Breakfast in 100 Words
January 19th, 2010
I was cruising around the internet and bopped by Tara's blog yesterday. She was writing about breakfast. Her post was short, but fantastic and then I realized she was using the weekly prompt from Velvet Verbosity. The whole idea with the 100 word challenge is to take a word or phrase prompt and write 100 words – no more, no less – on whatever the prompt may be. Always up for a challenge, I decided to play along. If nothing else, it's a good exercise to make me write outside my little box, so here goes nothing!
Breakfast is the hardest meal of the day for me. Pancakes and omelets, egg mcmuffins and Lucky Charms all call my name, but to no avail. It’s time to crack down and jump back on the healthy eating bandwagon.
So now I stand at the stove in the dim orange morning light, stirring and stirring, watching oats puff and start to bubble as they absorb the frothing milk. Into a bowl they fall, steam rising as frozen blueberries are dumped on top. A dash of cinnamon, a sprinkle of Splenda and a sigh. I forgot how much I love oatmeal.
I may have to play along next week too!
Who says "healthy" doesn't taste good! I could almost smell it.
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::Sigh:: I so need to start eating breakfast! Bleh. I get up every morning and fix breakfast for Adrian and Joshua before they rush out the door. Then I grab a cup of coffee for myself and end up not eating until lunch. Bleh.
Thanks for the reminder girl!
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Fab! both the healthy breakfast and the description.
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Oatmeal is one of my favorite cold weather breakfasts. I'm never hungry first thing in the morning, so I make my oatmeal and then take it to work in an insulated thermos. (I don't have a microwave in my office.) Blueberries are always yummy and I *love* cherries. My most frequent combo, however, is oatmeal with chopped apple (or applesauce), raisins, cinnamon, and a teaspoon of flaxseeds. Yum!
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I have to review restaurants for work all the time, and it's so weird. The more restaurants I review, the less I go to them and the more I long for healthy, tasty restaurants like I grew up with in Austin.
I fear I'm a closet hippie.
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I ate lots of oatmeal, too much in fact, during a one year stint at a Buddhist meditation center. I don't think I'm over it yet.
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While I'm not a huge oatmeal fan I do try to eat it at least once a week. Yours looks really good though. Yummy!
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Nicely done! And, you've made me hungry for some 'real' oatmeal.
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I'm not an oatmeal fan but your description made me hungry for some.
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Your description makes fixing breakfast sound almost relaxing and fun!
I am more of an instant oatmeal person. I still love it with my frozen berries though!
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