I Am Not In to Brunch

I am not a brunch person.  I know...I know...who isn’t a brunch person?  Not me. I don’t know what it is. Theoretically I like the idea of going out with family or friends to a nice Sunday brunch, a leisurely meal with all sorts of pastries, omelettes, hash browns, smoked salmon and bagels, and shrimp cocktail.  But practically speaking it just doesn’t make much sense for me. What even is brunch? By definition (from the Internet), brunch is “a late morning meal eaten instead of breakfast and lunch.” Why would I give up breakfast and lunch for just one meal?

See this is where you’ll see my type A-ness shine.  I (and my family) eat all my meals every day on a pretty regular schedule.  Breakfast before 8am, lunch by noon, and dinner by 5:30pm. Sure we will deviate from that schedule on weekends or vacation but only by 30 minutes, an hour absolute tops.  I have my menu of things we like to eat for each of those meals and they are defined by being “breakfast” “lunch” or “dinner.” Organized I am, flexible, not so much. It just takes the brainwork out of meals, which come every few hours, every.single.day.

Anyhow, my family and I rarely eat out for breakfast because it’s not that easy to get up, dressed, out of the house, and at a restaurant by 8am.  It just doesn’t seem worth that rush. And the crowds, waits, etc. adds on more time and inconvenience for food, that to me, isn’t all that. I love seeing others post on social media about all the nice places and yummy things they eat at brunch, but I don’t really want to replace my breakfast and lunch with a mid-morning meal.  Even if it’s just me meeting friends I don’t get why it can’t be breakfast (before 9am) or just lunch (11am or after). I can’t last long enough in the morning to skip breakfast and if I eat my oatmeal when I get up, I won’t want to eat at 10am. It really boggles my mind when people will do a brunch at 2pm. 2pm?! Now you’ve really stumped me!

Not going to lie, when I get an invitation to go to “brunch” I break in to a little sweat.  Even if it’s just rhetoric and it’s really a breakfast or a lunch, I do a little freak out in my mind because I don’t know what to do with a brunch!  What time, where to eat, what to wear, do I eat before, do I eat after? Suffice it to say, I have issues!