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I have muesli with extra added oats (sounds as if I'm a horse), and usually dried fruit with it, and coffee. By breakfast time I've already drunk about a pint of tea. About once a week I have a boiled egg with toast, and toast and marmalade. I love the boiled egg breakfast, but somebody told me that eggs are bad for my slightly raised cholesterol levels. I've never been certain whether to believe this, but am being a bit cautious just in case. I'd love to eat eggs (not necessarily for breakfast) every day.
Mary, there is much rubbish talked about eggs and blood cholesterol levels. There is no simple relationship. The cholesterol in the blood is produced in and by your body. Sure it needs the raw material to be provided by your food intake, but you don't simply transpose cholesterol from your food to you blood. Have a read of this, which will probably advise you much better than whoever warned you off eggs. |
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Although I'm not vegan, I don't like milk or eggs much. The only milk I use is in tea and coffee - so no cereals - and I never buy eggs, though I've no objection to eating them when I'm out. My breakfast routine is turn the PC on, then, while Windoze takes its usual half hour to start  , toast 2 slices of wholemeal while a teabag (usually English Breakfast or Ceylon) brews in a large but rather battered mug. I use olive spread on the toast plus reduced salt Natex and a chunky maramalade of some sort and consume while I catch up with the world online - r3ok is often my first port of call  |
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« Reply #47 on: 11:19:36, 26-02-2008 » |
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Oh, and while we're at it, I'm rather partial to duck eggs, which to my good fortune, are available from a butcher shop near where I work, at £1.49 for half a dozen of the free range variety. They are higher in cholesterol content than chicken eggs, but I take my lead from the sort of advice found here.  |
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« Reply #48 on: 11:24:56, 26-02-2008 » |
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I don't do breakfast, I never have, even as a child I don't remember having breakfast, I find it very difficult to eat first thing in the morning so my routine is two large mugs of coffee in the space of an hour between getting up and to leaving the house. I might then have a banana at work.
At weekends, having more time, if I did have a breakfast (but at mid-morning) then I would either favour porridge or bacon and tomatoes with thick cut stoneground wholemeal bread with butter.
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« Reply #49 on: 11:30:32, 26-02-2008 » |
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You don't have to have milk with muesli - non-citrus fruit juice goes well with it (I like apple best).
Like Anty, I never feel like much before mid-morning, and by the time I do it's usually close enough to lunchtime not to bother. Bananas are very handy snacks though.
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« Reply #50 on: 11:33:52, 26-02-2008 » |
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I know someone who always has orange juice on her cereal. I've never tried it - perhaps I will.
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« Reply #51 on: 11:35:43, 26-02-2008 » |
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On weekdays, tea, muesli and weetabix with milk, before anyone else is about - a few minutes of repose in a quiet and peaceful house (and now the mornings are getting brighter I can watch the birds on the feeders in the garden), before taking tea up to Mrs PW and rousing teenage daughter for the onset of pre-school chaos. Coffee (strong and lots of it) when I get to work.
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« Reply #52 on: 11:36:40, 26-02-2008 » |
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Ah, you're right Mart. That's just reminded me of a rather nice museli recipe that my Nutrition teacher handed out, avec pressed apple juice instead of cow juice. Must dig it out! Like Ants, I never ate breakfast when I was a child. Couldn't. I always felt queasy at the prospect of going to school. Happily. I have now grown out of it  |
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« Reply #53 on: 11:44:07, 26-02-2008 » |
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Mary, there is much rubbish talked about eggs and blood cholesterol levels. There is no simple relationship. The cholesterol in the blood is produced in and by your body. .
Yes, I know that, but it's very difficult to know which rubbish to believe. There's no way of knowing who's right - in fact there probably isn't a "right". It was my doctor who told me not to eat eggs, butter and so on, but I don't really believe him. I think I eat a sensible diet, and my cholesterol is raised, and I have a friend who eats cheese and chocolate every day and has a cholesterol level of 4. It's probably all nonsense. |
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« Reply #54 on: 11:51:38, 26-02-2008 » |
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Mary, there is much rubbish talked about eggs and blood cholesterol levels. There is no simple relationship. The cholesterol in the blood is produced in and by your body. .
Yes, I know that, but it's very difficult to know which rubbish to believe. There's no way of knowing who's right - in fact there probably isn't a "right". It was my doctor who told me not to eat eggs, butter and so on, but I don't really believe him. I think I eat a sensible diet, and my cholesterol is raised, and I have a friend who eats cheese and chocolate every day and has a cholesterol level of 4. It's probably all nonsense. I blame Douglas Adams, and his silly scare story about the famine-struck land of Poghril in the Pansel system. |
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« Reply #55 on: 11:53:37, 26-02-2008 » |
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'A little bit of what you fancy does you good.' (Grandma martle, circa 1969) Back to muesli for a mo. It's one of those things that really should be stored in a cupboard, not left lying around on the kitchen counter, because it's so 'snacky'. Can't pass a box of this -  ...without grabbing a handful of the stuff.  The best ready-made range of muesli I've come across. |
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« Reply #56 on: 11:56:48, 26-02-2008 » |
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You don't have to have milk with muesli - non-citrus fruit juice goes well with it (I like apple best).
Dr Bircher-Benner, who first promoted the dietary benefits of muesli, advocated apple juice (and not milk). Also, you were supposed to leave the muesli to soak overnight in the apple juice, and eat it next morning... it's much more easily digestible (hence the dietary recommendation) and was never intended to be eaten raw and dry (as we all do now). |
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« Reply #57 on: 11:58:33, 26-02-2008 » |
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« Reply #59 on: 12:03:04, 26-02-2008 » |
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 I'm sure the 'quality' supermarkets have Dorset cereals, Mort, although I tend to get mine from the local middle-eastern emporium which doubles as a wholefoods store.
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