Toast or Bagel, How Do You Start Your Mornings?
I’m not much of a breakfast person, I know it IS the most important meal of the day… I’m just not overly hungry at 6 am, nor am I actually out of bed unless I have an early flight. But beginning this September, 6am is my new wake up time, which means I’m going to be starving LONG before lunch time. (On a side note, who thought it was a good idea to begin elementary classes at 7:45 am??) I guess it’s time for me to start eating breakfast.
When I was in highschool, I always went to school hungry. Not because breakfast wasn’t there for me each morning, our cupboards were always well stocked…but because our cafeteria carried one of my very favourite foods…bagels. My two favorite flavours? Cinnamon Raisin and Everything. I love them both equally, but in totally different ways.
In high school I fell in LOVE with Cinnamon Raisin bagels toasted and covered in cheese whiz. I ate them every single morning. My lunch money went to breakfast, come lunch time I was cashless and hungry…but I still did it everyday. If by chance a day came that they were out of bagels, my whole day was out of whack.
For a long time, I had forgotten about this love….misplaced somewhere in the back of my brain until about 10 years later when I noticed Dempster’s Cinnamon Raisin bagels while shopping. Immediately I threw them in the cart, grabbed a bottle of cheese whiz and smiled through the rest of my trip. I have now passed that favorite food on to my eldest. If you ever see us fighting over a bagel….you can safely guess it was the last one…and we don’t want to share.
My second favorite as I mentioned above is Everything Bagels. Toasted well and smothered in REAL butter, or mashed banana… My mouth is watering just thinking about them. But, you know what…there is more that you can put on your bagel than just butter.
Apple Cheddar Bagel by Dempsters
Like this Apple Cheddar recipe…pairing apples and cheese may sound a little different, kind of like peanut butter and banana’s…it really is so very yummy. Click here to see the full Apple Cheddar Bagel Recipe.
How creative do you get with your bagels?
Dempster’s carries a variety of different flavours of bagels; Plain, Sesame, 100% Whole Wheat, 12 Grain, Everything, Cinnamon Raisin and Blueberry. They are made from 100% Canadian wheat and real fruit and spice. If you would like to find out more about Dempster’s Bagels and more yummy recipes like the one I mentioned above, just check out Dempsters.ca.
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Butter and herb and garlic cream cheese! So good
my eldest son loves cheeze whiz and peanut butter mixed together. what can i say, he’s a strange kid :)
Favorite topping is peanut butter
The BEST is a toasted plain bagel with peach melba cream cheese and sliced strawberries!! YUM
My very favourite is a toasted BLT bagel. I always buy bagels the day I pick up some goodies from the farmer’s market so it’s as fresh as can be. It’s the best!
I love garlic and herb cream cheese
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My fav is raisin cinnamon loaded with chrunchy peanutbutter.
herb and garlic cream cheese on everything bagel, yummy
I love a sweet cream cheese spread on my bagels. Delicious!!!
I love cream cheese on my bagels!
I love apple butter on cinnamon raisin bagels.
i love butter and cream chesse on cinnamomn bagels
Cinnamon Raisin Bagel slathered with cream cheese is a guilty pleasure!
Butter and cheddar cheese, or cream cheese! I love all types of bagels except the poppy seed :(
margerine
Plain old cream cheese anytime!! :)
My fav is raisin cinnamon bagels toasted with butter.
A cinnamon raisin bagel with light strawberry cream cheese topping. Yuuuuuuuummmmm.
cream cheese and strawberries on my bagels
I like mine toasted, buttered, and then sprinkled with cinnamon.
bagel with cream cheese
I love toasted bagels with butter and cream cheese.
My fave is an Everything Bagel, toasted with cream cheese.
Butter & Canadian Cheddar
I love frying up an egg with cheese and putting that on a toasted everything bagel…best breakfast!
light cream cheese
Butter for me!
Peanut butter and Nutella…yummy treat!
Herb and garlic cream cheese tops my bagel.
Roasted Garlic cream cheese is great!
i LOVE garlic and herb creamcheese on my bagels! YUMM!
Cinnamon raisin bagel with peanut butter
Cream cheese + jam.
Love all the bagels with margarine and any kind of cream cheese
Pretty basic. A plain bagel toasted with cream cheese.
good old fashioned butter :) and toasted of course
I have toast but this reminds me we have some bagels in the freezer I should eat!
Toast is easier for me so that’s generally how I start my day :)