English Muffins with egg and ham/sausage/bacon? Ham could be nuked or heated over a skillet. Egg can be scrambled (no milk!) or hard fried. Little bit of butter and you'll have the Egg McMuffin. Just avoid cheese slices if you can, that has a lot of fat in it. Keep it simple and you'll have a warm breakfast sandwich that stays under 300 calories. And you don't have to deal with the temptation of hash browns!

Another suggestion:

Scramble eggs, mix up with your favorite breakfast meat and a little bit of salsa. Prepare the night before, refridgerate and in the morning plop the mixture onto a tortilla and put it in the oven for a few minutes (until warm, or until the tortilla is as toasty as you want). My mother in law serves this in her deli. It's very popular.

Same recipe as before (sans the salsa), only with a croissant. Buy them in bulk at Sam's. Yuuum.

Also, with enough milk, instant oatmeal could be sipped via a travel cup. You might need to take the lid off, but you get the idea. Handy because it will fit in your cup holders! YAY!

Also. Fruit and yogurt makes a good breakfast. Yogurt can fit in a cup holder too. =D

Avoid bagels. Avoid cheese if can (sometimes you need it, I know I do). Avoid cream cheese. NO DONUTS!

Here's what I do:

http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/7171/pitapocket.jpg

Pocket Pitas.

Here's why:
They're inexpensive
They can be filled with anything
They can be served hot or cold
They don't make a mess in the car
They're the right size (for me anyway) for breakfast

What do you put in them?
Well, anything you like really.

I like eggs for breakfast, so I'll often whip up an egg in a bowl and toss it in the microwave for a minute. Toss that into the pita pocket with a little lettuce (I usually have bagged lettuce in the fridge) and you're off to work.

Peanut butter and honey is also good. Toss in some PB... then some honey... squish around in the pita and bingo bango breakfast.

Leftovers often make for a good breakfast too... mashed potatoes tossed in the microwave and then into the pita is a (somewhat Irish) breakfast of champions.

You get the drift... pita + junk tossed in = good breakfast in my book.

I'm in the same boat. I get up at 5:00 a.m. and catch a train to work every morning - my commute is about an hour. So I'm always rushing to find something to eat real quick before I leave. I found these Smart Ones breakfast sandwiches, which are actually really good. And best of all, they're fast - just nuke them in the microwave, and you're good to go.

I thought America solved this problem with the advent of "fast food." Dunkin Donuts has newer breakfast items under 300 calories that taste good (turkey sausage or veggie flat-bread sandwiches), and you can get their coffee as well which has few calories and tastes great, or low-fat milk, if you prefer.
https://www.dunkindonuts.com/aboutus/products/media/ngss_images/eggwhite_turkey_sausage.jpg
You can also get an Egg McMuffin at McDonald's, at 300 calories (but the cholesterol is high).
Chick-fil-A will soon be rolling out some low fat , low calorie breakfast items such as yogurt parfaits, and you could get a fruit cup while you're there.

If you don't want fast food at all, then I really say sit down for a few minutes and have a bowl of cereal with soy milk. I am perhaps the laziest person on earth, and I still find time for cereal, which is pretty filling. Then take some Fiber One bars in a box to snack on, and perhaps an apple. Probably not the best breakfast item, but I also snack on beef jerky before lunch as well, and saltines in a zip lock bag. Peanut butter and jelly is also like the perfect food to me - cheap, easy to make, healthyish - get sugar free PB&J and wheat bread and pre-make them whenever.

My best suggestion is to spend 10 minutes eating an ample serving of cereal and maybe some toast (you can even make eggs in the microwaves to make a breakfast sandwich with your toast in one minute) and supplement the trip with snacks along the way.

I am in the same boat. I eat Banana, nuts like almond, Bars like Kashi GOLEAN Protein & Fiber Bars and kashi-granola-bars

I suggest "French Toast" for you.
http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2008-02/35543075.jpg

Recipe:
http://southernfood.about.com/od/frenchtoastrecipes/r/bl30118b.htm
Break eggs into a wide, shallow bowl or pie plate; beat lightly with a fork. Stir in sugar or salt, according to your taste. You can also add spices. you like.

Over medium-low heat, heat griddle or skillet coated with a thin layer of butter or margarine.

