Lpt: replace all - and i mean all the snacks and prepackaged food with fruits and vegtables or just healthy things. Watch, as these thi gs will last for seemingly forever. Until you’ll be forced to eat them. It’s funny
It won’t last forever. It will rot the day after I buy it.
-_-
In my experience, without the drive of ‘I need to eat better’ really being cemented into your soul, this will just result in everyone covertly buying snacks and letting tons of fruit go to waste.
People do seem to like nuts though, barring a legitimate reason like an allergy; I don’t think I’ve met anyone that dislikes nuts.
That makes sense. They are full of fats, proteins, and other carbs. Lots of them are even dusted in salt or sugar
I bought a cantaloupe recently. It sat there for a week because I didn’t want to cut it. Then when I cut it, it disappeared within hours.
And they wonder why Americans aren’t having more kids
I used to do that
Get some grapes nuts it’ll last for months
This is why they invented leaving your family.
“Mother won’t be back, son. We ate too much cereal and brought this upon ourselves.” - my husband, probably.
Can’t wait! I’d eat like 4-5k calories a day, and literally couldn’t put on weight, although swimming competitively helped a bit I’m sure. Was just a bean pole.
Smoked an unhealthy amount of weed as a kid too, and my go-to high snack was a half gallon of milk and an Entemann’s All Butter French Crunbcake. Believe it or not, I cannot eat like that anymore.
Was it not illegal back then to smoke weed when you were a teen
Yes, it was. Nobody was going to jail over weed though. They handed it a year of probation if you got caught by the cops.
Ah yes, because the legality of it famously stopped so many people from smoking weed…
Well, you could get put in jail! They would risk getting high for that? Bit stupid, honestly.
I lifted weights (not competitively), had PE class and did folk dance and that was enough that I could also eat around 4-5k calories daily and not put on much weight besides a little muscle mass
Ah and I also cycled to school oftentimes
Someone probably shouldn’t be your teenage son AND your husband.
Yeah that was me. Come home from school after eating a big school lunch, eat a quarter loaf of bread and 1L milk. Have a 2 hour nap, eat 2 servings for dinner, ask if anyone else wants more before scraping the leftovers in the pots and pans onto my plate.
They are basically savages.
We usually have four young people around the house ages 16-21 ((only three are ours). We’re lower middle class and don’t receive any food assistance. Our food bill straight up destroys our budget.
I have 4 boys 12-17. Costco treats me like royalty.
Yeah for me Costco is almost an hour away but Sam’s Club is about 5 mins. So yeah that’s where I do a lot of shopping. Thank goodness for bulk packs.
Been there, done that. With half and half instead of milk.
Excuse me, half and half!? People used to give me trouble for homogenized milk.
I used to be dreadfully underweight before my Crohn’s was under control. I tried to squeeze in calories wherever I could. Most of the time, I had meal replacement shakes with my meals. Then, I found meds that worked for me and my eating habits backfired. Every now and then, I may slip back to my old ways by following out a loaf of bread and filling it with a container of Nutella and eating the entire thing in one sitting. Hence why I am now 246lbs.
When I was a teen in highschool… I was in a weightlifting gym class and I did soccer. When is get home, for a snack if have a party pizza (or two). Probably went through a carton of milk myself. God my mom was so pissed. I was probably half or grocery budget alone for a few years
I had a project to track my calorie intake for a few weeks when I was 15. It was over 7000 calories a day.
I’ve got a cousin like you – football club all day every day. Ate like a wolf and ran it all off within an hour.
Then he quit football and chonked up because he didn’t know how to reduce his food intake
Oh man, that hits home… just before COVID hit, I was doing 5k’s and got injured. And I didn’t transition to a lower calorie intake to adjust to the lower physical activity. Just as I was starting to get back into the gym… COVID landed and the gym was closed. Now, I’m a fat bastard. But trying to work on that.
I mean I think it happened to all of us. I used to cycle 30km a day before COVID, and then once work became fully remote, I just started hibernating for winter and never stopped.
Also a fat bastard, but I live in the hope that it’s nothing that a gym can’t fix. Here’s to 2026, friend!
