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Fortunately, breakfast is also the meal that you can best get away with eating no carbs at all. Nobody looks funny at you for eating bacon and eggs. Even if you have to accede to custom and have some toast, you can just butter it and have a protein-rich meal that is far closer to ideal than you can often get away with eating lunch and dinner.

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IHOP has the Quick-2 Egg breakfast: 2 eggs, bacon or sausage, hash browns and toast. Frankly, the dessert pancakes, etc., make me a bit ill just looking a them.

However, you can order just plain pancakes, a waffle or French toast without the sugary toppings.

I love breakfast for this reason, sometimes I'll even have it for dinner.

There are a hundred different ways to make an omelette, they all taste great, and none of them have any sugar or refined grains. You don't have to compromise at all, you get exactly what you want, and it's still healthy.

Also, why do grains get a free pass? They're literally inedible to humans without being processed, no other mammals consume them (unless we force them to), gas station junk food is 95% grains and sugar, and somehow people still think this is a health food.

Plenty of animals eat grains, but grains aren't available year-round. Grain, and seeds in general, are more nutrient-dense than the stalks and leaves of the plant they come from, but are only available for a short period. Animals which subsist on them must either be highly mobile, to reach many different types of plants which flower and produce seed at different times of the year, or they must be able to store the seeds until they become available again.

A cow eats the grain along with the rest of the grass, but if it tried to live on seeds alone it would be a pretty thin cow.

Rats are pretty happy to eat our grain given the chance, aren't they?

Hmm you're right. Looks like some forms of rodentia will eat grains if they're around.

I still think they'd be better off eating an omelette though. :)

I've never had anyone look at me funny when having just some kind of meat and some non-starchy vegetables for lunch or dinner, which isn't much higher in carbs than the breakfast you describe in the no-toast form, and lower than the with-toast form.

Its not what I always do -- I'm not fanatically anti-carb, at all -- but I've certainly done it around other people, and no one seems to care.

But breakfast is the meal at which quick energy from carbs make the most sense, you're going to be active afterwards.

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