guzzlers-baps 0 Posted October 27, 2004 Share Posted October 27, 2004 One of those trivial threads There are lots of cereals here in supermarkets that I don't know of from back home. Any recommendations apart from Cocopops? Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted October 27, 2004 Share Posted October 27, 2004 Rice. It isn't usually overpackaged, and it doesn't use far more fossil fuel calories to produce than it offers in dietary calories. It's also better for you. Is that what you wanted to know? Link to post Share on other sites
guzzlers-baps 0 Posted October 27, 2004 Author Share Posted October 27, 2004 And you eat that rice with.....? Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted October 27, 2004 Share Posted October 27, 2004 I don't. I eat bread. Link to post Share on other sites
damian 0 Posted October 27, 2004 Share Posted October 27, 2004 Commercial cereals are disgusting. They are full of chemicals and sugar and offer almost zero value in terms of a great start to the day. They are designed to get kids addicted to junk for an adult life of 'breakfast pornography'. Anything that gets marketed and packaged in such a manner is already sending out huge alarm bells. For what it is worth, this is my breakfast: rolled unroasted oats, full fat Greek unflavoured yoghurt, fresh cranberries, black currants in juice. A banana. The currants come from a tin, which I cant avoid. If you are going to eat a breakfast that has little nutritional value then at least make it a simple and dignified meal, such as croissants with Swiss cheese and ham. When I had to depend of boxed cereal, I would usually go for weatbix with honey and milk. Link to post Share on other sites
sakebomb 0 Posted October 27, 2004 Share Posted October 27, 2004 I eat GoGo Kids, nothing great but it isn't full of sugar like the other cereals here. Most of the ones here, CocoPops, Fruitloops etc my parents wouldn't let me eat as a kid. Too much sugar, it's not healthy. I also found a good muesli, forget the name though! Link to post Share on other sites
connackers 0 Posted October 27, 2004 Share Posted October 27, 2004 I usually eat Calbee`s フレーシ ク”ラノーラ (muesli sort of thing) Didn`t like it at first but love it now. Only cereal available around me that i like. It comes in tiny boxes though, literally only 2/3 servings. Link to post Share on other sites
jared 0 Posted October 27, 2004 Share Posted October 27, 2004 I just got myself 3kg of rolled oats. It`s gonna be a porridge winter. Link to post Share on other sites
Yuki's Passion 1 Posted October 28, 2004 Share Posted October 28, 2004 If I eat cereal I like granola or that muesli stuff too. But, usually only eat like a banana or an onigiri. Cant eat too much in the morning - never have been able too. In the winter time I like rice and miso. Its light and warms you up. Great way to clear up hangovers too. Link to post Share on other sites
amandanism 0 Posted October 28, 2004 Share Posted October 28, 2004 more often then not, eating in the morning makes me ill. its usually just a banana for me. Link to post Share on other sites
Karnidge 2 Posted October 28, 2004 Share Posted October 28, 2004 Well. I like Corn Flakes. Link to post Share on other sites
stripper on coke 0 Posted October 28, 2004 Share Posted October 28, 2004 Karnidge, me too, I like corn flakes, and sometime put a banan on there as well. I also like these new flakey things from weetabix - 'advantage'. With a name like that, you can't go wrong...... Also, every morning, toast and vegemite.... Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted October 28, 2004 Share Posted October 28, 2004 Cornflakes are garbage. Mr. Kellogg invented them because he had some rotten corn on his hands that wasn't fit for human consumption and wondered if he couldn't turn a profit from it. So he squashed and baked his bad corn and fed it to some decrepit old people in his care with the assurance that it was healthy and nutritious. Hardly surprising it tastes indistinguishable from the box it comes in. Link to post Share on other sites
Karnidge 2 Posted October 28, 2004 Share Posted October 28, 2004 Cornflakes are delicious. Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted October 28, 2004 Share Posted October 28, 2004 I'm pretty shocked that something like corn flakes can cause such hatred. Quite funny actually. I quite like them myself. Bananas and strawberries go well. When I was a kid, and felt ill, my gran used to put warm milk on cornflakes. I used to love that. Link to post Share on other sites
stripper on coke 0 Posted October 28, 2004 Share Posted October 28, 2004 ahhhh, warm milk on cornflakes in the winter is almost as good as porridge..... Ocean, tell me, what do you think of cocopops ? ? ? ? Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted October 29, 2004 Share Posted October 29, 2004 > Ocean, tell me, what do you think of cocopops ? ? ? ? Baby food for the next generation of diabetics. My father is diabetic from eating a large variety of heavily processed food all his life and has to control his sugar intake drastically. A large percentage of his limited daily sugar intake is filled by his morning bran cereal, which he eats because he's been persuaded he 'needs it for the fibre'. Oddly, this tastes just like plywood and has almost no sweetness to it, and yet it's full of sugar. So on the few occasions that I've eaten those sickly chocolate cereals, I've been alarmed and repulsed by their toxic sweetness. If 'healthy' bran flakes are a health hazard to be limited carefully, how much more so Cocopops? It's funny that, considering the long-known facts of their origin, production methods, and content, that cereals have become associated with nutrition and health. It'a a huge con. Link to post Share on other sites
