Every brand is trying to convince you it's something different, something better, and there's probably at least one you're buying into. The "kids only" sugar bombs boast whole grains, and Special K comes studded with chocolate bits and sweet yogurt clusters.
But it wasn't always that way. Cereal's position as America's default breakfast food is a remarkable feat, not of flavor or culture, but of marketing and packaging design. It's a century-long history of advertising, a brilliant campaign that capitalized on the intersection of industrialization, health-consciousness, and changing class attitudes that completely upended the way Americans ate.
Me? I'm a tea and toast kinda guy and I seem to be doing okay for 73+years and going. What do you guys do in the morning? Chime in...
Organic vanilla yogurt w/ berries & local honey. Luzianne coffee w/ chickory. Grassmilk 1/2 & 1/2. No sugar.
ReplyDeleteI break my fast after 20hrs with an full meal of 80/20 protein, fats/carbs. Oatmeal with blueberries are my carbs sometimes. I haven't consumed boxed cereal since I was an kid, at that time my fav was Capt Crunch.
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well, most days it what is left over from last night. if nothing is there. then I cook up bacon and eggs and maybe some hash browns. maybe some oatmeal if I feel like it. cereal is something I eat if I stuck in a hospital.
ReplyDeleteI love breakfast. every morning its, bacon egg and toast, sausage egg and toast, ham hash browns and Eggs, oatmeal blueberries sausage and maple syrup; oh and the carb infused occasional bagel
ReplyDeleteSame as you. Been eating just toast and a glass of milk for many years.
ReplyDeleteI haven't had breakfast in 46 years. Only then because my girlfriends mother insisted.
ReplyDeleteeggs n sausage. fried on cast iron in butter or bacon grease. sometimes that's my only meal.
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Black coffee
ReplyDeleteMost mornings I have 1 hard boiled egg, a piece of sourdough toast with butter and some coffee. .
ReplyDeleteAlternate. Eggs potatoes and sausage one day and ostmeal and protein shake next day. Swap every other day. Usualll get a Latte mid morning. Can skip lunch but usually don’t.
ReplyDeleteTwo cups coffee and a cup of home baked beans with an occasional toasted English muffin.
ReplyDeleteBreakfast?!
ReplyDeleteA few cups of coffee with milk/raw sugar and a few handmade smokes of home grown(Virginia blend) tobacco.
I have a large lunch if not working,if working,very small lunch due to food theragy and a then a bigger dinner with a good walk,again,with a few hand made smokes.
We have eight chickens, so we get four dozen or so eggs a week, and there are only three of us in the house. So I eat a lot of eggs. My favorite breakfast is bacon, eggs fried in bacon grease, and buttered toast. A lot of times, though, I'll just eat a hardboiled egg and toast, and sometimes, just a bowl of farina with a little sugar, butter, and cinnamon. I always follow breakfast with a piece of fruit, a nectarine or peach if I can get it, but usually a big navel orange.
ReplyDeleteAnd coffee. Always coffee.
Keto all day for the most part. 2 eggs, pepperoni or bacon or sausage, cheese, bunch of spices, cheese, baked with olive oil and butter.
ReplyDeleteCoffee is not my friend, so it's tea with more spices and unsweetened cocoa powder, half-and-half.
Having it all right now.
Happy Monday morning all y'all.
eggs and pancake this morning
ReplyDeleteCoffee and a cigarette.
ReplyDeleteToast and coffee usually, pepperoni pizza if there’s a slice left over and if someone gets bagels or cinnamon rolls I’m all in.
ReplyDeleteUsually, two cups of coffee and two fried eggs with bacon or steak. Sometimes an omelette, if I feel that ambitious. If I'm really hungry and ambitious, I'll add fried mushrooms and tomatoes. On occasion, I'll have breakfast or brunch with my daughter or some friends, sometimes for something as different as dim sum.
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