Macaroni and Cheese for Breakfast
I babysit my pre-k aged granddaughter at least one and sometimes two days a week. Since she arrives by 6:30 a.m., she has breakfast with me. I offer the usual: cheerios, pancakes, eggs . . . Sometimes she wants to eat part of the sandwich my daughter sends for her lunch. (She wants to have a lunch kit like her big brother.)
So one morning, while I was going through the usual offerings for breakfast, she said, “I want macaroni and cheese.”
“Isn’t that kind of a ‘lunch’ thing, not a ‘breakfast’ thing?” I asked her.
“No, I want macaroni and cheese.”
I started to think: so what makes a breakfast thing a breakfast thing, anyway? What is cheerios but processed grains served with a dairy product? What is macaroni and cheese but processed grains served with dairy product?
She had her macaroni and cheese for breakfast that day.