Every brand is trying to convince you it's something different, something better, and there's probably at least one you're buying into. The "kids only" sugar bombs boast whole grains, and Special K comes studded with chocolate bits and sweet yogurt clusters.
But it wasn't always that way. Cereal's position as America's default breakfast food is a remarkable feat, not of flavor or culture, but of marketing and packaging design. It's a century-long history of advertising, a brilliant campaign that capitalized on the intersection of industrialization, health-consciousness, and changing class attitudes that completely upended the way Americans ate.
Me? I'm a tea and toast kinda guy and I seem to be doing okay for 73+years and going. What do you guys do in the morning? Chime in...
Organic vanilla yogurt w/ berries & local honey. Luzianne coffee w/ chickory. Grassmilk 1/2 & 1/2. No sugar.
ReplyDeleteI break my fast after 20hrs with an full meal of 80/20 protein, fats/carbs. Oatmeal with blueberries are my carbs sometimes. I haven't consumed boxed cereal since I was an kid, at that time my fav was Capt Crunch.
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well, most days it what is left over from last night. if nothing is there. then I cook up bacon and eggs and maybe some hash browns. maybe some oatmeal if I feel like it. cereal is something I eat if I stuck in a hospital.
ReplyDeleteI love breakfast. every morning its, bacon egg and toast, sausage egg and toast, ham hash browns and Eggs, oatmeal blueberries sausage and maple syrup; oh and the carb infused occasional bagel
ReplyDeleteSame as you. Been eating just toast and a glass of milk for many years.
ReplyDeleteI haven't had breakfast in 46 years. Only then because my girlfriends mother insisted.
ReplyDeleteeggs n sausage. fried on cast iron in butter or bacon grease. sometimes that's my only meal.
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Black coffee
ReplyDeleteMost mornings I have 1 hard boiled egg, a piece of sourdough toast with butter and some coffee. .
ReplyDeleteAlternate. Eggs potatoes and sausage one day and ostmeal and protein shake next day. Swap every other day. Usualll get a Latte mid morning. Can skip lunch but usually don’t.
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