My parents always had rice in the rice cooker and some kind of stew in the fridge. My favorite is the pig feet stews.
Cereal is overated
Agree. Cereal is so overrated.
Lpt: replace all - and i mean all the snacks and prepackaged food with fruits and vegtables or just healthy things. Watch, as these thi gs will last for seemingly forever. Until you’ll be forced to eat them. It’s funny
It won’t last forever. It will rot the day after I buy it.
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Keep them in a well ventilated space, if they rot too quickly it may be due to ethane making them ripen too fast. A mixed fruit bowl is one of the worst possible ways to store fruit.
Apples offgas ethane as an example, making other things around them ripen faster. In a cool, ventilated environment where you replace the ethane with something inert they can last over the winter.
I tend to get 1-2 weeks of shelf life from fruit, though I tend to only buy the stuff that stores well. (apples, bananas, oranges etc.)
Or they might develop cooking skills, which enables you to turn even the healthiest of ingredients into delicious junk.
In my experience, without the drive of ‘I need to eat better’ really being cemented into your soul, this will just result in everyone covertly buying snacks and letting tons of fruit go to waste.
People do seem to like nuts though, barring a legitimate reason like an allergy; I don’t think I’ve met anyone that dislikes nuts.
That makes sense. They are full of fats, proteins, and other carbs. Lots of them are even dusted in salt or sugar
One of my best friends doesn’t like nuts. He’s very sensitive to bitterness.
See that just blows my mind, I would never describe nuts as bitter.
I bought a cantaloupe recently. It sat there for a week because I didn’t want to cut it. Then when I cut it, it disappeared within hours.
My nephew moved in with us years back so at the time i had a partner in his 20’s and a nephew in his late teens so I just groaned and doubled the grocery budget.
testosterone makes 'em a food hoover until they hit about 25, deal with it
Someone probably shouldn’t be your teenage son AND your husband.
Can’t wait! I’d eat like 4-5k calories a day, and literally couldn’t put on weight, although swimming competitively helped a bit I’m sure. Was just a bean pole.
Smoked an unhealthy amount of weed as a kid too, and my go-to high snack was a half gallon of milk and an Entemann’s All Butter French Crunbcake. Believe it or not, I cannot eat like that anymore.
although swimming competitively helped a bit I’m sure
Swimmers fallacy :)
I lifted weights (not competitively), had PE class and did folk dance and that was enough that I could also eat around 4-5k calories daily and not put on much weight besides a little muscle mass
Ah and I also cycled to school oftentimes
Was it not illegal back then to smoke weed when you were a teen
Ah yes, because the legality of it famously stopped so many people from smoking weed…
Well, you could get put in jail! They would risk getting high for that? Bit stupid, honestly.
Yes, it was. Nobody was going to jail over weed though. They handed it a year of probation if you got caught by the cops.
And they wonder why Americans aren’t having more kids
I used to do that
Yeah that was me. Come home from school after eating a big school lunch, eat a quarter loaf of bread and 1L milk. Have a 2 hour nap, eat 2 servings for dinner, ask if anyone else wants more before scraping the leftovers in the pots and pans onto my plate.
I’m still can’t believe some crazy guy 100 years ago convinced the whole country that eating sugar with milk is somehow a healthy breakfast. And the same guy convinced the same country to do the genital mutilation on male infants.
You’re combining the two Kellogg brothers. One thought that pleasure was sin, and that a good diet should be as bland as possible to maintain piety. The other thought his brother’s cereal tasted like shit and was really hard to market and sell, until he added sugar and salt, then subsequently became filthy rich.
Ironically, pre-sugared cereal may have also reduced the amount of sugar in kids’ cereal. For a while, kids were taking regular cereal and dumping sugar on it. Instead of actually parenting and telling them no, the parents started buying sugary cereal.
Kellogg’s theory was that bland foods that were full of fiber would stop people from masturbating.
Because he didn’t approve of that kind of icky nonsense.
So I think the sugar came later.
I think Graham of Graham crackers was working with a similar concept.
? I thought both Jackson and Kellogg didn’t like sugar? Kellogg even believed excitement caused masturbation, and wanted bland unexciting food was the way to go. That and dick piercings that would make erections painful.
Dont forget the yogurt enemas.
And both were done with the goal of reducing masturbation.
Knowing better has a full day’s worth of content on this, if you’d like to know more
Fuck that guy. I’m gonna go buy a box of corn flakes and eat it while I jerk off all day.
