The whole nutrition facts section feels cherry picked too. Portion sizes are way too small. Every snack food ends up being 140 calories and like 27-31 grams, regardless of what it is. I wish everything was, like, per 10 grams or some other measurement from which I can extrapolate how big a piece of shit I am easily. I don't want 27 grams of cereal, I want 40 because I'm a child trapped in an adult's body, so now I gotta do the cross multiplying thing I learned when I was a kid, and I guess it's good to stay fresh, but I don't want to.
All that being said, calorie counting apps are fantastic for anyone interested in keeping tabs on their bad habits. Not necessarily fixing them, just giving some ammo for when they're depressed and shitting all over themselves.
This is why the EU went with a 100g section. You can just read that to see the relative differences between products. Us definitely did a better job of making it readable. Some allowed formats are just mushed up text.
just eyeball it: 27=20, so double the values... there's probably so much variance that it ends up close... but also yeah we should have some standardized serving size... I'm sure the EU has done this or something lol
There are plenty of great cereals. Fiber one is basically 75% of your daily fiber in 200 calories, You can find plenty of examples. I feel like nobody on the Internet understands the availability of trash does not exclude quality from being in a product space.
Getting 75% of my daily fiber at breakfast and then another 75% of my daily fiber just from eating normally the rest of the day sounds like a lot. I can only see this being a good thing in like a food desert or medical situation where vegetables aren't an option.
Assuming you mean eat less of the cereal and not less vegetables, that is what I'm suggesting would be preferable to me, yes.
The listed serving size is 2/3 of a cup for 65% of your daily fiber, but I think in reality most people are pouring much larger cereal bowls. I can understand why many people who try to eat healthy for the first time end up feeling sick if it's this easy to hit 40 grams of fiber just in the first meal of the day.
I'm not saying no one should ever eat it, just that it seems impractical to me as a meal and more useful as a supplement.
The waves on the south sea of milk were choppy all month as we voyaged from the buttered bread bay to the coffee or tea isles., My cereal boat was rocked from tip to trough. Several were lost at sea, and those who remained had to contest with the unending motion sickness and repairs.
We've had this kind of shit for decades. It's a manager's "make it more interesting", no matter if the executing side is a robot or an underpaid graphics design intern.
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zxqwas@lemmy.world · 107 pts · 83d
Milk before both cereal AND bowl.
mecen@lemmy.ca · 23 pts · 82d
Debate over.
Impractical_Island@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 82d
I put my bowl between the couch and the Groupon and i know it does so I get it back awhn I eat it and then i have done so it go
hOrni@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 83d
It just spilled a little. No use crying over it.
devfuuu@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 83d
No no, tears go on top.
rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 82d
* Serving Suggestion
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 82d
Lidl has you beat
The house is somehow a serving suggestion
Agent641@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 82d
This is why there's no affordable housing, lidl enjoyers keep eating them all
Impractical_Island@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 82d
Don't tell vikings they can eat your house; they will for thet do as a way to have the wood ibto itself whicg is how it grows back evety yesr
LSNLDN@slrpnk.net · 21 pts · 82d
No wonder AI is so confused
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 83d
Thanks, AI.
cally@piefed.blahaj.zone · 39 pts · 83d
I don't think this is exclusively an AI thing, more of a weird cereal box/marketing thing
hoch@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 82d
People love bitching about AI in every thread
echodot@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 81d
It's the new Goodwin's law
danc4498@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 82d
It’s probably their attempt to confuse AI.
atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 82d
those types of ads have existed since before 2021
if you someone managed to make a real ad that doesnt look extremely weird before 2021, they deserve all of elon musks wealth
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 82d
Leave poor Al alone, all he does is bring us joy with his music.
conartistpanda@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 81d
There's many reasons to hate AI but this isn't one of them.
Impractical_Island@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 82d
No thay do for ever
Blackmist@feddit.uk · 16 pts · 82d
Probably so they don't have to declare the milk in the calorie content...
sunbytes@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 82d
Nestle cereals also show the "calcium content: g" inside a cartoon splash of milk.
