A Traditional Southern Breakfast – Biscuits And Gravy

John, over at his site, John Is Fit recently posted an article on breakfast cereal.  It’s a good post, with a pointed take on the subject of breakfast.  It got me thinking about my own breakfast choices.

A Traditional Southern Breakfast

As a kid growing up, my parents generally had a hot, nutritious breakfast.  And I do mean hot — homemade biscuits, sausage, bacon, and gravy.  We also had our choice of honey (from our own beehives), sourghum, molasses, and homemade strawberry jam.  As far as I was concerned, it was a gourmet breakfast, and that’s what I had every morning.  It was great for a growing boy.  So then I went to college, and dorm life isn’t exactly conducive to that, so I started experimenting.  I discovered that I just didn’t like cereal too much, but Captain Crunch would do in a pinch.  Not too filling, but tasted great.  Breakfast nutrition was sorely lacking, but I wasn’t too concerned about it at that stage.  Coming out of college and living on my own left me returning to cooking the breakfast of my childhood.  That didn’t work too well for me.  I started to pick up weight pretty fast.  By that point, I wasn’t growing up anymore, but I sure started to grow out…  I was also eating a midmorning snack, group lunches, and occasionally a big dinner.

For a while, I tried the high protein diets.  That left me having eggs and bacon for breakfast every morning.  It was OK for a while, but eventually I decided that was boring.  So, now I’ve progressed to my breakfast smoothie.  Between those and a high fiber cereal like Oatmeal Squares, that makes up breakfast most days.  I’ve tried some of the other high fiber cereals, and I’ll switch to one for a while, but I can’t do them for long.  To paraphrase a friend of mine, “…most of them taste like grass…”

However, a few times a month, we still break out the biscuit pan and cook that traditional southern breakfast.  It’s just too good to give up completely.

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