In the United States, breakfast is the most skipped meal. Most often, the excuse is that we're too busy or in a hurry. Homeschool families though, have the luxury of slowing down and making sure that breakfast starts the day. What better way to be productive homeschoolers than to feed our brains the energy it needs to learn! But, what are we eating for breakfast? If you're filling your bellies with donuts or cereal or toaster pastries every morning, you might not be getting the optimum fuel to start your day and your kiddos may not be getting what they need. The month of September is a time to reflect on what we are eating for breakfast, and whether we need to tweak the menu. For some inspiration, here is what cultures around the world eat for breakfast. As a homeschool cultural lesson, try some of these this month and experience "Breakfast From Around the World." China: dumplings, rice in vegetable soup, fried sponge cake, steamed creamy custard bun, and porridge Guyana: bake and saltfish. Saltfish is whitefish preserved in salt, and bake is bread dough, fried. Iran: sweet black tea, bread, butter, feta cheese, and sometimes fresh fruit and nuts. France: tea, coffee, juice, or hot chocolate, with bread and butter or pastries. Japan: rice, fish, miso soup, sticky soy beans, and nori seaweed. Poland: scrambled eggs topped with kielbasa (a sausage) and potato pancakes. Southern India: idli and sambar, a vegetable stew served with steamed lentil and rice bread. Also popular is dosa, a thin crunchy crepe with a spicy potato filling. Italy: a cup of coffee with milk and a slice of bread. Central India: uttapam, which is a thick pancake with vegetables, served with chutney. Colombia: a mixture of leftovers from the night before is common, as is soup or cereal. Turkey: cheese, olives, honey, jam, bread, an omelette, and fruit. Brazil: Pão de Queijo (bread cheese) is a common breakfast dish served with coffee. Philippines: bread rolls and coffee. Tapsilog (rice with dried meat and a fried egg) is also common. Nigeria: Ogi and Akara (cornmeal and bean cakes) and well as yam and fried eggs, and fried plantain. Venezuela: arepa, a flat corn cake. Arepas are filled with various things like cheese, ham, chicken, or fish. Or, black beans, savory shredded beef cooked with vegetables, white cheese, perico (eggs scrambled with vegetables), avocado, and an arepa." Cambodia: Kuy Teav, a rice noodle soup with meat and vegetables. Lebanon: Manakish, a flatbread flavoured with za'atar and sometimes cheese, served with tomatoes. Indonesia: rice and fried fish, or fried rice and a fried egg (Nasi Goreng), or chicken porridge. Pakistan: Nihari, a spicy meat curry, served with naan. Or, Halwa Poori, and a curry (beans or potato) Morocco: bread, honey, olives, and dates, as well as Turkish coffee and mint tea. Israel: Shakshuka, eggs poached in a tomato sauce. Also, cheese, omelette, tuna, olives, bread and butter/jams, salad and spreads." UK: bacon, eggs, British sausage, baked beans, fried tomato, fried mushrooms, black pudding, toast.
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