Forum Breakfast Meet-ups

Well, I've found sausages at the Flying Standard, but need to audit whether they are free range.

I don't want my sausages to be free range. I want them to stay on the plate until I've munched them.

The British Heart Foundation states, that a moderate English breakfast is wholesome & nourishing, that no more than once a week, is to be enjoyed. I've got to wait until next Saturday now. I can't wait!

Philip, I thought that whatever you fancy does you good.

Ooooow Dreamtime, I thought it was Dreamtime at the Flying Standard at 9.30 this morning.

Now that is what I call 'breakfast'. Burp ! Ooops Do pardon me please. Please pass the salt.

For most of my life breakfast has been a rapidly consumed round of toast and marmalade. Except for Sundays at home in Coventry when there would be a late morning family fry-up ready on my return from church, (Doesn't the Flying Standard one include mushrooms and black pudding??). Last November I needed to lose some weight before having a hernia op. I thought I would try a keto diet, cutting out all carbohydrates replacing them with saturated fat and red meat protein! All what we are told to avoid. I have eaten bacon, eggs, sausages every morning since. Potatoes have been replaced with celeriac and we make 'batches' with almond flour to replace bread. I have lost over 2 stones! I stopped taking high dose statins last July because of muscle pain and fatigue. My GP says I am a very naughty boy and does his best to persuade me to resume taking them. However, my lipids and LDL/HDL are now in the normal range without them! My GERD symptoms have disappeared and I have stopped taking the daily dose of PPI (lansoprazole) I have needed for the past 30 years. I feel healthier and more alert than I can remember. Roll on sharing brekkie with you all. But I fear I will not be able to fix a date until the autumn.

Hello, I love reading the memories of eating customs. Breakfast for me during me growing up, (did I grow up), was a significant start to each working day, Monday to Friday. A fully set table in our Sewall Highway front room. Summer was nearly always a cold cereal, followed by a boiled egg, then toast & marmalade. Winter, porridge replaced the cold cereal, but a few variations on the egg. This was all accomplished because my nan lived with us, so was in effect the maid with both mum & dad working & me off to school. The egg variations particularly in winter were scrambled egg on toast, sometimes mixed with grated cheese. Saturdays were completely different. Dad at home, mum long gone to sort her shops, so breaky was a bitty affair. Sunday was dad doing a full English. Very happy memories for me.

Hello, I did myself some lambs mince & tatties, last evening, but using small whole salad potatoes. Very nice. There were a few potatoes left over, so following my cornflakes this morning, a knob of butter went into the frying pan, followed by my sliced salad potatoes. Booootifuel. I'm sighting myself up for our next breaky meeting wherever it is. Do remember to refer to the Breakfast meeting topic for all breaky info. As much as I could eat a full English everyday, I'm limiting myself to no more than one in a week. That doesn't exclude what I enjoyed just now, or a couple of sausages, tomatoes or beans on toast. My next full English might be at Leonardo in Nuneaton. Perhaps I should bring a few of Pam's teddy bears along, pretending that they are forum members. It's a bit like Brian Johnston & the down your way team that used to be on wireless. Have a lovely day all.

Fried sliced salad potatoes was a speciality of my Mum. Better than chips, better even than roast tatties.

This Saturday (24th) Neil, Steve and I will be having a session for Coventry Digital at the Archives. However, it doesn't start until 11am, so we'll be having a little breakfast upstairs at the Earl of Mercia beforehand, from about 9:30am. If anyone would like to pop in and join us for a munch and a chat, you are very welcome.

Sorry to have missed this while enjoying 30+ Celsius temperatures at Chateau Gamin-de-Choeur, 750 miles south east of you. (Sadly, one can't find decent bacon in France.) Not one of our brekkie meet-ups, but if anybody is an alumni of Caludon Castle School https://www.facebook.com/groups/5689808252/ announces a tea-party for alumni on 10th October from 4pm to celebrate 70 years of its existence. I might go if I recognise anybody from the 1959 thereabouts entry will be there.