago I started with making an egg based breakfast casserole and serving it for dinner with fruit and monkey bread.....he loved it. We know eat that about once a month for dinner, and do pancakes, waffles, scrambled eggs and monkey bread.......things like that once a month or so too.

But I know that I REALLY had converted him when he was hungry one evening on a fend for yourself kind of night, and I suggusted that he have a bowl of cereal.....he did, he liked it, and now he will have a bowl of cereal often in the evening...

**hoosiermama08** · 10-21-2008, 07:43 AM

We, too, do breakfast for supper lots--biscuits n gravy n sausage n eggs mmMMmm! Folks who divide foods by the 'mealtime' crack me up

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**cissylu** · 10-21-2008, 07:52 AM

We also have breakfast foods at night . some times.

QM · 10-21-2008, 08:11 AM

Originally Posted by IntlMom

...dh was from a "traditional" meat and potatoes for dinner kind of household...

My dh is still like this and we've been married for 9-1/2 years! I don't think he'll change his "meat and potatoes" mentality, but to each is own. Since he's the cook it doesn't really bother me. What I do is wait until he goes on a business trip and have eggs and toast for supper with my daughters.

**cab54** · 10-21-2008, 08:23 AM

We eat breakfast for dinner all the time. Luckily for me, DH had done this growing up, so there was no having to convert him. He loves it.

**ktsmama** · 10-21-2008, 08:33 AM

Breakfast for Dinner is a staple at our house. We love hot grits and eggs on a cold evenign.

**TexasPeanut** · 10-21-2008, 09:28 AM

We eat breakfast for dinner all the time. Nothing tastes better on a cold evening than a slice of hot ham, biscuits with gravy, hash browns and fried eggs. On the flip side we have been known to eat non breakfast type of foods for breakfast beyond the typical cold pizza, I've eaten bowls of homemade chicken noodle soup on cold, rainy winter mornings and DH is fond of having hot grilled cheese sandwiches on cold mornings.

**faw42077** · 10-21-2008, 09:35 AM

We also eat breakfast for supper at least once a week. It's the only time we eat a big breakfast.

**cheles2kids** · 10-21-2008, 10:00 AM

I'm so glad to see that I'm not as "weird" as some people like to think I am!

We eat breakfast foods for dinner alot, and as others have mentioned, we eat "non-traditional" foods for breakfast:
pizza (of course)
pasta
beans & rice
soups
leftovers (whatever that might have been)

Something that I was raised on, was fried chicken for breakfast.
We did fried chicken, biscuits, gravy & fried potatoes. It was DELISH!!!
We even did this every summer when we went camping, fried chicken over a campfire was unbelievable for breakfast!

Another thing that is not the healthiest, but something we do occasionally is to make chocolate gravy with biscuits.
It's soooo good!

Growing up nobody had ever heard of this around Tennessee, but I think my Dad picked it up from someone up in Ohio?
I dunno, but it's reeeeallly good!

**annymoll** · 10-21-2008, 10:15 AM

We do not usually eat breakfast foods for supper. I like my breakfast foods in the morning, my supper foods in the evening.I do like cereal if I am the only one home at supper.