Day 24 – About Breakfast

Dear G, I wanted to talk to you about breakfast. 

I will now come out not only as a breakfast lover, but a breakfast connoisseur. 

As always when we talk about food, we start in France. In this center of the gourmet world we find some of the best breakfast items; croissants, pain au chocolat, the nicest breads, marmalades, rich and tasteful yoghurts, not to mention the best of cheeses. Then there is the fresh vegetables and fruits. And the drinks – tea or café au lait and most important orange juice that comes from oranges rather than from a paper box.

Then, of course, there is the English breakfast, with sausages, bacon, hams, all sorts of egg dishes and other rich food that can be strengthening, but also quite heavy. To that I prefer what I think would be called the Manhattan (or American) breakfast, with exotic fruit salad, pancakes and why not a Mimosa (2/3 orange juice as above, 1/3 champagne). I would also like to mention the Swedish breakfast, with porridge (can be nice), filbunke with newly picked berries, smoked reindeer, or whatever…

No matter in what country you find your breakfast inspiration, the meal should be served with a lot of time and fresh and intelligent newspapers. Idealistic, you will have so much time that you eat breakfast until lunch, and then will be so tired that you have to go to sleep. Breakfast Siesta… 

No G, this won't do. A good breakfast means gaining weight. So what I show you in this picture is my own New Style 100 Days Club Breakfast. Served every Monday – Friday. 

Saturday and Sunday we permit ourselves to change that horrifying Vitamin C pill to orange juice. That comes from a paper box. Hey, I'm only a suburb mother… 

We also have natural yoghurt with nothing in it, tea with just a little milk and knäckebröd made of dinkel. Bought in Willys. As glamorous as it gets… Not. 

But I am loosing weight!

WORKOUT: A little more than an hour: ran 5.15 km, did sit-ups and yoga. 

FOOD & DRINKS: Nothing bad but a 1/4 of a bun that I bought for the kids.

WEIGHT: – 2.6 kg.