The Most Important Meal of the Day

thumb|300px|right|The Super Foods sings "The Most Important Meal of the Day," from Food for Thought.
The Most Important Meal of the Day is a Sesame Street song from the 1990s performed mainly by the Anything Muppets.
A young boy (Peter Linz) is indignant about eating breakfast; he'd rather play. Out of nowhere, a chef (Julianne Buescher) appears and is shocked by what she hears. In an upbeat gospel song, she sings about the importance of breakfast, with the help of Mr. Handford and a montage of people and Muppets enjoying their meal, including a tiger, a horse, Ernie, Elmo, Telly, Big Bird, and Barkley. The boy is convinced by what he hears, and asks his mother what's for breakfast.
The Super Foods perform a version of the song (with some different lyrics) in the education resource video, Food for Thought: Eating Well on a Budget.
==Notes==
*Performers (other than those noted above) include Lisa Buckley (as the boy's mother), Jim Martin (the banana), Alice Dinnean (the orange juice), Pam Arciero (the cereal), Joey Mazzarino (the muffin), and David Rudman (the milk).
*This segment was taped on November 18, 1993.Tony Geiss Papers at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University
==Releases==
;Video
*Let's Eat!: Funny Food Songs (1998, edited)
;Online
*SesameStreet's YouTube Channel 
**Anything Muppet version: 
**Super Foods version: 
==Sources==
__NOWYSIWYG__
Category:Sesame Street Songs