Place the bread slices, one at a time, into the bowl or plate, letting slices soak up egg mixture for a few seconds, then carefully turn to coat the other side. Soak/coat only as many slices as you will be cooking at one time.

Transfer bread slices to griddle or skillet, heating slowly until bottom is golden brown. Turn and brown the other side.

Hello, here's a few ideas:

- Spread a whole-wheat bagel with peanut butter and apple butter.

- Spread cream cheese on a wheat tortilla; roll it up for easy eating, along with a crisp apple.

- Grill cheese and tomato in a split pita for an inside-out pizza that's as good cold as it is hot.

- Fill a pita pocket with leftover meat or chicken.

Good luck! :)

I was going to saw Strawberry PopTarts without the frosting, but it looks like you want more than that, so I am recommending a couple of burritos. You can nuke them in two minutes and go. Maybe a burrito, a banana and a PopTart and a smoothie that you made the night before.

My friend, I am in the same boat!! Sleep late and then drive like hell to work!!

So, I spend a little extra cash at the store each week and get bananas (very good for you, quite portable and packed with energy) and Nutrigrain bars (also very portable and TASTY!!)

Two Nutrigrain bars (or the store brand equivalent if you want to save some cash - they're just as good) plus a banana gives you all the energy you need till lunch time and will fill you up AND leaves a hand free to drive!

I just hope you like bananas.... Still, the Nutrigrain bars are very tasty.
If you don't dig on bananas, you can opt for peanut butter toast (on whole wheat). Also packed with energy and protein. Good stuff too - goes great with coffee!!

Breakfast Burrito

1. Scrambled eggs
2. Grated Cheddar cheese
3. Dice fried potatos
4. Torilla
5. Salsa

Get the large Torilla, wrap the contents and eat will driving.

While all of the above suggestions sound good several seem to involve too much prep work. Almost every morning I have a fruit smoothie b/t 16 and 24 oz and with the addition of protein powder it's a complete meal and typically holds me over to lunch. You could have a breakfast bar paired with it, and for variety you can also make a vegetable drink, like a homemade V-8. I own an awesome blender, a blendtec, but a basic blender will do as well. Check out all their fabulous blender recipes.

I am not sure that you are aware of how complex your situation and request sound, at least to me, so in answering I thought that I would put in a lot more comments than I might for someone who is not a longer term part of the Mahalo community. Maybe then you can see why I really can't answer the question the way you asked it because for me the question is something else and that is what I am speaking to here. In future perhaps I will try to leave such complex questions to others, I can't seem to answer them. All I see are the problems in the question and all the wacky ways people have or have not solved the question by looking outside the box. When someone says they just can't do something, is it really because they cannot do it, or do they just not want to make any changes or are not aware of any options - there are people out there solving the same problem in many different ways, and something may be of interest ....so,

Response Insurance recommends:
"Eating. If you decide to eat in your car, move to a rest area where you can park. Otherwise, you may be forced to drive with one hand, and take your eyes off the road as you unpack your food or look for the appropriate utensils. Moreover, dropped objects and spills can result in erratic driving."
http://www.response.com/tips_tools/car_safety/driving-distractions.aspx

That being said and you cannot alter your behavior, think about how Hollywood actors do it. If the studio does not provide a driver, they have been known to book a driver to and from their set every day. That means that they can not only safely eat breakfast in the car, but also take a nap and be extra refreshed for work. If you look at the rates for drivers, sometimes they are limousine companies, but sometimes people make special arrangements with taxi drivers privately - if you book for multiple times or regular pickups and drop offs you probably will get a discount - same principles applies for hotel stays, some hotels have reasonable monthly stay rates. That may be an option, rent a room across the street from work and when you wake up, after breakfast there or at the corner restaurant you are there, returning home for weekends. Some people cannot take a commute over time and will either find a job closer to home, work from home, start their own business, or move the family closer to work.

If you do get a driver, and there is a shower and changeroom near or at your workplace or a health club with such facilities, you
could even make the trip in your pajamas - we have all seen Hollywood stars photographed on the street in their pajamas with curlers still on in slippers. They dress, wash up, eat, all after their nap when they finish their commute to work with their driver. If there is public transit where you can commute on a train or bus, it is often possible to sleep all the way, and set the alarm so that you don't fall asleep and make the round trip ending up back at your home station by mistake still asleep.

