Karen Foley
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Ellen Hartman
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Samantha Hunter
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Jeannie Watt
The Most Important Meal of the Day
I am a breakfast person and I try never to miss a complete breakfast from the OJ to coffee and something yummy (no donuts! LOL). When I was in DC, I made time for a full breakfast every morning, and I found a wonderful cafe down the street from the hotel that had fantastic breakfasts and outdoor seating -- perfect. Coffee and OJ are necessities, but so is real food, usually something grainy, a waffle or bagel or cereal, with fruit. Protein is important, sometimes bacon, milk, or peanut-butter. Almost always a banana.
Lunch is my most skippable meal -- unless I go out, I sort of resent having to stop in the middle of the day for lunch, and would be happy with a yogurt or something easy. Dinner is a must, as well, though it can vary from something complex to something very simple. Breakfast is my staple though.
We went out for breakfast the other day, and I had the best French Toast I have ever had -- and it was just around the corner from me. Very fluffy on Italian toast, I asked for it to come with cinnamon apples, which to my joy were real apples, not dumped from a pie filling can. The bacon was perfect.
Yesterday, I had whole grain waffles and cut up fresh local peaches with some raspberries and banana on top (no butter or syrup, though I did use a little maple cream). Again, heavenly. I had an immensely productive day. Dh made a very nice pasta with broccoli dinner, since I was busy working in the yard and then sewing (he wants our quilt top done as much as I do, LOL).
I love summer because the food is so good -- all the fresh fruits and veggies. It seems like in the winter we start eating more pasta, more stews and heavier things, except for breakfast, which is the same for me year round, no matter where I am. So much so that it sometimes makes visiting family, etc difficult, if they are not breakfast people, because I am programmed to require a good breakfast.
It turns out that eating breakfast can help you lose weight and be healthier as well; consider these facts from the Mayo Clinic:
* Eating breakfast reduces your hunger later in the day, making it easier to avoid overeating. When you skip breakfast, you may feel ravenous later and be tempted to reach for a quick fix, such as candy from the vending machine. In addition, prolonged fasting — which occurs when you skip breakfast — can increase your body's insulin response, which in turn increases fat storage and weight gain. In fact, skipping breakfast actually increases your risk of obesity.
* Eating breakfast gets you on track to make healthy choices all day. People who eat breakfast regularly tend to eat a healthier diet — one that is more nutritious and lower in fat. When you skip breakfast, you're more likely to skip fruits and vegetables the rest of the day too.
* Eating breakfast gives you energy, increasing your physical activity during the day. A healthy breakfast refuels your body and replenishes the glycogen stores that supply blood sugar (glucose). Skipping breakfast is associated with decreased physical activity.
How about you? Are you a breakfast person? What did you have this morning? (Me, the required glass of OJ, coffee, and then some Total cereal with bananas and raspberries). If you are not a breakfast person, do you make it up at lunch? Do you find one meal easier to skip than others?
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Breakfast
Well, Sam, I'm sitting here eating a bowl of raisin bran crunch cereal and drinking coffee. I try really hard to eat breakfast because if not, I'm starving by 9am, and I'm not productive at work at all and I find myself eating junk. It's easier for me to skip breakfast than any other meal because I forget about it while trying to get myself ready and get the baby out the door too. I can't skip lunch though. That's the meal that I just never forget, even on weekends. I usually bring my lunch to work (definitely cuts down on cost) and I normally have two pieces of fruit, a sandwich, a yogurt, and maybe some chips. The yogurt I usually eat on my morning break.
Your waffles sounded fantastic..
Nice lunch!
I am so lazy about lunch -- probably because in general, I really don't like sandwiches, and so we like to heat up some leftovers or put something on the grill, and if that's too much effort or time, we kind of fend for ourselves. Lunch is the spot where I am most likely to cave to fast food or junk, because I don't want to bother.
I hear you on missing breakfast -- it's also why I can't workout before bfast --we used to do that, and it sucked... I finally had to call quits. I was so exhausted, I had no energy if I didn't eat first.
Sam
OMG, I did have breakfast
OMG, I did have breakfast this morning, but reading about your waffles with fruit and maple cream is making me hungry again!! When I'm being good, my favorite breakfast is a bowl of Fiber One cereal with skim milk and about four cups of fresh blueberries dumped on top. All kidding aside, I eat about 1-2 pints of blueberries a day when they're in season. I love them. When I'm NOT being good, I'll eat an omelet with cheese and tomatoes, a grilled English muffin with whipped butter, and a side of veggie sausage links. I love my morning coffee, although I've cut way back on my consumption; one cup now instead of three.
I keep a stock of yogurt and fruit in my office, so will typically eat a small Fiber One peach yogurt and a plum for lunch.
Dinner is a must, since it's the only time we really sit down as a family. Last night we made chicken fajitas with veggie-chicken strips, onions and peppers, sour cream, guacamole, and a side of rice.
Now you are making ME hungry. :)
That dinner sounds so good... Mike made the pasta last night with the broccoli, the recipe I posted here? I think you said you made it with meat sub once? It's always good, and we have leftovers for lunch, yay!
I envy your omelet... I crave eggs and omelets so much. I can't eat them, since straight-on eggs give me the same bad reaction as dairy (so eggs with cheese is enough to just about kill me), LOL, but I can manage something like french toast which has some egg on it, or pancakes, that have egg in them, but very little. But oh, how I covet eggs. I love them. There are times I'll stomp my foot and say "I'm having eggs even if they do make me sick!" LOL Then I don't because it's not worth it.
