What's the difference between breakfast and porridge?

Breakfast


Definition:

  • (n.) The first meal in the day, or that which is eaten at the first meal.
  • (n.) A meal after fasting, or food in general.
  • (v. i.) To break one's fast in the morning; too eat the first meal in the day.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with breakfast.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The standard varies from modest to lavish – choose carefully and you could be staying in an antique-filled room with your host's paintings on the walls, and breakfasting on the veranda of a tropical garden.
  • (2) There was no significant difference between ratings after the high and low-fibre meals except for fullness, which was greater after the high-fibre breakfast.
  • (3) Moclobemide was administered 30 min after a standard breakfast as well as under fasting conditions.
  • (4) After stabilization of glycemic control on gliclazide, they took a 40 mg tablet of gliclazide either 30 minutes before, immediately before, or immediately after breakfast on 3 consecutive days.
  • (5) The breakfast meetings, cocktails, roundtables and press conferences will all be without incident.
  • (6) The vitamin A and test meals were given at noon (4 h after a standard breakfast), and blood was obtained hourly from noon to midnight for measurement of plasma glucose, insulin, triglyceride (TG), and cholesterol concentrations; concentrations of TG and cholesterol in Sverdberg floatation (Sf) unit above 400 and Sf 20-400 lipoproteins; retinyl ester concentration in plasma; and both Sf more than 400 and Sf 20-400 lipoproteins.
  • (7) Donors ate a typical Israeli breakfast of salad, cheese, yoghurt and pastries.
  • (8) I say ‘fuck sorry.’” Rudd, who addressed a breakfast in Sydney to mark the anniversary, said words must be followed up with actions.
  • (9) Rising samples yielded higher counts than samples collected after breakfast and toothbrushing.
  • (10) Quinidine gluconate 324 mg sustained release tablets (Quinaglute) was administered as a single dose to 15 healthy male subjects following an overnight fast, immediately following a high fat (HF) breakfast or immediately following a low fat (LF) breakfast.
  • (11) Figures show that since Chiles and Bleakley relaunched the network's breakfast programme in early September it has averaged around 100,000 viewers fewer than the show it replaced, GMTV.
  • (12) The main Absolute Radio station, which features presenters including breakfast DJ Christian O'Connell, Frank Skinner and Dave Gorman, had an average weekly reach of 1.375 million listeners in the final quarter of last year, down 16.9% on the previous quarter and 7.9% year on year.
  • (13) When Trump had slept over at the family’s residence in upstate New York, Goldberg’s mother prepared breakfast for him in the morning and mistakenly poured salt instead of sugar all over their guest’s cornflakes.
  • (14) In another six volunteers the absorption of 500 mg of 'cefaclor following administration in the fasting state and after a test breakfast was studied.
  • (15) "A typical day in London would be: wake up hungover, try to get some breakfast in you," he says, barrelling along green-tunnelled country lanes through – as he puts it in Jerusalem – the "wild garlic and May blossom" that mean winter is over.
  • (16) The evacuation of breakfast with butter was inhibited almost to the same degree.
  • (17) The management team gets changed, amid much hilarity when a continental breakfast of croissants and fruit is brought in.
  • (18) Moving away from home and discovering oats (not a common ingredient in Transylvanian food), I thought about mixing the cultures and came up with this savoury breakfast or lunch dish.
  • (19) The traditionally larger meals of the day (lunch and dinner) represented higher proportions of daily intake in fat and obese children; the energy value of breakfast and afternoon snack was inversely related to corpulence.
  • (20) We head off for breakfast at a greasy caff in London's West End.

Porridge


Definition:

  • (n.) A food made by boiling some leguminous or farinaceous substance, or the meal of it, in water or in milk, making of broth or thin pudding; as, barley porridge, milk porridge, bean porridge, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But she noticed Mohamed getting smaller and sicker, until she eventually brought him to the centre, where the nuns give him F-75 – an enriched formula adapted for malnourished children, fortified porridge, plumpy nut, and soup with meat and fish.
  • (2) Everything was quiet, and there was the jacket on the stand – finished, perfect.” As the business grew, McQueen moved to Amwell Street where the studio was “like a magic porridge pot of creativity”, said Witton-Wallace.
  • (3) During pregnancy, a mother should be encouraged to eat less saturated fat and drink few sugary drinks while eating more brown rice, brown bread and porridge, added Poston.
  • (4) 2 Crumble the blue cheese into the porridge and then cook on a medium heat, stirring continuously with a wooden spoon until it thickens to your liking.
  • (5) The good news for Tigers fans is that they are out of that big hot mess of a ballpark and are back home in the Motor City, where mom makes porridge for breakfast and everybody is nice.
  • (6) He reminded me of Fulton Mackay, who played the fierce jailer in Porridge, though without the actor's humorous twinkle.
  • (7) The antimicrobial effects of the different processes involved in the preparation of fermented maize dough porridge were assessed.
  • (8) Breakfast in the hub is disappointing – with porridge and drinks served in paper cups – and costs an extra £5.
  • (9) Lady Jenkin’s “let them eat porridge” outburst overshadowed the Church of England’s Feeding Britain report launch.
  • (10) Fine in the sense of plain porridge, or a grey day on which it neither rains, blows nor shines.
  • (11) Photograph: AAP In her famous 1913 pamphlet, Round about a pound a week , Maud Pember Reeves wrote contemptuously about “the gospel of porridge” – the idea, still common among the wealthy, that the destitute wouldn’t be so wretched if only they invested their money wisely.
  • (12) I drag myself out of bed about 7.30am, grab some porridge with honey and bananas for breakfast and – if I'm in university that day – walk to campus, which is about two minutes away.
  • (13) Porridge with blue cheese and honey-roasted walnuts Columbiahillen's porridge adapts a Transylvanian recipe, turning the decidedly non-traditional combination of blue cheese, walnuts and honey into a comforting lunch or breakfast.
  • (14) In August, the post-harvest season, rice dominated the food pattern and often replaced the porridge made from maize or cassava.
  • (15) In boiling tests with neutral porridge no migration of aluminium into the test matrix was observed from the pan.
  • (16) I had a large bowl of porridge today, which cost 4p.
  • (17) David Henderson, who lived to 107, gave credit to porridge, prunes, and never going to bed on a full stomach.
  • (18) But it doesn't stop there – shoppers are also stocking up on frozen salmon or cod fillets, ready-made frozen curries, chocolate-chip cookies and porridge oats.
  • (19) We want Squeaky Bum Time all the time - and if we don't get it we're going to sit howling in front of our flat-screen televisions, gorging ourselves on scratch cards, KFC popcorn chicken, superficial friendships, crack, two-minute microwave porridge and Ronseal super-quick-drying wood stain.
  • (20) For eight months we have lived on porridge and bread and smuggled yogurt,” says Nabil, a jovial clerk employed by a pharmaceutical company, who did not want his full name published for security reasons.