My breakfast is an over easy egg on homemade toast every morning. It’s relatively low calorie and contains a good amount of protein to give me a feeling of fullness. Eggs are great sources of protein and aren’t as damaging to the environment as something like bacon, ham, or sausage.

It’s been built into the culinary culture of the United States. Just as much as beans for breakfast in the UK or pasta in Italy. Hell, even carbonara was born in Italy during the second world war because Americans asked italians to make hearty american meals with pasta and eggs. Its probably because America was/is so large that many households used to raise chickens for an easy source of protein when meat wasn’t as easily transported in the 1800s and early 1900s. All you needed was a backyard, a coop to keep them safe from raccoons/foxes/hawks/etc., and food. Its not as common now but maggots are an excellent food source for chickens and it’s super simple to build a “maggot farm” with compost. Plus you would get free dirt for the garden out of it.