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dr_tectonicInquiring minds want to know:
What's a part of your healthy, nutritious breakfast with 8 vitamins and iron?
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What's a part of your healthy, nutritious breakfast with 8 vitamins and iron?
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Date: 2006-09-28 04:00 am (UTC)Kitsune udon + fried egg = super yum!
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Date: 2006-09-28 04:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-28 04:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-28 04:16 am (UTC)Except on Fridays, when it’s a muffin, donut, and stomach ache.
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Date: 2006-09-28 04:19 am (UTC)Stomach ache is not a healthy part of a complete breakfast.
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Date: 2006-09-28 04:50 am (UTC)(with coffee)
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Date: 2006-09-28 04:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-28 12:14 pm (UTC)And coffee. Which, oddly enough, doesn't grow here in southern Ontario.
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Date: 2006-09-28 03:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-28 04:31 pm (UTC)http://www.timhortons.com/
(Expanded more, yes, Canadians drink more of both tea and coffee than do folks in the US.)
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Date: 2006-09-28 05:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-28 03:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-28 06:02 am (UTC)People never believe that this is like comfort food for me.
I also like hot cereal. The big hearty breakfasts I love, but cannot be convinced to cook for myself.
Breakfast burritos rock!
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Date: 2006-09-28 06:03 am (UTC)Then there always oatmeal and cream of wheet on cold mornings. :-)
And when I have it, orange juice to quenche one's thirts.
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Date: 2006-09-28 09:10 am (UTC)When I go out with folks for breakfast, I prefer the steak+eggs+home fries+bacon version of it to the "OMG everything is sweet 'waffles/pancakes + syrup + jelly'!, with maybe some butter and fruits" breakfast that many people get, because they skip the bacon and eggs which, y'see, are "unhealthy" -- of course a load of sugar with no protein is always healthy, we need a spike of sugar followed by a spike of insulin first thing in the morning... :-P
I guess what we think is good/healthy depends heavily on what we are used to and/or grew up with. Years and years ago, Rachel's mom was visiting us and a bunch of us were having an afternoon snack. She was buttering her slice of bread. I was putting dollops of mayonnaise on crackers when she went "yeeew!, that is *pure* fat!", to which I responded "no, actually, it's eggs, lemon, salt and oil, *but* your butter is pure fat" and she contorted her face, then agreed to the sentiment that being used to stuff is what makes us think it's normal and ate her snack.
I was just wondering this evening what is it about pancakes for breakfast... to me, making pancakes seem to be more work during a time in the day when you already want to be efficient so as to leave on time for other places. I guess a few hundred years ago it was probably seen as simple. You fry some bacon to get some grease to make eggs and pancakes, because y'know, eggs are simple to fry and pancakes are simpler/faster than making bread. I guess in places where you made bread once a week, breakfast became more of a "drink something and eat your bread with butter and shut up, I have stuff to do all day long today!" thing for the wives.
I often find that what people here call breakfast is rather heavy. In many other countries, breakfast is the lightest meal of the day, just to start you up; then lunch is the heaviest meal of the day in countries that are used to a siesta, or lunch and dinner are equivalent. More often than not, where I grew up, lunch is substantial but mostly leftovers from the previous dinner and dinner is the most elaborate meal of the day because most people have more time to cook dinner.
One of the first things I learned when I got here was to ask "what time?" when people would invite me for lunch or dinner, because some people think "dinner" is at noon, dontcha know?, they have supper at 6pm... :-) It took me years to find out why, apparently brazilians name their meals for the time it happens, while some people here name their meals by how heavy they are supposed to be and dinner is the heavy meal of the day -- or so I was told. Fascinating.
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Date: 2006-09-28 12:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-28 04:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-28 04:32 pm (UTC)They were awesome bagels.
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Date: 2006-09-28 09:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-28 12:18 pm (UTC)vob
Date: 2006-09-28 12:54 pm (UTC)And coffee. Working+grad student+mom = caffeine neccesity
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Date: 2006-09-28 03:15 pm (UTC)Um. Vob? All I can think of is "voice of breakfast"...
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Date: 2006-09-29 03:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-28 01:14 pm (UTC)Weekends, if we go out to eat, I almost always order the exact same thing: two scrambled eggs, home fries, toast (usually wheat) and bacon. If I am too lazy to go out, and if I've been too lazy to lay in supplies for myself and nobody else is cooking, it could be anything. Leftover pizza? Doritos? Just coffee until I start going into low-blood-sugar shock? Whatever.
