What's typically eaten for breakfast? Lunch? Dinner?

[orangejuice]

Hao Minna-san!
Could anyone tell me what's usually eaten for breakfast, lunch and dinner in Japan nowadays? :?
Arigatou!

orangejuice

[yimija]

sorry, looks like japanese are eating... nothing...
not much success, yet.

I'm not really representative seeing that I eat in hotels, but I love scrambled eggs, bacon, chipolatas, griled tomato, orange juice, café, glass of milk toast & marmelade.

and now ladies and gentlemen, I can tell you a secret : after breakfast, I'll never pretend to be japanese...

[bezz]

Could anyone tell me what's usually eaten for breakfast, lunch and dinner in Japan nowadays? :?A nice pic of typical traditional Japanese breakfast here:

http://web-jpn.org/kidsweb/japan/image/housing2.jpg

From right: miso soup, horse mackerel "himono" (cut open fresh, soaked in salt water and half-dried for a night, then grilled. So very tasty.)
The tiny plate in the middle has soy dip for the paper-thin dried nori seaweed cuts, and pickles there on the left of the rice bowl too.

They might add tiny plates of "advanced" ingredients like raw egg york which is meant to be half-done in the steamy rice bowl, or perhaps natto in addition too.

[epigene]

I think it's hard to say what's "typically eaten" in Japan today. It really varies by generation.

Most Japanese who eat a traditional breakfast like that are either elderly or health-conscious people. Many young people don't go for that kind and prefer Western style (toast, bacon & eggs and maybe some salad). Breakfast cereals aren't that popular, though available. Young, working adults are inclined to stay awake late at night and therefore don't have much time for breakfast. They get conbini breakfast or none at all.

Lunch tend to be quick, too. (Conbini lunches for workers and students and packed lunch prepared by mothers for students who can't get cafeteria food.) People who can afford to go to restaurants probably eat soba noodles or set meals (young women preferring probably Western like spaghetti and men, mostly middle-aged, choosing Japanese-style set meal of fried fish, hamburger, etc. with veggies, rice & miso soup).

Supper is most varied ranging from Western to Chinese and Japanese--I can't list all the common meals eaten.

Hope it gives you an idea... :relief:

[EdZiomek]

Sometimes I dream I could be a millionaire...

If only I could find a tasty breakfast snack from an Asian culture, that "performs" like a Danish or doughnut, fills the stomach with nutritional elements, (not sugared, not fried, a crunchy or chewy vegetarian with maybe a brown rice or seaweed doughy covering), close-to-zero calories, and then get America to change their terrible breakfast eating patterns.

America is turning into a diabetic nightmare eating frenzy... sugar, sugar, sugar, and I resemble those remarks... I am happy to say I lost 45 pounds, with another 10 to go.

But I would like any suggestions from JREF... PS... my Colombian wife has something called an "Empinada", which comes very close to what I am talking about... Any clues from Japan or other cultures?

What can replace the doughnut?

[misa.j]

EdZiomek,
You might like "Taiyaki"; it doesn't have cheese or butter like empanada does, but it is doughy, sweet and not fatty.

http://www.gyotakuso.com/ozaki-taiyaki.JPG
It's a fish shaped cake made with flour and red bean paste.

[EdZiomek]

Can the insides be alternated, with things like figs and prunes and dates and avocado? You know how the bagel, delicious as it is, takes about 3 or 5 minutes to eat? Ideally, this Taiyaki would take a bit of time to consume... sort of like a burrito "eating time".

Also, inJapan, do they have anything like a "Soy rope" or "Rice string mesh"... I mean a manufactured food which gives the sensation of chewiness? For example, if you leave a doughnut in your mouth, chances are that it will almost disolve without chewing. A bagel takes 2-4 minutes to consume, because it is chewy and can't be wolfed down. You could eat 6 ghastly doughnuts in the same time it takes to eat 1 bagel.

