The Most Important Meal

Certainly, my time in Texas forced me to take a look at what I eat. One of the biggest changes has been my breakfast. For many years, I ate breakfast at work owing to convenience and the fact that the cook made a pretty mean omelette. Of course, this meant every day I would have a two egg omelette with lots of veggies, meat, cheese and toast. On the weekends, it would be the Greek Souvlaki House for breakfast where I'd get two eggs over, with Greek Sausage and the requisite massive amount of home fries.

Then along came the Singer, and trips to the Souvlaki House tailed off in favour of lazy weekend mornings where I make breakfast sammiches and we generally don't show our faces till early afternoon. I kicked the omelette habit when I decided that I was going to stop buying breakfasts from the cafeteria and bring my lunches to work, in the interests of saving money. In it's place though I would have a single egg, fried on toast with some cheese and whatever cold meat happened to be in the fridge.

This was a happy state of affairs till Texas - where the hotel offered a large breakfast buffet, filled will all that love; eggs, bacon, toast.... mmm goodness. Or so I thought. Then I ordered the Fried Egg Nachoes on that fateful Saturday. And I understood that I had to change how I started my day.

Breakfast now consists of half a bagel (and sometimes a whole) with cream cheese (or Serdmom's cheeseball), fresh fruit and some yogurt. It served me well in Texas; I didn't get the feeling of being preserved that I would after the breakfast buffet. And now that I'm back home, I don't feel the need to go have lunch at 11:30 because thats when I have to eat.

We still have lazy weekend sammiches, but now, it's a treat for me rather than the norm.