How do you make a british breakfast healthy..ie no frying?!
How do you make a british breakfast healthy..ie no frying?
My grandpop love's his fry up with egg bacon sausage tomatoes,(if in season mushrooms from the field) and fryed breadand bakebeans,He says he won't change he's to old,I would like to try and make it healther,all that fat make me feal ill, im just a toast and coffee,for breakfast....can anyone give me idear's mind he can get moody!!
Answers: well you could grill his sausages and bacon,buy half fat sausages and you can cook mushrooms in the microwave,beans are good for you anyway and poach his eggs,tastes nicer without all the fat. erm grill it!! or use a george foreman grill. Get a George Foreman - you should see the sh.it that comes out of Sausages... get a George Foreman grill you can do bacon sausage mushrooms and tomatoes all together and just add poached eggs or scrambled with a small amount of oil you can always try poaching eggs and grilling bacon i love my fry ups to the best thing to do is grill your bacon and sausages eggs do poached so you still get the same effect as a fried one tomatoes in a pan without oil but if he really insists having it fried you can buy this spray can of oil it is only 1 calorie per spray its really good you can try broiling or baking, and substituting healthier oils for butter or fats. you can also try bread crumbs or cornflakes instead of batter and deep frying grilling your bacon and sausage, cutting the fat off etc Grill bacon, sausage and tomato poach the eggs and toast the bread. It's not a proper brekkie unless it's fried even us Elves know that! non sttick frying pan and oil spry or a bit of olive oil...
can fry mushrroms and fried egg on the pan and then do toast and baked beans and hashbrown fried in the pan and two slices of healthy eating bacon and a vegetarian sausage (quorn sausage)
healthy breakfast da da gril tomatoes,bacon poach eggs toast bread. lots of h.p. sauce Yeah the George Foreman grill is good for bacon and Sausage and mushrooms and tomato and blackpudding. Nice big one stick it all on and wait till nealry cooked then....
Stick your bread in the toaster.
Put the kettle on
Eggs get a good non stick pan and do with just a little oil scrambled or fried.
Make the tea
Butter the toast.
Thats how I make breakfast and it tastes good and doesn't give you that heartburn christ this is gonna kill me feeling.
Its much healthier then. If it ain't killed grandad so far don't you think it is his right to carry on eating what HE likes
I would hate my grandchildren to decide what I need to eat after all these years Balance the breakfast out with fruits, milk or yogurt, that way it's healthy and your granddad still loves his breakfast You could try grilling or baking the bacon, sausages and tomatoes and making scrambled eggs instead of fried. If he really only wants his breakfast fried then try a low fat oil or even better, butter/margarine. Hi
You could try to make it healthier by grilling the sausages and bacon. Instead of frying the eggs, try scrambled or poached. And have toast instead of fried bread. Also you can grill the tomatoes and mushrooms. Or put the mushrooms in a small amount of butter and cook in a saucepan or microwave. I'm sure a small amount of butter wouldnt hurt. Just don't tell him that you cooked it like that. He may notice the difference but he might like it.
Good luck! lightly grease an oven tray put in bacon sausage tomatoes mushrooms and a pastry ring for the egg and cook in the oven till done, turning the bacon and sausage to brown. Cook the beans in the microwave and serve on toast the george foreman grill is great for bacon and sausage. or microwave it on papertowels. a great trick for getting rid a lot of extra grease on food is to firmly press it between papertowels. they pick up a lot of grease, esp. on bacon.
give him more tomatoes. roast them instead of frying. serve less of everything. use low fat milk in the egg, scramble instead of fry. or hardboil and avoid the griddle. don't fry the bread. just toast it, or heat it on a greaseless skillet.
hope it helps. Frying is not unhealthy - it depends on what medium one chooses in which to fry. Lard (pig fat) is not a good idea, but sunflower oil is very good.
A lot of frying goes on in cooking, behind the scenes. A nice, healthy beef stew starts with the meat being fried, with onions, in some kind of fat or oil. Vegetables are frequently stir-fried. The exquisite sauce drooled over your restaurant dinner may have started life as shallots fried in butter.
What can make fried breakfasts unhealthy is not the frying, but the choice of food. Supermarket bacon, skinny and pumped so full of water and nitrites that it shrinks in the pan or under the salamander (broiler, overhead grill). Supermarket sausages,made from slaughterhouse slurry - the scrapings of flesh from bone, made into a mush and reshaped, with breadcrumbs and monosodium glutamate to achieve the 'mouthfeel' of a real sausage.
Fried bread. This is scrumptious, especially if locally-baked bread is used, rather than the supermarket fake bread, made with the Chorleywood, or even worse, the Milton Keynes processes (chemicalised methods to reduce the proving [rising] time of dough.) Uptake of cooking fat into fried bread can be minimised by spraying the bread with water through a fine sprayer - a hand-held garden sprayer is ideal.
