I was looking at https://www.amazon.com.au/b/node=22019347051 and it all looks like crap. What did the superior boomer generation eat for breakfast back in the good ol' days?
What Did Boomers Eat for Breakfast Back in The Day?
deme on 09/10/2023 - 21:53
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And toast was a staple. Vegemite, peanut butter, honey, jam, marmalade, no avo.
I'd have killed for toast instead of porridge.
Vegemite toast is still my go-to, love the stuff.
And the porridge had to walk up-hill both ways!
I were given a lump of coal and a good thrashing for breakfast. Luxury!
OMG! you got coal! How extravagant! We had to lick the road for our breakfast
At least you had it right away! We had to toil the fields for oats and wheat every morning, if we did well, we had boiled oats and toast a few weeks later but if we didn't, it was husk water seasoned with salty tears for breakfast…
Porridge…….
cement
Teaspoon a day, to toughen us up.
We never used to have a teaspoon. We used to have to drink cement out of a rolled up newspaper.
But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.Newspaper, newspaper?
You were lucky.
We had a town crier, who got paid Tuppence on Ash Wednesday, but only if a lark was seen in the church's pear tree on the Wednesday before. He tied an onion to his belt which was the style at the time.
Thanks for explaining someone else's joke to us. Absolute godsend.
It’s a tag not an explanation.
Given the hysterical reaction to the referendum, clearly it didn't work.
Grandparents/parents mainly porridge. One would have kedgeree and full breakfast (well off). Sometimes kippers. Sundays were scotch sausage and eggs, especially once in Australia.
My parents were much the same, maybe Weetbix.
I was the same. Cereal was rare. Maybe Sultana Bran, All Bran, Weet Bix, Cornflake and Rice Bubbles. Never sugary ones.not avo on toast for sure, as they can afford a house.
Please downvote my comment. Sorry it is long.
(start rant)
This "generational war" is not real. The Baby Boomers didn't steal the future from Millennials. The majority of Boomers were good, honest, working people. They didn't even live in "the best time", it's just a fact that Millennials live in a worse economic period.So with creativity, productivity, and innovation through the roof…. where did all this capital goto? It went to the Boomers, but not all of them, but the top representative.
Remember, the international currency is USD and it is the best theft machine in history. It used to be (more) honest when it was backed by Physical Gold. But they TEMPORARILY changed it to become fiat, and haven't reverted back, and have been going Bbbbrrrrr with the money printer (compare 2019 vs 2023). This single detail explains a lot of things (inflation/hyperinflation) and it happened in the 1970s, and a decade later we saw a global recession.
The other point is work, and representation in parliament. The corporations have bribed and lobbied their way in. Unions have been busted. Companies have been getting away without paying taxes, whilst getting government stimulus but not raising wages. This major shift started happening in the 1980s, and a decade later we saw the close of industries and things being outsourced to cheaper nations.
Those are two major reasons why we have this phenomenon, and it's in the English Nations primarily (USA, Canada, UK, NZ, Australia). Other places have it better/worse depending on factors.
The poor haven't really gotten poorer, it's just that the rich learned and they learned well; use the system at hand to your benefit, and skim a bit of money from a lot of people whilst aiming at the middle-class. Repeat that step many times, as it compounds. So that's why Millennials and Zoomers have such a dispropotionately worse lives. Their lifestyle has been greatly hampered by the need to survive, due to tough economic conditions, brought on by people who have been rich and amassed power. It's not old people who are the blame, because a good portion of them are innocent…. its the people at the top who have done this.
So best is to take action, and change the system. Don't fall back on emotions and fingerpointing.
(end rant)
Good analysis. A lot of the Boomers were too old to catch the gravy train. I’m part of the cohort that did fairly well but I didn’t catch the real gravy train of amassing a property portfolio. It helps if you came from money to start with. When someone can step out for lunch and buy a multimillion dollar property on a whim then the system is shot.
