The Swedish Way of Breakfast
In Sweden breakfast is pretty simple. We don’t cook bacon and eggs for breakfast, normally. We want to spend as little time as possible preparing breakfast. And we don’t eat lots of jam and Nutella or peanut butter. Normally. We’ve been taught from childhood that sugar isn’t good for breakfast. And jam and Nutella contains lots of sugar.
The normal thing to eat for breakfast is:
- Sandwich with cheese/ham/cucumber/tomato
- Yoghurt, milk or sour milk with cereals/porridge
- Orange juice/milk/water/coffee
When we want to make it a bit more luxurious we might boil an egg and slice it to put it on a piece of bread. Or maybe we cut some fresh fruit and put them in the yoghurt.
What most Swedes don’t know is that many cereals contain a lot of sugar as well. But anyway, that’s what we have for breakfast. This type of breakfast won’t keep you satisfied for very long. So after 2-3 I think that us Swedes are hungry again.
Like many other people Swedes are in a hurry in the morning. The teenage girl spends more time doing her makeup than eating breakfast. Parents hurry getting their children ready for school and at the same time manage to get in time for work. And there’s simply not much time left for breakfast.
Sour milk with wholemeal cereals, sanwich with cheese, milk.
In big cities breakfast is even more set aside. If you walk the streets in a big city in the morning you will see lots and lots of stressful people with a coffee-to-go. These people probably didn’t have breakfast at home. Instead they’re hurrying to work with a coffee in their hand, to have breakfast 3 hours after they woke up.
Of course there’s the other type too, like me, who needs breakfast the minute I wake up. But the majority of, at least the city people, seem to be in a breakfast-hurry.
Relax! Take it easy people!