The meal right between breakfast and lunch is brunch. And to me, the daily meal at the end of the day is supper. Dinner is the fancy meal you have at 2:00 in the afternoon on special occasions like Thanksgiving and Easter.
Convenience foods are available at all hours of the day but McDonald’s breakfast cut-off is 10:30 AM. I’ve frequently made an anxiety-laden dash to McDonald’s drive-through at 10:27 AM, hankering for a bacon, egg and cheese biscuit, praying that I won’t get pinched by their arbitrary cut-off time when they switch to burgers and other lunch fare. To me, breakfast should go to 11:30 AM. 11:30 AM is a good time to start thinking about lunch. I wouldn’t really want a bacon, egg, and cheese biscuit much after 11:30 AM nor a Big Mac at 10:35 AM. A Big Mac at 10:35 AM just doesn’t seem right. Let’s start a nation-wide effort to get McDonald’s to move the breakfast/lunch cut-off to 11:30 AM. It only seems reasonable.
Breakfast truly is the most important meal of the day but is the one meal that I frequently skip. Even though a burger early in the day doesn’t seem quite appropriate, I’ve had mornings preparing my turkey sandwich for my work lunch bag where I’ll break down and make a sandwich for breakfast too. What the hell? I’m in a hurry. I’ve got all the fixings out on the counter anyway. It’s got protein and fiber. And a turkey sandwich is easier to eat in the car than a bowl of Cheerios. I know, I’ve tried eating both at 70 MPH. Bananas are entirely too phallic to eat on the road with all those other motorists watching. Yogurt’s too messy.
I started calling lunch for breakfast “Lunchfast.” It works. On the days that you crave breakfast, only breakfast food will do – eggs, bacon, hash browns, etc. But, if you’re not feeling picky, certain items are acceptable for Lunchfast – mostly sandwiches. The emphasis needs to be on health. Eat something remotely good-for-you first thing in the day and it frees you up to bend the rules later in the day.
Burgers before 11:30 AM? No way. Turkey sandwich for Lunchfast? No problem.
