Crazy Facts

You eat WHAT for breakfast?

If you lived in California 250 years ago, there was no cereal, pop-tarts, or toast for breakfast! 

Imagine how these foods would taste right after waking up:

• Salmon,mussels and tuna.  The Chumash Indians living on the coast had to catch their breakfast before they could eat it!

• Cactus pear juice or honey mesquite blossom juice.  People living in the desert might have sipped on these sweet drinks from plants that grow in the desert. 

• Acorn mush.  Indians and farmers in the Central Valley made acorn mush.  Acorn mush is similar to oatmeal. It was made by heating water and ground acorns in a basket.  Fruit and meat were added to the mush for more flavor!

Do you think your parents and grandparents as kids ate the same things you eat for breakfast?  It would be interesting to ask them!