Op - genuine question what do you think Brits ate for breakfast before Kellogg's and the fry up were invented? Which were both really quite recent inventions by the way.
The answer? Most often cheese and bread! Eggs when they came down in price a bit or if the family had their own chickens maybe they'd have bread and eggs. If they were well off perhaps some ham or beef slices.
As pps say much of Europe still has bread and cheese for breakfast. I lived in Germany and Netherlands for several years and loved all the various cheeses and breads. (Nobody warns you about the culture shock of coming back to your home country after years elsewhere. I still miss loads of foods and brands from there. A few crop up occasionally in aldi and lidl but it's becoming less he case now as Brits - as a whole - are reluctant to try new foods/brands)
A nice 5 seed bread toasted, good salted butter and some thinly sliced jarlsberg? Omg yes!! adds jarlsberg to next weeks shopping list
"But I don't understand limiting yourself to certain foods at certain meals. If cheese on toast is acceptable for lunch, why is it wrong to have it for breakfast? It doesn't become unhealthy just because it's eaten at 7am and not 1pm!" Just what I said on another thread where op was asking for ideas on what to have for a healthy breakfast.
Mention of croissants reminds me of an old (I think he was Swiss?) boss of mine who used to make me when he was making for himself a croissant, sliced and filled with emmental or jarlsberg, then dipped in whisked eggs and fried. Sort of a Swiss/French cheesy "French toast" was lush!! how I was so skinny then I'll never know
I'm another fan of marmite on my cheese on toast but I can also attest a touch of jam can be nice too it's also lovely with a little paprika in the cheese before grilling.
AviatorShades - me too! My appetite not been great lately (mh issues) cpn suggested it may be partly as I've been ordering/eating pretty much same thing week in week out for months. She suggested I switch things up and thanks to a few recent mn threads I'm being reminded of things I used to enjoy. So far added to shopping list for next weeks shop are soup ingredients, baking ingredients, frittata ingredients and now jarlsberg (dd doesn't like seeded bread I'm just debating with myself whether to get a small loaf for myself although we don't even finish a normal loaf most weeks - neither of us big bread eaters).
"I'm here and I admit I am unreasonable seemed like a fattening breakfast." I'd love to know what you think is a healthy breakfast?
"No food on its own is ‘fattening’. It depends how many calories you consume overall." Exactly. Just the point I was making (and getting the piss taken out for) on a weight loss thread. Talk to any dietitian and they'll tell you there are no bad foods but bad diets. We do actually need some fats for certain body functions and to aid absorption of certain vitamins.
Booboo66 I often used to have banana on toast when I was doing ww. The moisture in the banana meant no butter needed and bananas were "free" at that time so the only points were in the toast.
I think the demonisation of whole food groups is really unhealthy. We need a varied, balanced diet for good health.