--- title: What Does Ina Garten Eat for Breakfast? description: The Food Network star claims she's eaten one particularly simple meal for breakfast every morning for 10 years. canonical: https://time.com/4776163/ina-garten-breakfast-oatmeal/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-11T18:15:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:43:34.082Z og:title: Ina Garten Has Eaten This Same Breakfast Every Day for a Decade og:description: It's probably not what you're thinking og:url: https://time.com/4776163/ina-garten-breakfast-oatmeal/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ina Garten Has Eaten This Same Breakfast Every Day for a Decade twitter:description: It's probably not what you're thinking twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Ina Garten Has Eaten This Same Breakfast ‘Every Single Day for 10 Years’ by [Ana Calderone/People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Ana Calderone/People Contributor May 11, 2017 6:15 PM UTC by [Ana Calderone/People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Ana Calderone/People Contributor May 11, 2017 6:15 PM UTC [Ina Garten](http://people.com/tag/ina-garten/) is constantly testing out new recipes for cookbooks like her latest, [_Cooking for Jeffrey_](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/030746489X/?tag=timecom-20), but there is one meal that remains constant. “I’ve had the same thing for breakfast every single day for ten years: coffee and [McCann’s quick-cooking Irish oatmeal](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001E5E3S0/?tag=timecom-20),” the _Barefoot Contessa_ star tells _Bon Appetit_ for their “Grocery List” series. Garten says she adds “lots of salt” because “I don’t want it to taste like wallpaper paste.” Other staples in the Garten household include “a bowl of lemons on the counter (and other citrus), butter, eggs, Parmesan cheese, and chocolate,” she says. There are also some “forbidden” items on her grocery list like [Tate’s chocolate chip cookies](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00P58QY0M/?tag=timecom-20) and vanilla Häagen-Dazs ice cream. Though she’s not opposed to picking up pre-made dinners on weekdays, the weekend is when Garten will really spend time cooking at home after [her husband Jeffrey](http://people.com/food/ina-garten-husband-jeffrey-cookbook-marriage/) has returned from his job at Yale University. On a recent weekend, the Food Network host made a skillet lemon [chicken](http://people.com/food/ina-garten-jeffrey-roast-chicken-recipe-radishes/), roasted broccoli and vanilla rum panna cotta on one night, and pasta e fagioli the other night. “I _always_ have soup in the freezer that’s hearty enough to be a meal, like Tuscan white bean, split pea, cauliflower, or [Loaves & Fishes](http://www.landffoodstore.com/)‘ tortellini en brodo,” she says. Garten is repetitive in her sweets as well. “While we watch TV, we always have granola for dessert,” she says. “A little strawberry or plain yogurt, fruit that’s in season, and [Bola granola](https://bolagranola.com/). I buy granola because unless you can make something that’s better than what you’d buy, there’s no point in spending the time!” See more of Garten’s grocery list (hand-written notes and all!) on [_Bon Appetit_](http://www.bonappetit.com/story/ina-garten-grocery-list). _This story originally appeared on_ [_People_](http://people.com/food/ina-garten-breakfast-oatmeal/)_._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4776163/ina-garten-breakfast-oatmeal/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4776163/ina-garten-breakfast-oatmeal/"},"headline":"Ina Garten Has Eaten This Same Breakfast ‘Every Single Day for 10 Years’","datePublished":"2017-05-11T18:15:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:43:34.082Z","description":"It's probably not what you're thinking","url":"https://time.com/4776163/ina-garten-breakfast-oatmeal/","keywords":["Newsfeed","food and drink","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ana Calderone/People"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4776163/ina-garten-breakfast-oatmeal/","name":"Ina Garten Has Eaten This Same Breakfast ‘Every Single Day for 10 Years’"}}]}] ```