Yes I'm working on doing better. :)
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Date: 2006-09-28 02:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-28 03:16 pm (UTC)yummm
Date: 2006-09-28 02:12 pm (UTC)-coffee
-OJ
And sometimes egg(s), occasinally in a (homemade, but not by me) tortilla...
sometimes (more often) cottage cheese
usually fresh fruit- in the summer, any two of whatever's local and in season: peaches, pears, cantalope etc. sliced in a bowl
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Date: 2006-09-28 02:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-28 02:24 pm (UTC)If I had more time--and some days I do--I'd make fried eggs and toast. (Bacon, too, would be ideal, but that's a weekend thing.)
In college for at least a year I had fried eggs every single morning.
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Date: 2006-09-28 09:01 pm (UTC)That thing you did with the eggs and bacon . . . well, sir, that's illegal in twenty-nine states, two commonwealths, and a republic.
--G
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Date: 2006-09-28 05:56 pm (UTC)etc.
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Date: 2006-09-28 02:32 pm (UTC)Used to be breakfast cereal every day, but my stomach no longer likes the cereals the rest of me does. French toast or pancakes are fine, but I can't usually cook before breakfast, and it's expensive eating out every morning.
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Date: 2006-09-28 03:18 pm (UTC)You could do something like eat breakfast, and then make tomorrow's breakfast and stick it in the fridge to nuke the next morning, but that requires a lot more organization/planning than *I* can manage.
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Date: 2006-09-28 04:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-28 03:58 pm (UTC)If that's not on for some reason, I either eat some leftovers, fruit, or drink some yuppified version of V8 juice. If it's cold then some decaf green tea with fruity flavors.
We're completely off the simple starches, especially in the morning, and are trying to avoid fat/cholesterol laden foods (thus the egg whites).
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Date: 2006-09-28 04:06 pm (UTC)Mornings work a lot better now that I've discovered I need protein at breakfast...
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Date: 2006-09-28 04:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-28 03:58 pm (UTC)We cycle through each of the breakfasts found below for 1-3 weeks per item:
--fruit smoothie (usually yogurt, banana, milk, strawberries, plus seasonal fruit)
--bagels and cream cheese
--oatmeal with fruit and cream
These cycles are sprinkled through with eggs, waffles, or pancakes with breakfast meat (sausage or bacon) and hash browns once or twice per week.
This morning was an eggs, biscuit, hash browns, and bacon morning. :)
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Date: 2006-09-28 04:01 pm (UTC)I'm approaching the state of nature.
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Date: 2006-09-28 05:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-28 04:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-28 06:04 pm (UTC)At home I'll also have--with mandatory coffee + OJ with a banana blended in--either wheat bagels and cream cheese, toast w/ butter and jelly, or (mostly on a weekend day when I don't work) the big breakfast of scrambled eggs plus any of these: bacon, pancakes, random breakfast pastry. Extra fruit (usually strawberries, blueberries, or peaches) is also common.
So I'm a creature of semi-habit with a fairly stable option set.
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Date: 2006-09-28 09:05 pm (UTC)The only viable breakfast option for a true American is a bowl of cearal and milk.
What? Did you think I was going to say fried eggs and bacon? Don't you know what that does to your ateries?!?
--G
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Date: 2006-09-28 10:28 pm (UTC)I believe that Kellogg was pre-communist, (along with Mr. Graham) and espoused something of a bohemian viewpoint for his day, but it's interesting to see how an extremist dietary viewpoint has slowly been integrated into the mainstream.
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Date: 2006-09-28 09:05 pm (UTC)-Summer - Toast and jam, apple juice and tea
-Winter - Oatmeal, apple juice and tea
Saturdays: Egg, ham strips, toast tomato juice and tea
Sundays: Toaster waffles with low-cal syrup and tea.
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Date: 2006-09-28 10:24 pm (UTC)I mis-boiled an egg this morning. (I forgot to set a timer, thus setting up the guessing game of how boiled it was. It wasn't.) It reminded me of MFK Fisher's essay "How Not to Boil an Egg" in How to Cook a Wolf the culinary manual she wrote during WWII.
Fisher things hardboiled eggs are an abomination, but offers different options for eggs throughout the essay. One of the most fascinating things about the book is that attention is paid not just to food shortages, but to fuel shortages. Can you imagine trying to decide what to cook based on the amount of fuel available?
I recommend the book in its entirity.
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Date: 2006-09-29 01:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-29 12:23 am (UTC)On weekends it's a whole other matter...