SEC S4-W2 | My favorite breakfast | by @majerius

Hello to all lovely steemians of the Comunidad Latina, it's so much great pleasure i have to partake of this contest about food organized about my Favourite Breakfast.. I'll try all my best to tell you guys how i enjoy my favourite breakfast in my country Cameroon in the most creative of ways by answering to the guiding questions given by the contest regulations.

Breakfast is a meal of the day which is very important to kickstart the day. It is actually the first meal of the day and some eat it in the morning and others eat it in the afternoon and others in the evening. But majority do eat it in the morning.

For a meal which has so much importance, i think the meal must have certain attributes. These attributes are good nutrients to keep your body in good shape throughout the day such as carbohydrates, proteins, a little fats and vitamins. My favourite breakfast so far has been omelette, bread and tea.

^{My favourite breakfast, bread, omelette and tea in a cup}

The ingredients in a breakfast are very important and essential, because these ingredients are the things which contain the different nutrients needed by the body. The ingredients are as follows:

Picture	Element	Ingredients
pict by me	Bread	Flour, nutmeg, milk, yeast, sugar, salt
pict by me	Omelette	egg, vegetable oil, green spices, tomato, onion, salt, pepper and maggi
Pict by me	Tea	sugar, matinal, water.

To cook this breakfast is very easy.

Firstly, you wash the ingredients and spices (tomato, onion, green spices) and slice them in little pieces. After that you can break the eggs and put them in the sliced spices. After that then you can add a pinch of salt and maggi before you begin to beat the eggs.

After you've beaten the eggs then you can place the frying pan on the fire and add vegetable oil in it. Once the oil I'd hot, you pour the beaten eggs in the oil and wait for a while. Since it's egg, some like it wet and others dry. Depending on your choice, you can set the fire intensity. When the first part of the egg is ready, you can turn the egg.

After turning the egg, you wait again for another minute and when it's all done, you can serve the egg and the sliced bread and tea.

My complete breakfast must have all of these ingredients on a good day. But sometimes it may not be that way and I'll need to forgo the tea because it makes me sleep most times.

As i said earlier, different people have different times of breakfast. Most times i get my breakfast not in the morning but in the evening by 6:30pm after i have prayed. On other days when I don't fast, i can take it by 1pm. Rare are the times i can take it early in the morning at 7am, except I'm forced to do so.

Normally i prepare my breakfast by myself when I'm alone. But when it's in the morning, then someone must do it, because I won't do it. When I'm not the one cooking my breakfast, it's either i slept at a friend's place and he made it or it's my mom who does it.

I slept at my pastor's place the other time and early in the morning after we had prayed, i woke up and i found out that the wife had already prepared breakfast and kept mine. I quickly wanted to deny, but i remembered i wasn't in a fast. The breakfast was potato fries and omelette which looked so delicious.

^{One of the breakfasts not prepared by myself i took in the morning}

Depending on everyone's financial status, different people can have different types of breakfast. And luckily I've had many of such breakfasts and most times not in my house.

• Type 1

^{My breakfast in a cafeteria}

The first type of breakfast is beaten omelette with spaghetti and bread and/or tea. This one is always gotten from cafeterias or restaurants and you can get them at a very cool price. Here's one i had some months back when I went to a cafeteria before getting to work in the morning.

• Type 2

^{Me eating achombo in the morning}

There are other times where I'm still on my way to work when I'm not fasting and i take the popular BHB (Beignets Haricot Bouillie). It's a french acronym for this breakfast and you can find it anywhere in my country typically early in the morning or in the evening. It's quite handy and nutritive too. It's a combination of puff puff, beans and pap. This one is mostly for those who go to construction sites and students.

• Type 3

^{My breakfast by my friend in the morning}

The other type are those who eat solid food because of lack of time and energy to make breakfast. So they just heat the previous day food and add fruits to it. Most families do this because it's economical and non time consuming. I particularly grew up with this kind of breakfasts when I was little. My parents were busy people so each morning we just heat the food of the previous day and eat in the morning before leaving to school.

• Type 4

^{Me in the kitchen helping my sister to cook koki corn for breakfast}

We have the traditional types of breakfast where we cook a traditional meal and dine together as a family. The meal you will see later is what we cook with fresh corn and oil. This one is called koki corn 🌽. The sweetness of fresh corn gives it a different kind of taste.

The best moment in a family is when we dine all together and you see smiles on the faces of people. I have experienced this and i would like to have it always and always.

^{My bro and sis and i having our breakfast}

These are just some typical breakfasts taken in my country. It's so much that you might not count because Cameroon alone has more than 200 ethnic groups and that means 200 different meals. Especially for those living in the villages. Most times they get the available and make it preferable and life goes on.

Breakfasts are of different categories, and if we want to get a good breakfast it should be balanced to make you enjoy it even during the day. Eating breakfast with family increases the bond in the family and also increases the joy of an individual during the day. It's important to take breakfast.