BREAKFAST

Breakfast means exactly what it says - a break Nowadays, people eat much less in the

tiom fasting - because while we're asleep our moming.

bodies get no food for a good number of hours.
So, although food provides essential nutrients
at any time of day, it is particularly important in
the morning. Going without breakfast can
result in poor performance at work and school.
ln the 1960's over 5O7o of the British
population went to work on a cooked breakfast.
The types of food we eat at breakfast have
changed too, Toast is now the firm favourite,
followed by cereals. Even yoghurt is no longer
unusual.
Britain's fruit juice consumption has risen
dramatically and now we drink approximately
800 million litres of juice a year.

CHANGING THE
BALANCE OFTHE
COOKED BREAKFAST

consider a traditional cooked

breakfast of:
,,, 1 fried egg
'i' 2 rashers of bacon fried
'i' 1 medium slice of fried
bread
'i' fried tomato

\ow change that to:

'i' 1 poached egg

'i' 1 small can of baked beans
'i' 1 medium slice of Traditional

wholemeal toast
'i' 1 grilled tomato

Then see what happens to the

nutritional balance.
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Traditional cooked breakfast: {3§ c}

800 calories Alternative

2 g of fibre cooked Breakíasl
300 caloíies
Altemative cooked breakfast: 15 g oí Fibre

town! 300 calories

15 g offibre