Because you're supplying that part yourself.
Dozzi92@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 82d
The whole nutrition facts section feels cherry picked too. Portion sizes are way too small. Every snack food ends up being 140 calories and like 27-31 grams, regardless of what it is. I wish everything was, like, per 10 grams or some other measurement from which I can extrapolate how big a piece of shit I am easily. I don't want 27 grams of cereal, I want 40 because I'm a child trapped in an adult's body, so now I gotta do the cross multiplying thing I learned when I was a kid, and I guess it's good to stay fresh, but I don't want to.
All that being said, calorie counting apps are fantastic for anyone interested in keeping tabs on their bad habits. Not necessarily fixing them, just giving some ammo for when they're depressed and shitting all over themselves.
Blackmist@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 82d
New rule. Give your product to 10 random people off the street. Get them to pour out one portion that they'd eat.
Take the average, that's now your portion size.
Sintinium@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 82d
Who decides the bowl or plate size? It has a psychological effect on how much we think we eat.
purplemonkeymad@programming.dev · 2 pts · 82d
This is why the EU went with a 100g section. You can just read that to see the relative differences between products. Us definitely did a better job of making it readable. Some allowed formats are just mushed up text.
Alberat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 82d
just eyeball it: 27=20, so double the values... there's probably so much variance that it ends up close... but also yeah we should have some standardized serving size... I'm sure the EU has done this or something lol
Dozzi92@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 81d
Oh, I eyeball it all. That's how I can run 30+ miles a week and still hover right at the edge of overweight.
Impractical_Island@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 82d
They need to at lest count my cum calories. It not safe ergonomically if they don't and I sew
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 82d
Holds up spork!!!1!!
Impractical_Island@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 82d
Yea, the penguin of d00m but is really popular with the middle school demographic.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 82d
Regulate harder!
4am@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 83d
It’s on my lap and I’m really into cereal.
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 83d
Yes. Milk… that’s what’s in my lap.
YaDownWitCPP@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 83d
You always put the cereal bowl in the milk bowl so the cereal doesn't get soggy.
forbiddencherry@lemmy.today · 10 pts · 83d
Do a lot of people actually add fruit to their cereal? I only started eating more fruit once I'd replaced cereal.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 83d
It's how the pretend it's a nutritious breakfast.
makeshift0546@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 83d
There are plenty of great cereals. Fiber one is basically 75% of your daily fiber in 200 calories, You can find plenty of examples. I feel like nobody on the Internet understands the availability of trash does not exclude quality from being in a product space.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 82d
Not a bad point to make! I eat grape nuts, which I am at least pretty sure is very decent.
I also eat trash cereals, but typically those are replacements for candy or dessert.
stray@pawb.social · 1 pts · 82d
Getting 75% of my daily fiber at breakfast and then another 75% of my daily fiber just from eating normally the rest of the day sounds like a lot. I can only see this being a good thing in like a food desert or medical situation where vegetables aren't an option.
makeshift0546@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 82d
Eat less. What an absolutely worthless statement. Get your macros whatever way you want.
stray@pawb.social · 2 pts · 82d
Assuming you mean eat less of the cereal and not less vegetables, that is what I'm suggesting would be preferable to me, yes.
The listed serving size is 2/3 of a cup for 65% of your daily fiber, but I think in reality most people are pouring much larger cereal bowls. I can understand why many people who try to eat healthy for the first time end up feeling sick if it's this easy to hit 40 grams of fiber just in the first meal of the day.
I'm not saying no one should ever eat it, just that it seems impractical to me as a meal and more useful as a supplement.
makeshift0546@lemmy.today · 0 pts · 82d
Cool paragraph about your preference. Like, just fantastic.
0ops@piefed.zip · 9 pts · 83d
Bananas in corn flakes are one of my favorites. Strawberries are great too. I've never tried blueberries in life cinnamon but honestly I bet it'd slap
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 82d
Oranges and lemons are underrated. Also watermelon. 🤌
Okokimup@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 83d
I did for a few years when I ate cereal regularly. Now I add it to yogurt with homemade granola.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 83d
I’ll do fresh bananas or frozen berries, but it’s a waste of fresh berries and too much of a hassle for other fruit, imo.
