Bagels with Lox

[gwendally]

Terrible_mother, meet Rawrin.   I keep reading about the woes of you two Boston women attempting to get lox from the clueless bagel-dispensing clerks of Boston.  I respect your struggle, and am a bit astonished to find that my small LJ flist contains TWO people who eat the same weird breakfast I eat every morning.

Are there more smoked-salmon-topped bagel eaters out

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[gwendally]

I buy Thomas' 100% whole wheat bagels and then eat just half of one each morning. They're huge, have lots of fiber, but aren't very chewy - definitely more of a toasting bagel than a real New York style fresh bagel. But the macronutrient ratio isn't bad. If I lived in a perfect world I'd have a real fresh bagel every morning. But then I'd be fat and poor

[gwendally]

I prefer a good smoked whitefish when I can get it

Your Russian is showing. :-)

My lox thing comes from my Jewish grandmother, of course, but it got a new lease on life when I was doing Body for Life and the rule was to balance protein with carbs. I can only eat so many eggs. But I haven't found my limit on lox yet.

[gwendally]

That's a weird breakfast?

My husband, as WASP as they come, doesn't care for lox and thinks Rice Krispies covered in sugar is a far better breakfast. Gag me - how high glycemic can you get? I consider Rice Krispies a baking ingredient for crappy food I'm going to pander at school bake sales.

But he insists that cereal is what people are supposed to have for breakfast, not fish. If he isn't having cereal then he's making pancakes or waffles or French toast and covering them in syrup. I pass by all these carb-ups but might scramble up the leftover eggs from the French toast when he's done making a mess of the kitchen on week-end mornings.

Strangely, the children consider their father the nicer parent.

[terrible_mother]

I don't eat it every morning, but I certainly would if I could. It is the standard meal at my husband's grandma's, in addition to blintzes and other jello type things, and his entire family loves it. I am so attached to the meal that I might even try your trader joe's suggestion (but I like my everything bagel!). We even tried looking in brookline (because of the increased number of jews) but no luck, man. No luck.

[gwendally]

You can get "everything" bagels in the grocery store, too. I won't pretend that grocery-store bagels are nearly as good as bagel-shop bagels, but chances are you can control the calories better and overall it's more economical if this is an every-day expense. Plus, it's just HARD to get out to the bagel shop. (And it isn't going to get easier any time soon for you.) :-)

[rawrin]

Well, I usually just get the Dunkin' Donuts smoked salmon cream cheese, which is a far far cry from a lox-topped bagel. But I sure would eat that up if it were easy to get.

Believe it or not, when I lived in Columbia, SC, there was a great bagel place that had it. And I was there every weekend!

[msevilwoman]

I love lox! And if you think it's hard to get good it (good deli of any kind, really) in Boston, you should try Florida. When I was in northern NJ in September, having a good bagel with lox and some cream cheese was such a treat!

[gwendally]

A treat for me are blueberry blintzes with sour cream on top. I make that for Special breakfasts. The kids love them. The kids won't eat lox, though.

My second-favorite breakfast is oatmeal, the longer-cooking the better. THAT comes from my Scottish grandmother. These days I add protein powder & peanutbutter to it, though.

If I can't get either of those, I'll have yogurt mixed with granola and/or fruit.

[msevilwoman]

Blueberry blintzes? Love those! You can make me breakfast any time!

And long-cooking oatmeal is a great thing, too. My English grandmother made that for me, and I still adore it.

I'm a "traditional" breakfast food lover, also. Eggs and bacon are a love. And I made great French toast. (Actually, it's French Canadian French toast, from a recipe of an old roommate of mine.)

I'm hungry now!