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 1 day ago
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 23 hours 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 20 hours 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.
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day 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 22 hours ago
Dont forget the yogurt enemas.
Cort@lemmy.world 1 day 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 1 day ago
Fuck that guy. I’m gonna go buy a box of corn flakes and eat it while I jerk off all day.
sunbytes@lemmy.world 17 hours 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 21 hours 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
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Someone probably shouldn’t be your teenage son AND your husband.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
ickplant@lemmy.world 1 day 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 1 day ago
Your son is producing fewer dishes. Be better, husband.
ickplant@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Husband does reuse the bowl though. He is not a monster.
Drusas@fedia.io 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day ago
It sounds easier to fly to Korea
prettybunnys@piefed.social 1 day 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”
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5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Are the tofu blocks in America bigger or something, because 200g tofu isn’t that much of a deal.
Drusas@fedia.io 1 day 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.
TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world 12 hours 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
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
It won’t last forever. It will rot the day after I buy it. -_-
Jax@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
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.
ThunderQueen@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
That makes sense. They are full of fats, proteins, and other carbs. Lots of them ae even dusted in salt or sugar
BlackDragon@slrpnk.net 7 hours ago
One of my best friends doesn’t like nuts. He’s very sensitive to bitterness.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Or they might develop cooking skills, which enables you to turn even the healthiest of ingredients into delicious junk.
VitoRobles@lemmy.today 11 hours ago
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.
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 15 hours 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.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 15 hours ago
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
stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Was it not illegal back then to smoke weed when you were a teen
Krzd@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Ah yes, because the legality of it famously stopped so many people from smoking weed…
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
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.
CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 1 day 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 19 hours 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 14 hours 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 18 hours 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.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
That’s because that isn’t food.
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
No, it’s because teenage boys eat a lot
Source: was teenage boy, ate a lot
chewypoops@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Cereal isn’t food? I am curious to hear your logic here…
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 day 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.
magnetosphere@fedia.io 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day 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 22 hours 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 21 hours ago
You don’t need to eat a bag of sugar to grow
magnetosphere@fedia.io 13 hours ago
That’s where the “within limits” bit comes in.
gustofwind@lemmy.world 1 day 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
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
This is why they invented leaving your family.
doingthestuff@lemy.lol 18 hours 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.
zxqwas@lemmy.world 16 hours 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.
eve@evecodes.com 12 hours ago
And they wonder why Americans aren’t having more kids
stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I used to do that
whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
Get some grapes nuts it’ll last for months
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 1 day 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.
someguy3@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Bachelor chow!
mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 15 hours ago
They are basically savages.
diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I saw this in a movie once. Ever since I thought it was super normal to do this and always got so sick.
BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Been there, done that. With half and half instead of milk.
VitoRobles@lemmy.today 1 day 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.
MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 day 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 1 day 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.
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day ago
y’know, the kids in africa and all
pennomi@lemmy.world 1 day 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 1 day ago
It’s designed that way on purpose. Cereal manufacturers are some of the most egregious abusers of hyperpalatable foods.
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Ooh, I like that, “hyperpalatable”.
“Egregious” is also good, but I knew that one.
protist@mander.xyz 1 day ago
Read: Dessert marketed as breakfast
alaphic@lemmy.world 1 day 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 1 day ago
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Okokimup@lemmy.world 1 day ago
“Ugh I hate clam chowder. Its just hot ocean milk with dead animal croutons.”
curiousaur@reddthat.com 1 day ago
Or embrace savory cereal and put cheese, sour cream and hot sauce into oatmeal. Trust me.
FishFace@piefed.social 19 hours 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 1 day ago
It’s the best when you’re baked too. It really helps with the dry mouth
tanisnikana@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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suodrazah@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I usually eat it dry with a glass of oat milk on the side.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Excuse me, you can pour crack and pop rocks into a bowl.
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 1 day 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.