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Taco Bell: Now for Breakfast

Get ready for sausage wraps, breakfast burritos

(Newser) - Can't wait until lunch for that burrito? Taco Bell's got your back: The fast-food chain is joining competitors in offering breakfast. The launch began today in 800 of its 5,600 restaurants, largely in the western US; if it's a success, the company hopes to take the... More »

Teens Milk Denny's All-You-Can-Eat Deal for 301 Pancakes

They're establishing a new Guinness World Record category

(Newser) - Ever wondered just how far you can take the whole "all-you-can-eat" thing? Seven teenage boys found out recently. They sat down for the $5 all-you-can-eat pancake deal at a Denny's in California, and didn't stop for 24 hours, the OC Weekly reports. The boys ate 301 pancakes... More »

Egg-cellent News: Fried Breakfast 'Is Best'

Foods program body to break down fat rest of day: study

(Newser) - A breakfast of fried eggs and bacon or sausage may be the best way to "program" the body to efficiently break down fats the rest of the day, according to a new study. Breakfasts rich in carbohydrates, such as cereal, may only prepare the body to break down carbs,... More »

Want a Baby Boy? Eat Breakfast

Studies show eating more makes you more likely to have a son

(Newser) - If your grandmother ever advised you to eat “bacon for boys” while pregnant, she may have been right. Studies show that eating breakfast and maintaining a high-fat diet around the time of conception heighten your chances of having a boy, the Telegraph reports. Aiming for a girl? Skip that... More »

Oatmeal Gets Upscale Reheat

Cheap, healthy breakfast an easy sell for chain stores

(Newser) - Oatmeal is getting a trendy makeover, the Wall Street Journal reports. Drawn to the modest meal by its cheap, healthy, and long-lasting ingredients, smoothie chain Jamba Juice added oatmeal to its Chicago menus today before rolling it out across the US in January, while Starbucks began offering the breakfast classic... More »

How Cereal Shaped America

Charting the evolution and influence of the grain-based breakfast

(Newser) - We might be eating hockey pucks for breakfast if a 19th-century kitchen accident hadn’t turned John Kellogg’s “barely edible” biscuits into today’s far-tastier flakes, Ian Lender writes in Mental Floss. “The cereal flake is the perfect consumer product,” he says, looking at how cereal... More »

Wine for Breakfast? A Fan Makes His Case

Perhaps a glass of Merlot should replace your cup of coffee in the morning

(Newser) - The eggs are scrambling, the bacon is sizzling, the toast is, well, toasting. So kick back and pour yourself a glass of red zinfandel, writes Ryan D'Agostino in Esquire. This isn't some sophomore-year-of-college attempt to undo the excesses of the night before, but rather an innovative approach to the day’... More »

Starbucks' Oatmeal Is the New McMuffin

Starbucks makes comfort food trendy

(Newser) - The mushy breakfast you pushed away as a child has become Starbucks' most successful food launch ever—knocking reduced-fat coffeecake to No. 2 on the best-sellers chart, Advertising Age reports. Oatmeal heads up a line of healthier breakfast options the chain introduced in September. The steamy offering, which comes with... More »

Eight Terrible, Tasty Ways to Start the Day

Worst breakfasts include 'stacked and stuffed hotcakes'

(Newser) - Breakfast isn’t just the most important meal of the day—for many Americans, it’s the most fattening. The worst breakfast in the nation, nutritionally speaking, is the Stacked and Stuffed Caramel Banana Pecan Hotcakes at Bob Evans, experts tell MSNBC. Here are some other bad breakfast foods:
  1. IHOP
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McMuffin Man Dead at 89

Herb Peterson invented fast-food breakfast in a sandwich

(Newser) - The inventor of the Egg McMuffin has died in his Southern California home at the age of 89,  AP reports. Herb Peterson began working with McDonald's in the advertising department, and later switched to the hands-on side of the business, owning six restaurants in the Santa Barbara area. Peterson,... More »

Eating Breakfast Helps Keep Teens Slim

Skipping morning meal hurts rather than helps, new study shows

(Newser) - Eating breakfast helps keep teens slim and active, says a new study. Scientists tracked 2,216 teens over 5 years and found body-mass index lower in kids who consistently ate a morning meal, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reports. "Although adolescents may think that skipping breakfast seems like a... More »

Market Forces Conspire Against English Breakfast

Cost of traditional meal soars with grain prices

(Newser) - Soaring wheat prices are rippling across the British economy and hitting hard in a very important place: the kitchen. The cost of a traditional full English breakfast is on the rise, reports the Times of London, thanks in large part to the price of the grain, which is integral not... More »

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