Breakfast should be like a king's, lunch like a noble's, and dinner like a pauper's. If students lack nutrition and energy in the morning, they will definitely have no energy and find it difficult to listen to classes. Not having breakfast has a significant impact on students' learning. Learning requires energy; without it, students will feel very tired in class, or even drowsy. Therefore, breakfast is very important. However, many parents do not pay enough attention to it. If parents love their children, breakfast must be on time and nutritious.
What types of breakfasts are there?
First Category: Bread and Milk
This is a more Western-style approach. If it is sliced bread, parents will usually add some jam or ham on top, and pair it with a glass of milk for the child's breakfast. This is an acceptable method, and if the bread is whole wheat, it's even better. Two slices of whole wheat bread, a few slices of low-fat ham, and some lettuce are sufficient.
If you don't like lettuce, you can dice the cucumber and sprinkle it on the bread. If there is a girl in the family, you can add some tomatoes to the bread and mix in a little sugar, which can also supplement vitamin C. This breakfast, with its meat, dairy, and vegetables, is well-balanced and nutritionally complete.
When eating bread, you can also have some pickles. Not all pickles are bad; pickles are fermented foods. For example, when kimchi is pickled for 21 days, lactic acid bacteria are produced, which can help with digestion. Many people are afraid to eat pickles, worrying about nitrites. In fact, nitrites are only produced when the pickling time is very short, such as pickled vegetables for 3-5 days, which is the peak period for nitrite production.
Second Category: Fried Dough Sticks and Soy Milk
Benefits: Lowers fat and blood pressure, strengthens muscles and spleen, protects the cardiovascular system. This is a common breakfast type for families in northern China. Fried dough sticks can be replaced by fried cakes, fried dough pastries, and other fried foods. It's okay to eat it occasionally, but if eaten long-term, our total oil intake will be seriously exceeded, leading to many diseases, and the nutrients in the flour are lost after high-temperature frying. Therefore, our diet should be as light as possible, with less salt, less oil, and less sugar. Now, many families' three meals a day, even if they don't have meat, stir-fried vegetarian dishes will have a lot of oil, which is very unhealthy. Taste is not equivalent to nutrition, and fried foods should not be eaten often.
Soy Milk: A Small Cup, Great Nutrition
Soy milk is a great breakfast food, suitable for the Chinese physique, and is definitely an important part of a student's nutritious breakfast.
Soy milk contains isoflavones, which are plant-based estrogens. After girls drink it, it can promote development. However, the amount is very small, so it is not harmful to children.
There are many types of soy milk, such as black bean soy milk and mixed bean soy milk, some with sugar and some without, all of which are nutritious.
Moreover, black foods generally contain high levels of selenium, so I also recommend that children eat more black foods. Many families now have soy milk makers, so they can control the concentration and flavor themselves. Plain soy milk often has a beany taste; you can add a little sugar to adjust its flavor, making it more acceptable to children.
Soy Milk Pairings: A Great Breakfast
1. Five-Bean Soy Milk
Ingredients: 30g soybeans, 10g black beans, 10g green beans, 10g peas, 10g peanuts, 1200ml water
Method: 1. Soak the five types of beans for 6-16 hours, then set aside;
2. Put the soaked five beans into the soy milk machine's filter mesh, add water to the cup, start the soy milk machine, and the soy milk will be ready in ten minutes, signaled by an alarm.
Benefits: Lowers fat and blood pressure, strengthens muscles and spleen, protects the cardiovascular system
2. Sesame Black Soy Milk
Ingredients: 10g black sesame, 10g peanuts, 80g black beans, 1.3 liters of water
Method: Soak the peanuts and black beans for a certain time, then put them together with the black sesame into the soy milk filter.
Meridian Entry: Spleen, Lung, Large Intestine
Benefits: Nourishes hair, moisturizes skin and beauty, nourishes the lungs and qi, nourishes the liver and kidneys, moistens the intestines and promotes bowel movement, nourishes blood and increases milk production