So I have spent the last week looking for the ideal breakfast. I can hear you go yeah, big deal, I’ve spent it looking for the ideal job or the ideal partner. Point taken but breakfast is no trifling matter.
Mainly because everywhere you look there’s a fierce expert shouting at you: You self harming fool, this the most important meal of the day! It’s the key to nutrition Nirvana! If you’re not doing it right you might as well jump off a building right now and hope you’ll be all right.
So my all time favourite breakfast used to be toast. Oh, big no no. Caloric bomb, think again.
Then there’s cereals. Which all my life I found a form of torture. One I had lately come to grudgingly accept only to be told that they are in fact bad for you. Cheerio then:)! We part with no regrets.
Have some spinach, says Jamie Oliver. Yeah, right. Cause everybody loves getting out the big pan at sunrise, lighting the fires and then proceeding to spend the best part of an hour cooking up a green paste (no offense to spinach lovers, but I can’t think of anything less appealing at 8 o’clock in the morning. )
Ok you fuss bag, then have an egg white omelette with canola oil and blueberries. Of course I will. And while I’m at it, I’ll also write my resignation letter cause I need three days and two plane tickets to first find out what canola is and then go get the blueberries.
So in desperation I surveyed some people yesterday. What do you eat for breakfast, I begged, hoping for the ultimate truth. Eggs, cheese, zatar, hummus, fried tomatoes they said.
Tasty stuff but labour intensive innit? And how about the calories count, I said? By this point my advisors had left the building having suffered attacks of boredom.
Gotta go now. Breakfast waits for no man.
Eastraveller 
You should try the Latvian treat of grey peas and lard on for size… 😉
Now that sounds proper. Peas and lard, a treat not to be sniffed at (quite literally?) 🙂
You wouldn’t want to get that close to it!!
I´m one of the fools :D, I start my day with nothing but coffee. it´s true though, later I jump for joy in front of an all grain cereal bowl… (but like 3 or 4 hrs after my coffee :D)
Well, you know what they say:) To breakfast or not to be. Though in my book coffee counts for an ideal breakfast!
I think there’s nothing like the triple C: Cafe Croissant Confiture. And sometimes, when in need of more protein, a soft boiled egg with toast. An eccentric breakfast would mean for me fried eggs with bacon. I can eat this once a year (with a clear conscience) in the summer holiday, at the seaside. Then I’d swim for 2 hours and I may be even allowed to have spawns with onion for lunch 😉
Oh, the triple C, oh the triple joy! And bacon and eggs? Have I died and gone to heaven? No, I haven’t. I woke up and found my spinach canola cornflakes on the kitchen table:)