cereal article

[quietserena]

Salon article on Cereal

In case you needed more reasons not to eat cold cereal.

[Ruthla]

[covertlycrunchy]

oh man I totally LOVED this....now I have to get dh to read this (he is totally addicted to cold cereal).

[bigknitwit]

nak - Thanks

[lotus.blossom]

Thank you for that! We don't eat cereal anymore, yet last week, like a fool, bought a box because I started feeling like I wasn't eating enough fiber. It was organic cardboard and horrid tasting so now I'm going to throw it away and get my fiber from tastier more natural alternatives!

[artemis33]

That was hilarious (in a disturbing kind of way). I admit, I often still have a box of cold cereal in the pantry- mostly for DH, but I eat it once in a while too. No more though - out it goes!

[quietserena]

I really like the part where they explain why (some?) cereal tastes like cardboard.


DH still eats cereal and I can't seem to get him to quit. He doesn't do it regularly but we always seem to end up with a box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch in the pantry. My hope is that one of these days we'll move beyond that. I need to try and make the homemade cereal and see whether that's something that'd appeal to his tastes.


As for fiber, I seem to have shifted my thinking from 'cereal=extra fiber' to 'beans=extra fiber' and end up with a big pot of bean stew whenever I feel the fiber lacking. I'm not even sure if it's true for both kinds of fiber but hey, beans are better than cereal, right?

[Holiztic]

Recovering cereal addict here, I've been "clean" for about 4 years now, with a few times off the wagon.

I found the discussion of how cereal tastes so bad (like cardboard) interesting. As I read it, I thought "then why the hell did I love it so much/get addicted?". then I realized it--SWEET MILK. That was it, I love the taste of milk (raw!) with a little honey (raw!) now, so back in the day when I did the kashi crap with processed milk I was basically looking for that flavor (just the wrong way!)

Thanks for the link, loved the article!