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Anonymous wrote:Agree Op. But Americans like easy and sweet. The less work they have to do to prepare the actual food the better. Plus sweet / white flour is universally appealing and somewhat addicting.

My DH is from Middle East. His typical breakfast here at home is the Arabic pita bread with yogurt, tomato, fresh mint, a drizzle of olive oil, rolled up. Or a big bowl of beans with lemon, garlic, olive oil, cumin and some fresh vegetables on the side. But he also grew up in a poor country during war time in Middle East- women didn’t work and schools weren’t handing out pop tarts and chocolate milk. These things weren’t readily available either. If you wanted to eat, you had to cook and prepare food to eat.

Those Middle Eastern breakfasts are really easy to make, especially if you already have the pita made or the beans cooked.

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Anonymous wrote:If you think about it, typical food here in the US that gets pushed for breakfast is garbage. It's often like eating nothing more than dessert for an entire meal in the day. Waffles, pancake, crepes....? What is this trash? They're basically nothing more than rudimentary cake like batters that after cooked, you add a whole bunch of fat and sugar to - they're pretty much deficient of almost any nutritional value. Cereals? Highly processed trash that often contain tons of sugar. Bacon, sausages, biscuits and gravy, etc. combined with eggs.....cholesterol and fat bombs. Hash browns and home fries....mostly empty calories loaded often times with salt and cooked in tons of oil. You often feel very nasty after eating 'traditional' American/western breakfast foods. Why is it that we evolved to eat what are essentially desserts for breakfasts? No nutrition, high in calorie, high in fat/cholesterol/sodium meals. I remember going to Japan where they served traditional breakfasts consisting of a small piece of broiled fish, a little bit of rice, maybe some fruit, some kind of veggie, and a little bit of soup. So many other places in the world just treat breakfast almost like any other meal where you'd consume foods with actual nutrition.

American breakfasts are the best things when you're at a hotel and about to spend the day walking around. All those calories are steadily burned during the day.

Anonymous wrote:If you think about it, typical food here in the US that gets pushed for breakfast is garbage. It's often like eating nothing more than dessert for an entire meal in the day. Waffles, pancake, crepes....? What is this trash? They're basically nothing more than rudimentary cake like batters that after cooked, you add a whole bunch of fat and sugar to - they're pretty much deficient of almost any nutritional value. Cereals? Highly processed trash that often contain tons of sugar. Bacon, sausages, biscuits and gravy, etc. combined with eggs.....cholesterol and fat bombs. Hash browns and home fries....mostly empty calories loaded often times with salt and cooked in tons of oil. You often feel very nasty after eating 'traditional' American/western breakfast foods. Why is it that we evolved to eat what are essentially desserts for breakfasts? No nutrition, high in calorie, high in fat/cholesterol/sodium meals. I remember going to Japan where they served traditional breakfasts consisting of a small piece of broiled fish, a little bit of rice, maybe some fruit, some kind of veggie, and a little bit of soup. So many other places in the world just treat breakfast almost like any other meal where you'd consume foods with actual nutrition.

Anonymous wrote:OP let me guess, you don't work. Do you really think it's feasible for most working families to spend an hour each morning preparing some kind of vegetable breakfast? People gravitate toward something that can be easily transported to work or school (granola bars, bagels, etc). I've been trying to do better with my breakfast choices because I agree that it's easy to snarf down a day's worth of carbs and sugar in one go, but you should consider the needs and requirements of an average working parent trying to get out of the house on a weekday.

Anonymous wrote:Agree Op. But Americans like easy and sweet. The less work they have to do to prepare the actual food the better. Plus sweet / white flour is universally appealing and somewhat addicting.

My DH is from Middle East. His typical breakfast here at home is the Arabic pita bread with yogurt, tomato, fresh mint, a drizzle of olive oil, rolled up. Or a big bowl of beans with lemon, garlic, olive oil, cumin and some fresh vegetables on the side. But he also grew up in a poor country during war time in Middle East- women didn’t work and schools weren’t handing out pop tarts and chocolate milk. These things weren’t readily available either. If you wanted to eat, you had to cook and prepare food to eat.

Anonymous wrote:If you think about it, typical food here in the US that gets pushed for breakfast is garbage. It's often like eating nothing more than dessert for an entire meal in the day. Waffles, pancake, crepes....? What is this trash? They're basically nothing more than rudimentary cake like batters that after cooked, you add a whole bunch of fat and sugar to - they're pretty much deficient of almost any nutritional value. Cereals? Highly processed trash that often contain tons of sugar. Bacon, sausages, biscuits and gravy, etc. combined with eggs.....cholesterol and fat bombs. Hash browns and home fries....mostly empty calories loaded often times with salt and cooked in tons of oil. You often feel very nasty after eating 'traditional' American/western breakfast foods. Why is it that we evolved to eat what are essentially desserts for breakfasts? No nutrition, high in calorie, high in fat/cholesterol/sodium meals. I remember going to Japan where they served traditional breakfasts consisting of a small piece of broiled fish, a little bit of rice, maybe some fruit, some kind of veggie, and a little bit of soup. So many other places in the world just treat breakfast almost like any other meal where you'd consume foods with actual nutrition.

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Anonymous wrote:I heard the bacon and eggs thing came from marketing, although a full English has been around for a while so maybe it came from our English heritage. What did George Washington eat for breakfast?

I think that pancakes and sweet desserts are common in European countries as well, and the main difference is volume and not interspersing those with healthier things.

Personally I hate eating those things for breakfast, except eggs and toast. I would much prefer leftovers from dinner from the night before.

Hoecakes with butter & honey were Washington's favorite.

But a traditional breakfast of the time that was served at Mount Vernon was coffee, tea, and cold meats along with vegetables.

The Washingtons ate breakfast at 7am, dinner (lunch) at 3pm, and nothing for supper (dinner) other than tea. Meals lasted at least an hour if not more, which is not typical for today at all.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t eat breakfast.

That's even less healthy than some of the dietary choices OP is criticizing.

Anonymous wrote:It’s all marketing OP and I agree with you. We eat scrambled eggs for breakfast, or oatmeal with slivered almonds on top. On Sundays I let DD pick something crappy if she wants. But I want her having something filling and nutritious before going to school. No idea when a donut became a breakfast food………