I eat my big meal around 11am, then a smaller meal mid-afternoon.

That would be work for me except I have 3 men here who will want dinner around 6.

And I look forward to it. But usually I don’t mind making everyone a decent dinner.

Drive my mom nuts when I was a kid, she was one of those gets-up-hungry people and I’d watch her dipping her toast in semi-cooked egg yolk while my stomach turned, while she forced me to choke down a couple bites of cereal before school.

Watching both my parents dip toast into those halfway cooked eggs when I was a kid, uugghh. I usually choked down some cold cereal before school, too. We never had oatmeal or any hot cereal but I think i wouldn’t have liked that, either. (I do now).

usually a mandarin orange followed by a small bowl of oatmeal and cup of coffee.

Sometimes I go to sausage and cheese biscuits right away, and sometimes I don't eat my first meal until lunchtime, like I did today.

To eat but coffee is mandatory... until about 10am. I make breakfast, though I never ate breakfast at breakfast time most of my adult life. I started making breakfast about five years ago when I had to take medication every day, doing that in the morning was a sure way to see that it was taken regularly. And I had to eat to take it.

So I get up between 3 and 5am, make coffee, go back to bed at some point for a couple more hours then get up and make breakfast a little before noon. Not into eggs so I make bacon, tea, toast and have that with a tangerine or yogurt with fruit. Once in a while I make hot cereal in winter.

Sometimes I don't feel like making anything and just wait a few hours and have a late lunch/early dinner and have snacks later on if I want something more.

Your food choices sound good. I am too lazy to cook bacon just for myself.

I can satisfy my bacon addiction is because I have a nice air fryer/convection oven that I can make perfect bacon every time in less than 20 minutes. If I had to cook it in a pan, wouldn't be happening. I just put the slices on the tray, place the second tray on top of them and let her rip for about 15 minutes or less. The cooked product is perfectly cooked, flat strips that crumble when you bite into them, yum!

Growing up, that was how bacon was made, flat, all of it cooked... no curled up, half cooked and greasy nightmare that I wouldn't venture to eat. Imagine my horror when I discovered that people out west eat bacon that way and expect you to as well.

Call me a picky eater, I don't care.

Your air fryer sounds like it does it perfectly.

Had it for a few years now. Got it at Costco for $100. Best appliance I think I have ever purchased.

I do not eat on directly getting up. I take a synthroid every morning, first thing, and it's imperative that I give it at least 30 minutes with an hour being the better choice.

So that's easy. I get online and survey all the websites I frequent. That takes up at least an hour and then I'm ready to eat!

start my coffee within 30 minutes of taking my synthroid. My doctor said "15 minutes"! Another doctor told me to take it and then have your first-morning pee, that's usually enough time.

The difficult morning is when I take alendronate for my osteopenia. That's a 45 minute wait, after about 20-30 minutes after my synthroid. Good thing I'm retired.

Passing the time online would be easy for me, too. Glad you have it all worked out!

I tend to prefer carbs, but my metabolism requires more protein. So, it's usually hashbrowns and an egg, or maybe a croissant.

I'm hungry again thirty minutes after eating cereal, so doubling the portion holds me for about two hours. I buy Special K with Strawberries about once a year if I can get it on sale ($8/box!).

And it’s ridiculous what a box of cereal costs now. When my boys were teenagers they could finish off a box in 2 days. I would have gone broke with today’s prices!