01/13/2026
I've been thinking about applesauce on toast for a while and I need your input.
It seems that most of my Adventist friends have this breakfast on their menu every now and then, or had it regularly when they were kids. And my non-SDA friends think this is a weird breakfast food. And I'm thinking of doing some research on this, and I wonder if this food combo comes from the sanitarium culture.
So I wonder if you can comment on a few things to help me frame my research. Do you (or did you when you were a kid) eat applesauce on toast? And are you SDA? Specifically, are you multi-generational SDA, from North America, and what is your ethnic background?
Or if you DO eat applesauce on toast and are not connected to an SDA lineage, I'd like to hear about this as well.
I suspect that the roots of both the applesauce and toast are both coming from German or British culinary heritage, and the solidified in the sanitarium culture and health reform movement that Adventists embraced.
And what variety do you eat? I grew up eating only butter on the toast with applesauce. Marla grew up eating with with peanut butter on the toast, which seems to be also a very SDA thing to do... adding nut butters. Friends of ours eat it with red hots on top of the applesauce. Any other varieties?
