Breakfast > no breakfast. Cold pizza for breakfast > no breakfast.
Breakfast is important. Getting food and fuel into your system to start the day is vital to how you will eat for the rest of the day.
The question from one dietitian has raised a poignant question in nutrition if your only breakfast options were cold pizza versus a bowl of cereal with milk.
Choices are limited on some mornings and we often have to make a not-so-Sophie's choice. On a specific morning, you can weigh the advantages of cold pizza versus a bowl of cereal with milk.
If your cold pizza has a lot of vegetables and not a lot of cheese, that slice might beat a large bowl of a sugary cereal. But that slice won't beat out a bowl of a healthy cereal.
A slice of cold pizza with tons of cheese and no vegetables won't be that good of a choice for breakfast but the slice is still better than no breakfast at all.
I sat through a miserable presentation trying to teach nutrition. The instructor ran us through a series of misleading true/false questions, such as "Which is more nutritious: a whole grain bagel or a McDonald's breakfast sandwich?"
You were likely to write down the bagel as the better choice but his argument in favor of the breakfast sandwich involved cream cheese spread on the bagel, a factor not within the question. The breakfast sandwich has more protein, so a bagel with some Greek yogurt would balance that out.
Like most meal situations, you ideally want a nice combination of carbohydrates, protein, and fats with as many vegetables as you can take. A slice of cold pizza, a bowl of cereal, a whole-grain bagel, and a fast food breakfast sandwich offers advantages and disadvantages. If your breakfast has too much of something or not enough of something, add variety to complete your breakfast.
If you're not sure how your breakfast should go, experiment with several kinds of breakfast.
- Are you hungry at 10:15 a.m.?
- Do you have the energy you need to get through the morning?
- Do you make better lunch decisions based on the breakfast you eat?
The answers to these questions will give you a sense of what works for you. You can think of breakfast as a way to get in what you need for the day. Vegetables you eat in the morning are vegetables you don't have to eat for dinner. Protein is a good building block in a breakfast.
The idea of cold pizza for breakfast isn't new. Christine Lavin is a very cool folk singer. Lavin wrote Cold Pizza for Breakfast in 1987. She points out that "in a pinch, cold spaghetti will do." Maybe you can get some tongue in cheek advice on what to do for breakfast.
Some people eat grapefruit for breakfast
Some people eat oatmeal
There are those
Who are sure
Granola is a very good deal
But not me
I don't go for that stuff
When it comes to nourishment
I get more than enough
Nothing satisfies my taste
Then sittin' down to a great big plate of
Cold Pizza for Breakfast
Warm Coke to wash it down (Ahhhhh)
Maybe a couple of anchovies
Make this meal well rounded
I want Cold Pizza for Breakfast
And a pinch 'o cold spaghetti will do
But there's nothin' in the world that I like better than
Eatin' Cold Pizza with you.
My man takes me out for the evening
He treats me so nice
We go to the movies
We go dancing
We go for more than a slice
Yes we order a pie
We eat what we can
We take the rest home
That's part of the plan
And in the morning when sun rise
He sees that crazy look in my eyes
I want Cold Pizza for Breakfast
Warm Coke to wash it down (Ahhhhh)
Maybe a couple of onion rings
Make this world go round
I want Cold Pizza for Breakfast
And a pinch 'o cold spaghetti will do
But there's nothin' in the world that I like better than
Eatin' Cold Pizza with you
video credit: YouTube/AZKobryn
photo credit: Amy's Pizza
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