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How I Eat: Breakfast

Posted by denise | Filed under Food and Drink, enviro, health

I am going to do a series of posts on how I eat this week, just cuz. Let’s start with breakfast, natch.

I eat breakfast every day no matter what because I wake up starving. Even when I am on 7 a.m. shift, I wake up early enough to eat at the table. Most workdays I eat either oatmeal or yogurt and granola. I like something really hearty in the morning, because no matter what I’ll have a growling stomach in two hours. I usually put rice milk and maple syrup in the oatmeal, and maybe fruit, if I have the time and patience to cut it up. NEVER raisins, because raisins are really the only food that I absolutely despise. I love a cup of black tea with milk, although lately I’ve been having green, because I am so bloody caffeine sensitive that anything stronger than green just makes my nervous system throw a fit.

If I run out of those things, I’ll probably have peanut butter on toast. Le Jenk (otherwise known as the boyf) has peanut butter on toast six out of seven days, without fail. I swear his bones have pb in them instead of marrow. I find it a bit too thick and sticky first thing in the morning, so I always have to have honey or jam on it. I might also have avocado or cheese on toast, or maybe a boiled egg, which are all yummy but will have me hungry again by the time I get to work. I like to have a small glass of OJ before I make my breakfast, to get the blood sugar running.

On the weekend, we usually have a big eggy breakfast, with potatoes if the time/patience continuum is friendly. This is usually a brilliant frittata concoction that Le Jenk is an expert at, with whatever herbs or cheese or olives or veg we have in the fridge, always always always eaten with hot sauce or salsa. I don’t often have breakfast meat, largely because I am totally spoiled by the amazing breakfast sausages from the sausage stand at the St. Lawrence Market and it’s kind of out of the way for me to get there and nothing else is good enough. Two or three times a year I will be hungover enough to need bacon immediately, at which point I will buy it from the overpriced convenience store under my house and then eat within three days and then feel sickeningly satisfied. Yves Italian veggie sausage is pretty good at breakfast, too, but it’s pricey so normally I only buy that when we are going to the cottage with vegetarians and are on breakfast duty. Occasionally we will make pancakes or French toast, which is awesome because maple syrup is one of my favourite things on earth, but I don’t have enough of a sweet tooth to make it very regularly. I usually go on a pretty heavy pancake kick during wild blueberry season.

And I think that’s it for breakfast. Oh, I rarely go out for brunch because standing in line to eat first thing in the morning makes me want to bite glass, especially when the food is rarely as good as what I could make at home in less time, for less money. It’s nice not to have to clean up though.

Tagged : drink, enviro, food, health

Comments (3) | November 8th, 2009