What constitutes breakfast food vs. lunch food vs. dinner food??? What do you consider a snack???
My mother, who is 85, is always on me about the "weird" things I eat for meals. She thinks breakfast must always consist of cereal (either cold or hot), a banana, toast, juice and coffee. Even on days that I am home and am fixing breakfast (such as pancakes, or eggs and bacon) she insists that she must have her breakfast first, then maybe she can snack on what I made. SNACK!! I think that makes two breakfasts!
I, on the other hand, am incredibly flexible about what constitutes breakfast. Is there left over pasta in the fridge?, nuke it, that's breakfast. Did I make some yummy potato soup for supper?, dish out a bowl and nuke it, make toast -- there's breakfast!!! You want a piece of grilled chicken wrapped in a tortilla, go for it! (You'll probably find some kind of cheese and some taco sauce in the fridge to make it a chicken burrito!)
Dinner foods can be just as interesting in my kitchen. Pancakes or waffles, anyone??? Robbie, my son-in-law, loves pan-fried ham and biscuits with chocolate gravy! (I occasionally indulge him!) I love making a big pot of brown sugar-cinnamon oatmeal and cinnamon toast for dinner on a cold, blustery Ohio evening! (It sticks to your ribs, and cuts out the need for a bed-time snack!)
My mother thinks that 6 soda crackers and a piece of pre-wrapped american cheese constitutes a lunch. I'm thinking -- mid-afternoon snack!!! For lunch, I want something hot like chicken fried rice, or a grilled tuna roll with cheese and fries!
According to my mother, I must always have a jar of applesauce in the fridge for her. Sometimes this is used as the fruit on her cereal (especially if I have **gasp** run out of bananas), sometimes this plus two graham crackers equals lunch, and it will almost always appear on her dinner plate, no matter what else I'm serving. (Spaghetti and applesauce with garlic bread; beef stew and applesauce; potato soup and applesauce; Are you getting the idea???) It is often her dessert after dinner, and most times her bed-time snack. I like applesauce, but I can't eat it 3-4 times a day!!!
I do fix "normal" foods at "normal" times most of the time, but I can't see anything wrong with a little variety. If it's healthy food to eat for dinner, why would it become unhealthy if you fix it for breakfast???
Am I really this strange??? Come on, I'd really like feedback on this!
5 comments:
I don't like to eat first thing in the morning, but this morning I woke up starving, so I ate cheezits and some sugar cookies. For lunch, I'm hungry still so I will make some french toast because if I don't use up some bread it's going to go bad.
Dustin is a sandwich/chips/sweet something lunch person.
We are flexible on supper, but if we're having a late night snack, it's got to be pancakes and scrambled eggs. Usually this happens if dinner was good enough to be filling but not satisfactory (not what we were really hungry for).
Well, Ed likes breakfast food for breakfast, though he does like to have breakfast food for supper sometimes. You know, eggs, bacon, potatoes and toast for supper, which is really good on a cold, snowy Ohio night like tonight. Daniel and I have always eaten anything at anytime, especially Daniel. When we homeschooled, he would have macaroni and cheese, pizza, cheeseburgers, tacos and you name it for breakfast! I love that boy! Of course, sometimes for breakfast he did want eggs or french toast or pancakes. But I have always fixed anything he wanted for breakfast. Sooooo....count me on your side, Theresa!! :-)
Thanks, Jewell, for the vote of confidence! It's nice to know that I haven't completely gone over the edge! (Although, sometimes I wonder -- would going over the edge be that bad???) I hope Daniel's new wife is not a "food by the book" person. Hopefully, she will make him cheesburgers for breakfast, occasionally! Liz, I know how I raised you, so I know that you don't think I'm nuts, just your strange mom!
Different people have different stomachs, I guess.
My uncle regularly used to eat leftover dinner for breakfast, and it grossed us out as kids. Now at least I can see *why.*
For me, I need that bland breakfast-type food in the morning. There's no way I could have anything with onions or garlic or even tomatoes first thing in the AM. So there you have it!
my siblings eat applesauce about 900 times a day. but i see what you mean. I do like breakfast fo other meals too though
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