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Default What cereal to eat for Breakfast?

On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 00:48:29 -0700, "Julie Bove"
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>"I Don't Know" > wrote in message
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>> On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 14:07:59 -0500, BessieBee
>> > wrote:
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>>>On 9/25/2013 10:56 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>>

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>>>Julie, you're the *last* person on this group who should be commenting
>>>on what is "more popular" for kids' breakfasts. He's grown now, but
>>>when my son was in school his breakfast was cereal sometimes, scrambled
>>>eggs sometimes and occasionally a nicely toasted frozen waffle with real
>>>syrup. This was always accompanied with a glass of milk. After eating
>>>his breakfast he'd usually take a poptart or something with him to eat
>>>on the way to the bus stop.
>>>
>>>And, school provided breakfasts weren't only for the poor. Our son ate
>>>his breakfast at school for about a year when his father's and my work
>>>schedules made breakfast at home next to impossible. We paid for those
>>>breakfasts, although I believe those kids that qualified got theirs
>>>free. Those breakfasts consisted of cereal, milk, juice and sometimes
>>>they could also choose a doughnut.
>>>
>>>It's all a matter of scheduling. "taking the time to eat a bowl of
>>>cereal" is only a matter of getting the kid(s) up in time. I can't
>>>think of a time when we *ever* had cereal for dinner. A late night
>>>snack perhaps, but certainly not dinner!

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>>
>> It would depend on where you are in the country. My co-workers have
>> told me that they have had a hard time getting their wives not to let
>> their kids eat the same way they (the wives) did when they were kids.
>> Which was sugary cereals for breakfast, snacks basically any time of
>> the day or night, because they are cheap in this area. There is a
>> very large variety of off brand cereals here that come in huge plastic
>> bags, not boxes, kind of like the over sized bags of pre-popped
>> popcorn some stores sell. You could spend a few dollars per box on
>> capn crunch or get 6 times the amount for an off brand that tastes
>> almost the same and spend less.
>>
>> I've never allowed that junk in my home. Or rather I've never allowed
>> us to buy it. When it shows it, it's because someone spending the
>> night or weekend with us brought it with them.
>>
>> Personally I love going to breakfast buffets on the weekend so we
>> don't have to cook and clean up. We don't do it all the time but it
>> is a nice change. It always amazes me to a family come in, get their
>> table and watch the adults get mountains of potatoes, bacon and
>> sausage, pancakes etc. While the kids will go straight to the desert
>> bar and get cotton candy and other junk. Sometimes the kids actually
>> eat real food with the candy.

>
>Mrs. Bee is in my KF now but I don't know why she thinks I should be the
>last person to comment on this.


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