I've never really been a breakfast person. I'm not usually hungry in the morning until around 10 or 11. I've tried over the years to push myself to eat breakfast more but it never really sticks. These days I mostly wait until lunch to eat or if i get hungry I'll have something light in the morning. But breakfast in general has never really been something I worried or cared about.
I also don't really like most cereal. It's either way too sweet and sugary or bland and unappealing, It also doesn't really satisfy your hunger for longer than half hour or so. It seems pointless to eat it.
American breakfast is so weird. It's a meal of either pure sugar (breakfast cereal, orange juice) or sugar and butter (breakfast pastries). And I highly doubt that, in some hypothetical idyllic past where everyone ate breakfast before heading out into the field for a long day of backbreaking work, people were eating pop tarts and croissants and not, oh, I don't know, some kind of porridge or gruel.
Its worst with kids, where I think you're right -- mostly sugar, unless deliberately avoided.
I think adults eat more normal breakfasts, on average at least. I personally eat eggs & black coffee every day, most of my friends will have eggs and toast, or oatmeal or, something else reasonable.
I don’t know I have to imagine that sort of breakfast has sharply dropped in popularity over the past decade or two. Growing up in the 90s it was always cereal or oatmeal or eggos but I haven’t had any of those in our pantry for probably 5 years. Yogurt with granola or a kind bar is pretty much all I eat for breakfast during the week if anything. Eggs and bacon on the weekend.
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 28.8 ms ] threadI also don't really like most cereal. It's either way too sweet and sugary or bland and unappealing, It also doesn't really satisfy your hunger for longer than half hour or so. It seems pointless to eat it.
I think adults eat more normal breakfasts, on average at least. I personally eat eggs & black coffee every day, most of my friends will have eggs and toast, or oatmeal or, something else reasonable.
My somewhat unscientific theory for this is that the brain has more energy to use because you aren’t diverting any energy to the digestion process