Do you cook your breakfast?
By gxnfly
@gxnfly (1147)
China
May 7, 2008 2:34am CST
What do you eat for breakfast?Is your breakfast huge?
One of my online friends is Mormon.She told me a Mormon woman's most basic purpose is being a good wife and mother. So She do do her best every single day.Every meal is huge,even for the breakfast,ones in good households, at least.
Nowadays most women are too busy with their jobs,they don't have time for cooking.I always rush my meals most of the time.
This net friend thinks we are losing our heritage with less family values.What do you think?
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@desertdarlene (8910)
• United States
7 May 08
I mostly eat oatmeal, so I almost always cook my breakfast. In the summer, when it's hot, I plan to buy cold cereal. I don't have a family, so I don't need to do anything in the morning if I don't want to. And, even if I did, I think anyone over 10 can make their own breakfasts and don't need to help them.
@jer31558 (3683)
• United States
7 May 08
I think that some traditional values are lost as scientific inventions and such makes many things easier for us in our every day run of life. Thats not just you, thats every where you look. Mankind is adaptable, and as times change, they adapt to be comfortable I guess you could say. Times are changing and so are we.
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
7 May 08
I never ate breakfast all my life, and I am old, my husband never ate breakfast either, I think it is just what you are used to.
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@luvstochat (6907)
• United States
7 May 08
I don't eat breakfast very often. I am not usually hungry in the mornings. I do out for breakfast with a friend once in awhile and I order eggs, bacon hashbrowns and toast it is really good. But I can't eat that big breakfast very often.
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@gemini_rose (16264)
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7 May 08
It is hard to have a good cooked breakfast and then sit and enjoy it as a family, most mornings are too hectic, to do that we would all have to be up at about 5am, and there is no way mine will do that!! My kids just have cereal of their choice, then they take some money to school and have toast at breaktime. I do not have anything as I do not eat breakfast, I still have not had anything to eat yet and it is midday, I just do not get hungry in the day time much at all.
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@jerzgirl (9291)
• United States
7 May 08
As a former Mormon, I can tell you that's what they want their women to believe. But, as a child of the 50s and 60s, I can tell you that family values of those eras, or even earlier, did NOT reflect the values as shown on television. That's what they and Christian evangelicals would like us to believe, but it's not reality. I used to watch Father Knows Best and Leave it to Beaver and WISH my family could be like theirs. That's not to say there were no families like that, but it wasn't the dominant type. It was what they wanted to project, not what really went on in the family. My mother was, yes, the archtypical housekeeper, wife, who wore a dress (never with pearls) every day, but as soon as slacks became vogue, she shed that dress and never looked back!! She'd cook breakfast every morning for me before school, even when I asked her not to, until I finally refused to eat it. I just wasn't hungry that early in the morning. She'd make me lunch every day that would be ready when I got home (we weren't allowed to take our lunches or eat at school if we lived within walking distance of the school.) That's just how it was. I'd have breakfast ready for my kids, but I remembered how I was and didn't make it a formal thing like my mother did. If they wanted pb&j, they got pb&j. If they wanted grilled cheese, they got grilled cheese. Yogurt? Fine. Cereal? Fine. As long as they had SOMETHING before going to school.
Family values are what we make of them. There was a time when a man was permitted to beat his wife. If you've heard of the rule of thumb, then you might be aware that referred to the widest switch that could be used to beat one's wife. Married women were at one time not permitted to own property - everything had to be in their husbands' names. My mother lost the car she'd bought and paid for when her first husband decided he loved his girlfriend more than her back in the 40s. Are these really the "family values" we want? Why do we wax so nostalgic for a time of such inequality? I just don't understand it.
Anyway, the only times I really enjoy a cooked breakfast is on weekends and on vacation, or especially when camping. And, even then, later in the day than the traditional time.
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@Ohara_1983 (4117)
• Kuwait
11 May 08
im not quit sure, but sometimes i cook our breakfast but just light breakfast, but there also day taht we are not eating our breakfast just for our lunch of dinner but not all the time.
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
8 May 08
Usually we have cold cereal for breakfast, but sometimes I will make bacon and eggs and hash browns. They have to be cooked. When it is cold, I will make oatmeal porridge for breakfast, and sometimes I will have toast. Now I suppose those will enable cooking in one way or another, but I am more in a hurry and I happen to like yogurt with nuts and berries. That I do not need to cook. When I was small, we had either oatmeal porridge, cream of wheat, and sometimes
Red River Cereal. I always choked on Cream of Wheat, and that was my father's favorite. But I really loved oatmeal porridge, but I considered it more of a winter breakfast rather than all year around.
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@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
7 May 08
I cook breakfast for us alot of times. I work nights so it is very easy for me to do because we are already awake for breakfast time. We are really eating supper in the morning when we get done working. Sometimes I cook breakfast food and sometimes I just cook a regular meal. I love to cook eggs, biscuits, sausage gravy, and bacon.
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@carmelanirel (20942)
• United States
8 May 08
I do make one at least once a week, more if I have the time..Big breakfasts are better for you than big lunch or supper, but I can't get my husband to see that..
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@Malyck (3425)
• Australia
9 May 08
I don't normally have a large breakfast, but I try to have breakfast every day before leaving the house to kick-start my metabolism and keep me energised.
I normally have a bowl of cereal, tea/coffee and/or water/juice, or a few slices of toast.
I think that there are a lot of factors contributing to the loss of family values and true "family time", but fortunately by boyfriend and the rest of the family keep the same basic schedules, so we usually get to eat together =)
Tomorrow I plan on making a big breakfast for my boyfriend, myself and our friend who is staying for a few days - bacon, eggs and all that kind of thing =) A celebration of the beginning of the weekend.
And I'll be making breakfast in bed for my mum on Sunday =D
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@megumiart (3771)
• United States
9 May 08
The only time I cook a full spread meal in the mornings is when I plan to have brunch with family or something. Otherwise, I'll just have some cereal or toast, or occasionally pancakes. :]
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@icequeen123 (934)
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8 May 08
I don't tend to cook breakfast as we usually have cereal or fruit, something light and fairly easy to digest. Also, I don't tend to have time before work in the mornings to be spending time cooking.
I do try to cook a nice meal in the evening for my husband and me. It is good to spend time together chatting over a proper meal.
@chrislotz (8137)
• Canada
17 Jul 08
I just have a protein shake for breakfast during the week. I don't have the time to cook a big breakfast in the morning before I go to work. On the weekends though, that's a different story. I will cook a big breakfast on Saturday, of bacon and eggs and hash browns and toast and coffee. On Sunday I will cook an omelette with bacon and cheese and green pepper and onions. Sometimes I will cook pancakes.
@Elixiress (3878)
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27 May 08
I don't think that big meals are necessary, I know for a fact that if someone cooked me three big meals a day I would not eat them and food would just get wasted as I do not eat that much. For breakfast I usually have cereal or a bacon sandwich, so as far as my cooking goes is watching some bacon under the grill.
@raziffsiti (129)
• Malaysia
7 May 08
yap....evey morning i cooking for my breakfast..;-)
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