The Breakfast Bar Quiz

I’m sitting in one of those breakfast spots in the hotel we’re visiting while in Lubbock for Stratton’s graduation!  Here’s what’s offered, going from left to right:

A bowl of apples, next to a bowl of the greenest bananas you ever saw.

A bread tray, offering bagels and English muffins, next to the toaster.

A bowl of individually packaged cream cheese and peanut butters.  Jams and syrups are in the next bowl.  Packaged oatmeal in the next one are sitting next to the hot water dispenser.

The cereal gizmos, with Fruit Loops, Special K, Corn Pops, granola, rice crispies and Raisin Bran choices.

A tray of individually packaged Otis Spunkmeyer “healthy” blueberry muffins the size of softballs.  I use quote marks around “healthy” because that is what is says on the package.  Isn’t it CURIOUS the package doesn’t include any nutrition facts?  

A waffle iron and waffle mix machine (aha!  That’s why they offer syrup!)

The milk fridge with 2% and skim milk on one shelf and small Dannon yogurts on the other.

The juice machine, offering orange and apple.

GO.  

What would you eat?

Protein choices (and remember you should ALWAYS look for protein choices for breakfast!) are pretty slim.  Peanut butter, milk and yogurt are the only options.

As usual, most prominently offered are starches, and as I sit here watching hotel guests load up, they couldn’t be happier.  One lady just walked away with TWO muffins tucked up under her arms...I guess for later?

Fruit choices are an apple, a green banana or a cup of juice.  Not surprisingly, 99% of these folks are going for the juice.  ARE whole fruits too much trouble?  (I was told once by a client that she never eats whole fruits because it’s too much trouble.  I am still baffled by that statement....

Here’s one lady that has obviously been working out and she is just backing away, scratching her chin as she sums up her options.  What do you wanna bet she goes for the oatmeal?  Yep!  While she’s fixing that, another lady just walked up and put an OS muffin in her purse!  hahahahahahahah

This is real life, day to day, trying to figure out how to treat our bodies with respect through our food choices.  Throw in a little people watching, and I could sit here all day!  But I have a date to watch my brilliant, adorable, clever and awesome STRATTON walk the stage for his COLLEGE DIPLOMA today! Sighhhh....I'm a proud, happy mama.