Having a Healthy Breakfast

I do serve heavy breakfast for my family. I wake up as early as 4am just to prepare their breakfast and their food that their going to bring to school. I feel that they need to "fuel" up to start their day right.

I agree that these days, there are a lot of people around the world who doesn't have time or make time to prepare a healthy breakfast for themselves and their family. That is the reason why all fastfood chains all over the world are making more money as the days go by. Making a healthy meal, not just breakfast is a commitment, not just having an interest in preparing one. I personally get up early to prepare breakfast for my household.

Breakfast is a very important meal of the day. I normally will drink oats and 2 slices of bread. At times I will boiled eggs for breakfast. I make sure I eat lunch at proper times too. We really need those nutrients to do the task of the day. I will eat rice as dinner as my mother-in-law will cook.

Hello seriousnuts. Lately we were not eating breakfast anymore. The routine is usually wake up, take a shower, and then off to work. When at the office sometimes drink milk or coffee or chocolate. I have to wait for the next break time before I eat some biscuits or chocolate bar. Yes, it’s not healthy. Some months back, we used to eat breakfast at home. But it became too tiring, since you have to wake up very early at dawn to eat, much less to prepare. we have to leave for work at a very early hour. So if we want to eat breakfast, we should wake up earlier than that. We would prefer to eat break fast at home, if only there is enough convenient time.

I don't know whether you will believe what I am going to tell you about myself.I have stopped taking breakfast and even lunch for years.Please don't ask me how and why.It's a long story that I am unable to narrate in the short time I have now at my disposal.I don't take anything in my breakfast,not even a slice of bread or a biscuit.Just a cup of tea is enough for me to enable me to work for the whole day.The only meals I take is my dinner that I take at 9.30 pm.And I am quite fit and healthy and can work for hours.I don't have any physical problem,at least till now.

I try to eat as healthy a breakfast as possible. A fruit or fruit juice, a glass of milk or milk shake, sometimes sprouts, cereals, or anything that helps me get the necessary energy for the whole day. Breakfast is considered the most important meal of the day even by doctors. So, one should definitely eat a healthy breakfast. Infact, the best time to eat breakfast is within 1 hour of waking up. So, everyone should eat as healthy a breakfast as possible.

I understand the importance of a heavy and healthy breakfast. Nowadays this concept is gaining popularity in India also. I think in India most of the people have their break fast, I am exception to it. Because of my lifestyle I have just a cu of tea or two early in the morning and no break fast then. There after finishing my work I have another cup of tea in-between before having the lunch at 02.00 pm. This I have been doing it more than 30 years now! In fact I have my dinner quite late at the night because of which I don't feel hungry early in the morning. Thus because of my strange routine I don't have any breakfast and I am quite comfortable with my routine! Thanks for the discussion! I liked participating in it!

I met a guy who was ex-military, and was stationed in Japan. While there, he married a Japanese woman. It's a long story how I ended up at his house, but the short story is, I ended up spending about two days there. The guy was a very nice decent person, but his wife was amazing. I have to admit I was a bit taken with her honestly. I wanted to ask him if he really understood how incredible his wife was, but... I didn't know him well enough. She was so neat. She got up every morning, and made a meal for everyone. It was a full breakfast. Then she would watch a Christian program on TV, and read a Bible and sing. Her faith was so cool. She did some other stuff around the house, and then fixed lunch. Like an actual hot cooked lunch. Kids would come home from school to eat lunch at home! Then after the kids left, she got up and went to a women's shelter for abused women, and help the women there, and help around the shelter. When she got home she of course cooked dinner, and did stuff with the family. One night we went to someone else's home, and they played games and talked. (I was not included in this but I knew about it). Compare that to my growing up, my mom would put some cherios in a dish, and pour milk on it. That was breakfast, and she drove off to work. I wouldn't see her again until 5:30 PM. Lunch was a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Not bad, but the same old cold sandwich every day. Then I'd get home around 3 PM from school, and watch TV until about 6:30 PM or 7 PM, whenever dinner was ready. Then I'd watch TV until it was time to sleep. Mom was always at work, or she was cooking dinner. I rarely saw her unless I did something she didn't like. Not to suggest my mother was a bad mom. She was very good to me. But, I have to admit I would LOVE to have had a mother like that gal. Heck I'd love to have a wife like that gal! A wife that was actually home, to hug and kiss and play with?! Really?! Such women exist like that??? Women that don't spend all their time at work, and only come up to slap on some quick cheesy bread in the oven or something?? And she was a good looking gal too. I'll tell ya, that guy had better appreciate that girl big time. Like gold and rubies and diamonds. I'll trade all of them for that kind of girl, for sure!

There is a saying that goes : "Breakfast like a King, Lunch like a Prince but eat dinner like a pauper" According to the above saying, we need to eat variety and heavy breakfast to start the day and we need energy to do all the work and task. A good lunch will help for the balance of the day. However, a minimal dinner is needed as our body already at rest in the evening and too much dinner will make you put on weight. However, due to time constraint, I normally eat very simple breakfast before rushing off to work. Look like I have to change my lifestyle now.

We are advised to eat a heavy breakfast and lighter for dinner. We need all the energy we can get to start a day especially for workers requiring strength and stress causing jobs.

Yes, just as you say , breakfast is so good and important for our health. Everyday my mother makes breakfast for me before I go to work, always a glass of soy milk.

I also noticed that custom or tradition of Japanese families. Their packed lunch, or bento boxes look even more enticing, sometimes they're too cute to eat. It's always a balanced combination of Japanese rice, veggies, seafood, some meats like ham and sausages cut like mini octopus, scrambled egg that is twirled on the side to look like a flower, some seaweeds to make the rice look like a face or a anime character, some plum or other pickled veggies to give it a hint of sourness. Well in our family, we prepare breakfast depending on whose turn it is. For example, if it is my husband who will prepare it, expect that there will be his ever favorite bacon and eggs over easy. If it is me, there will omelette, garlic fried rice and some fried dried fish or squid. If it is my brother, there will be plain rice, spam, and some stir fried veggies. Then it is up to us what to drink, there's coffee, tea, milk, fruit juices. We try to include as much fruits in our daily breakfast.

Thanks for sharing this discussion. I totally agree to that. Breakfast as a fuel for the whole day activities. And it would also be a good diet if you start with a heavy breakfast.

Breadfast is so important for me. If I do not have breadfast, I will be not able to focus on work all the morning and just expectime when is the lauch time. Actually, I usually have a bottle of milk, an egg and a piece of bread for the breadfast. We should not eat too full in the morning. Remember not to eat too fast, it is bad for your health. I f one seldom have breadfast, you will easily have gastric disease. My lotters, even you are busy, remember to have breadfast.

I also think that lots of people take breakfast from outside rather from inside the house. I think it is always good to eat homely food and to eat breakfast as breakfast is the best part of the meal of the day and breakfast gives fuel for the whole day. I think it is good to eat heavy breakfast and little lunch and little supper. I think now a days lots of people are getting busy in life and eats little breakfast in the morning.

hiseriousnuts If I was on my own I would order hash browna, two eggs over easy and two pancakes. but here in the retirement center we get one egg, toast or one pancakeand a sausage plus a bowl of runny oatmeal. not a heavy breakfast but seeing my most active time is sitting here my lotting I really do not need a heavy breakfast just a nutritious breakfast oh and I have a glass of orange juice every breakfast