The Doctor Weighs In

I am not much of a cold cereal eater.  In fact, I always feel deprived if I have to have corn flakes and cold milk.  So I am having a breakfast orgy while on vacation in Israel.  Israeli breakfasts consist of everything I love -- some of which I can get in the US and some of which I can't find even in the food-rich Bay Area of Northern California.  Here is what Cafe Neto in Herzliyyah (where I eat and surf the net each am) calls the "Tel Aviv light" (the menu proudly exclaims that is has only 533 calories):

One egg cooked any way you want (it looks more like two eggs if you ask me)

A green salad with luscious fresh cherry tomotoes, red peppers and spring greens (almost fills a large plate) -- vinagrette on the side

A generous slice of lox

Three types of low fat white cheeses:  a firm one called "Bulgarian," a creamy rich one, called labeneh -- it has olive oil poured on it-- and a less creamy, light one I don't know the name of....each of which is provided in  ice cream scoop size.

A handful of Israeli olives

A small loaf of home made sesame bread

Jelly

Cappuchinno

I can eat about a third of this "light" breakfast before I am bursting at the seams (this has not been a dieter's holiday).  If my husband joins me for breakfast (he is a cold cereal eater), together we can finish about three quarters of it.  I am full the rest of the day.  The problem is Israeli dinners are also fantastic...(more about this later)....so I am not going to bed hungry.

If you like to have lunch for breakfast and never want to swallow another bite of dry cereal, then this is the breakfast for you.  If only I could find the cheeses at home....yum!

This blog was originally published on the PEERtrainer website (www.peertrainer.com) on April 18, 2006.