I see in the near future food manufacturers creating a soy/rice mesh food, sewn together like criss-cross burlap material, maybe the size of a bagel, with the consistency of a bagel/burrito, stuffed with various good-for-you foods.

Sincerely, America is unhealthy and way overweight, in my estimation, and I am one of them!

Maybe Taiyaki is the food. Thank you for your input.

[bezz]

Most Japanese who eat a traditional breakfast like that are either elderly or health-conscious people.Traditional Japanese meals before unhealthy tonkatsu, ramen, burger and so forth got introduced there, used to look like:

http://www.nhk.or.jp/partner/cooking/kondate/image/200401_1.jpg http://www.nhk.or.jp/partner/cooking/kondate/image/200402_1.jpg
Left: Porridge with sesven herbs, simmered deep-fried tofu and Chinese cabbage, salted plum, grilled cod fillet marinated in miso, pickles
Right: Rice, sake lee soup, grilled Spanish mackerel fillet in sweet yuan marinade, simmered takuan pickles, spinach dressed in soy broth

http://www.nhk.or.jp/partner/cooking/kondate/image/200403_1.jpg http://www.nhk.or.jp/partner/cooking/kondate/image/yanagihara01.jpg
Left: White rice, simmered yellowtail teriyaki fillet, roasted pink shrimp bits, finely-diced coltsfoot flower stalk (for topping on rice before pouring tea,) simmered coltsfoot stalk and spongy frozen tofu
Right: Rice, clear soup with egg yolk tofu and tumip flower, pickles, simmered rockfish

http://www.nhk.or.jp/partner/cooking/kondate/image/200305_1.jpg http://www.nhk.or.jp/partner/cooking/kondate/image/200306_1.jpg
Left: Rice, veggie miso soup, skipjack (bonito) tataki (seared sasimi) with dip, warm asparagus and spikenard salad on warm yolk and vinegar sauce.
Right: Green pea rice, tofu miso soup, carrot and burdock kakiage, chicken simmered in soy broth

[bezz]

http://www.nhk.or.jp/partner/cooking/kondate/image/200307_1.jpg http://www.nhk.or.jp/partner/cooking/kondate/image/200308_1.jpg
Left: Rice, clear soup with dredged pike conger and watershield garnished with yuzu lime peel, simmered herring and eggplant with shredded ginger garnish, finely-diced pickles with nori and roasted sesame seeds dressed with soy
Right: Finely-diced pickles on rice, sea bass clear soup, vinegared myoga ginger, deep fried string beans wrapped in perilla leaf, grilled sea bass neck


http://www.nhk.or.jp/partner/cooking/kondate/image/200309_1.jpg http://www.nhk.or.jp/partner/cooking/kondate/image/200310_1.jpg
Left: Rice, egg-drop clear soup with myoga ginger, squid sashimi, simmered pumpkin, grilled saury
Right: Rice, autumn veggie miso soup, pickles, dredged mackerel fillet deep-fried and simmered topped with grated daikon, chestnut simmered in bonito broth

http://www.nhk.or.jp/partner/cooking/kondate/image/200311_1.jpg http://www.nhk.or.jp/partner/cooking/kondate/image/200312_1.jpg
Left: Rice, root veggie miso soup, chrysanthemum petal with walnut sauce, shredded daikon radish cole slaw (just salt) and breaded deep-fried oyster
Right: Grilled salted-yellowtail, simmered daikon, veggie soup

[nice gaijin]

I normally have toast and a cup of coffee. Today I had leftover oden and some tea.

[JTalker]

I absolutely love Japanese food, but I must say that the breakfasts leave a little to be desired. Fish and rice and soup for breakfast? That's what I had for dinner... and lunch. Where are the pancakes, waffles, hash browns, Coco Puffs, steak and eggs, sausages, bacons, bagels, omlettes, breakfast burritos, Grand Slams, Super Slams, etc. ?

[MeAndroo]

I absolutely love Japanese food, but I must say that the breakfasts leave a little to be desired. Fish and rice and soup for breakfast? That's what I had for dinner... and lunch. Where are the pancakes, waffles, hash browns, Coco Puffs, steak and eggs, sausages, bacons, bagels, omlettes, breakfast burritos, Grand Slams, Super Slams, etc. ?