Yeah true but it’s so fucking good sometimes
Genital mutilation?
Don’t fucking judge my breakfast
I’m always blown away by these tiny cookies. They came after me and bought them for fun once. I couldn’t even eat them, they are beyond sweet. Eat some cookies for breakfast fatso
Cereal is the most delicious thing in the universe that doesn’t require anything more than pouring two things into a bowl. No peeling, heating, mixing, blending, layering, etc. Two things, in a bowl, and you don’t use goes back in the place it came from.
That bowl was a little big for me, I’ll just drain the milk back into the jug and put these soggy bits back in the box.
y’know, the kids in africa and all
I thought the rock stars fixed that ages ago.
That money went nowhere near any kids with flies in their eyes. The government got their cut though, and then used food as a weapon, literally as bait to capture rebels who were then abused
Darn you rock stars!
Kids in Africa also don’t like soggy cereal?
If you use a funnel to pour the cereal into the jug, you can have a swig of soggy bits on demand!
I’ve seen a few people attempt to open a “cereal milk” restaurant, where you can order CocoPuff milk, Cinnamon Toast Crunch milk, Fruity Pebbles milk, etc.
The few I’ve seen have flamed out pretty fast, which is predictable for an idea that was obviously cooked up by a couple of rich college kids while passing the bong, and then convincing their wealthy fathers into coughing up the starting costs.
Youve seen this more than once? wut? same or different cities?
I’ve seen it written about at least 3 different times, in different cities. Like I said, it’s the kind of an idea that sounds like genius when you’re baked.
It’s designed that way on purpose. Cereal manufacturers are some of the most egregious abusers of hyperpalatable foods.
Read: Dessert marketed as breakfast
So, like pancakes? Or jam on toast?
Ooh, I like that, “hyperpalatable”.
“Egregious” is also good, but I knew that one.
Until one day, when you’re eating soup and innocently toss in some croutons, only to realize that what you’re eating is essentially cereal: savory edition, which you find so inexplicably disgusting that you can’t even stomach the thought of regular cereal for a depressing amount of time
I think that with enough sauce, chicken alfredo becomes a soup. Where do I fit on the chart?
That would be ramen Alfredo, so you’re not quite a soup anarchist, but that’s probably for the best.
Who is out there saying soup had to be vegetarian, or that croutons make soup not soup? Half of the chart is a waste of potential controversy
where are you reading croutons?
Croutons are solid
We might need another chart about this
The ocean is a soup.
A primordial soup.
(yo mamma)
Vanilla soy latte is a three-bean soup.
Neither coffee nor vanilla is a bean. Coffee is a seed of the coffea family and vanilla is an orchid
If cereal can be a soup, coffee can be a bean.
Soup is a dish preparation. While I am fine with arguing that even drinkable coffee is a soup or broth and cereal has soup like properties. No, coffee is a very different part of the plant kingdom than legumes or orchids. If you just call a blue whale a bird, it does not become even remotely true.
“Ugh I hate clam chowder. Its just hot ocean milk with dead animal croutons.”
He definitely says “shao-dieeeer”
neh-vier!
That only happens if you reverse your arbitrary categorisations and let them dictate your feelings about things, instead of realising that categorisations are a) arbitrary and b) can be refined.
Cereal has to, at least, involve a cereal like rice or oats or whatever as the main ingredient.
You mean, like… Corn?!?!
Vegetable soup (with corn) has entered the chat
And my point stands.
Also, you and your strict interpretation of ‘cereal’ have room to talk right after lecturing me about arbitrary categorizations… Sounds like someone needs to take their own advice, eh? 😋🙃
Hmm I like the cut of your gib
Or embrace savory cereal and put cheese, sour cream and hot sauce into oatmeal. Trust me.
Never speak to me or my son ever again.
It’s the best when you’re baked too. It really helps with the dry mouth
You don’t even need to add 2 things together. Cereal is great on its own
I’ve yet to meet a cereal that was better dry. Some came damned close (Cracklin’ Oat Bran is my fave), but still not better.
Cinnamon Life
Life?!? You’re technically correct because Life is awful with milk, but Life isn’t anything more than an ingredient for homemade Bits & Bites.
Crispix/Chex might be better dry
You’re right, only because they suck at being cereal. It’s boxed gruel disguised as cereal.
Ehhh, other cereals are just sugary gruel. I’d prefer fewer calories directly from sugar / corn syrup in my diet.