I’m still can’t believe some crazy guy 100 years ago convinced the whole country that eating sugar with milk is somehow a healthy breakfast. And the same guy convinced the same country to do the genital mutilation on male infants.
Kellogg’s theory was that bland foods that were full of fiber would stop people from masturbating.
Because he didn’t approve of that kind of icky nonsense.
So I think the sugar came later.
I think Graham of Graham crackers was working with a similar concept.
You’re combining the two Kellogg brothers. One thought that pleasure was sin, and that a good diet should be as bland as possible to maintain piety. The other thought his brother’s cereal tasted like shit and was really hard to market and sell, until he added sugar and salt, then subsequently became filthy rich.
Ironically, pre-sugared cereal may have also reduced the amount of sugar in kids’ cereal. For a while, kids were taking regular cereal and dumping sugar on it. Instead of actually parenting and telling them no, the parents started buying sugary cereal.
? I thought both Jackson and Kellogg didn’t like sugar? Kellogg even believed excitement caused masturbation, and wanted bland unexciting food was the way to go. That and dick piercings that would make erections painful.
Dont forget the yogurt enemas.
And both were done with the goal of reducing masturbation.
Knowing better has a full day’s worth of content on this, if you’d like to know more
Fuck that guy. I’m gonna go buy a box of corn flakes and eat it while I jerk off all day.
Yeah true but it’s so fucking good sometimes
Genital mutilation?
Don’t fucking judge my breakfast
I’m always blown away by these tiny cookies. They came after me and bought them for fun once. I couldn’t even eat them, they are beyond sweet. Eat some cookies for breakfast fatso
That’s because that isn’t food.
No, it’s because teenage boys eat a lot
Source: was teenage boy, ate a lot
Cereal isn’t food? I am curious to hear your logic here…
It’s candy.
I remember visiting some friends in the US they were so excited to have us try all the famous cereal brands like Fruit Loops etc. It was so sugary it was totally inedible to us, absolutely disgusting.
That said there obviously is cereal out there that can be eaten healthily.
Ah, so you’re British or? Because I’ve brought plenty of American candy and snacks over to my Danish colleagues and they fucking love them.
British, yeah. We just didn’t anticipate cereal being so sugary. I also couldn’t handle the drinks either lol. Seeing so many people drinking these huge drinks and knowing it was real sugar and not even a substitute is honestly one of my main memories of being in the US, which feels pretty sad. Amazing views at least!
They eat licorice in Denmark, so…
Sure, but licorice is full of ammonium salts. Not sweet in the slightest.
I mean they have weird taste in Denmark :)
I’m sure you could scarf down an entire party size bag of Doritos on your own as well. That doesn’t make it a good or preferred source of nutrition.
Try asking the kid if he can routinely scarf down a dozen eggs every morning. He won’t, unless he’s the size of Andre The Giant, because that’s actual food that will correctly signal satiety.
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/are-breakfast-cereals-healthy#sugar-carbs
Anyways I assume the story is referring to the industrial sludge Americans call “breakfast cereal”, garbage that is designed to be addictive. And not, say, some kind of ancestral Kashi type of thing.
If it were actual food, you wouldn’t be able to eat so much of it. Nothing in nature would have been easily available in industrial quantities like that, making it extremely unlikely we evolved to eat so much of it. It’s engineered to be that way.
Hm. I remember I ate 6-8 scrambled eggs with two packed sandwhiches for breakfast when I was a teen, and I am only average height.
On the other hand, once my metabolism slowed down I started inflating like a baloon and had really hard time learning how to eat less xD
I could eat an entire fucking box of plain “corn flakes” if you let me when I was 16. No sugar, no milk. Was some store brand knock off cereal too. Didn’t even have added sugar. Was basically cardboard flakes.
But fuck did I love them. I miss those shitty ass cereals now everything has a pound of added sugar ):
I do NOT buy cereal for this reason. I have no restraint. Whether it be Bran Flakes (lovely), Special K (mmm!), or Crunchy Nut (oooh my god!), I will scarf the entire box down with milk in about 20 minutes whilst watching cartoons.
So I don’t buy it. I know what I’m like. Thank god I never took up smoking.
