Already this morning I've had a Marmite crumpet and a cheese scone. A rhubarb yoghurt and two cups of tea, not to mention to tumblers of water and a banana and it's not even 10 o'clock yet.
I'm terribly hungry in the mornings. But that's good because after all, breakfast fuels the furnace for the day. I don't know about you, but once I left home I never used to have breakfast at all. I couldn't even entertain the idea of food so early in the morning. It was only when I went back to college to do my journalism course I thought I'd better eat something as I didn't know when the next chance to eat would come.
I remember that first morning: hot buttered toast with Rose's lime marmalade. I kept this up for the duration of the course.
I don't know what I was thinking. As chronicled before around these parts, I don't even like jam. Okay, marmalade, but it's still sweet and I'm really not a sweet tooth in the a.m. I'm far more savoury. Why didn't I have Bovril on it, or peanut butter? I've not touched lime marmalade since.
I remember when you'd go on holiday and one of the breakfast choices was 'continental', i.e., no bacon or egg. It usually meant chewy croissants or a sweet roll and little pots of nasty jam. There wasn't much savoury about it and that always put me off. But that seems to have changed now. I love those German and Scandanavian buffets. That sort of continental is my breakfast of choice.
You can't beat a fry-up of course, with lashings of Daddies brown sauce, and there's always room for a bacon or sausage sandwich in my life. But if I had to choose between serial or bread and cheese, it would be the latter that got my vote. Cereal's a bore and a chore.
Thank God our breakfast option are more varied than they used to be. Now you can pop into any Pret, Eat or Greggs and have a ham and mozzarella croissant (still can't say it properly) or a cheese and onion pasty straight from the oven. I'm all for it. I could eat breakfast foods all day. Has anyone been to a Leon? What do they do?
Anyway, that's it from me until next week. Enjoy your breakfast.
