I don't understand cereals, practically all of them are complete garbage foods. Why do people buy into them?
We get home. My mom sees I selected the cookie cereal and yells at us. We should both know better!
She wanted to see Fruit Loops, our commonly purchased cereal.
I was only like, eight, but read all the little words in the white box and their amounts. They were practically the same.
Didn’t matter. Into the trash the box went.
In her head it was no better than Chips A’hoy crushed up in a bowl. Cookies! For breakfast!
The Fruit Loops however, we’re clearly some healthy option, because, you know, FRUIT.
My mom is not dumb at all, but seemingly never put an ounce of thought into this.
So I’m torn that everyone should know they’re all sugar, and I have a clear example of people just not ever really considering it.
Although this article says it's less useful than I thought, and might be replaced with something else. (Though it's a food industry publication.)
https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/health/has-traffic-light-health-...
Man, what an uncharitable take. I bet they also like that the kid is learning how to prepare food for themselves independently. Or that they have time to do something like make themselves breakfast before dropping off at school and going to work. Further, I bet a lot of these parents also aren't as nutritionally educated as the people in this thread seem to be (for a lot of consumers "healthy" and "fat free" are interchangeable).
My parents would only buy the relatively plain ones -- Weetabix, Shredded Wheat and so on.
The first time we went to the USA I was 12. We bought colourful cereal for the novelty of it, but the next morning I could barely eat it. It was insanely sweet! (Presumably with HFCS, which I wouldn't have experienced before.) Unsurprisingly, there was no pressure from my parents to finish the bowl, or the rest of the box.
Around the world, from what I've noticed, you can also find the plain old' actual cereals. You know, wheat, corn, etc. based stuff that's not full of sugar.
A kid can definitely learn how to prepare their own food using that :-)