The blueberries have been great this year, and I am on a fresh peach kick now, as they are just coming off the trees up on the lake. I can't wait until our own trees produce, but it will be a few years...
Sam
I like the food!
Breakfast foods are tasty! It's the being awake enough to prepare and eat them that keeps me from enjoying them. I'm good with breakfast for dinner. It's one of my husband's favorite meals.
We used to have good breakfast restaurants around us but, over the years, they have closed or have gotten icky. The Perkin's was the best. Clean and good food.
You would like staying with my mom. She loves making a big deal for breakfast when she has visitors. There is a french toast with apples thing she makes that has everyone raving.
Eating out
We tend to hit diners, local ones, that make real food, too. We always scope out diners on trips, though I stay away from the chains, if I can. They have gotten icky. :)
We almost never do breakfast for dinner... maybe years ago, but you just made me realize that I almost never do that. Funny...
Luckily, we have leftovers for lunch today, so off to eat those!
Sam
I miss diners!
Or, as we would pronounce it, dinah. A good Greek diner! MD is not known for their diners. The only one we have is the chain, Silver Diner. Not bad but it doesn't have the same feel as a family-owned one on Long Island.
Ah, food!
Breakfast
I love breakfast, but not a big breakfast! My favorite thing lately is a bowl of Kashi Cinnamon Wheat -- OMG, is that the most delicious stuff! I always have to have my coffee. My parents are big breakfast people -- as in a full-on pancake, bacon, sausage, omelet, whatever kind of breakfast. Not me. And I practically have to force my hubby to eat!
But we love dinner around here. In fact, we'd probably do the big meal around 2 or 3 if the hubby were home from work. Yesterday it was filet mignon and grilled asparagus. Yum!
uh-oh
Do you mean dinner as lunch? (The great dinner/supper debate, LOL).
My husband likes Kashi, too, and he eats a smaller bowl of it because it has a lot of protein in it. I was a Cheerios girls for years, and just recently switched to Total, just because of the vitamins, but I do wish they still had Corn Total -- apparently they don't make it anymore, so I settle for the wheat. I see they have a Cinnamon Toast Crunch Total, but I don't like sugary cereals. As much as I am a complete sugar addict, I don't have much for b'fast, not even in my coffee.
I do love a great bowl of oatmeal, not instant, though -- we have that a few days a week, too.
I enjoy a nice dinner, too, when I am up to preparing one, but not that early in the day. usually around 6-ish. I always dislike, on holidays, eating huge meals mid-day. It aggravates my family that I like to do them at 4 at the earliest, and later if possible. Though I have done a large mid-day meal here to accommodate others, but at least then we have leftovers for dinner-- when we go to someone else's house, it's always a pain because you come home after lunch, and you still have to cook dinner... or supper... LOL
Sam
Dinner/Supper
LOL! Supper is a very Southern thing to say, at least in my experience. My mother refers to the evening meal as supper. But I think I moved too much as a kid and got into the dinner thing. I don't like the big Thanksgiving meal mid-day, oddly enough. Five or later is preferable to me. And we do eat around 5 or 6 usually, but on weekends we end up eating earlier and then having something light for dinner.
The Kashi Cinnamon Wheat is sweetened with organic cane juice, so it's not sugary at all! You might give it a try sometime! My husband dislikes cereal, but he eats that one. He loves it.
Food
I am a breakfast person. I always have eggs and toast with tea or coffee. Sometimes I have toast some frozen waffles when I'm lazy. I usually eat cereal as a late night snack, I hardly eat it for breakfast.
Not much of a breakfast
Not much of a breakfast person. Usually just grab a cup of yogurt.
Cereal is my staple
Most mornings I have a bowl of some type of cereal. I used to never eat breakfast, or if I did I only had a cup of tea and piece of toast. About eight years ago I did weight watchers and ended up having breakfast every morning. Unfortunately, I haven't kept up with the plan in a long while and it shows. :(
I wouldn't have much for dinner except the husband expects a full meal for that meal -- and either I'll make it or we'll go out -- and I always eat more than I should. Tonight it was fish tacos, something he wanted. I should have stopped with one, but they were reasonably good. Made them with salmon.
Fellow Breakfast Person
Hail to the Redskins!
Love Breakfast!
I usually have a bagel or cereal. Can't do without breakfast! Dh and dd can get up and going without breakfast. Not me. Even if we get on the road and "stop later" I usually eat a piece of toast or something to get going. Otherwise, I'm a total grouch. I make Oscar the Grouch look like Miss Congeniality. LOL. Lunch is usually a sandwhich and dinner pasta or something grilled with a vegetable. I'm having pasta and broccili tonight. Leftover fresh broccili that needs to be cooked before it goes bad. Favorite cereal, Special K. Add a banana or strawberries. In the winter, Special K with strawberries.
breakfast!
Boy are yall making me hungry!
i love breakfast, and we do alot of pancakes here. my five year old would live on them if i let him, and its the best way to get him to eat before school, either that or strawberry oats.
Me i have to have my coffee, or im not a happy girl! and i always want something sweet, but trying to cut that out. My favorite thing for breakfast is Sara Lee Bluberry bagels, toasted with strawberry preserves on them. sounds weird, tastes great! yummers
off to find something to eat now!
jody
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