The biggest issue is housing. We need housing prices to drop so we need to break up people’s property portfolios and put more houses back on the market. The rental excuse is a furphy. The more people own their own homes the less people who need to rent. We should have one home, maybe one investment property, then it gets very uncomfortable to have more than that. The money got through taxation could be used for social housing.
@try2bhelpful: Growing up in blue collar area the boomers then were quite poor - paying off house, lard or porridge for breakfast and lots of veggies/fruit and maybe a sunday roast, pretty empty houses without electronics except radio and tv, holiday was camping or caravan parks interstate once a year. I suppose the difference is back then if you had duel income certain places in sydney that are now considered "prestige suburbs " houses were affordable. I suppose boomer intereaction depends where you grew up and when. Even though i had some really poor friends, none rented, some could buy the the public housing they lived in for a little more- something like that should be reintroduced.
@sardines: When the 25 year loan for a house was 25 years. Apparently it isn’t fashionable around here to point out what it was really like.
We weren’t poor, poor but we certainly weren’t wealthy. At one point we have seven of us on a two bedroom house with one bathroom and one toilet. It is hard to get het up about kids sharing a bedroom when you start off sharing a bed. When my parents first moved in the area they had a night cart man rather than being sewered.What we did have was a decent sized backyard and fruit trees. That was the important bit from a kids perspective.
Personally I think Public housing should stay as rental accomodation for low income people but we do need low cost housing that people can purchase. Housing prices are just insane at the moment. It needs to be pivoted to home ownership than property portfolios.
The majority of people haven't learned though. How many times have we heard, "Most people don't have enough $ to retire on." Or, "I have to choose between eating two meals a day or paying the energy bill." Later generations act like (are?) whiny brats, blaming past people for their own lack of self control, their inability to delay gratification to save for years (which past generations had to do too only for longer because banks refused to lend to many people), AND for driving prices up THEMSELVES by wanting a home in the city, today, but I don't want to give up any of my toys to do it - so I'll whine and sob and blame anyone else. The real blame lies with themselves, but more so, government. 1. Government is quite happy for people to blame other people because it takes the focus off them. 2. Example: Albo promising cheaper electricity to get elected, then pushing the climate change fairy story, ignoring mostly-clean coal much cleaner than past decades and the planet is in a carbon drought anyway (coal-fired power stations are needed to power the adult baby's entertainment subscriptions) and pushing bullshit "sustainable renewables" buzzwords (which they are neither), requiring even more taxpayer money poured in to "sustain" them, and thus every bill gets higher.
I dont think the young think boomers 'stole' anything. More that their voting habits show that time and time again they are willing to end any and all assistance programs they had that got them where they are. This shows as a cohort they do not care about anyone else in a 'me got mine' manner so why should the young like/care about the boomers?.
Im not speaking about all boomers. Just statistically.
@surg3on: I can see your point but every Boomer I know votes left and cheers on what the Government is trying to do to improve things for the next generation. There are plenty of people below Boomers that are into property portfolios, tax dodging, etc. Instead of blaming Boomers it would be better to attack the underlying issues. The ALP in Victoria are getting heat for going after Air BnB, property portfolios and land banking but I’m cheering them on. The single biggest issue is housing followed by removing exploitative employment practices. I’m happy to vote for what fixes those.
great comment, thanks. i will add some stuff also.
tl;dr neoliberalism gonna neoliberal.
we've certainly lost our egalitarian society to a great degree. i don't blame boomers or suggest everyone's worse off now. the reality is that the top decile have gotten loads richer, the second top decile have gotten a bunch richer, and everyone else has just about remained the same.
there are a couple of things that people don't talk about though.