There's a lot of Denny's in Japan...

This is one of the reasons Americans are fatter than Japanese.

I regularly had leftovers from the night before for breakfast, usually because I told my host mom I didn't care. This could range from the afore-mentioned oden to curry (which is great for hangovers, but still odd at 7 am). A typical breakfast for me was miso soup, rice, an egg, maybe a small bit of meat, and some veggies/pickles. I also regularly received small sandwiches with egg, veggies and meat in them if I didn't have time to sit and eat.

When I was faring for myself, I loved hitting a bakery for breakfast. A good one would have 40 different breads, and one or two combined with some juice was good enough to get me to lunch.

[bezz]

http://www.komenet.jp/database/img/cooking/lifestyle_related_illness/overweight/monday/02.jpg
Rice, sprout clear soup, boiled&dressed field mustard with shaved bonito garnish, boiled pork with vinegar&sesame-flavored miso sauce, simmered soybeans and kombu kelp

http://www.komenet.jp/database/img/cooking/lifestyle_related_illness/overweight/tuesday/01.jpg
Rice, Chinese cabbage miso soup, savory wakame tamago-yaki slices, pan-fried green asparagus and carrot, cut apple.

http://www.komenet.jp/database/img/cooking/lifestyle_related_illness/overweight/tuesday/02.jpg
Salmon rice with shredded egg and turnip greens, potato and geeen peas simmered in dashi broth and sugar, string beans with honewort herb with soy dressing and almond garnish, yogurt-topped orange slices.

http://www.komenet.jp/database/img/cooking/lifestyle_related_illness/overweight/tuesday/03.jpg
Rice, clear soup with tofu, turnip coleslaw with just vinegar and salt, lean beef&pork cabbage roll simmered in dashi&soy broth, fried-then-simmered kombu kelp with burdock, carrot and "abura-age" fried tofu.

http://www.komenet.jp/database/img/cooking/lifestyle_related_illness/overweight/wednesday/03.jpg
Rice, chicken breast clear soup with paprika and sprouts, soy-flavored grilled codfish fillet with white scallion shaving garnish, vinegared cucumber and celery, tofu simmered/fried with dried shiitake mushroom and bamboo shoot.

http://www.komenet.jp/database/img/cooking/lifestyle_related_illness/overweight/thursday/01.jpg
Rice, gluten ball miso soup, panfried field mustard with broth topped with bonito shaving, tofu simmered in broth&soy with shimeji mushroom and grated daikon radish, grapefruit

http://www.komenet.jp/database/img/cooking/lifestyle_related_illness/overweight/friday/03.jpg
Hijiki seaweed rice (with carrot,) Asiatic clam miso soup, deep-fried tofu simmered with turnip, swordfish teriyaki, field mustard dressed with umeboshi sauce.

http://www.komenet.jp/database/img/cooking/lifestyle_related_illness/overweight/saturday/01.jpg
Rice, taro&wakame miso soup, dried daikon radish simmered in dashi broth, simmered spinach&egg, mikan orange.

http://www.komenet.jp/database/img/cooking/lifestyle_related_illness/overweight/saturday/03.jpg
Rice, veggie clear soup, vingared cucumber and agar savory gello, soy-flavored fried lean beef and lever with shiitake mushroom and lettuce ginger and long onion, "hiyayakko" chilled tofu with soy, perilla leaf, sprouts, scallion and radish.

[Carrie]

Other than the fact that fish is eaten for a traditional Japanese breakfast, I was also surprised to find fried chicken on a breakfast menu in Japan--Once I thought about it, there is no logical reason to not eat chicken or fish for breakfast, but it still seems so strange. One thing to keep in mind, though, is that if you live in Japan by yourself--you can eat whatever you please for breakfast because no one is there to know--I often had pancakes. Just a suggestion--if you will be with a family and cannot adjust to the strange breakfast flavors of miso and fish--you could buy some brown sugar and milk to mix it with the rice that is alwasy served--it is very good for a western sweet tooth--

[Qutiepie]

Konichiwa .....bezz-san :-)



Do you make home delivery,those pictured meals look deliciously healthy ( drool ) ?

