What to eat? Here is the Advice!

 By: Cindy Li (age 12)                          

Pancakes or Bagels - Breakfast Series

“Pancakes are like cookies and bagels are like donuts!” Are you still eating the two most common breakfast dishes- Pancakes and Bagels- and for a long time? You might have to change your daily routine and your shopping list after you read this.

Pancakes - Plain, prepared with syrup

It’s raining pancakes, yummy! Try frying up 3 pancakes, and serving with maple syrup; you've just cooked a meal worthy of 255 calories, half the amount of your daily breakfast calories intake.  You ate a perfect amount of grain product in the morning. There will be space in you tummy and taking in some dairy products - yogurt with some fruits would be good!- and there will be your sunny breakfast.

 

Bagels with cream cheese

Can you fit through a hula hoop bagel eating bagels spread with layers of cream cheese? No, is the answer. Plain bagels (some with sesames) were meant to be healthy, but cream cheese bagels? Each one is about 490 calories, more than the calories in a Filet-O-Fish Sandwich from MacDonald’s, and every meal per day is suppose to be between 500~650  calories. You just ate everything you should eat in the morning - drinking NO liquid. In a bagel with cream cheese, it contains 50% grain product, 37% fat and 13% protein. It’s an example of an unhealthy breakfast.

Which One is Better, for YOU?

Before today, were you deciding on which to eat, pancakes or bagels? Now you have the answer, pancakes. No more bagels? Well, it doesn’t mean that you can’t eat them, just not too often; maybe one per week is a good amount. Follow a healthy breakfast routine with lesser fat and calories! Have a sunny day! Bye!