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How often do you eat avocado on toast?

197 replies

Ohright01 · 05/10/2024 10:08

I eat it nearly every day at the moment! Is it a normal breakfast or lunch for you?

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Miley1967 · 05/10/2024 11:06

Probably once a week if I'm in a rush to get to work and don't have time to make a sandwich.

Ohright01 · 05/10/2024 11:08

Yes I like it with prawns and mayo.

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ExquisiteIyDecorated · 05/10/2024 11:09

I just sat down to eat my avocado on toast brunch and saw this thread Smile.

A couple of times a week, dark rye toast with marmite, avocado and a poached egg, or peanut butter and avocado, or other combinations of the same. I have overnight oats the other mornings. Gen X homeowner.

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Karatema · 05/10/2024 11:13

Café near me does a delicious avocado on toast so once a fortnight (because it's more than my normal lunch budget). Not a millennial, much older! 🤣

Healingsfall · 05/10/2024 11:14

Meadowfinch · 05/10/2024 10:32

Avocado - about 80p, decent toast 15p a slice (at home)
Take out coffee -about £3.50

So £4.45 for breakfast X 365 days a year = £1625 a year

Home made coffee & porridge (my weekday breakfast) about 25p X 365 = £92.

Leaving £1530 for a holiday or to add to a house deposit. Most save for 5 years for a deposit so that's £7,500 per person, extra saving.

Not an unreasonable argument.

The argument from millennials at the time was house prices were increasing so much whilst wages stagnated, meaning buying a house was becoming out of reach, even for the hardest savers/workers.

But previous generations just blamed it on young people at the time eating avocado on toast, whilst failing to acknowledge they enjoyed years of cheaper housing meaning they could actually get on the property ladder. They didn't buy a house because they worked any harder or saved any more, they were just lucky enough not to have had house prices sky rocket so their saving and wages were enough to buy. Instead they benefited from their house value double/triple in a relatively short period of time.

The maths you have done adds up (and that's only if someone had it everyday) but the point was if a 50K house bought in 1995 was now worth 200k in 2005, that's a lot of avocado on toast sacrifices to make up that difference in price!

ButtSurgery · 05/10/2024 11:16

Never. Can't bear avocado. Fatty and slimy and tastes either woody or of nothing.

PaminaMozart · 05/10/2024 11:16

Slice of dark rye bread (Lidl)
Smashed avocado (just ripe - try Waitrose) mixed with lime/lemon juice and a little chili sauce, plus S & P
Topped with finely chopped super tasty tomatoes (and more S & P)
Try it folks - it's divine!!

Healingsfall · 05/10/2024 11:17

Didn't mean to derail the thread by the way 😁 It was just always a silly argument!

Avocado, sourdough toast, smoked salmon, tomatoes 😋

betterangels · 05/10/2024 11:18

JustToBeMe · 05/10/2024 10:11

Never, avocado tastes what I think wet cotton wool would taste like 😝😖😆

This!

PepperSauce · 05/10/2024 11:18

Once every 10 years on average

DeanElderberry · 05/10/2024 11:20

Leaving the take-out coffee out of that sum, the avocado breakfast is 70p more than the porridge. I'm not convinced by this road to wealth. Even if the avocado eaters were consuming a whole fruit every day and never taking advantage of special offers.

Apart from the fact that a porridge breakfast leaves me ravenous by mid-morning.

JaninaDuszejko · 05/10/2024 11:24

Regularly. But I'm Gen X, and have a big house in the north that cost tuppence.

Cotonsugar · 05/10/2024 11:26

Every day on sourdough toast with a poached egg and cherry tomatoes. It has to have salt and pepper and I don’t mash it up - too much like baby food (in my opinion). I don’t eat lunch so this keeps me going until the evening. I’m much older than a Millennial 😂

User19876536484 · 05/10/2024 11:26

Once or twice. It’s not for me. I don’t like the texture.

LegoHouse274 · 05/10/2024 11:27

Only now and then, maybe once a month or so? And usually it's when eating out. I love it but a whole avocado is too much for me and they don't keep well at all, and nobody else in my household will eat it.

pizzaHeart · 05/10/2024 11:37

often but only for lunch, never for breakfast.
We all like avocado in this house on toast or in salad so it’s just a question of how often we can get nice ripe avocado. There are a lot of things other people like which I don’t like at all so I’m not surprised that some people don’t like avocado.

dollybird · 05/10/2024 11:37

Once a week, with lime juice and pepper on one slice and a poached egg on another slice. I wouldn't want it more often. Late 40's, own my own home 😆

ShinyAppleDreamingOfTheSea · 05/10/2024 11:43

I have phases . Sometimes I eat it quite often - but as lunch, not breakfast. Not had it for ages now though.

Tillygan60 · 05/10/2024 11:45

About 3 times a week, with poached eggs on rye toast. Locally 4 avocados are £1.40 so pretty good value, as well as being high in (good) monosaturated fats.

pizzaHeart · 05/10/2024 11:46

Ohright01 · 05/10/2024 11:08

Yes I like it with prawns and mayo.

This^ I can have every day 🙂

Tinytigertail · 05/10/2024 11:46

A few times a week.

burnoutbabe · 05/10/2024 11:47

Ohright01 · 05/10/2024 10:08

I eat it nearly every day at the moment! Is it a normal breakfast or lunch for you?

Every time I have smashed avocado in the fridge.

It's lovely!

DustyMaiden · 05/10/2024 11:48

Occasionally with scrambled eggs on top.

littlepurplerose · 05/10/2024 11:53

I love it. Every time I go out for brunch which is a couple times a month and maybe once a week at home. Usually with eggs too.

My daughter eats it almost everyday!