As a parent, not allowed in our house, never was. Want something sweet? French Toast or Pancakes, oatmeal with maple syrup and butter. Sausage patty with egg and cheese sandwich. My sister visits "where's the cereal" I point her to the oatmeal, its whole rolled oats, she puts it in a bowl with water -"where's the micro wave", I smile, "I don't have one". She settles for toast. "Where's the margirine"? It's endless with some people. And she's older than me, and I am old. I remember when processed foods hit the market. In the 50's, it was limited to corn flakes, wheaties, special K, shredded wheat. A lot of the housewives jumped on those processed foods like nobodies business. My Dad and I went down to Florida together while Mom stayed with my sister after she had her first baby, it was Easter break, drove from Long Island to Florida. It was the first time I had real breakfasts when we got into the South, and stopped at restaurants. Suddenly his daughter had an appetite, (I was a skinny kid who did not eat much, had vitamins due to anemia from age 6), we were not poor, I just had a body that craved nutrition. They started adding the sugar and then it jumps to childhood obesity. Hash browns were a revelation to me, I was all of 11 years old. You can keep the grits though.
As a parent, not allowed in our house, never was. Want something sweet? French Toast or Pancakes, oatmeal with maple syrup and butter. Sausage patty with egg and cheese sandwich. My sister visits "where's the cereal" I point her to the oatmeal, its whole rolled oats, she puts it in a bowl with water -"where's the micro wave", I smile, "I don't have one". She settles for toast. "Where's the margirine"? It's endless with some people. And she's older than me, and I am old. I remember when processed foods hit the market. In the 50's, it was limited to corn flakes, wheaties, special K, shredded wheat. A lot of the housewives jumped on those processed foods like nobodies business. My Dad and I went down to Florida together while Mom stayed with my sister after she had her first baby, it was Easter break, drove from Long Island to Florida. It was the first time I had real breakfasts when we got into the South, and stopped at restaurants. Suddenly his daughter had an appetite, (I was a skinny kid who did not eat much, had vitamins due to anemia from age 6), we were not poor, I just had a body that craved nutrition. They started adding the sugar and then it jumps to childhood obesity. Hash browns were a revelation to me, I was all of 11 years old. You can keep the grits though.