| No free toys for me |
[Dec. 8th, 2008|09:31 am] |
When I grew up, my parents didn't buy sugared cereals because "they are bad for you." So I grew up to Shredded Wheat, Grape Nuts, Cheerios, and Wheaties. No sugar was on the breakfast table, and pouring milk in your cereal was considered "a waste of milk." Since I wasn't allowed to watch any TV besides PBS when I was young, I wasn't subject to the media blitz of "Chocolate Coated Sugar Bombs" as was my peers. This also explains why I never grew up to Kool-Aid, Soda, butter, and salt. Sugar, salt, and butter were not *banned* from my house, per se; for instance, we had cookies and crackers. But it was just heavily discouraged.
The rare times I was allowed to stay at someone's house, my mom called ahead and said I wasn't allowed to eat sugared cereal, and she'd send me with a sandwich baggie of "approved" cereal if requested. This was one of the MANY reasons I didn't sleep over much.
When I was about 12, I did some research and found Cheerios and Wheaties had sugar in them, and pointed this out in a moment of pure stupidity (the plan was to try and get Kix on our table, but this backfired). Guess what cereals I now had left until I left home?
I stopped eating breakfast around this time as well. I was *well* aware of other cereals my friends had growing up and the concept of toys and such, but sadly, to this day, all I can stomach for sugared cereal in the morning is Fruit Loops (thanks to my wife, who weaned me up to them). |
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good thing you never ponited out to them that a 'serving' of grapenuts is something ridiculous, like a quarter of a cup.....
I had a cereal aversion for years *because* of the milk (I didn't know I was lactose-intolerant until - oh, about the time we worked together). I actually experimented with water in cereal, but it was gross. I often ate dry cereal, but went for toasted bread things whenever possible, and only occasionally begged for something super-sugary like Fruity Pebbles, which I was as likely to eat dry from the box as an afternoon snack.
Therefore, my inner child hereby gives your inner child all my school milk that I never drank (even when practically ordered to) and all the cereal you can stand.
I always thought some clever marketer should have started putting toys in healthy cereals.
I would somehow have pegged your household as an oatmeal sort of place, maybe because Dickensian levels of deprivation and porridge came to mind.
Cinnamon Toast Crunch can be as addictive as crack.
From: (Anonymous)
2008-12-08 09:39 pm (UTC)
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I like Shredded Wheat and Grape Nuts. (Got to let the grape nuts soak a while)
Mike | |
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