I love breakfast food - omelets, French toast, pancakes, hash browns, muffins, biscuits and gravy, bacon, all of it. Yet at our house we rarely eat breakfasts like this in the morning. I know, I know, breakfast is the most important meal of the day. But realistically, I am not a "morning person", so if I actually took the time to make such a meal every morning, it would clearly no longer be breakfast time, but rather closer to lunch, which totally defeats the purpose of a good breakfast to start your day. So, in the interest of time and health, breakfast at our house is cold cereal with milk, yogurt or fruit, maybe toast or a bagel, with the occasional toaster strudel or danish. It is also self-service - I do not "make" breakfast as a general rule...unless we have company, and then it's more of a brunch (see above). So if you have actually eaten a hot breakfast/brunch at my house, consider yourself lucky.
But as I said, I love breakfast food, so we will sometimes have a BFD night. I wasn't aware this was actually a real term until a friend of my girls used it. As in, "You're having pancakes tonight? You're lucky, I love BFD!". Thankfully, the girls asked her what BFD was instead of me, since I had no idea, and I hate it when 9 year olds know more than me. And so we all learned that BFD stands for "breakfast for dinner".
Apparently, I am not the only one who sometimes makes breakfast food for the evening meal. It's a refreshing break from pizza, chicken, pasta, chicken, pasta and pizza. (We do eat more than that, it just doesn't feel like it sometimes.) And it's healthy (kind of). And (usually) no one complains. What's not to love about BFD? Okay, there are the cooked-eggy pans or skillet that takes 3 days of soaking and at least 15 minutes each of scraping and scrubbing to clean. And then, there is that bacon smell that clings to everyone and everything in the house for a week. And if there are leftovers, no one really eats them but me (sometimes). I think I'm starting to remember why BFD is only an occasional meal...but I still love it! Who's with me?
I think the fact that its an occasional meal is what makes it so delicious. Also I have never heard the term BFD before either. I only know it as breakfast-dinner, or Brinner.
ReplyDeleteYep, breakfast is certainly the BEST....A thought about our breakfast and what we think is good is really different than in Norway. They only have bread (Black and dense-nutrious) with something to drink (milk or coffee). They may have a cracker with cheese also or just that. I got me thinking about that probably being better than our over the top or the nothing of most cereals. We're going to try it for a while. I'll let you know.)
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