[yukio_michael]

I think there is a big difference as to what is considered a "traditional" Japanese breakfast in Japan now, and what is ACTUALLY eaten for breakfast by people in Japan... two different things right there.

[craftsman]

Let me add to yukio_michael's comment... with the fact that according to the White Paper on Dietary Education released last week, 10.5% of Japanese typically eat absolutely nothing for breakfast. Yum. Anyone for seconds?

[yukio_michael]

Let me add to yukio_michael's comment... with the fact that according to the White Paper on Dietary Education released last week, 10.5% of Japanese typically eat absolutely nothing for breakfast. Yum. Anyone for seconds?Maybe that's the reason for all of those "engergy" drink advertisements on television... The ones where the hapless Salaryman goes to the chemist to procure this miracle elixir and then rockets off to work for Osaka Manufacturing Concern...?

[nice gaijin]

Let me add to yukio_michael's comment... with the fact that according to the White Paper on Dietary Education released last week, 10.5% of Japanese typically eat absolutely nothing for breakfast. Yum. Anyone for seconds?
In that case, I should be happy when I only have enough time for a cup of coffee and a pad of butter!

[bezz]

http://www.komenet.jp/database/img/cooking/lifestyle_related_illness/overweight/sunday/01.jpg
Rice, abura-age and cabbage miso soup, simmered pumpkin and snow pea, "onsen" style poached egg, cut orange.

http://www.komenet.jp/database/img/cooking/lifestyle_related_illness/diabetes/monday/01.jpg
Rice, wakame miso soup, simmered tofu and field mustard with egg, boiled shirasu (http://www.pref.shizuoka.jp/kikaku/ki-20/english/pride/foods/shirasu.htm) mixed with grated daikon and mitsuba, kiwi fruit.

http://www.komenet.jp/database/img/cooking/lifestyle_related_illness/diabetes/monday/03.jpg
Rice, fried/simmered daikon and carrot with sprout in starch-thickened clear soup, field mustard and enoki mushroom dressed with mustard-flavored soy, panfried chicken and ginger simmered with taro, carrot and snow pea, vinegared Chinese surf clam with cucumber and spikenard.

http://www.komenet.jp/database/img/cooking/lifestyle_related_illness/diabetes/tuesday/01.jpg
Rice, abura-age and daikon miso soup, pan-fried hampen fish cake with cheese, fried/simmered baby bok choy and carrot with shichimi red pepper flavor, cut apple.

http://www.komenet.jp/database/img/cooking/lifestyle_related_illness/diabetes/wednesday/01.jpg
Rice, taro and scallion miso soup, shirasu with grated daikon, fried egg on shredded cabbage bed, grapefruit.

http://www.komenet.jp/database/img/cooking/lifestyle_related_illness/diabetes/thursday/01.jpg
Rice, abura-age and snowpea miso soup, fried chicken liver and burdock simmererd with ginger, shredded yam in vinegar/dashi dressing and nori garnish, mikan Mandarin.

http://www.komenet.jp/database/img/cooking/lifestyle_related_illness/diabetes/thursday/03.jpg
Rice, gluten ball clear soup, grilled horse mackerel, crushed tofu stirfried with green onion and carrot then simmered in dried shiitake broth and egg, spinach dressed in soy/broth garnished with nori.

http://www.komenet.jp/database/img/cooking/lifestyle_related_illness/diabetes/friday/01.jpg
Rice, turnip root&leaf miso soup, stirfried cabbage with carrot and green pepper (just salt&pepper,) shiitake scrambled egg, grapefruit with yogurt.

http://www.komenet.jp/database/img/cooking/lifestyle_related_illness/diabetes/friday/02.jpg
Rice, simmered tofu and field mustard with extra bonito shaving, pomfret fillet marinated in white miso then grilled, stringbean dressed with sesame sauce, cut apple.

