I haven’t had cereal since i was a kid. Once I could make my own food choices, I haven’t touched the stuff.
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This is how social darwinist rich people or also known as rich see you.
Assuming someone by necessity needed to do that, then a bowl of porridge would be better than cereal. It would be cheaper to buy, more filling & nutritious. And someone that cash strapped shouldn't be eating Kelloggs cereals at all since the generic equivalent probably costs half the price and tastes the same.
A roommate of mine who was an Econ major told me once that the knockoff bag cereals are often made by the same company that makes the name brand. That they’re the exact same product.
He said this is because there isn’t really much crossover between the market segments. People don’t comparison shop the bag cereal, they buy it because it’s cheaper and they wouldn’t buy the box cereal otherwise. And people who buy box cereal don’t really buy bag cereal. There’s no competition between the segments.
So if Kellogg’s or Post or General Mills makes the same cereal and throws it in a bag under a different brand name with a random title, they make more money than they would if they left that segment of the market to another player.
This is the same reason Costco and Sam’s Club brands have products that compare well with the brand names…they’re the exact same product, sold under a cheaper brand. Brew Dr can sell their kombucha under their brand at one price, but ALSO make kombucha and sell it under the Kirkland brand, and they’ll make money on both products.
Just because they're made in the same factor doesn't mean they are made to the same specifications. Often the store brand foods are made with cheaper ingredients, even if it's on the same assembly line
So a former home office employee of Walmart it is what's left after the name brand run it is what isn't up to snuff for the name brand that is why off brand vegetables have more stems and stuff etc in them.
Exactly.
Another way to look at this is: It's not the store brand version that's marked down, it's the "name brand" version that's marked up.
When I stopped eating cereal for breakfast, I lost weight and improved my blood sugar levels. If you want diabetes, go ahead and eat cereal.
That largely depends on the cereal. In the UK there are popular cereal types which have very little sugar in them - oats, weetabix, shredded wheat, ready brek that are fine for diabetics. The worst offenders would be kids cereals & anything overtly sugary as well as things like granola, muesli etc. Things like cornflakes, shreddies, rice krispies sit somewhere at the low end - not healthy per se but fairly low in sugar
They're all, perhaps with the exception of raw steel-cut oats, or plain bran, pretty simple carbohydrates, and you add sugar in the form of lactose on top to eat them. Pretty sure none of them are a net positive to health.
They’re all, perhaps with the exception of raw steel-cut oats, or plain bran, pretty simple carbohydrates, and you add sugar in the form of lactose on top to eat them. Pretty sure none of them are a net positive to health.
The UK diabetes website says they're fine. I'm sure if you were diabetic you would be extra careful about milk, portion size though. For everyone else they're about as low sugar as cereal gets, whether we're talking breakfast cereal, or cereal in fields cereal.
Breakfast cereal is a marketing name, it's really breakfast candy.
Exactly. When you realize that, it makes it a little easier to let it go.
I'd suggest this guy get the yogurt enema that was so popular at Kellogg during its early days.
(You know what cures those deviant sexual urges? Having thick white liquid injected into your rectum.)
Why not a cornflakes enema
FYI: the German Wikipedia page suggests that he might have had klismaphilia. The English version, despite being much more detailed and extensive, doesn't, for some odd reason.
I certainly understand why a man who sells cereal would tell me to eat more cereal and what a good idea eating cereal would be.
Like when the U.S. asks NATO members to beef up their defense spending.
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