Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Where can you go for a good breakfast around here in the midwest?

Pretty much all diners here (perkins, ihop, dennys) don't exactly have the healthiest foods around - plus nothing is organic. Fast food breakfast (bk, mcds, subway, ect) focuses all of their efforts on the taste of food, rather than quality (plus anything without cheese is considered to be "surprising" to them - "Wow, you don't want progressive atherosclerosis at age 30 like everyone else? You must be one of those crazy 'health nuts'!")



I don't want to cook because it's morning and I just woke up. It's seems like nothing healthy opens (restaurants that actually serve quality food, whole foods, or similar) till at least lunch time. Why can't there be any "healthy" convenient food options at breakfast?Where can you go for a good breakfast around here in the midwest?
I suffer from multiple health issues and "must" watch my intake of the amount of sodium and cholesterol. I have found that a person can make a unhealthy IHop of Denny's meal healthier especially breakfast. Substitute egg beater type egg substitute for regular scrambled eggs; whole grain or wheat english muffin with cholesterol free spread; low fat cottage cheese with peach slices; and low fat milk or coffee if you're caffeine consumer. Two egg substitute is 60 calories vs 140 calories in two regular eggs; cholesterol is 0mg vs 430mg in regular eggs; and the protein is the same 12mg for both. If you happen to like hash browns, then request they be dry fried on the grill with no added oil; most places these days carry turkey alternatives for the pork/beef sausages or bacon, also low in cholesterol. Your meal is as you request it to be made, no directions by you, then the unhealthy crap is dished out to you. You'll also find that at the drive through type breakfast places, if you go in and make your special request breakfast meal, you'll end up with what you want and not holding up those behind you who choose to eat crap and are burning gas waiting on you. We live in an unhealthy world and we have to hunt more often for what we want in the quest to stay healthy while the rest of the world goes along it's merry high cholesterol and sodium way. I'll choose inconvenience for better health every second of the day versus having the health issues come back on me. Sorry to be so long in my answer, but take care and I hope this helped.Where can you go for a good breakfast around here in the midwest?
on those rare occasions when i do eat breakfast foods i get a veggie omelette from ihop made with egg whites/no cheese ... then i get wheat toast w/no butter and either water or orange juice. the portions they serve are way outta control so i usually only eat a little and take the rest home with me. have found of b-fast places where i live they seem to be the best at giving me what i want .....



good luck with your search! you should also be more specific as where you are in the midwest .... there may be somebody who knows of something near you that you have yet to discover :-)

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