Their Burdens are Greater Than Mine!

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I enjoy a nice fruit salad about twice a week for breakfast. I also enjoy waffles & a nice kipper on Sunday morning. However, I'm in my 70s. This morning I read that making a meal is a "burden" to some people. No wonder there is a boom in the "Skip the Dish" around here. "Millennials have been accused in the past of killing off breakfast cereal as they shifted toward eating on the go and focusing on nutrition. In 2015, almost 40 per cent of the millennials surveyed by Mintel said cereal was an inconvenient breakfast option because they had to clean up after eating it."
 

I have given up most carbs, as of today. Breakfast is a shadow of its former self.

I have recently gained seven, stubborn pounds, and that is bothering me, on a mental level. Since I love to cook, it's a tough row to hoe, to cut my caloric intake, radically, but I will succeed. My semi-retirement is definitely behind my weight gain, so I need to force myself to find a bunch of physical activities to replace tree climbing. That'll be tough to do, as well......

155 lbs., again, March 1st, by hook or by crook! (Curiously, my BMI remains at 12%.)
 

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Packerjohn said:
I enjoy a nice fruit salad about twice a week for breakfast. I also enjoy waffles & a nice kipper on Sunday morning. However, I'm in my 70s. This morning I read that making a meal is a "burden" to some people. No wonder there is a boom in the "Skip the Dish" around here. "Millennials have been accused in the past of killing off breakfast cereal as they shifted toward eating on the go and focusing on nutrition. In 2015, almost 40 per cent of the millennials surveyed by Mintel said cereal was an inconvenient breakfast option because they had to clean up after eating it."
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Well they sure didn't interview MY millennial children!!!

Any of them would go through a gallon of milk and several boxes of cereal a week if they weren't rational enough to know that's not the healthiest way to eat.
 
Yet last time I went to Wal Mart, yesterday, there were a hundred varieties of cereal stacked on aisle-long shelves higher than my head. They must all have an eating disorder where they secretly gobble boxes of dry cereal every night.
 
Judycat said:
Yet last time I went to Wal Mart, yesterday, there were a hundred varieties of cereal stacked on aisle-long shelves higher than my head.
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If the product placement is higher than your head, or worse--much lower, it indicates decreasing sales & unwillingness on the part of the manufacturer to pay for better placement as sales are decreasing. What's at eye level sells best.
 
Well making a meal is a burden to me, since my husband died I have absolutely no interest in cooking for one! I eat one good meal a week n only because my granddaughters come for dinner, otherwise I eat what I please if it’s cereL 3 times a day so be it. Besides I love breakfast food, waffles, French toast, pancakes, eggs, what’s not to like....Lol
 
The only cereal I like is Mini Wheats, good snack food, just not for breakfast.

Prefer grain bread with peanut butter or marmalade, fruit or oatmeal with berries.
 
I totally get why busy millennials would consider cereal an inconvenient choice.

Back when my time was compressed because of commuting to work, I much preferred another quarter hour sleep over eating and cleaning up breakfast. My coffeemaker was on a timer so it was ready when I woke up. I'd put a second cup in a travel mug to drink in the car and ate something simple (like a sandwich made the night before) while driving.

I make far more complex, non-traditional, breakfasts since retiring: usually an elaborate stir fry, soup with plenty of veggies and tofu, or a salad with fruits and veggies.

Killing off breakfast cereal wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing. Most are loaded with sugar and simple carbs.
 
Gardenlover said:
Not sure about all that, but I do think an intermittent fast can be good for you.
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Don't mean to be critical but ..... how did a trend toward a meal in hand (without bowl) such as muffin, burrito, pop tart, grab and go sandwich, wraps, stuffed pita, etc. - which is what I think turned the young teen and working set away from breakfast cereal - convert into 'no meal all' in your mind?

Or maybe I missed your point. Was it that you personally sometimes just skipped breakfast?
 
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Lvstotrvl said:
Well making a meal is a burden to me, since my husband died I have absolutely no interest in cooking for one! I eat one good meal a week n only because my granddaughters come for dinner, otherwise I eat what I please if it’s cereL 3 times a day so be it. Besides I love breakfast food, waffles, French toast, pancakes, eggs, what’s not to like....Lol
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For me it's the opposite. When I was working I only cooked to eat, didn't like cooking. After I retired, cooking and trying out new recipes has become a surprising retirement hobby. I don't have breakfast anymore because I'm on the ''time restricted diet'' and only eat dinner. Yesterday I made homemade bagels and biscotti. I put them in freezer to avoid impulse eating.
 
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I love dry Cheerios, I don't drink milk Usually, for breakie, I have eggs, toast, sausage and coffee. It takes me a few minutes to make, via the microwave. I really don't consider that "slaving away" in the kitchen. As far as changing tastes away from cereal, well, tastes changed to creals about a hundred years ago. There's nothing sacred about eating cereals, so there's no reason why we can't change our eating habits away from them. What people eat/or don't eat for breakie does not amount to '"fighting words", it's more like who cares.
 
I've fallen into a routine for Breakfast....I make my own, as I usually get up before my wife. One morning I have a bowl of Raisin Bran, then the next day a nice waffle, and then the 3rd day, I have a couple of eggs...all with one slice of bacon, a small glass of orange juice, and my morning cup of coffee. By the time my wife rolls out, I'm usually washing the frying pan. Besides, this nice routine gives me about an hour to flip through the news channels...hoping to actually find some news scattered among the commercials.
 
gennie said:
Don't mean to be critical but ..... how did a trend toward a meal in hand (without bowl) such as muffin, burrito, pop tart, grab and go sandwich, wraps, stuffed pita, etc. - which is what I think turned the young teen and working set away from breakfast cereal - convert into 'no meal all' in your mind?

Or maybe I missed your point. Was it that you personally sometimes just skipped breakfast?
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I might not have worded it correctly, sorry. In my mind a fast is going without any food for 24 hours or more.
 
I think that breakfast is alive and well but many young people eat it in the car during their commute or at their desks when they arrive at work.

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Catlady said:
Yesterday I made homemade bagels and biscotti. I put them in freezer to avoid impulse eating.
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A good ploy if it works for you. I can't have that stuff in the house and avoid buying/making them like the highly addictive, highly toxic, crack-like plague they are for me.

Frozen cookies aren't a deal-breaker. Not at all. I'm happy to eat frozen chocolate, candy bars, cookies, whatever. Frozen bagels? Easy-peasy... wrap in a towel, nuke for 30 seconds, then put it in the toaster.

That's why I don't buy or make them. Other than Thanksgiving - New Years Day, of course, when I go baking crazy. All bets are off during that six weeks.
 

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