On 9/27/2013 1:20 AM, I Don't Know wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 14:07:59 -0500, BessieBee
> > wrote:
>
>> On 9/25/2013 10:56 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>
>
>> 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!
>
>
> It would depend on where you are in the country.



Not to detract from your history, the above statement is true.

When I lived with my in-laws in Georgia briefly (that spouse
died in 1969,) mother-in-law would get up to make me their
traditional breakfast of a fried chicken thigh, grits, and
unpasteurized buttermilk sourced from their cow.



> 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.
>