Breakfast

How to Have Breakfast Now That It’s No Longer the Most Important Meal of the Day

How should a food lover deal with the changing faces of our morning meals? Do you have it, delay it, or skip breakfast altogether?

Lovelli Fuad
5 min readOct 29, 2021

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Adam Green having a breakfast meal. @thatgirlhaslove via DeviantArt

Breakfast Lost Its Magic

You‘ve long sensed it coming. People no longer eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, or dinner like a pauper. Lately, skipping breakfast is an increasingly popular option to fit our busy schedules. When your only choices are limited to high-carb, processed foods loaded with extra sugar and extra calories, “no breakfast” seems like a good decision.

As a former breakfast-eater, I cannot tell you how often I have had breakfast and failed to enjoy it. Having my morning meals religiously every day for years has taught me the bad habit of eating when I’m not hungry. It has also taught me to settle for things that I do not like, such as artificial-looking cereals, bland toasts, and whatever else that was sold on the way to work.

Discussions don’t happen during breakfast, only rarely at lunches and sometimes dinners. Business breakfasts simply do not work. Everything about breakfast foods is either ridiculously cheap or ridiculously…

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Lovelli Fuad

A cultural #creative >> a full-stack #freelancer | #storyteller, poet at ❤, short story-ist — lovellifuad.com