I’ve not been a good girl
I haven’t been a good girl lately. That’s because I’ve been…..skipping my breakfast.
Yes, I can begin to hear nagging right now, about breakfast being the most important meal of the day, or important facts about having to feast like a king for breakfast.
But the fact is, I hate breakfast, or rather, what I usually have for breakfast. I’m sorry to say, I hate the humble loaf of white bread which my breakfast is made up of for most days.
Why I hate the white bread can be traced back to my childhood. I grew up at my grandparents’ place in the Tiong Bahru area when I was young, and basically, that equates to glorious and delicious food. That’s the days before many of those delicious food stalls in the markets went missing. Breakfast to me means having delicious meals of Lor Mee, Fishball Noodles etc.
Thus when I back at my own home and have to eat the humble white bread with butter for breakfast, I simply refuse to do so because it tastes so relatively bland. So much that I told my grandfather that I had refused to eat my white bread because it’ll cause me to become a mute if I eat too much of it (….ok that’s a lame excuse that I’d coined up at age 4, and it’s still the “joke” during family occasions).
Come to think about it, there are many “very-Singaporean” food that I hate. I hate the durians and I try to avoid kaya if I can.
Then again, I love bread when it’s added with its “frills”. For instance, toasting and then savouring it with a thick layer of arteries-clogging butter (instead of margarine), adding tuna and lettuce to the bread etc. However, they require additional effort so I don’t have them often. Therefore, I’ll rather go without breakfast and have an early lunch instead. Otherwise, I’ll just grab a piece of bread for sustenance if I know that I’m going to have a busy day ahead.
It’s 11 am now and I have been up since 7.55am (yes…to watch the simultaneous US telecast of “The Amazing Race”…just to add with no spoilers, my current favourite team is last today but I’m really supportive and amazed by the team who has arrived first in this leg of the race). I haven’t had any food yet. So I better go get some now.
P.S. Sorry, there will be no food porn for the time being again. I had this major “nuclear explosion” yesterday when I had another computer failure. Erhm..that’s the case when the computers decide to turn against a lady who is having her exams while also suffering from PMS and a bad flu bug.
Haha did you know a slice of bread is really as salty as a 20g packet of potato chips? It’s true, you can check next time. Strangely, it tastes very bland. :/
Hmm..I usually check my cereals and other food that I’m buying for the amt. of calories, fats etc. But bread is something that I have never checked before cos the first thing that come to my mind is that bread is relatively “healthy”. Interesting…
Do you know eating breakfast kickstarts your body’s metabolism? Maybe that is why I am skinny!
Anyway, sliced bread is really a God-send! It’s convenient and easy to eat on the road. My favorite and most frequent breakfast is a slice of cheese between 2 slices of Bonjour’s 12-grain bread. Filling and delish!
haha then I propose it’s time we all start checking salt and sodium levels! =D
all da best in ur exam
Hey, try breads like foccacia bread, tomato bread, or even kimchi bread by Breadtalk. I sense the humble white bread will soon be passe.
Mia: Hmm..that’s going to be one reason that’ll deter me from skipping my breakfast.
Foodcrazee: Thanks!
Shux: I love those breads…any other bread except the humble white bread. Don’t ask me why…
Humble white bread ought to be not Sunshine or anything with a brand, but the light, fluffy, no-brand white bread made at old Chinese bakeries. Good enough to eat all on its own!
I only started eating breakfast regularly a few years ago. Given the time constraints of my morning schedule and the fact that there’s no hawker centre nearby, I vary it between: bread and kaya; bread and (low-sugar) jam; flavoured bread (with raisins or pandan or whatever, though you gotta check on the sugar levels of some of those); bananas; and milk. Generally healthy and enough to kickstart one’s day
Why is it that sometimes people just want to skip their breakfast? Is it lack of mood or post wake-up syndrome?
haha…personally, it’s more of a lack of mood syndrome. =P