Breakfast
Just been reading in the Daily Telegraph that egg cups are selling out in stores across Britain as more people make time for a cooked breakfast amid signs that the 'lockdown 'is changing the nation's eating habits. Reported sales in coffee pots, grinders, coffee machines , teapots and juice glasses have seen an increase on last year.
Being at home people are enjoying a slower lifestyle and taking time to eat properly. especially the first meal of the day.
The first meal of the day is more commonly known as breakfast. If you divide this compound word into two parts, you'll see it's made up of “break" and “fast." To fast means to go without food. So “breakfast" means to break the fast you've been observing since you went to sleep the night before!
A weekday breakfast may involve a cereal dish, such as muesli, porridge or cereal, or toast or simply bread spread with jam or marmalade. Tea and coffee remain equally popular accompaniments. It is however becoming very common to 'skip breakfast' entirely or take coffee or pastries on the morning commute. Portable quick snacks such as cereal bars ready-cut fruit and warm takeaway foods are becoming increasingly commonly consumed away from home and are sold at commuting points.
The traditional breakfast most associated with Britain remains, however, the full breakfast of eggs with bacon and sausage usually with mushrooms, tomatoes, baked beans, fried bread, black pudding and toast. Dating from a time when hard labour was more common, calorie intakes were necessarily higher, and servant labour was more available, it is nowadays regarded as a meal for the weekend or holidays when time is available for preparation, prepared by parents to welcome children, or as a special occasion such as a birthday or anniversary, or following a night of drinking. A healthy and nutritious version consists of grilling the protein and using poached, rather than fried, eggs, and variations based on one egg, one protein, and toast abound.
From an early age I have always eaten breakfast at home before leaving for work. It provides me with the energy I need for the day, keeps me full until lunchtime (prevents me from eating that extra digestive biscuit with my morning break at 11am). Now I am retired I still have my morning routine of getting up early and eating breakfast. I have my favourites:
Weetabix with a sliced banana, handful of blueberries, raspberries, chopped apple with milk and a dollop of Greek yoghurt
Soaked Oats - 30g rolled oats, 1 tsp cinnamon, mixed frozen fruit (blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, strawberries), 2-3 tabsp Greek Yoghurt - mixed together and left overnight in the fridge. Mix with a drop of milk in the morning before eating. I sometimes just use a grated apple instead of the mixed fruit.
Sourdough Pancakes with scrambled eggs.
Boiled Eggs - Cook the Perfect Egg - https://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/main-ingredient/egg-recipes/soft-boiled-eggs
Wherever you are in the world make time for breakfast.
 |
| Sour Dough Pancakes on the Griddle |
 |
| Sour Dough Pancakes and Scrambled Eggs |
0 comments:
Post a Comment