BulbFish 0 Posted October 29, 2004 Share Posted October 29, 2004 I find this all very interesting. Any more info on it to share, from some reliable sources, so to speak? I like my Weetabix. Link to post Share on other sites
stripper on coke 0 Posted October 29, 2004 Share Posted October 29, 2004 yeah, but ocean, cocopops taste good, 'just like a crunchy milkshake'.....ha ha ha Good points though....... Link to post Share on other sites
damian 0 Posted October 29, 2004 Share Posted October 29, 2004 Quote: Originally posted by BulbFish: Any more info on it to share, from some reliable sources, so to speak? Reliable source? How about just a dose of logic and reason from your own brain (dont be offended, I'm just being a dick) Food that comes from a factory that has been sweetened, flavoured, coloured, preserved, cooked in fat, stripped of natural nutrients, packaged in an ugly box and is available by the carton load on a supermarket aisle is very very likely to be junk, unfit for healthy human consumption. The guy near me at work takes his coffee from the free machine in the staff kitchen. This disgusts me so I asked him about the 'milk'. It didn't seem to worry him. So I invited him to take a look at the inside of the magic drink machine that makes about 10 different bevies and is bigger than a fridge. To his credit, once he saw inside he was put off for good. Food doesn't come from a metal box with pipes, chemical whiteners, mixers and a stinking drip tray. Food and drink comes from the ground. After Japan I find the UK to be a porno bonanza of sweetness and fakeness. It made me a little ill. Then I went to America. I was served something that with all honest intent, they claimed was yoghurt. They knew no different. I have never seen anything so far from yoghurt in my life. Mind you in America I also saw butter that was almost white (now I know where the Japanese learnt this from) and also cheese that was orange and didn't melt.... or came from a [censored]ing can!!! I really can't believe that this even needs explaining. Compare these groups: 1) Reality TV, Sport on TV, cocopops, X rated pornography, Hollywood, gaming consols. 2) Your friends and family, kicking a ball around with buddies, an apple on a tree, love, standing on a mountain, literature. This no longer has anything to do with breaky food. I just like ranting about the vile offerings from our commercial overlords. I am part of the commercial machine and even support it in many of my purchases and activities. I can almost live with the commercial machine.... so long as it offers something good and natural, which in most cases it does not yet the human race seems to be too dopey to realise what is good and what is not. But then what more can be expected from a population that makes Macdonalds so massive. Ahh, what the hell, go on and eat your chemicals and sugar, call it food and be happy Link to post Share on other sites
indosnm 0 Posted October 29, 2004 Share Posted October 29, 2004 As a kid we were never allowed to eat those sweet cereals like Coco pops, fruit loops etc. ( sometimes nutri grain was allowed on special occasions) Fav's are... Rice Bubbles with milk & a nanna. Or substitute the milk for yoghurt Weetbix warmed up in the microwave (warm & soggy) are great in winter! Has anyone here been able to complete the 1 minute dry weetbix challenge? Weetbix are also nice (what was my mum thinking??) with a little butter and vegimite (eaten dry) Link to post Share on other sites
sunrise 0 Posted October 29, 2004 Share Posted October 29, 2004 Lately I've been cooking up a mixed organic grain kinda porridge with rolled oats, millet, buckwheat, barley and sesame seeds. Throw on some soy milk and cinamon, very nice. Not cheap, but then the same amount of organic muesli would cost the same here in Japan. If you cook with some apple juice as well, it can be nice, but I tend not to do that in Japan. Genmai and natto are great, too. Other times I'm too lazy to cook and wind up with white rice instead. I love Japanese breakfasts, but always prefer genmai when possible. I used to eat those cereals years ago, but now I just find them too sweet. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted October 29, 2004 Share Posted October 29, 2004 Sesame seeds are great. Far more calcium than milk. If I could, I'd like to eat the black rice pudding I had in Bali for breakfast, although with maybe a quarter of the sweetness. Link to post Share on other sites
sunrise 0 Posted October 29, 2004 Share Posted October 29, 2004 I LOOOVVEEE black rice pudding! Link to post Share on other sites
damian 0 Posted October 29, 2004 Share Posted October 29, 2004 Same. I think I mentioned it before on this forum. Mango slices, black rice, palm something, coconut miruku. Link to post Share on other sites
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