Breakfast - The Most Important Meal of the Day!

We have all heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day therefore it is important to eat breakfast. Breakfast provides fuel that your body needs after a night of fasting. I try to eat breakfast within 30 minutes after waking up, I will be lucky if I can make it an hour. I usually wake up extremely hungry and after brushing my teeth I must eat. I didn’t always eat breakfast, when I was in high school I rarely ate breakfast unless my mom made porridge or an omelet for us. I started eating breakfast when I was in college because I started getting major stomach cramps when I didn’t eat enough food. Breakfast foods that were common in my family included porridge (oatmeal, cream of wheat, cornmeal), fruit, an omelet, raisin bran cereal and occasionally bakes with salt (cod) fish (typical Dominican breakfast).

Below is my list of worst breakfast choices”
Steak & Eggs. One of the oddest breakfast choices in my opinion is Steak and Eggs. Now why would anyone want to eat steak and eggs for breakfast? Just think of all of the cholesterol and fat in steak and eggs.

French Toast. Sorry, I am not too interested in eating a slice of bread coated with egg yolk (yuck!) and drenched with syrup. Denny's French toast has over 1,200 calories, 79 grams of fat, and 141 percent of your daily value of cholesterol. Not sure what is in it for the caloric content to be so high?

Doughnuts. I ate my first Krispy Kreme donut when I moved to the US about 7 years ago and it was also the last time I ate it. These donuts melted in my mouth like cotton candy and I hate cotton candy. I got sick eating cotton candy as a child and never ate it again. The Krispy Kreme Chocolate Iced Kreme Filled doughnut has 350 calories, 20 grams of fat, and 23 grams of sugar per doughnut.

Bagels. I am not sure why people think that bagels are healthy? Really now, it’s just bread with a hole in the middle. White bread isn’t the healthiest choice so I am not sure why a bagel would be? The average bagel will provide you with four servings of bread, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Sugary Cereals. Just because a cereal uses the word fruit in its name doesn't make it healthy. Some of the worst cereal culprits include Fruity Pebbles (9 grams of sugar) and Fruit Loops (12 grams of sugar).

While breakfast is important, it is just as important to make the right choices and the five choices above would not it.