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.
Your teenager AND your husband
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Rusty@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
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.
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
Cort@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Fuck that guy. I’m gonna go buy a box of corn flakes and eat it while I jerk off all day.
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
? 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.
HessiaNerd@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Dont forget the yogurt enemas.
sunbytes@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
FatVegan@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
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
ickplant@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
To be fair, my husband will just have 6 bowls of cereal in a row all of a sudden.
But my son… here he is with his mixing bowl.
ceenote@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Your son is producing fewer dishes. Be better, husband.
ickplant@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Husband does reuse the bowl though. He is not a monster.
Drusas@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
You should introduce your son to Korean soups/stews. If he likes miso soup that much, he'll find some favorites in Korea as well. I'm especially partial to spicy doenjang jigae (a Korean miso stew--you can mostly use the ingredients recommended to add to the broth as suggestions and use whatever you like because it's all about the broth).
This is very similar to how I make it except that I use packaged dashi and usually use shellfish and leafy greens, sometimes noodles (udon or dangmyeon glass noodles): https://www.beyondkimchee.com/doenjang-jjigae/
It's easier than it sounds. Put dashi packet in water. Heat then remove. Add doenjang, gochujang, garlic and heat up/mix. Add solid ingredients of your choice and heat until cooked through. Add green onions (optional, I guess, but c'mon). Eat.
So good. Thank you, Korea.
ickplant@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
He would probably love that. He does love some Korean instant noodles. Thank you so much, I shall be trying this!
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
It sounds easier to fly to Korea
prettybunnys@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
We had a 4 box treaty, no more than 4 boxes of cereal could be opened at a time.
Leading to box reckonings where multiple bowls would be eaten to bring “peace to the kingdom”
🫠
5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Are the tofu blocks in America bigger or something, because 200g tofu isn’t that much of a deal.
Drusas@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
TIL Canada has small blocks of tofu.
I've bought tofu in the US and in Japan and the standard block is the same size in both (approximately--400g in Japan; 14oz in the US). Can vary slightly by brand and it course smaller options are available, but that's the usual size for at least those two.
magnetosphere@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
It takes an enormous amount of energy to grow. One of my friend’s sons actually has stretch marks because he grew so quickly one summer.
Within limits, I think teenagers have a license to eat ridiculous amounts of food.
NABDad@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
When I was a teenager, my mom made some baked pasta and brought it with a 2 liter Pepsi to me while I was working on stage crew at the high school.
I took it up to the spot light booth and ate it.
When I got home she asked me how everyone liked it. I told her I ate it all. She said she made enough for the entire stage crew. I told her she was wrong, it was only enough for me.
I hit 6’4" tall when I was 14. At my lowest weight at that height, I was 165 pounds.
I wish I had been taught to eat a single serving, wait, and then eat more if necessary. It wouldn’t have made a difference at the times when I needed to eat like twelve people, but it would have made it easier to stop eating like twelve when I didn’t need to.
However, I’ve had smaller adults try to tell my kids that they were eating too much. How can you meet me, get a pain in your neck from looking up at me, and still think you understand how much my kids need to eat?
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
I wish I had been taught to eat a single serving, wait, and then eat more if necessary.
My parents kinda did.
They did prevent us from eating more than about a plateful in one go, but it was never done in such a way so as to shame us.
If we were still hungry 15 minutes later, then yea have some more.
In the same vein, our parents made it a point that if we were hungry, we could eat. Wake up in the middle of the night hungry? No worries, fix yourself a sandwich or whatever else. They never, ever, shamed us for eating when hungry.
It was always “are you really still hungry” or “careful, too much too fast and you’ll feel like throwing up” and also “don’t forget to eat, I bet you’re hungry by now” when we got old enough to prepare meals for ourselves.
Food was never off limits at home, and the amounts were always about feeling good. Enough to be sated, not so much you felt sick.
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
God this was my brother, by 14 he was 6’1 at one point his growing pains where so bad that a doctor gave him fucking pain killers. And the good shit at that.