[Goldiegirl]

They eat the same food for all the meals. To my taste that's what it seemed like. Salty, not sweet and consisting of rice, some form of noodle, vegetables and tofu...for the non-vegetarians add some fish. As a westerner I felt that I ate dinner, dinner and then dinner. Don't get me wrong I loved the food, well exccept for this incredibly gooey, squishy rice cake thing that was like trying to swallow silly putty, chewing gum and caulk, but I couldn't actually tell the difference between the meals.

[*chelly~panda*]

hey maybe its just my nieviety showing though but um how would you eat the bigger kinds of food. like the fish for example.

[Goldiegirl]

They use their chopsticks and kind pull apart the fish. I also noticed that most food is cut into bite size pieces, I am assuming that is done because they use chopsticks.

[Supervin]

This thread makes me sooo hungry... I've yet to try the traditional Japanese breakfast. I love rice in the morning.

[Nicky]

Once I become a millionaire I'm going to hire someone to make me every dish posted in this thread. They all look tasty.

[bezz]

Breakfast:
http://www.komenet.jp/database/img/cooking/lifestyle_related_illness/diabetes/saturday/01.jpg
Rice
Chive miso soup, egg-drop
Hijiki seaweed and carrot stirfried with abura-age, simmered in umeboshi plum sauce
Natto with daikon radish and cucumber wilted with salt, and soy sesame and green onion
Kiwi fruit

Lunch:
http://www.komenet.jp/database/img/cooking/lifestyle_related_illness/diabetes/sunday/02.jpg
Rice
Simmered taro, konnyaku and fried burdock&carrot, with snow pea
Grilled chicken breast, green onion and sweet pepper, yakitori-flavor
Boiled quail egg with salt-wilted cucumber
Boiled wild mustard dressed with soy&broth, rolled in nori

Dinner:
http://www.komenet.jp/database/img/cooking/lifestyle_related_illness/diabetes/friday/03.jpg
Rice cooked in broth with burdock&carrot, abura-age, konnyaku and dried shiitake, mitsuba garnish
Wakame and scallion clear soup
Okra and daikon radish dressed with vinegar&soy broth and sugar
Lean pork marinated in soy&mirin, panfried then simmered with orange juice, boiled cabbage side
Cubed winter melon simmered in broth&sake with crab meat, kudzu starch for thickening, grated ginger garnish

[Nicholas0016]

So many combinations, so many delicious items. So overloaded with hungerness.

[Sparky]

Heres my view:
As a Canadian I was brought up on the $3,99 "Hungry mans breakfast" which includes 2 eggs hash browns side of bacon and sausage toast and coffe or juice.

Hang on I'm drooling!

Ok now I live in Japan. My wife and I tend to eat a varity of ethnic foods now . So some days it fish, miso soup, and rice, with a side of whatever we ate for dinner the night before. and sometimes somthing exotic which we get from some recipie book.

But when I really start to crave my home foods. I whip up pan cakes with the maple syrup my sister mails me every christmas!

The eggs, bread, milk, bacon and everything in Japan has a small taste difference the our North american counter parts so in the begining I steered away from eating bacon and eggs for breakfast.

After 6 yerars now. I have forgoten what Canadian bacon and such tastes like and am proud to be back on the "Not so hungry mans breakfast" Which includes 2 eggs, home cooked hash browns, toast, Bacon which I salt and cure in maple syrup the night before, and juice. (after living in Japan for so long the protions have become significantly smaller hens the "Not so Hungry mans" title.

I wanted to add one more point My Japanese realitives live in a smaller city with my wifes grandmother, mother & father, and her brothers family with 2 kids. A total of 7 people. They eat in a traditional way where the mother does all the cooking and its like a never ending buffet. Every day she cooks a couple things which gets put on the table for all meals. It will stay on the table until it all has been eaten. Which scares me a little when I visit I sometimes see the same pork chop still on the table after 4 days but alas at some point it dissapears. Its actualy a good sytem there is almost zero waste of food and always a huge variety. Between meals everythign just gets pakaged up and put in the fridge until the next meal. Only problem is I get sick of the same things EVERYDAY.

