Posted on 11/04/2013 12:33:05 PM PST by John W
I used to do Aldi too, until I discovered Malt-o-Meal brand cereal, which is just as good and comes in big boxes or plastic bags so you’re not paying for packaging. And I get it at the Home Improvement store (Menards)! A 27 ounce box (2x what you get from Kellogs) costs $2.29.
They make a big deal out of saving consumers money: http://bagthebox.com/
Check Malt-O-Meal out. Like Mike, you’ll like it!
Shhhhh...don’t get in the way of a good rant!
When you go yo Aldi make sure you take a quarter for the shopping cart “deposit”.
Yes or you can buy the Aldi’s bags(Paper is a nickle/Plastic is $.10).
Aldi’s here in W/ Iowa-E/ Nebraska has 1 gallon of Whole Milk @ $1.99.
“extruded at high temperatures that wipe out any nutritional value in the original grains”
Typical liberal retarded and ignorant statement. You read that on the Internet so it just has to be true, right? A number of foods are cooked at high temp to no defect.
Thanks for the info!
I have a friend who works for Kelloggs - like most large companies, they spend more money on corp get togethers than they should - and on travel, which seems almost constant. Common sense would dictate that video conferencing, or more localized management would save a ton of money and make for a better work environment for those asked to travel extensively.
They are probably talking about junkets and stuff.
wasteful
1) generalized inflation in food and fuel that’s no longer counted in the “updated” CPI (since nobody needs food and fuel, and since everybody needs the regime to look good).
2) government mandates that a sizable proportion of our cornflakes be burned as part of the ethanol/hydrocarbon mix that now masquerades as gasoline
3) expansion of school lunch programs such that fewer kids have a bowl of Cap’n Crunch when they leave home
All of the above either increase the cost of cereal, or lead to lower sales, or both
In that spirit of exaggeration, it would be cheaper and healthier just to eat candy bars for breakfast.
Clearly, as so many have stated, there are much better values to be had for breakfast than a $10 box of colored, hyper-sugared, puffed grains. You can get a sausage and egg muffin with much more substance for a comparable or better price per serving and it’ll stick to your ribs a lot longer.
I never could figure cereal out. Even from my youngest days. It has no substance and doesn’t last more than just a small part of the morning before you’re hungry. If cereal is all I get for breakfast forget breakfast.
Steel cut oatmeal beats it by a mile if it is cereal you want.
Isn't it cheaper to just give them cereal and milk, maybe juice, too?
And they'd get the cereal from the cereal companies anyway?
"In his book Fighting the Food Giants, biochemist Paul Stitt describes the extrusion process, which treats the grains with very high heat and pressure, and notes that the processing destroys much of their nutrients. It denatures the fatty acids; it even destroys the synthetic vitamins that are added at the end of the process. The amino acid lysine, a crucial nutrient, is especially damaged by the extrusion process. "
Another vote here for the Malt-O-Meal line. You get at least half again as much cereal for the same price, and you’re not paying for expensive packaging or goofy advertising aimed at kids.
Not to pile on a fellow Freeper over quibbles, but would that be cold oatmeal?
-——a bowl of hot oatmeal is so much more filling——
Yup...a teaspoon of cinnamon, raisins, a squirt of sugar free maple syrup....
Can’t beat it for a healthy alternative to the crap they sell in a box...
Good question - so I searched “school breakfast menu” and the first hit that came up was
http://www.broward.k12.fl.us/foodservice/menus/September%20Breakfast.pdf
If you follow the link to the (I think) Broward County School District, you’ll find that every morning the kids have a hot meal option, with cereal (and other stuff) as a back-up everyday as well.
I’d guess that’s pretty much standard across the country (but I don’t have any evidence that’s the case). But it takes more school district employees to make and serve hot meals than it does to pour cereal into bowls, and given that a key part of the expansion of school meal programs is total employment for low info voters, I’d expect that’s the case.
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