BREAKFAST IS READY!
Many people say that they are too busy to have breakfast in the morning, or that they just don’t feel hungry. However, experts believe that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Research has shown that children who leave home in the morning without eating breakfast have more problems concentrating at school and get lower marks. A healthy breakfast ought to contain some protein and fibre to satisfy your hunger and to keep you going until lunchtime. Protein can come from low- fat meats, eggs or dairy products, such as milk or yoghurt. Fibre can be found in cereals and fruit. Fruit juice is also a good source of vitamin C, although it doesn’t give you as much fibre as eating fruit.
You don’t have to eat a lot. Some cereals with milk or a boiled egg with bread and a piece of fruit is enough. If you don’t feel hungry in the mornings, try eating less in the evening.
Every country has got its traditional breakfast, but let see the typical English one.
The full English breakfast is a century- old British tradition dating back to the early 1300’s.
It began with the gentry, who were well-born, genteel and well-bred people of high social class and evolved with the Victorians who refined the tradition and standardized the ingredients to create a truly national dish, which is hugely popular and regularly enjoyed by millions of English breakfast lovers from all over the world.
The English Breakfast is certainly one of the famous and most energetic-giving types of breakfast all over the world. Commonly called “fry up”, it is a substantial meal consisting of back bacon, eggs, British sausage, backed beans, fried tomato and mushrooms, black pudding, fried and toasted bread.
These ingredients may vary depending on where you are. Each country in the UK also has its choice of accompaniments; it is up to the individuals just how much they want on their plate and their preferences. For example Irish breakfast, sometimes referred as “chub”, is not different from a Full English but it is served with soft brown soda bread. In Scotland breakfast includes as well oatcakes and tattie scones.
But if there is one British breakfast that can be considered truly unique, it is certainly the Full Welsh that includes cockles and laver bread, a seaweed purée often mixed with oatmeal and fried into crisp patties and served piping hot. Welsh people usually have breakfast drinking tea or traditional drinks.
As we can see, the sovereign drink is tea which accompanies all the dishes and which reappears several times during the day, but fruit juices or coffee are very common, too.
Over the last few years the full English breakfast has changed, it has become healthier than before. Some ingredients, which are sometimes very tasty, are disappearing from the traditional dish. More than a quarter of British people aged between 18-24 say they no longer include bacon in the traditional fry-up after the World Health Organisation linked the consumption of processed meat such as sausages and bacon to cancer.
Today for many working people breakfast midweek often consists of just a piece of toast and a cup of instant coffee taken on the move. But at weekends, what could be better than a “full English” with the morning papers?
DEBORA DELLA CANDELORA
ARIANNA TORRE
3CBS
