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.
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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
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.
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
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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.
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.
Yeah true but it’s so fucking good sometimes
Genital mutilation?
Don’t fucking judge my breakfast
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.
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.
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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?
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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.
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