Random Thought + Idea for the Day

My cat loves potato chips.  He’ll come bounding towards me from across the house the instant he hears a bag crinkle.  Watching/hearing a cat crunching on a potato chip is quite entertaining, too.  The cat also snores.  I’m constantly nudging him to make him wake up and knock it off.

Those aren’t the random thought, though.  The random thought is this: if I have to eat the same thing for dinner 3 or even 2 nights in a row, I’m like "Ew, the same thing for dinner 2/3 nights in a row??"  But for breakfast, I can eat the same cereal every day for a week or longer, and not even care.  Why is that?

Also, I’ve been eating multi-grain dark bread for a couple years now.  That’s because white bread is somewhat like iceberg lettuce: it has about zero nutritional value.  It’s white and light because all the nutrients and oils have been removed from it.  They do that so it lasts longer; real bread gets moldy in about a week, but white bread lasts for 3 or 4 weeks easily.  Real bread has lots of things that are essential for keeping your heart working properly; most Americans eat mostly white bread, and as a result, heart disease / heart attack / stroke are epidemics in this country.

Anyway for a few years I’ve been trying to eat real bread (henceforth, simply "bread") daily or at least a few times a week.  But it’s sort of an awkward thing to just eat; I mean, I toast and butter 4 pieces of it, but still it isn’t quite a meal, and yet it’s somehow more annoying than a normal snack.

Last night I had a revelation: I’m going to have bread instead of cereal for breakfast from now on.  That way I can get my bread every day, and I won’t get sick of it, and I won’t mind that it takes a little more preparation than a normal snack, because breakfast is like that.  Also, whenever I have this bread, I have a glass of orange juice, so that will make a nice somewhat-rounded breakfast.