Hawke@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 83d
I do occasionally. It makes bland cereal (grape-nuts and corn flakes) palatable without just dumping a bunch of sugar on it.
TheGiantKorean@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 82d
I add bananas to corn flakes. I used to add extra raisins to Raisin Bran.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 82d
Two scoops not enough for you? Are you perpetually unsatisfied??
Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 82d
sliced bananas into Cheerios or Oat Circles is actually REALLY good.
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 83d
I never do. I'll add it to oatmeal, but not cereal.
Hawke@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 83d
Pro-tip: oatmeal is cereal.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 83d
In my experience most people have forgotten about hot cereals. My mom used to make Cream of Wheat all the time when I was growing up.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 82d
Instant hot cereal has completely ruined hot cereal. It's just shit compared to the regular stuff.
forbiddencherry@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 82d
Still have Malt-O-Meal every so often. It's good! Glad both are still around.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 82d
Cream of wheat with lots of sugar and butter is soooo good and comforting.
squirrel@cake.kobel.fyi · 10 pts · 83d
Bowlboat sailing the milky sea (12", Album, Ltd, Num)
whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 82d
The waves on the south sea of milk were choppy all month as we voyaged from the buttered bread bay to the coffee or tea isles., My cereal boat was rocked from tip to trough. Several were lost at sea, and those who remained had to contest with the unending motion sickness and repairs.
ddplf@szmer.info · 4 pts · 82d
Not milk
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 5 pts · 82d
Mölk
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 82d
Mjolk
Agent641@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 82d
Lait
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 4 pts · 82d
When you hold the cereal bowl in your lap, but the cereal is so good you launch the bowl in the air with your ejaculate.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 82d
I want that cereal.
Impractical_Island@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 82d
Give me it too
Impractical_Island@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 82d
I just ejaculater. It way easier than all that shit
plutopos@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 81d
Because you're supposed to pour milk first, of course. Smh
Codpiece@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 83d
My kids manage that at least twice a week.
MyRobotShitsBolts@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 81d
We just don't see enough why the fuck picard memes these days.
BCsven@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 82d
Today on flowerpots as cereal bowls
Impractical_Island@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 82d
You don't smoke the pot butter a flower. Goes against male a raise right make the cereal ways moren ever before.
Agrivar@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 82d
Have you recovered from that stroke yet, or should we send help?
Impractical_Island@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 82d
Burgers in butt go beach upfork my dog had a gravy train now I reach yes time grades always recovered over trip city.
Agrivar@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 81d
Oh shit, I didn't even realize I was responding to more schizo-posting from Lemmy's own resident nutter!
Impractical_Island@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 81d
I'll gabba your gooba next time you do that
NatakuNox@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 82d
Hey. Don't hate until you have tried it. Maybe they're onto something?
blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 83d
It could be Dulux emulsion
Etterra@discuss.online · 3 pts · 82d
Because you're supposed to eat the bowl, obviously. The milk is just there for the bowl to float upon.
over_clox@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 82d
They ran out of Elmer's Glue.. 🤷
mecen@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 82d
Well I mostly eat from upsidedown bowl so some spilled milk is the least of my worry
Bloomcole@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 82d
milk and sugary crap is always wrong
Smoogs@lemmy.world · -13 pts · 83d
AI slop marketting again
dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de · 35 pts · 83d
We've had this kind of shit for decades. It's a manager's "make it more interesting", no matter if the executing side is a robot or an underpaid graphics design intern.
lime@feddit.nu · 27 pts · 83d
this was on special k boxes in the 90s my dude
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 82d
Well, probably not the bowl of chex specifically but yeah, I seem to recall random milk splashes on some different cereal boxes.
stray@pawb.social · 2 pts · 82d
All-natural human failure, fresh from 2018 for for your enjoyment:
https://www.boredpanda.com/worst-photoshop-fails/
makeshift0546@lemmy.today · 0 pts · 83d
What a ratio.