Time for your First Breakfast...and then the Second!!
Relentless food marketers creating more ways to get us to eat more, and more often during the day. However did they convince people that eating two high-carb breakfasts will let you eat a better lunch? and with less calories or carbs in total?
Wall Street Journal article posted on-line three hours ago...maybe in tomorrow's US print edition? or only UK edition? https://www.wsj.com/articles/time-f...fast-1493114402 Quote:
Dr Fung on breakfast tyranny. https://intensivedietarymanagement....-lose-weight-v/ 12g carbs in 1.5 oz pistachio. https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/nuts |
I wondered what was behind al those Jimmy Dean ads for a 300 calorie breakfast. Too little! Well unless you eat 2 breakfasts.
"Midmorning meal occasion" LOL "snackification of breakfast" LOL too |
There's always the objective of creating a sense of something being essential in order to boost sales. Nature Valley granola? It's got more sugar than sugar!!!
How about no breakfast, 1 lunch, 1 dinner? Or . . . 1 meal of unsweetened, healthy, satiating whole foods? |
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Do you mean the Peant Butter Chocolate Cookie? You reminded me of all the crazy statements in this article, I wondered how a Cup could look like a Cookie? OMG! Check out this video... it does look like cookie. Where is the cup? 200 cal., 20 g carbs, 9 g sugar. https://www.naturevalley.com/granolacups/ If you ever thought that Nature Valley was a healthy food company with the best interests of its customers in mind, here is how they developed the product. http://www.foodbusinessnews.net/art...4BC544%7D&cck=1 This could be an example from Michael Moss's book, Salt, Sugar, Fat how food engineers find that bliss point for a food. |
Incredible. I'll bet they are relatively small, so one could easily go through a box of these in no time.
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And here's the marketing tease, uh, description written by a General Mills pro: Quote:
So, the cereal industry is not going to change voluntarily. As long as there's a naive public, they've got a pretty good revenue horizon on these babies! |
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"what about breakfast?"
"we've had it" "we've had one, yes. But what about second breakfast?" "I don't think he knows about second breakfast, Pip" "what about elevenses? luncheon? afternoon tea? dinner? supper? he knows about them, doesn't he? "I wouldn't count on it" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA8LV37QwxA Sorry, couldn't resist! |
Thank you...I had no idea what that paragraph was about. Cute. :lol:
My mind was still going crazy over a granola cup cookie for breakfast...it is two small cookies in each packet so of course some reviews complained about it not being enough. |
In the US print edition today. Eight photos take up over half the of first Life & Arts page....Which will convince any stressed out financial analyst who had a bagel on the train that they now deserve a second breakfast :rolleyes:
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This is something I've noticed since teaching at a public school for almost 20 years...
The kiddos are eating more and more frequently... as well as carrying water bottles like they are gonna keel over at any moment from dehydration...but that's a topic for another day... We offer free breakfast at school; don't get me started on what they are served b/c it's always carb-age and more carb-age.... Holy Hannah.... Most kids come to school already having had breakfast, but since it's free, they'll eat again! I looked up the Nature Valley Cookie Cups and apparently there are "5" cookie cups in a box according to this advert: http://www.target.com/p/nature-vall...oz/-/A-51532394 Here's the tag line to buy 'em in that URL: Granola Cups. Simply Delicious. We paired the decadence of peanut butter with the wholesome goodness of whole grain oats and nuts to create a new kind of indulgence. Crunchy. Creamy. Delicious. No artificial flavors, colors or sweetners. No corn syrup. I had to look up tapioca syrup since it's one of the "natural ingredients" and it's an all natural liquid sweetener created from tapioca starch. Probably no better or worse than corn syrup, but corn syrup has gotten such a bad rep lately for good reason so Imma sure the food industry scrambled to find a suitable, inexpensive replacement! JMO! Quote:
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Washington Post has another "breakfast cereal is bad for us" article, written by an author with a new book on Groceries.
It was going along OK, referring to Taubes, until the suggestion to replace cereal with oats, lentils or congee, but eggs did get a passing mention. ;) Breakfast was the most important meal of the day...until America ruined it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/life...m=.5a2d89be0a27 |
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I will just bet it does, she says with sarcasm so heavy you could bench press it. From my own office experience, it's an endless stream of pastry and heavily sugared coffee, with people drinking soda teased for their "lack of health" and people eating granola bars regarded as "health nuts." |
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When in reality, both groups are getting about the same blood sugar hit from carbs, even if the granola bars have a little fiber along with their sugar and starch. Funny though, when I was googling for images of granola bar nutrition facts, all the website blurbs that came up with the images touted granola bars as being sooo good for you, although the blurbs didn't mention as compared to what. I doubt they were comparing them to arsenic, although my guess is that they were comparing them to sugary soda, donuts, cookies, and candy bars, pointing out that the very presence of whole grains gave the granola bars a definite glow of good-for-you healthfulness. |
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I went over to my son's house about 10 AM one morning and found my 7-year-old grandson eating a bowl of breakfast cereal (ugh). I said, "wow, I know you wake up pretty early. This seems pretty late for you to be having breakfast." "Oh this is my second breakfast", he replied. And yeah, the water bottle thing. We live in Florida so perhaps water is more important here than in cooler climates, and I actually love water, but I don't tote it around everywhere I go. I'm not packing for a trek across the Sahara. I had the grandkids (grandson above and his 4-year-old sister) and we had to drive to St. Augustine area, about 35 minutes away. We'd been on the road about 10 minutes and my granddaughter announced "I'm thirsty". "Sorry", I said. "I don't have any water. You'll have to wait until we get to where we are going." "But I'm thirsty! I'm thirsty!" (My DiL seems never to leave the house without 3-4 full water bottles for the kids in the car). I just about snapped, :lol:. I actually shouted at her, "Just be quiet! You're not going to die of thirst in 25 minutes!" (in an air-conditioned car). Then again I got in huge hot water with my son for not giving the kids a snack and bringing snacks with me for them when I took them to the YMCA for a basketball game. They had just had a big meal two hours before so it never occurred to me to bring snacks for them. And sure enough my granddaughter began crying "I'm hungry! I'm hungry!" while we were there. My son seemed to feel it was tantamount to child abuse that I had nothing to feed her. :D LOL, off-topic here I guess. Clearly you touched a nerve. :D |
Like so many, I love that low carb frees me from hunger for hours on end. When eating the SAD, I was hungry every two hours.
I thought it was awful. I thought there was something wrong with me. |
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