Rice chex and crispix both are delicious. Shame on you.
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I usually eat it dry with a glass of oat milk on the side.
Excuse me, you can pour crack and pop rocks into a bowl.
Depends which cereal we’re talking about. I’ve watching those ‘lets make lucky charms / something with chocolate’ videos and they’re basically making a complicated soup, solidifying it, and cutting it up into tiny pieces, just to make a basic soup of milk afterwards.
The weirdest thing to me was realising zalot of cereals already contain milk. Actual liquid milk, that is, baked in.
When I was a teen in highschool… I was in a weightlifting gym class and I did soccer. When is get home, for a snack if have a party pizza (or two). Probably went through a carton of milk myself. God my mom was so pissed. I was probably half or grocery budget alone for a few years
I had a project to track my calorie intake for a few weeks when I was 15. It was over 7000 calories a day.
I’ve got a cousin like you – football club all day every day. Ate like a wolf and ran it all off within an hour.
Then he quit football and chonked up because he didn’t know how to reduce his food intake
Oh man, that hits home… just before COVID hit, I was doing 5k’s and got injured. And I didn’t transition to a lower calorie intake to adjust to the lower physical activity. Just as I was starting to get back into the gym… COVID landed and the gym was closed. Now, I’m a fat bastard. But trying to work on that.
I mean I think it happened to all of us. I used to cycle 30km a day before COVID, and then once work became fully remote, I just started hibernating for winter and never stopped.
Also a fat bastard, but I live in the hope that it’s nothing that a gym can’t fix. Here’s to 2026, friend!
This is why they invented leaving your family.
“Mother won’t be back, son. We ate too much cereal and brought this upon ourselves.” - my husband, probably.
We usually have four young people around the house ages 16-21 ((only three are ours). We’re lower middle class and don’t receive any food assistance. Our food bill straight up destroys our budget.
I have 4 boys 12-17. Costco treats me like royalty.
Yeah for me Costco is almost an hour away but Sam’s Club is about 5 mins. So yeah that’s where I do a lot of shopping. Thank goodness for bulk packs.
I remember a reddit post from forever ago where the guy said that the grocery store had asked his mom to let them know when their son went to college because him leaving would impact the quantities of chocolate milk they stocked.
Get some grapes nuts it’ll last for months
When I was running a lot I would eat 1/2 a box or more of grape nuts, add 1/3 of that volume in honey, and add milk.
To be fair, my husband will just have 6 bowls of cereal in a row all of a sudden.
But my son… here he is with his mixing bowl.
Edit: when my son went through a miso soup phase, he would get the big mixing bowl and use a whole block of tofu. Probably straight up 2L of miso broth. For context, he is 6’2” and 19.
Your son is producing fewer dishes. Be better, husband.
Husband does reuse the bowl though. He is not a monster.
That or he’s really good at hiding it…
You should introduce your son to Korean soups/stews. If he likes miso soup that much, he’ll find some favorites in Korea as well. I’m especially partial to spicy doenjang jigae (a Korean miso stew–you can mostly use the ingredients recommended to add to the broth as suggestions and use whatever you like because it’s all about the broth).
This is very similar to how I make it except that I use packaged dashi and usually use shellfish and leafy greens, sometimes noodles (udon or dangmyeon glass noodles): https://www.beyondkimchee.com/doenjang-jjigae/
It’s easier than it sounds. Put dashi packet in water. Heat then remove. Add doenjang, gochujang, garlic and heat up/mix. Add solid ingredients of your choice and heat until cooked through. Add green onions (optional, I guess, but c’mon). Eat.
So good. Thank you, Korea.
He would probably love that. He does love some Korean instant noodles. Thank you so much, I shall be trying this!
It sounds easier to fly to Korea
It’s not substantially more difficult to make than it is to make packaged foods.
We had a 4 box treaty, no more than 4 boxes of cereal could be opened at a time.
Leading to box reckonings where multiple bowls would be eaten to bring “peace to the kingdom”
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Are the tofu blocks in America bigger or something, because 200g tofu isn’t that much of a deal.
It’s 454 grams, I just checked.
Ok, that’s something
TIL Canada has small blocks of tofu.
I’ve bought tofu in the US and in Japan and the standard block is the same size in both (approximately–400g in Japan; 14oz in the US). Can vary slightly by brand and it course smaller options are available, but that’s the usual size for at least those two.