[bezz]

Breakfast:
http://www.komenet.jp/database/img/cooking/lifestyle_related_illness/high_blood_pressure/monday/01.jpg
Rice
Daikon, carrot, konnyaku and scallion miso soup
Lightly-salted cucumber and ginger
Ham, onion, green pepper and cabbage stirfried with just salt and pepper
Tamago-yaki omelette (no sugar) with grated daikon
Plain yogurt

Lunch:
http://www.komenet.jp/database/img/cooking/lifestyle_related_illness/overweight/friday/02.jpg
Shimeji mushroom rice ball wrapped in leaf lettuce
Steamed chicken breast, tomato, cucumber and wood ear with soy/ginger/scallion dressing
Simple pan-fried eggplant slices, with grated daikon and ginger relish
Melon

Dinner:
http://www.komenet.jp/database/img/cooking/lifestyle_related_illness/diabetes/saturday/03.jpg
Rice
Shrimp and shimeji mushroom chawammushi (egg custard)
Tuna and squid sashimi
Carrot and dried shiitake mushroom rolled in abura-age then rolled in Chinese cabbage, tied with dried gourd strip and simmered with snow pea
Spinach dressed with soy-flavored peanut butter sauce

[blue_rebel]

Breakfast/dinner can differ greatly, I believe, from household to household. My grandmother normally has good ol' miso soup, but that's probably because she's old and used to have miso soup for breakfast everyday when she was younger. And for dinner she typically has steamed fish, more miso soup and rice... with PLENTY of chikuwa. She doesn't bother making anything elaborate because "she's too old for it" (she says).

But when I was an exchange student in Nagoya we had bread + jam, yoghurt, salad, coffee and a banana for breakfast everyday. It was insane. Back home I'm used to just a cup of milk or no breakfast at all, but to have SO many things piled up in front of me so early in the morning... man. The first few days I kept getting sick >__>

[bezz]

Breakfast:
http://www.komenet.jp/database/img/cooking/lifestyle_related_illness/high_blood_pressure/tuesday/01.jpg
Rice
Turnip and abura-age miso soup
Bell pepper, ginger and red pepper fried/simmered with broth
Fried egg with stringbean&corn
Kiwi fruit

Lunch:
http://www.komenet.jp/database/img/cooking/lifestyle_related_illness/diabetes/tuesday/02.jpg
Beef bowl with egg (http://www.jref.com/forum/showpost.php?p=344111), scallion and shimeji mushroom
Cabbage, turnip and carrot slaw with sweet vinegar, red pepper
Orange and cottage cheese

Dinner:
http://www.komenet.jp/database/img/cooking/lifestyle_related_illness/high_blood_pressure/monday/03.jpg
Rice
Tofu, boiled bamboo shoot, dried shiitake mushroom, carrot and snow pea simmered and starch-thickened
Flounder marinated in soy&mustard, dredged in starch then deep-fried with sweet pepper
Spinach and nori seaweed dressed in soy broth

[taeter_tot]

Judging on these colorful layout images,presumably Japanese have healthy diet.:cool:

[blue_rebel]

That's true, most Japanese do have fairly healthy diets, which contributes to their long lives. Research has proven that. :)

[bezz]

Breakfast:
http://www.komenet.jp/database/img/cooking/lifestyle_related_illness/high_blood_pressure/wednesday/01.jpg
Rice
Onion and wakame seaweed miso soup
Deep-fried tofu and grated daikon radish in broth with grated ginger garnish
Mustard spinach dressed in sesame dressing
Yogurt

