Breakfast

My comment about breakfast in my last blog prompted quite a bit of curiosity. I suppose for the social historian, what people eat for breakfast is of interest as they research and study how diets and eating habits change. I can say that we have been enjoying the variety of cereals available here in England. We are quite limited to what we can get in that line in Japan, and some of it can be quite expensive. Cornflakes, a granola type muesli, and a few other very sweet cereals can be obtain in the shops, but generally the variety is not available.

Some of the breakfasts I remember while growing up in Japan were dripping on bread or toast and fried bread, food with a high fat content that would probably not be recommended today. We also used to have scrabbled egg, boiled eggs and 'soldiers', fried eggs, and also puffed rice occasionally when the man would come round and do it in the street for us.

Our philosophy about eating now is to eat what is available, and what we can't get we don't particularly crave after. All food is good, and should be received with thanks to God (1 Timothy 4:3-5). God created it for us to enjoy. While it may be true that there are foods we like and dislike, and perhaps even some that we react to, yet, God in His goodness to us does provide all things for us to enjoy.