keenancook

Seems I've been missing out on Pop tarts and Coyote steaks. Both might be worth a try on my next unsupported tour... I was actually thinking the same thing with raccoon steaks. I'd imagine they'd be tasty after they spend the night eating my baked goods...

gamecock

Wile I'm packing, and the coffee is steeping, oatmeal can be cooking, quick, not instant, with some dried fruit. I have had little luck picking up bagels, buns or anything else worth eating on the rural roads I use. I then hit the first food I can find, and eat whatever looks safe. Failing that, I eat a Clif Bar about an hour after starting.

SparkyGA

I eat whatever I ate for supper the night before for breakfast plus some fruit and usually left flat Coke for the sugar. Todays breakfast was Butter Chicken, tomorrows breakfast is Thai Lemongrass pork on a salad with footlong loaf of garlic bread. Plus cookies, usually chocolate chip or Tim Tams.

This gets me going for the first 30 km or until I can get myself a good coffee and cake. Which holds me off till lunch.

No wonder I never leave town till past 1 pm. Need to eat!

keenancook

Are you cooking this food, or eating out, because that sounds awesome!

cyccommute 

Oatmeal bars and coffee. I don't want to wash dishes in the morning.

hilltowner

Add me to the list of the ones who find the first good diner and order a cooked breakfast whenever possible.

I am stealth camping 90% of the time. Morning is usually not a good time for hanging around the kind of campsite that works well because no one can see you as long as it's dark. (Think the local cemetary.) What I save on campground fees I figure I can invest in a good first meal of the day. (Besides it's a good place for a wash-up as fietsbob says).

Lunch is usually fruit and nuts and fig bars, etc. Supper I can take the time to cook. It's usually my best excuse for hanging around that picnic table that's on the side of the road with the "no camping" sign nearby. Once the light is gone up goes my hammock between two appropriately spaced trees.

capejohn

We always begin with oatmeal and coffee. Add fruit if we have it. I find that I eat much healthier on tour than I do at home. Go figure.

linus

Bannock from last night with PB and honey with coffee.

DW99

The first thing I do is get water boiling with the GSI Halulite Ketalist. Most times it's coffee and instant oatmeal, like many others, and/or granola bar or homemade granola. Since I mix the hot water in the oatmeal packet all I have to clean up is the coffee cup and a spork. A drop of campsuds and hot water on a paper towel then a rince takes care of that. Then later on I stop at a convenience store or cafe if available, and eat something more substantial.

Steve0000

Toasted muesli and yoghurt, coffee.

Initially we ate porridge but it takes too long, uses too gas to prepare and is difficult to clean the pot without heating some more water. Also, you can't have a coffee until the pot is cleaned.

Erick L

Any of instant oatmeal, bars, cheese, dried or fresh fruits, small can of fruit salad, nuts, bread and peanut and/or nutella, hot chocolate. I've also had soup on cold autumn mornings. I'm also a fan of a small breakfast in camp followed by a second breakfast in a restaurant.

eofelis 

We found that we need to keep breakfast light first thing in the morning. Usually just oatmeal and some coffee or tea. Then we get on the road and maybe have second breakfast mid-morning.

We learned this on a tour a few years back. We went to a breakfast place first thing and just split an omelet. Not a lot of food. We only had a 20 mile flattish day to ride but we were both feeling bloated and uncomfortable the whole ride. No more big meals for breakfast for us!

Ekdog

Agreed, although pots use to cook starchy cereals are best cleaned up with cold water.

GetUpnGo

As Doconabike mentioned, it's not necessary to cook oatmeal. Uncooked oats taste great. They have a slightly sweet taste. Get the healthy kind---"slow cooked"---and add fruit, chopped almonds, and yogurt for a long-lasting breakfast.

staehpj1

I am curious, do you raw oat eaters eat steel cut oats or rolled oats?

I do like to eat the Nature Valley Oats N Honey bars.

adventurepdx

I've tried recently peanut butter with granola. I figured this out at the end of my last tour as a way to use up stuff and because I was particularly lazy that morning. I figure oats/museli would also work.

DW99

Right adventurepdx, peanut butter is good with granola. One of the recipes I've used for granola bars has a cup of peanut butter in it, the best batch I've made. Nuttin' wrong with peanut butter with breakfast, or any other meal, to me.

lucille

Freshly brewed coffee and oatmeal that's been cooking on the thermos overnight. I'm surprised nobody mentioned this, because I've learned the trick right here.
Make oatmeal at night, put in wide mouth thermos, add raisins and keep in the bottom of sleeping bag. In the morning add some maple syrup and nuts and it's ready. Have to admit that it's not really hot anymore, just warm, but add a splash of water that's boiling for coffee and voila! Breakfast is served!
I use a mix of rolled oats and other whole grains and add some flax or chia seeds, no instant oatmeal for me

I think steel cut oats need a lot more cooking time that you'd want to do on a camping stove. Rolled oats are great.
And not sure if you care, but Nature Valley bars and not as natural as they want you to believe, and they are full of high fructose corn syrup and other sweeteners.

staehpj1

Agreed, but I was asking about those who said they ate them uncooked. Me I am fine with instant. Thermos oatmeal is really good, but these days I am a bit too much of a gram counter to carry one.

True, but no I don't really care about that when on tour.

Machka 

Here in Japan, we've been shopping for dinner sometime in mid-to-late afternoon, and we pick up cakes of some kind for breakfast.

clasher

I carry large flake oats and just pick up tetra packs of (soy) milk for a kind of lo-fi museli. Any of the usual fixings one might have for snacking make good additions: raisins, seeds, nuts, dried or fresh fruit. I don't mind drinking cold instant coffee so I did last year when I was riding with someone I met. I also tried making cold brew coffee by soaking grinds overnight and it was alright but I'd want to perfect the recipe before I go next time.

Machka 

In this part of Japan, you can get hot and cold coffee out of vending machines, and there seem to be vending machines everywhere. It was quite a pleasant surprise to discover hot black canned coffee.