Lunch:
http://www.komenet.jp/database/img/cooking/lifestyle_related_illness/high_blood_pressure/tuesday/02.jpg
Rice balls wrapped in nori (grilled cod roe or bonito/soy)
Pan-fried flounder fillet with lemon juice, mirin and soy, on leaf lettuce with petit tomato
Simmered potato, miso/sugar/sake/broth sauce
Strained strawberry, plain yogurt topping [dessert]
Stir-fried sprouts (soybean and daikon,) a little red pepper and soy flavor

Dinner:
http://www.komenet.jp/database/img/cooking/lifestyle_related_illness/high_blood_pressure/wednesday/03.jpg
Rice
Simmered cauliflower, carrot, shiitake mushroom, daikon sprout and dried scallop in broth, with slight kudzu starch thickening
Grilled saury pieces, with green (pepper leaf, vinegar and broth) dip
Spinach dressed in mustard/broth

[bezz]

Breakfast:
http://www.komenet.jp/database/img/cooking/lifestyle_related_illness/high_blood_pressure/friday/01.jpg
Rice
Potato and wakame miso soup
Frozen (spongy) tofu, carrot, green onion and daikon sprout scrambled with dashi-flavored egg
Daikon root&leaf wilted with salt
Mikan mandarin

Lunch:
http://www.komenet.jp/database/img/cooking/lifestyle_related_illness/high_blood_pressure/thursday/02.jpg
Rice mixed with perilla leaf and roasted white sesame
Cucumber, radish, daikon sprout and roasted sakura-ebi with oil&vinegar&dashi dressing
Simmered squid, daikon, carrot, taro and snow pea in ginger-flvored broth

Dinner:
http://www.komenet.jp/database/img/cooking/lifestyle_related_illness/high_blood_pressure/thursday/03.jpg
Rice
Chinese cabbage, carrot, chive and wood ear dressed with vinegar, dashi and sugar
Sake-marinated chicken breast and perilla leaf tempura, and deep-fried pumpkin slices (without batter)
Simmered soybean, kombu and green onion

[bezz]

Breakfast:
http://www.komenet.jp/database/img/cooking/lifestyle_related_illness/high_blood_pressure/saturday/01.jpg
Rice
Snow pea and gluten ring miso soup
Natto with raw egg, scallion
Shredded carrot and celery stir-fried then simmered in broth

Lunch:
http://www.komenet.jp/database/img/cooking/lifestyle_related_illness/arteriosclerosis/tuesday/02.jpg
Canned salmon and egg bowl
Cabbage and Manila littleneck soup with carrot
Vinegared harusame starch noodle and cucumber, carrot

Dinner:
http://www.komenet.jp/database/img/cooking/lifestyle_related_illness/high_blood_pressure/friday/03.jpg
Rice
Grilled mackerel fillet (curry flavor) with potato and spinach
Chicken breast, boiled cabbage, celery dressed with mayonnaise
Grated daikon radish, scallion and bonito shaving garnish

[francesca]

Bezz :bow: I just had lunch, but your posts made me hungry again! :-)
Being italian, and having no time for a serious breakfast in the morning, I have to stick to the tipical croissant and cappuccino. Apparently, bread with marmelade would be healthier, but I find croissants tastier...

I'd love to have miso soup, for breakfast, thoug (and I actually did when I was in Japan).

[pipokun]

Just try to add 1 tsp of Parmesan cheese in miso soup just before you eat it.
Miso and cheese really go well.

[undrentide]

Just try to add 1 tsp of Parmesan cheese in miso soup just before you eat it.
Miso and cheese really go well.

Or drop a small piece of butter. That is also good.

[francesca]

Just try to add 1 tsp of Parmesan cheese in miso soup just before you eat it.
Miso and cheese really go well.
I'm amazed! I wouldn't have thought putting together two elements so far away from each other, at least in my own personal feeling.
I'll surely try it out :-)

[ArmandV]

Heres my view:
Only problem is I get sick of the same things EVERYDAY.

I take it you don't have a Denny's Restaurant in your neck of the woods? There's several in Tokyo. You can get your bacon or sausage and eggs there.