breakfast

The best meal of the day is always breakfast usually at home. It doesn’t matter that tonight’s dinner is at a restaurant with a 3-month wait for a reservation and is written-up in magazines whose chef has a show on the Food Network. It’s breakfast that makes getting up easy-even when it consists only of orange juice, 2 slices of Eziekel bread with St. Dalfour Wild Blueberry spread and a great cup of coffee. www.foodnetwork.com www.stdalfour.com

If you’re a person who savors breakfast and happen to be a guest at the home of someone who skips breakfast and exercises while sipping a protein drink, well, action is called for. Pack up and leave. There are those people who never think of eating breakfast. Oh, it’s hard to believe, I know. But it’s true. Ruthless I am when it comes to breakfast.

My sister Anna seems never to stop baking blueberry muffins. If she did there would be a lot of disappointed people. In the summer she gets up very early, has breakfast, and off she goes blueberry picking. There’s always at least one family member trailing behind her with their pail. She doesn’t have to hold her pail-more blueberries to pick-she found a sturdy container contraption a few years ago that ties around her waist. At the end of blueberry season she’s got containers of frozen blueberries lined up well able to take her and family straight through until the next blueberry season. Her muffins and a cup of coffee and fresh fruit are expected by everyone who visits her home.

Have you ever stayed at the home of someone who simply doesn’t cook-never, ever? Often they’re workaholics, but they can be people in charge of cooking and are challenged in the kitchen. They try very hard to please and wear themselves out because they’re constantly running out for takeout. Breakfast can consist of coffee and 4 or 5 little brown bags of pastry picked up at the local coffee shop or cafe, or getting up and eating out at their favorite place. They like great places, just not their own kitchen. It’s not worth trying to teach someone how to make breakfast when the incentive is not there, and it’s not there when the toast they prepare is usually burned. But that’s okay. They try.

Of course, you feel the same way about breakfast. Don’t you?