Fats. Fats are good - they increase the level of satisfaction from a meal because they both taste good, and take a long time to digest. A good English breakfast can obviate the need for lunch, other than a very light bite, especially if dinner is served at 5 or 6 pm. How many people have eschewed the fried breakfast, and then snack all day, on supposedly 'healthy' foods. Supermarket coleslaw is drenched in poor-quality olive oil, sandwiches, chilled to death, disguise the greasiness of inferior butter and near-fake mayonnaise,with fillings comprised of reformed meat stuffed with monosodium gluatamate.
Bacon and sausages can be grilled, if these victuals have enough decent internal fat to prevent them from drying up; tomatoes can be grilled if given a dab of butter or olive oil, but you cannot fry an egg under a grill.
Here is the answer. Continue with the fried breakfast. Replace lard with sunflower oil, and add a wee bit of unsalted butter to the oil. Heat the oil in the frying pan (skillet) until smoking hot. Add the sausages, rapidly browning them at the high temerature ( this process causes an imbalance in the osmotic potentiality of water-globules and internal fat globules in the sausage, which inhibits uptake of cooking fat into the sausage). Once the sausages are browned, reduce the flame, add the bacon, and cook gently. Cook the fried bread in a separate pan, adding the sprayed bread to the oil on a high flame, and then reducing as above. Mushrooms will absorb a bit of fat whatever you do, but they exude their own internal oils in frying that will repel the invasion of cooking oil to a great degree. Baked beans should be heated in a saucepan.
Buy sausages and bacon from an independent butcher, never from within the walls (pun intended) of a supermarket. The lowering of fat and additives by using these products will offset the uptake of fat from frying in oil.
Finally, I'm only fifty, and if someone, no matter how loved, gave me coffee, toast and some form of monkey-food such as muesli, I would not get moody - I'd go ballistic. Muesli appears on my breakfast menus, but never under the heading of 'Chefs Recommendations' afraid l cant add anything thats not already been said, however, l do think your making a mountain out of a molehill.
ok, everything is fried in fat, theres not suffciently enough to do any harm dont forget that farmers burn an enormous amount of energy and calories during their daily duties at his age it is probably best to just let sleeping dogs lie! let him be happy just eating how he is used to eating and be thankful you still have him around! he won't change his plays this far into the game anyhow... just my oppinion...... I use my George Forman on sausages, or put them in the oven for 25 mins.....if you fill your frying pan with boiling water and crack an egg over it, although it's poached, it has the same shape as a fried egg - he'll never notice the difference! I agree with you about all that fat!
Try grilling the bacon, sausage and tomatoes, have toast instead of fried bread, and poached or scrambled egg.
On Sundays I do wholemeal toast, use the microwave to cook the bacon, tomato and mushroom. I am guilty of frying the egg, but use a little sunflower oil, and don't butter the toast, the oil from the egg is enough.
You could try changing one thing at a time, as long as he doesn't see you cook it there's a chance he may not notice. easy i do it all the time, get a big sheet of tin foil and put it in the grill ( broiler pan ) lay bacon sliced mushrooms sliced tomatos on the foil.
grill turning once for 5 minutes, fold the foil over in half protecting the food and use the grill to make some toast - instead of fried bread, heat up some baked beans make a nice strong cuppa and away you go. I dont do sausages as they are always pretty fatty - but if you split them in two and do them in their own bit of foil so as not to spread sausage afat over everything you can Grill on a wire rack, bacon, sausage & tomatoes. Minimal amount of 'oil' for rest, eggs & fried bread.
Although all I can face in a morning is several strong cups of coffee!!!!!!!!!! You'll have to make up your mind here: has Grandpa got to eat *your* version of *his* breakfast for *you* to be happy, or can he have what *he* wants? That's all there is to it.
From where I'm standing, of course he'd be moody. At his age, the autonomy you take for granted in asking the question the way you do, is already much compromised for him, painfully so, and now he can't even enjoy the food he chooses to, the way *he* chooses to?
You say it makes you feel ill. Good, because that's no issue, as you won't have to eat it. But **he** would rather like to, all things being equal.
This isn't about recipes, but about dignity and *his* choice.
That ain't so hard, is it? :-/
All the best.
Ps. If you meanwhile **silently** use your cooking skills to mitigate what worries you by using good base materials, only as much fat as necessary to give him the taste experience he enjoys etc, that's the cook's 'secret' of course. Safeguard his taste experience -- how you do that is your business. I do that all the time... :-) Tell him that, because of the food shortages due to the ongoing war in [insert made-up country name here, it doesn't even have to be real to fool an old man], the government has ordered that everyone eats Special K for breakfast, with skimmed milk and no sugar. Eat quorn products-very low in fat and tasete great too.
