STUPID DIET CRAZED, ALCOHOLIC-LOVING WORLD!! !

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Cool story, bro.

Tequila, everyone. *Applause*

Fully Loaded box meal

Difficulty moving. Thankfully I don't have to for a few hours.

Those breakfasts are remnants of the Industrial Revolution, where you'd work in a steel mill and burn 984059823 calories by the end of your day.

Yep, they were still seen as a normal breakfast here too, well into the 80's.
Fry up for breakfast, sausage or bacon sandwich on buttered white bread at 10am, pastries and sausage rolls for lunch, fried food with chips/fries on the side for dinner. 40 Benson and Hedges during the day and 10 cans of beer before bed.
Football on a Saturday morning. Dead at 55. Welcome to being a male in N.Ireland 1984.

Good Lord! That looks like the breakfast that family was having in Trainspotting where the one guy who spent the night had an accident (not pee) in his sheets. He was taking them to the washer and the mother of his gf snatched them out of his hands and the poo got everywhere.

Is that your breakfast??????? Beans even?????

Here's what I serve on a weekend breakfast. This is some good ole down home cooking in the Deep South.

Grits (Real not instant)

Scrambled eggs with cheese

I cook a whole thing of fried bacon (thats to crumble in the grits)

In that grease I mix up flour and milk and slowly add to the warm grease and bring it to a boil and stir, adding more milk and floour as needed. Cook till thick. Thats sweet milk gravy.

Fried sliced ham, save the grease from that to pour over the fruit

Dried apples or peaches soaked all night and boiled for about two hours in the morning with a spoon of sugar in them and mashed up

Buscuits. Real buttermilk ones, not canned ones

Canteloupe

Sliced tomatoes with mayo and salt and pepper on top

Butter to go in the grits

Fruit is eaten on biscuits and so is gravy


Thats what we have every weekend morning. It's good.

The breakfast in the photo looks delicious ... I have almost always hugely enjoyed the full english breakfast, just without the toast/bread and cornflakes in recent years because of not eating gluten ( wheat ) or corn anymore, nor a fan of protein-carbo mixtures. However except when on holiday, in B&Bs or similar, I have not eaten breakfast on a regular basis for almost exactly 29 years, since abandoning the habit during first year university. And over the years I have come to believe that deliberately not eating breakfast was a really efficient way of mini-fasting, with all the benefits this is supposed to have on teeth/bones, and various organs. ...

But recently I have been trying what for me is a revolutionary/upside-down eating plan ( invented by Kathleen DesMaisons: "Potatoes not Prozac" ) supposed to help overcome sugar addiction, ( which has been an issue for me since infancy, accelerating in my teens etc ), and it not only involves eating breakfast every day within an hour of getting up, ( apparently so as to stop exhausting the body's pain-killing beta-endorphin system, which kicks in when "starve" body, and which tends to increase tendency to sugar-addiction ), but a "bad mixture" of concentrated protein and concentrated whole/brown complex carbohydrate too!

So I was looking forward to a full english breakfast ... until I actually came to eat it, and the sausage was virtually tasteless, except for the salt, and the beans were boring, and even the ham and grilled tomatoes were hardly exciting. The best bit was the crisp juicy sweet-bitter chicory leaves I'd decorated the plate with, mainly as salt-antidote. Rather bemused; what happened to that "full english breakfast" buzz, the "yum" factor? Maybe it was always in the sugary cornflakes beforehand, or the toast and marmelade at the end? Or the coffee that I stopped drinking sometime during the winter?

On the other hand I'm loving what I'm calling a "Scandinavian" breakfast, which is:

Smoked salmon/trout ( and plan to try smoked mackerel/herring too ) with lots of fresh lemon juice mashed into it on the plate.
Crisp crunchy juicy sweet lettuce leaves and/or cucumber and some fresh dill.
A small organic "new"/young baked potato with a few chunks of ( cheap brand ) roquefort ( goat's ) cheese crumbled into it, and left to "melt" slightly for a few minutes.
A goat's cheese "mini"-log cut into little round slices and eaten with an onion relish.

Mmmmmmm!

I'm also planning a "German" one, with interesting smoked/specialist ( and pref organic/free-range) ham and various cow's milk cheeses, ( hard and soft ) plus sliced fresh tomato, sweet pickles, and chopped onion, on buckwheat crackers or other gluten-free bread ( though I'm wondering whether I might at some point try dark/wholegrain ryebread again ... which has gluten in it but may not be as allergenic/hard on my guts/autoimmune system ? ). ... And a ricecake medley with a doazen different spreads to go on them, as well as a classic eggs and cereal ( cornflakes or soaked oats/5 minute porridge with milk and cream and honey ) one too.

Maybe it will really make a difference to my sugar-addiction, breakfasting "like a king"?

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This thread has made me so very hungry I could go for some sheep stomach and haggis right about now.

that Scandinavian breakfast of yours Ouinon sounds great!

i tend to think a large breakfast is best, especially if you are having a busy day.
that fry up looks awesome!

Well one thing with the English breakfasts, I've been reading that one bigger problem with modern fried food is it's never fried in animal fat anymore. Most people like to blame animal fat for heart attacks and the like, but there's a lot of research countering that. Basically the premise is, our bodies are adapted to digest animal fat, as it's the only natural way we can get large amounts of fat in our diet. Most vegetable oils are modern inventions, with the oil extracted from naturally not oily foods, like corn, or foods considered downright poisonous like a century ago, as is the case with rapeseed/Canola oil, or cottonseed oil.

So yeah, at first things were all fried in animal fat, and it was determined by the health gods this was bad, when things seem to be pointing the opposite direction. Then after they decided to fry in tropical oils, coconut and palm oil, which research is now saying are healthy oils for humans, but the 70s health gods decided those were unhealthy, and replaced them with hydrogenated veg. oils. Then the health gods finally caught onto the whole "transfat" thing and is making everyone switch to nonhydrogenated veg oils.

Why do you eat beans for breakfast?? I've never heard of that in my life. I'm not putting it down or anything, but where did that idea come from?

Cheap, healthy, non-perishable protein.

Beans for breakfast is a big UK thing.

I laugh at people who do fad diets. Sure, law of averages says a few will succeed but most just waste their money.

But there's no substitute for good diet and exercise.

Moderation is key. Even alcohol in moderation can have positive health effects. One study showed whiskey can protect against prostate cancer and wine is loaded with good things.

Pretty much what I live by.