What's For Breakfast
Posted: Tuesday, July 19, 2011
by Deborah Jackson
The Organic Garden
I believe in breakfast and try to practice what I preach. For many years I skipped the first and most important meal of the day, but as I get older, I find that I can't do without it. Immediately after washing and that all important ritual of the day, I get to the kitchen and get something to eat. It doesn't make much difference to me as long as it's got some protein in it; I find that a small portion of last night's leftovers work great.
Dining out is not a great occasion and cooking is a pain in the neck. Fast, fresh and raw is my motto. A bout with acid-reflux several years ago taught me the hard way to stay away from processed foods, so cereal and whatever snack-a-doodle they are promoting on TV is a no-no. A chicken wing or a piece of pork chop or even a roast beef sandwich serve me perfectly. In the absence of left-overs, a hard boiled egg is my breakfast of choice. Almost every person I talk to tells me that if I must have eggs, I should just eat the whites or one of those god-awful chemical substitutes or reconstitued crap. Thanks no. I'll take my chances with cholesteral before I put that garbage in my body ever again. I don't understand it.
Why, given the protein value of an egg from a fresh, no-pesticide, grass fed chicken, would one want to comsume, (wheat flour, niacinamide, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid, sugar, dextrose, vegetable oil (soybean, palm, cottonseed and/or hydrogenated cottonseed oil with tbhq and citric acid for freshness), corn syrup, whey, cracker meal, high fructose corn syrup, two percent or less of cornstarch, cocoa processed with alkali, salt, leavening , modified corn starch, mono- and diglycerides, sodium stearoyl lactylate, gelatin, dried egg whites, datem, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, modified wheat starch, xanthan gum, natural vanilla flavor, caramel color, soy lecithin, calcium phosphate, color added, niacinamide, reduced iron, vitamin a, palmitate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, riboflavin, vitamin b1 and folic acid) a PopTart?
Eat an egg, yolk and all. Its got to be betteer than this.
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