A small epiphany
Do you realize that people eat french toast and pancakes and other comparable pastries for breakfast every day? Yet other pastries are called desserts. I made a baked variety of french toast, so I saved on the butter I would have used in the pan, and I even served it without the syrup, which is all sugar anyway. Surely, that would fall into the breakfast category.
People also eat eggs and drink milk for breakfast, sometimes with their french toast. But is breakfast defined by the menu or in how the items are prepared? Did you know that eggs and milk and a tablespoon of butter (which I would have put in my french toast pan if I had fried) and a tablespoon of sugar (which is still less than what would have been in the syrup) and vanilla extract (which is a free-bee on most diets) makes custard, usually a dessert item?
It is clear that, nutritionally, this is an unfair distinction.
And that's why my bastardized version of treacle (a spice cake that is reminiscent of french toast in flavor) and bird's custard (a mild, milk-based pudding of sorts) makes a fine breakfast.
And if there's a cocoa puff, surely we can bring chocolate into the breakfast fold. Slim-Fast says chocolate is breakfast, and lunch, so I think it's safe to assume that they think chocolate is reasonably "sensible" when it comes to dinner choices. That clearly qualifies chocolate as an all-day treat. Combining the obvious chocolate with the previously mentioned pastries and dairy products, and a custard-filled chocolate eclair is a no-brainer.
Go with me on the logic. Together we will challenge our desserts: "deny thy calories and refuse thy name, or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my breakfast and I will not longer eat an omelet."
That's a bit better when om-e-let is said with three syllables. Still.
Jacob, laugh at the references, but I'm not actually calling you to arms or your arms will need insulin shots.
So, I'm making poor food choices. I'm happy, and in the end that's what really counts, right?
(sound of crunching as the cookies being shoveled into my mouth with one hand while the other hand types are eaten at a truly compulsive speed.)
(mouth full, a bit desperate) Right?!?
Love you,
K
People also eat eggs and drink milk for breakfast, sometimes with their french toast. But is breakfast defined by the menu or in how the items are prepared? Did you know that eggs and milk and a tablespoon of butter (which I would have put in my french toast pan if I had fried) and a tablespoon of sugar (which is still less than what would have been in the syrup) and vanilla extract (which is a free-bee on most diets) makes custard, usually a dessert item?
It is clear that, nutritionally, this is an unfair distinction.
And that's why my bastardized version of treacle (a spice cake that is reminiscent of french toast in flavor) and bird's custard (a mild, milk-based pudding of sorts) makes a fine breakfast.
And if there's a cocoa puff, surely we can bring chocolate into the breakfast fold. Slim-Fast says chocolate is breakfast, and lunch, so I think it's safe to assume that they think chocolate is reasonably "sensible" when it comes to dinner choices. That clearly qualifies chocolate as an all-day treat. Combining the obvious chocolate with the previously mentioned pastries and dairy products, and a custard-filled chocolate eclair is a no-brainer.
Go with me on the logic. Together we will challenge our desserts: "deny thy calories and refuse thy name, or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my breakfast and I will not longer eat an omelet."
That's a bit better when om-e-let is said with three syllables. Still.
Jacob, laugh at the references, but I'm not actually calling you to arms or your arms will need insulin shots.
So, I'm making poor food choices. I'm happy, and in the end that's what really counts, right?
(sound of crunching as the cookies being shoveled into my mouth with one hand while the other hand types are eaten at a truly compulsive speed.)
(mouth full, a bit desperate) Right?!?
Love you,
K