Nutri-Grain Elevenses Breakfast Raisin Bakes Bars, 6-Piece, Pack of 6

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You're not having a biscuit for Elevenses, you're having a biscuit for Tea. But I don't mean tea. I mean, when we say, "What are you having for Tea?" we mean that time between lunch and dinner. I know it's insane. But at Tea time, we will have tea and biscuits that we dunk into tea.

Azuza - I've heard of a similar theory regarding eating several smaller meals throughout the day in place of three large ones. While some people may follow that to the letter, it's still important to watch the types of foods that are consumed. Several small meals of useless carbs and junk aren't much healthier. Even today, though he is nearly 80 and lives an ascetic lifestyle on a meditation retreat near Oxford, he still loves stuffing his face with biscuits at 11, or, more likely, ten to. Sir: I love elevenses. I could write an essay on elevenses, having grown up in Devon. Having elevenses was a daily gathering of joy and gossip in our home. In school, our morning break occurred at 9:50 a.m. We had ten minutes to grab a soda, chips, or a candy bar from the vending machine. This added energy boost helped us make it through the day. Tan France: Oh no! OK, then I'm going to be honest. I have the flu. We're gonna get through this together! I moved three days ago, and I think it's the exhaustion of how insanely stressful it's been. There's a study that says the top three stressful things in life are divorce, moving…Elevenses, like afternoon tea, is a little detour in the day, a break from toil. The word, or something similar to it, appears in the OED as a bit of Suffolk dialect from 1849. We agreed with Slimming World that we would remove the Syns from our food and shopping lists. LOOKING FOR WEIGHT WATCHERS SMART POINTS? As coffee becomes more popular around the world, some people have started drinking it instead of tea. The options for food and drink during elevenses are endless. The purpose of this break, after all, is to stem any hunger before lunch and to get enough energy to make it to lunch. Similar Traditions Around the World Tolkien says that the hobbits loved elevenses, and one of the Lord of the Rings films has this delightful little exchange. The hobbits are on a trek when hobbit Pippin suggest they take a break. The hard-working human Aragorn is all for pressing on: You know France from his work as a style savant on Queer Eye and competition show Next in Fashion. Now, in partnership with yogurt brand Noosa, he's working to bring the term from his native Britain into vogue.

Many people have heard of the British tradition of afternoon or high tea. This is an afternoon break with tea, sandwiches, and scones to help with hunger before a late dinner. Elevenses are a similar tradition, except that they happen in the late morning.

The concept of elevenses has even made its way into literature. In the Middle Earth novels by J.R.R. Tolkien, elevenses are one of the seven daily meals of the hobbits, served between second breakfast and luncheon. That's it. My grandfather was a Brit like you and would use one single cup all day for multiple rounds of tea. Margaret Thatcher did away with the 11am ⅓ pint of warm milk in schools that had conditioned all of us to take a break and our stomachs to expect a little something.

Since Weight Watchers introduced the new Personal Points plan it is harder to calculate points. This means I can no longer offer exact WW Points for food lists. (I am working on the recipe part). HOW MANY CALORIES SHOULD I BE CONSUMING PER DAY? When I was growing up my Dad used to love elevenses. It was an important custom to him. At 11am, during the holidays, we stopped whatever we were doing and with great joy he would set out a little treat for my brother and me. You don’t have to go as far as the Swedes and light candles in your office’s break room, but you can make it a time to socialize.

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So like the tea break, it’s certainly been around since the Industrial Revolution, but surely the custom is ancient? I can imagine shepherds in Roman times resting under a tree after a hard morning’s herding, and getting out a little cake to scoff. Perhaps the classical scholars out there will be able to quote me an occasion when elevenses or something like it is mentioned in Ovid. In the beginning, tea was an exclusive beverage. As it was imported from China and India, it was expensive and generally only consumed by the wealthy upper classes. The lower classes mainly drank ale and gin in taverns.