Having gone to bed hungry last Friday night, I woke up starving Saturday morning. When I’m that hungry, nothing sounds better than 
sausages, pancakes, grits and an omelet. Well, there were no sausages in the fridge, nor pork of any kind, not even one slice of the applewood bacon that I buy in bulk from Costco. And, no, there was not one can of corned beef hash in the pantry. My desire for a hearty breakfast drove my search for meat. All I could find in the way of “meat” were a few cans of tuna, sardines, and salmon. Sardines for breakfast? Maybe in Scandinavia. Tuna? I think not. But the can of wild Alaskan pink salmon sparked a childhood memory of my mother sautéing onions and peppers , adding a can of salmon, scrambling in an egg or two, serving it over rice and calling it supper.
It tasted pretty good, and even better when I thought of how much more nutritious my improvised breakfast was than my planned “All American” breakfast. Whereas I would have gotten minimal and vague nutrition (along with much fat) from the desired pork, I actually was getting protein and omega 3’s from the salmon. The onions provided antioxidants and the peppers were a source of potassium, fiber, phytonutrients, magnesium and vitamins A, C and B-6. True, I did get mostly carbs from the grits (along with a bit of fiber), but not nearly as many as I would have gotten from pancakes drenched in maple syrup. Vine-ripened tomatoes would have provided more nutrients than the fried green ones, but still I obtained vitamin C, fiber and beta-carotene. And to my credit, I did use only one tablespoonful of olive oil for the frying. And, of course, the bread provided fiber and several vitamins and minerals. The orange juice provided vitamin C, but much more sugar than if I had just eaten an orange instead.
So what’s the moral of this story? Don’t go to bed hungry? Always keep some form of pork in the house? I suppose the moral is, when you don’t have in your fridge the food you really want, you should at least have on hand some healthy alternatives, i.e., the food you really need. Sometimes being forced to think outside the pancake mix box is good (for you).
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