Eat Breakfast Like a King



Each year we waste 183,000 tonnes of cooked starchy foods (rice, pasta & potatoes) – suggesting that we cook too much.

Out of all the food we waste 43.45% is left over on our plates.

With all this surplus of food it is not surprising that the country has an obesity epidemic. We no longer eat what we require, we eat to capacity and then some.

Ironically it is often our busy lifestyles and skipping meals that causes both the waste and the over eating.

A classic eating pattern is to skip breakfast and lunch and then make up for it in the evening. This is a recipe for disaster on a number of levels:

·         We are ravenously hungry and ‘eyes bigger than our stomachs’ kicks in.

·         We over cater for ourselves when cooking at home.

·         We over order at the take away.

·         We grab fast food rather than the good food going off in the fridge..

·         We eat too fast so that we over consume before our bodies can register that we are full.

·         Our bodies have gone into starvation mode and store extra calories as fat.

·         We end up with wasted food left over.

The old adage, ‘eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper,’ has never been truer to make you ‘healthier, wealthier and wiser.’