What produce/ingredients did you buy or obtain today? (2018-2022)

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caseydog said:
The problem is that kids eat these sugary cereals everyday, here. We have a childhood obesity problem in the US, and sugar is the primary culprit.

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You're realising the point of my post has nothing to do with there not being enough sugary stuff?

I was trying to say something about lack of choice in foods in general here.

Not going to go into this endlessly repeated debate on sugar.
 
TastyReuben said:
…of junk food! :laugh:

The funny thing about that cinnamon cereal: now, to me, cinnamon on a breakfast cereal isn’t a huge leap. We have whole cereal lines based on cinnamon. If you make a “plain” cereal, your first variation will probably be a cinnamon version (we have cinnamon Cheerios, cinnamon Life, cinnamon frosted mini-wheats, etc).

After I scanned it, I noticed the bottom of the box was torn open, so I showed it to the attendant and asked if I could just trot back real quick and get another one:

“Hmmm…cinnamon rice crispies?! What in the world will they think of next?! I believe I’ve seen it all!”

:laugh:

Now, if it were a box of, say, key lime pie rice crispies, or sour cream and onion rice crispies, sure, I’d agree. But cinnamon? C’mon! It’s a natural!
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Yeah, and my point was that even that ' natural ' leap is exotic here, which is what bothers me.
 
TastyReuben said:
I like the way you think, so after my breakfast bowl of cinnamon rice crispies, I’ll have a bowl of strawberry Frosted Flakes for dessert! :highfive: :laugh:
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Years ago I would sometimes buy a pack of Cini-Minis (cinnamon Golden Grahams) and eat it all in one sitting :laugh: They're my favorite cereal! I haven't bought them in years though.
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caseydog my thoughts exactly. We don't have a huge prevalence of child obesity but still, here in Portugal a lot of kids eat these kinds of cereals for breakfast on a regular basis, when they should eat them every now and then as a special treat only.
 
Windigo said:
Yeah, and my point was that even that ' natural ' leap is exotic here, which is what bothers me.
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The cereal aisle used to be MrsT’s favorite aisle. She loves cereal, and the sweeter, the better.

When I was a kid, we had Special K, for example, and it was marketed as a health food. Matter of fact, there used to be a “Special K diet,” which was just eating Special K for two of your three meals.

Nowadays? My god, there must be a dozen varieties of Special K (red berries, blueberries, yogurt clusters, flax seed, and yes…cinnamon), and they’re still marketed as “healthy,” and they even have a variety that has broken up bits of chocolate in it! Yes, you too can enjoy a candy bar with your breakfast! :laugh:

I get the frustration with lack of choice there, a little bit anyway. I watch videos of people shopping in other countries, showing what a typical grocery trip is like, and there’s a fellow from Norway who absolutely makes my sides hurt from laughing, as he goes through and rather sarcastically talks about how dismal grocery shopping is in Norway. I’ll have to see if I can find a Dutch one.

I remember being on some kind of tour in the UK (Hampton Court, maybe?) and the tour guide was in the kitchen area talking about all the variety of food that was available then, and how much of it was consumed in a day, but then put it all in perspective by saying that today, we had far more choice at the corner market than the King of England had 500 years earlier.
 
caseydog said:
Plenty of sugar, for sure.

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Since we’re sort of the same age, I’m sure you remember being a kid and seeing TV commercials for stuff like Super Sugar Crisp, and it would always end with the voiceover saying “Part of a balanced breakfast!” :laugh:
 
TastyReuben said:
Since we’re sort of the same age, I’m sure you remember being a kid and seeing TV commercials for stuff like Super Sugar Crisp, and it would always end with the voiceover saying “Part of a balanced breakfast!” :laugh:
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Yep, and I ate a lot of cereal for breakfast as a kid -- and it was full of sugar. But, I was lucky back then that I could eat anything, and not gain weight. Actually, in high school, I tried to put on weight, and couldn't.

I am also lucky that, as an adult, I don't have much of a sweet tooth anymore.

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caseydog said:
Yep, and I ate a lot of cereal for breakfast as a kid -- and it was full of sugar. But, I was lucky back then that I could eat anything, and not gain weight. Actually, in high school, I tried to put on weight, and couldn't.

I am also lucky that, as an adult, I don't have much of a sweet tooth anymore.

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I was like that until my early 20s. Ate chocolate every day (I'm not proud of it) and was super thin (my usual weight was 44kg) and healthy (according to my blood work). But then my body changed...
 
LissaC said:
I was like that until my early 20s. Ate chocolate every day
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Same here, until my mid 30's. Then my body decided no more milk... until about 8 years ago, I could eat whatever I wanted. Then my back went and I couldn't even walk let alone did my 78km cycle commute (only did it 3 times a week, plus a longer ride with hubby on a Sunday (usually 125km)).
 
My supermarket now sells fresh turmeric...

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And I needed some more saffron having run out earlier this week, plus amchur powder but I wasn't able to get any stoneflower which is a shame. I'd have liked to have tried it.

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Morning Glory said:
Its a revelation (my bold). Did you see my recipe using it? I think maybe you didn't as you didn't comment back then: Recipe - Curried Beans with Black Stone Flower
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It was definitely one of your posts that I came to be aware of it from but locating any in Australia in sensible quantities and prices was proving difficult. So I've just ordered some from eBay Indian. We'll see what happens. The Aussie company I found selling it wanted $12 excluding P&P for 8g of it. Via eBay, I can get 100g for $9 including postage... I'll just have to wait and hope it gets through customs! Recipes I've looked at say to use 1 or 2 tsp of it so 8g wasn't going to last long.
 
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