Breakfast Menu Options

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Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Studies have indicated that food eaten early in the day is less likely to contribute to fat gain than food eaten in the evening and that people who regularly eat breakfast weigh less than those who do not.

Most countries traditionally start this first meal with some sort of grain cereal. From earliest times, breakfast could consist of a grain porridge with perhaps toasted bread and a warm beverage. Although the more poor the family, the less likely breakfast was eaten.

Modern commercial cereal foods were created by the American Seventh-day Adventists like Will Keith Kellogg who was a health food fanatic and Charles William Post.

Breakfast can vary from region to region depending on what is available. It would not be unusual in some countries where rice is plentiful to have a bowl of rice for breakfast or where fishing is the main trade to have fried fish for the first meal of the day.

A uniquely Western concept is the full breakfast. In the UK it is called a Full English Breakfast. Many other Western nations do not really have a name for it, but most likely it is associated with weekend comfort foods.

Sometimes, these large "fry ups" can consist of heavily fried, fatty meats like sausage (bangers) or bacon, with eggs (fried, scrambled, boiled, poached...), toast or biscuits with butter and jelly or jam, fruit, coffee or tea, and in the UK, Canada and Austraila you could also add sliced tomatoes, baked beans, black pudding (fried blood sausages, kind of a rarity now, but still eaten.)

Here is a guide to help you plan your breakfast.

• Light Breakfast
• Grand Spread Breakfast
• Traditional Breakfast
• Ethnic Breakfast
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Here are some good traditional goodies for breakfast:

• Blintzes
• Breakfast Bangers
• Churros
• Crêpes
• Easy Doughnuts
• Fruited Oat Bran Muffins
• Omelet
• Pancakes
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