Alternative Breakfast - What's Your View?

auddii

Kexessa wrote: »

I can't eat sweet things during the day. I have no desire. An hour before bedtime is a different story.

I generally have a big spinach salad for my first meal with mushrooms, peppers, chicken, avocado - the usual salad suspects.

I do like eggs for dinner though. There are just so versatile. I'm not a fan of cereal either so I don't know what the attraction there is. Probably because I'm not a fan of milk.

I thought eggs were a popular first meal food because back in the day one of the first chores was to collect the eggs from the hen house. Then as women left the home and entered the workforce en masse the cereal companies seized the opportunity to feed the kiddos sugary sweet cereal so they would eat and mom and dad could be out the door.

This is me exactly. I started hating cereal with milk as a kid because it got soggy, so I started eating cereal dry. It just made me super hungry an hour or two later. I eventually started eating salads for breakfast, although now I mostly skip breakfast and just have coffee and then a protein shake around 10am as a mid-morning snack. When I do eat eggs, they're usually for dinner or lunch.

trying4real

Everyone I work with thinks I am strange because I rarely eat "breakfast" food in the morning, ( give me a salad or chili or something lol) I can eat it later in the day just not in the morning.

mazzy1026

Joy do you drink beer at 6am when you get in?

girlinahat

I would think there are more countries where the traditional breakfast dish is something savoury (the full English/Scottish/Irish breakfast, the so-called Continental breakfast (cheese, sliced meats, breads/croissants etc.) the Japanese breakfast of fish rice and miso etc. than there are countries where the traditional breakfast is cereal.

We've spent the last 100 years embracing the ideas of Wiliam Kellogg (apparently based on practices of Seventh Day Adventists who I believe were generally quite slim) but breakfast can be whatever you fancy.

No one doesn't have breakfast. breakfast is the meal you have to break your fast, whenever you have it. Protein tends to make you fuller so your meal ideas (especially fish which is a great brain food) are just fine.