5 Important Things About Breakfast

A topic on which I do not waffle.

It is has been said that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. I can understand that. Breakfast provides fuel to get your day going and helps everything from staying alert in school to Erin not getting so hangry in the mornings. (There have been many many many studies on the latter aspect.)

However, there are five more important things about breakfast that I rarely see discussed.

1. Breakfast shows you where you came from.

My dad eats Honey Nut Cheerios with fruit every morning, most often blueberries. He has done this for as long as I can remember. When we lived in a foreign country, my grandparents brought over boxes of Cheerios when they visited.

My dad ate Cheerios growing up. What we reach for in the morning is most often what we grew up eating. Because really, who wants to put any more thought than necessary into your morning routine?

2. Breakfast represents tradition.

My mom-mom made scrambled eggs in the microwave. I did not learn until college that not everyone makes them this way. (I learned this when I visited a friend in her dorm, and she said that I could make scrambled eggs, and I looked around for the microwave. She did not have one. I ended up lying and saying I wasn’t that hungry and would eat snacks in the car ride home.)

But you know what? I like my scrambled eggs in the microwave. They taste like my mom-mom made…