Breakfast Dilemma
I’ve been meaning to write an entry about my thoughts on breakfast and other ship food, but for now, I have a breakfast dilemma that I’d like advice on.
For the most part, the free food on the ship is pretty awesome. Lunch and dinner is fantastic – almost too good. However, free food is not without its pitfalls, unfortunately. I try to eat a nice balanced breakfast everyday. Seriously, my plate looks like one of those “part of a balanced breakfast” segments of the commercial. I usually have eggs, some fruit, and cereal. They have a somewhat wide variety of choices for cereal, but if you knock out the sweet stuff it only leaves a few choices.
I try to have a cereal high in fiber every morning. I’ve been rotating between the Raisin Bran and the All Bran Wheat Flakes. I thought I was doing fine until, one day, I made the mistake of looking at the back of the box to see the ingredients. Near the top of the list was my good friend, “high fructose corn syrup”. Boo. I’ve been lucky to avoid it in my non-American soda, but there it was rearing its ugly head during breakfast. I try to avoid HFCS in everything that I can as it’s not very good for you. It’s right behind “sugar” on the ingredients list, too. Seriously, if you’re going to put in sugar why do you even bother with more sweetener? I was disappointed to learn that even the straight up All Bran – which tastes like cardboard – also has HFCS in it. How can something that tastes like cardboard have something so sweet?
If I was back at home, this would be much easier. I could just throw out my box and buy some new cereal from a wide variety of choices. On the ship, not so much. So, the way I see it, I have a few options:
1) Suck it up and continue to eat my high-fiber cereal with HFCS in it. This would be the easiest and least-fuss option. Also, HFCS isn’t the first ingredient in either cereal, so I suppose it’s not too bad…
2) Go out and buy new cereal and then bring it to breakfast everyday. This would be a huge hassle but at least I could get what I’d want. I’d also most likely have to find it in small boxes for easy travel.
3) Find something else high-fiber to eat in the morning. The problem is, I’m limited to just traditional breakfast items. Any suggestions? I hear the Brits like to have baked beans on toast for breakfast which sounds in high in fiber, but I don’t know if that’s as fun to eat as cereal ..