“But once I’ve got my Wheatabix, I know that I’ll survive, I’ll survive…” I know their adverts very well :P
Name checks out…
Cereal is the most delicious thing in the universe that doesn’t require anything more than pouring two things into a bowl. No peeling, heating, mixing, blending, layering, etc. Two things, in a bowl, and you don’t use goes back in the place it came from.
That bowl was a little big for me, I’ll just drain the milk back into the jug and put these soggy bits back in the box.
y’know, the kids in africa and all
I thought the rock stars fixed that ages ago.
That money went nowhere near any kids with flies in their eyes. The government got their cut though, and then used food as a weapon, literally as bait to capture rebels who were then abused
Darn you rock stars!
Kids in Africa also don’t like soggy cereal?
If you use a funnel to pour the cereal into the jug, you can have a swig of soggy bits on demand!
I’ve seen a few people attempt to open a “cereal milk” restaurant, where you can order CocoPuff milk, Cinnamon Toast Crunch milk, Fruity Pebbles milk, etc.
The few I’ve seen have flamed out pretty fast, which is predictable for an idea that was obviously cooked up by a couple of rich college kids while passing the bong, and then convincing their wealthy fathers into coughing up the starting costs.
Youve seen this more than once? wut? same or different cities?
I’ve seen it written about at least 3 different times, in different cities. Like I said, it’s the kind of an idea that sounds like genius when you’re baked.
It’s designed that way on purpose. Cereal manufacturers are some of the most egregious abusers of hyperpalatable foods.
Read: Dessert marketed as breakfast
So, like pancakes? Or jam on toast?
Ooh, I like that, “hyperpalatable”.
“Egregious” is also good, but I knew that one.
Until one day, when you’re eating soup and innocently toss in some croutons, only to realize that what you’re eating is essentially cereal: savory edition, which you find so inexplicably disgusting that you can’t even stomach the thought of regular cereal for a depressing amount of time
That only happens if you reverse your arbitrary categorisations and let them dictate your feelings about things, instead of realising that categorisations are a) arbitrary and b) can be refined.
Cereal has to, at least, involve a cereal like rice or oats or whatever as the main ingredient.
You mean, like… Corn?!?!
Vegetable soup (with corn) has entered the chat
And my point stands.
Also, you and your strict interpretation of ‘cereal’ have room to talk right after lecturing me about arbitrary categorizations… Sounds like someone needs to take their own advice, eh? 😋🙃
Hmm I like the cut of your gib
Who is out there saying soup had to be vegetarian, or that croutons make soup not soup? Half of the chart is a waste of potential controversy
where are you reading croutons?
Croutons are solid
We might need another chart about this
Vanilla soy latte is a three-bean soup.
Neither coffee nor vanilla is a bean. Coffee is a seed of the coffea family and vanilla is an orchid
If cereal can be a soup, coffee can be a bean.
The ocean is a soup.
A primordial soup.
(yo mamma)
“Ugh I hate clam chowder. Its just hot ocean milk with dead animal croutons.”
neh-vier!
Or embrace savory cereal and put cheese, sour cream and hot sauce into oatmeal. Trust me.
Never speak to me or my son ever again.
It’s the best when you’re baked too. It really helps with the dry mouth
You don’t even need to add 2 things together. Cereal is great on its own
I’ve yet to meet a cereal that was better dry. Some came damned close (Cracklin’ Oat Bran is my fave), but still not better.
Cinnamon Life
Life?!? You’re technically correct because Life is awful with milk, but Life isn’t anything more than an ingredient for homemade Bits & Bites.
Crispix/Chex might be better dry
You’re right, only because they suck at being cereal. It’s boxed gruel disguised as cereal.
Ehhh, other cereals are just sugary gruel. I’d prefer fewer calories directly from sugar / corn syrup in my diet.
Rice chex and crispix both are delicious. Shame on you.
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I usually eat it dry with a glass of oat milk on the side.
Excuse me, you can pour crack and pop rocks into a bowl.
Depends which cereal we’re talking about. I’ve watching those ‘lets make lucky charms / something with chocolate’ videos and they’re basically making a complicated soup, solidifying it, and cutting it up into tiny pieces, just to make a basic soup of milk afterwards.
The weirdest thing to me was realising zalot of cereals already contain milk. Actual liquid milk, that is, baked in.
