Soup for breakfast

[hmpf]

Strangely, I find it easiest to launch quickly into a day of effective activity when I start that day with warmed-up soup from the evening before (or the evening before that; the point being merely that it has to be 'there' already, rather than having to be prepared.) Soup is easy and *fast* to warm up, and it's nearly effortless to eat. Also, it's kind of comforting, acting as an internal hot-water bottle once it's in your stomach.

Maybe I should just give up on that German custom of having a couple of slices of bread-with-stuff-on-it for breakfast? That's what I usually eat for breakfast, but I feel it really slows down my start into the day, and I usually don't enjoy it much. A breakfast of bread seems to take me about an hour to prepare and consume. Soup is fifteen minutes, *and* I feel kind of more... energized after it, too.

Hm.

Comments

[svilleficrecs.livejournal.com]

You could save even more time if you ladled it out the night before and left it in the bowl/mug in the fridge, then in the morning, microwave, beep boop, tada!

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Dude that sounds like a great idea. I say this as someone who always has trouble with breakfast - if I eat too much too early I feel sluggish and icky; I far prefer to have a mid-morning snack. In addition, soup really is awesome. <3

[kernezelda]

You're right. I like leftover soup for breakfast, too, for the same reasons.

[starwatcher]

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My feeling about breakfast is, whatever works for the individual. My current breakfast is two small frozen, breaded fish-patties; while they're cooking in the oven, I have time to dress, fix my hair, pack my lunch, etc. My friends all say, Fish sticks?!? but it works for me. Soup, OTOH, takes me forever to eat; wouldn't suit me at all.

As you say -- hot, energizing, and it's nutritious. Go for it.
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