I don't know about your area, there are coffee shops that offer drive through service for quite healthy foods like soup and sandwich with drink so that you would not have to make anything at home but get your driver to pass by somewhere before work for when you wake up.

It also depends on how hungry you get and whether you get a break in the morning or not.
A yogurt drink is something you can easily drink while walking to your car. If you can survive the drive, and have a fridge at work, where people do not steal everything, with a freezer where people also do not steal everything and a microwave, then you can have a stock of anything you want - health food store frozen foods of your healthy choice at work.
During your first earliest break, heat and eat the healthiest breakfast they sell in your local health food store. I have seen people go for sales at regular stores, reading all the labels selecting the best items, and getting a whole box of stuff putting it in their shelf in the office freezer. Some products keep well in the fridge also. In major cities there is often a food delivery service that you can get, sometimes online so you can pick it in advance. I have seen some places operate on that basis, where the only traffic jam of the day is in the morning at the microwave so then you could get your own for your office or lock it in your file cabinet when not in use if allowed to do that. So, you may be eating a light lunch during your coffee break which is really your breakfast. Then for lunch you either have it packed or also have something planned for that in your fridge/freezer.
Some people will also store a dinner and heat it up at work and eat it before coming home. There are a lot of things you can change, even if your one assumption that you could not possibly get up any earlier is true that may work even better for you. No idea if this has anything to do with commuting, here is a Rachel Bilson pajama picture.
http://www.hollywoodtuna.com/photo.php?id=rachel_bilson_pajamas_4_big&title=Rachel+Bilson+Pajamas+Pictures

carsforstars.com has advice on Hiring a Chauffeur Driven Car
http://www.carsforstars.net/Hiring-a-Chauffeur-Driven-Car.htm

Kiefer Sutherland (star of 24) had a driver provided by the studio apparently on the night that he decided to drive after drinking instead and he ended up in jail for some months washing laundry and cooking for the whole prison. If you search laws and changes in them, you will find more laws being put into place to prevent driver distraction - mostly focussing on electronics but that is the same concept as eating as a distraction. You can search this yourself to find whatever you wish, I am just saying that the assumption you seem to have that you cannot possibly get up any earlier may not be entireley true if you end up in a jailcell, you will getup whenever they say you get up.
Probably you will find law enforcement becoming more aware of driver distraction and working to cut it down as much as they can. It is the accident statistics that is causing that trend - they are growing.

LegalMatch has gathered some statistics here:
"What is the Leading Cause of Car Accidents?
The majority of car accidents are caused by irresponsible driving behavior. Statistics also show that 98 % of car accidents involve a single distracted driver."
http://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/common-causes-of-car-accidents.html

WebMD picks: Top 12 Healthy Frozen Dinners
http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/top-12-healthy-frozen-dinners?src=rss_psychtoday

Eating Healthy Frozen Foods video
http://www.expertvillage.com/video/93047_shop-healthy-food-fifteen.htm

Other alternatives may be checking with your employer whether you can change your starting time to later, work from home, job share with someone and find something else to do for the rest of the time so you can work in the evenings eg. begin a startup business that eventually you would run full-time so you can quit your day job, explore other fields eg. evening shift financial advisor in a bank etc. although these things have tradeoffs - maybe no more pension and health insurance, cut in pay, no pay during hard economic times when people cut down on extras etc.

Here is a law firm's perspective on liability for fatigued drivers:
Asleep at the Wheel Accidents
http://www.resource4accidents.com/topics/autoaccidents.html

I found this idea in a cook book from the early 1900's.

Hard boil an egg. Slice the egg open and place a small link sausage in side. Use a toothpick to hold the sausage in place. Dip the egg in pancake thick pancake batter (I add maple syrup to the batter for extra flavor). Dip fry the egg just long enough to cook the batter. Remove toothpick and enjoy.

I know this is less than moderatly healthy but they are exteamly yummy.

I have to say.. this is a bad idea. You are in control of a 3000 pound machine. You should have both hands on the wheel. And your attention should be alert to all that surrounds you, for not only your own safety, but human and animal life altogether.

You don't want to apologize to a cyclist's family for killing their son/daughter because as you were biting into your bagel and the cream cheese dripped onto your work pants "making" you swerve.

Go to bed twenty minutes earlier and get up twenty minutes earlier - don't rush, enjoy your morning and sit down to a relaxing breakfast. We only live once :)