That’s because that isn’t food.
Cereal isn’t food? I am curious to hear your logic here…
I saw this in a movie once. Ever since I thought it was super normal to do this and always got so sick.
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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.
Yeah true but it’s so fucking good sometimes
? 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.
And both were done with the goal of reducing masturbation.
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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.
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?
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.
My wife and I have been working out and losing weight and now the question is “am I hungry, or is it lonely mouth?”
Though I’m burning so many damned calories it’s usually I’m really hungry. 🥺
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.
It’s designed that way on purpose. Cereal manufacturers are some of the most egregious abusers of hyperpalatable foods.
Read: Dessert marketed as breakfast
Ooh, I like that, “hyperpalatable”.
“Egregious” is also good, but I knew that one.
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.
y’know, the kids in africa and all
Kids in Africa also don’t like soggy cereal?
I thought the rock stars fixed that ages ago.
That money went nowhere near any kids with flies in their eyes. The government got their cut though, and then used food as a weapon, literally as bait to capture rebels who were then abused
Darn you rock stars!
If you use a funnel to pour the cereal into the jug, you can have a swig of soggy bits on demand!
I’ve seen a few people attempt to open a “cereal milk” restaurant, where you can order CocoPuff milk, Cinnamon Toast Crunch milk, Fruity Pebbles milk, etc.
The few I’ve seen have flamed out pretty fast, which is predictable for an idea that was obviously cooked up by a couple of rich college kids while passing the bong, and then convincing their wealthy fathers into coughing up the starting costs.
Youve seen this more than once? wut? same or different cities?
I’ve seen it written about at least 3 different times, in different cities. Like I said, it’s the kind of an idea that sounds like genius when you’re baked.
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
Vanilla soy latte is a three-bean soup.
The ocean is a soup.
A primordial soup.
“Ugh I hate clam chowder. Its just hot ocean milk with dead animal croutons.”
You don’t even need to add 2 things together. Cereal is great on its own
I’ve yet to meet a cereal that was better dry. Some came damned close (Cracklin’ Oat Bran is my fave), but still not better.
Crispix/Chex might be better dry
You’re right, only because they suck at being cereal. It’s boxed gruel disguised as cereal.
Rice chex and crispix both are delicious. Shame on you.
Ehhh, other cereals are just sugary gruel. I’d prefer fewer calories directly from sugar / corn syrup in my diet.
Cinnamon Life
Life?!? You’re technically correct because Life is awful with milk, but Life isn’t anything more than an ingredient for homemade Bits & Bites.
It’s the best when you’re baked too. It really helps with the dry mouth
Excuse me, you can pour crack and pop rocks into a bowl.
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Depends which cereal we’re talking 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.
I usually eat it dry with a glass of oat milk on the side.
Bachelor chow!
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.
Edit: when my son went through a miso soup phase, he would get the big mixing bowl and use a whole block of tofu. Probably straight up 2L of miso broth. For context, he is 6’2” and 19.
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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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.
It sounds easier to fly to Korea
He would probably love that. He does love some Korean instant noodles. Thank you so much, I shall be trying this!
Your son is producing fewer dishes. Be better, husband.
Husband does reuse the bowl though. He is not a monster.
Are the tofu blocks in America bigger or something, because 200g tofu isn’t that much of a deal.
It’s 454 grams, I just checked.
Ok, that’s something
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.
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
I unironically wish this was a thing. And was halfway decent and nutritious.
This is what I would refer to the extra big bags of cereal as when living with a friend and it was his turn to do grocery shopping.
“1x bachelor chow cinnamon crunch, 1x fruity pebbles.”
You said kibble?
Food pellets.
And after about halfway through the third bowl you begin to regret everything
The milk gets too warm.
… Too warm?
You guys don’t eat the cereal milk heated?..
Are you saying you heat the milk you pour in cereal? What in the actual fuck?
Cold coffee tastes great, hot coffee tastes great. Room temp coffee… not so much.
Same applies to countless other things as well.
Nah, its warm like it just came from the udder and full of chunks and mucus, just as god intended.
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.
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.
Dammit this is so true. With us, it’s chips. My teenage son poured himself almost an entire bag of Doritos into a bowl the other day. But them sometimes I notice our pantry is overflowing with bags of chips because everyone has magically decided they don’t eat chips now.
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.
Is it possible to learn this power?
Just get a mixing bowl and put the whole box it and a half a gallon of milk in it and eat it like Otto did. Guy was 6’2" and two fifty at the time.
Oh. So like what he does already. Got it. 🤦♀️
No. He was eating a whole box of cereal using a small bowl. He was told he could only have one bowl so he switch to a large bowl. How is this hard to comprehend?
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.