Not to mention the sheer glut of food he could eat. I was a highly active runner and still growing my self and God damn he could eat circles around me.
We would have lost the house if food costs what it does now back then. My poor mother.
FatVegan@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
You don’t need to eat a bag of sugar to grow
magnetosphere@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
That’s where the “within limits” bit comes in.
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
oh yeah, I remember being able to eat an entire large pizza and 32 garlic bread bites in one sitting as a teenager
gustofwind@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s human kibble basically
Try this:
- instead of a giant bowl pour a regular bowl with extra milk
- when you finish the cereal do not drink the milk
- pour more cereal
- repeat as desired
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
edible_funk@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I unironically wish this was a thing. And was halfway decent and nutritious.
5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
CobblerScholar@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And after about halfway through the third bowl you begin to regret everything
someguy3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Food pellets.
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The milk gets too warm.
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Nah, its warm like it just came from the udder and full of chunks and mucus, just as god intended.
87Six@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
… Too warm?
You guys don’t eat the cereal milk heated?..
CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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
tetris11@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
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
CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
doingthestuff@lemy.lol 2 weeks ago
I had a project to track my calorie intake for a few weeks when I was 15. It was over 7000 calories a day.
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Someone probably shouldn’t be your teenage son AND your husband.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
That’s because that isn’t food.
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
No, it’s because teenage boys eat a lot
Source: was teenage boy, ate a lot
chewypoops@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Cereal isn’t food? I am curious to hear your logic here…
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
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.
healthline.com/…/are-breakfast-cereals-healthy#su…
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.
TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
What is awesome is that you will go through like six boxes of cereal in two weeks, but then when you buy six boxes for the next month they are still sitting there.
doingthestuff@lemy.lol 2 weeks ago
W 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.
someguy3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Bachelor chow!
zxqwas@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is why they invented leaving your family.
jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
My parents always had rice in the rice cooker and some kind of stew in the fridge. My favorite is the pig feet stews.
Cereal is overated
eve@evecodes.com 2 weeks ago
And they wonder why Americans aren’t having more kids
stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I used to do that
diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I saw this in a movie once. Ever since I thought it was super normal to do this and always got so sick.
VitoRobles@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
I bought a family size bucket of chicken from the supermarket. 12 pieces. I watched my two kids race to see who can eat the most. I had a single piece.
TractorDuffy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
the solution to every human problem is “don’t have kids”
no humans, no human problems
pull out of her.
whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Get some grapes nuts it’ll last for months
MehBlah@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I knew a family that told their adult teenage son he could only have one bowl of cereal in the morning and that is what he did.
sparkles@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
Have to teach the child (grown adult should have self control and understanding of portion size) healthy eating habits.
I make one grocery trip a week so I’m not dealing with all that.
mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
They are basically savages.
S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
And it’s dry… I was just looking at her in disbelief the whole time. Then we have lunch and she gobbled 1kg of fruit afterwards… Bitch’s not even fat yo where she’s storing all that shit?
BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Been there, done that. With half and half instead of milk.
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
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.
FireRetardant@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
y’know, the kids in africa and all
pennomi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If you use a funnel to pour the cereal into the jug, you can have a swig of soggy bits on demand!
breadleyloafsyou@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Ooh, I like that, “hyperpalatable”.
“Egregious” is also good, but I knew that one.
protist@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Read: Dessert marketed as breakfast
alaphic@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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
wuffah@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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Okokimup@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“Ugh I hate clam chowder. Its just hot ocean milk with dead animal croutons.”
curiousaur@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Or embrace savory cereal and put cheese, sour cream and hot sauce into oatmeal. Trust me.
FishFace@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
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.
Mongostein@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
It’s the best when you’re baked too. It really helps with the dry mouth
tanisnikana@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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suodrazah@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I usually eat it dry with a glass of oat milk on the side.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Excuse me, you can pour crack and pop rocks into a bowl.
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Depends which cereal we’re talkjng 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.