- social infrastructure
one of neoliberalism's favourite things is to put everything through a cost benefit analysis and completely disregard anything that can't have a dollar sign against it. among other factors - core among them, long commutes and increasing focus on private spaces (ie everyone has a backyard, pool, home theatre etc) - a big result of this is the absolute dearth of social infrastructure around these days.
every tiny crappy town back in the day had various community facilities - provided either by the public or by a local committee or similar - like a hall, tennis courts, rec club etc. these days councils can barely afford to maintain the assets that they do have, and half of the country lives in endless suburbs with nothing public near them other than a drainage reserve or an unadorned sports field.
now on the surface maybe you think 'ah that's stuff of a bygone era - i wouldn't want to hang out with all the old farts at the social club anyway!'. but guess what? that's how societies are supposed to work. neoliberalism has restructured our lives around the family unit and workplace. having public places where people talk and congregate and do things together outside their family and workplace is risky to the system as it provides networks of production that aren't reliant on it.
the 'third spaces' we get now are generally geared toward consumption - malls, cafes etc - and many of them aren't places you can really hang out for free. that's pretty alienating and excludes a lot of folks. everything is transactional.
another major side effect is just less exposure to other people, particularly for kids. without lots of random bits of sports equipment or skateparks or community centres, where do kids go to hang out? if you live in the burbs, you're totally reliant on a parent to drive you to another place where you can hang out with kids. that's insane.
- cost of life
obviously there's been loads of talk about cost of living but i'm talking about cost of life. everyone likes to compare interest rates and mortgage repayments and rent etc, even doing it well by adjusting for inflation and showing it proportionally compared to household income etc.
but guess what? people starting adulthood now have bills that didn't exist back then, as well as various costs that have just skyrocketed. phone bill, internet bill, various subscription services, fuel, childcare, you name it. i don't have data on things like public transport or electricity but i wouldn't be surprised if they were higher now too. and yes, obviously you can opt out of things or go for cheapo versions if you want to be frugal, but most people don't question it because that's just what the norm is. also lots of those options are excruciatingly difficult to live with (eg cheapo providers that cause numerous headaches) or require labour or expertise to manage (eg sailing the high seas).
i haven't run the numbers, but i'd be extremely surprised if australians today had a higher % of income available for discretionary expenses than in the 60s or 70s.
anyway that's me done for the day, back to work. if you're interested in further reading check out Bowling Alone (Putnam, 2000) or The Fall of Public Man (Sennett, 1977)
@jrowls: I agree. ‘Stuff’ is cheaper so young people seem to have more stuff. Quality of life is so much more expensive now.
Aw, pwoor widdle neg fairies… Seems they're the ones it went over the heads of (or it didn't but they can't handle a bit of reality?). i.e. "not avo on toast for sure, as they can afford a house." = Later generations (like mine - sigh!) whine and stamp their feet like ill-tempered toddlers they "can't afford" a house, today, within 15 minutes of both leaving school and from the middle of Syd/Mel, while at the same time leaking money like it's a race to the bottom trying to appear wealthy to impress other people who don't give a shit anyway… on avocados and every other frivolous waste and "toy" it represents, everything their selfish hearts desire like iphones and laptops and ipads every 2 years (because it comes "free" with my plan!), a new car every 4 years (one for every person in the home), and new clothes and furniture and Bali holiday every year, and…).
Well the entire group of people (it's only the top few % anyway - it's a known fact most people don't have enough $ to retire on) they blame for the result their own lack of restraint and inability to delay satisfaction, did without all that crap to scrimp and save… in many cases for [gasp!] 10 to 15 years to save a deposit because back then banks required a cavity search and still refused to give many people loans unless they were a doctor or lawyer and had been in the same job for a decade and all sorts of other restrictions excluding many people from qualifying. And while this was when homes were a lot cheaper, wages were a lot smaller TOO. e.g. A television cost MONTHS of wages, not 1-2 weeks wages or handing a credit card to JBHiFi. Many people didn't quality for CCs either. Same with a washing machine. Same with… everything. Even RADIOS were bought on hire-purchase paying them off for YEARS or RENTED so they never actually owned anything. Appliances were so expensive that you traveled into the city (twice) and paid someone to REPAIR your toaster. Or, they DID WITHOUT and played board and card games and read books after work.
Can you imagine today's precious ill-tempered avocado Bali holiday generation, going without a without a government propaganda dissemination screen, or washing clothes using a rough-glass washboard 4 years into marriage like my mother did until dad finally brought home a mangle style washing machine which cost 9 months wages and she STILL had to feed clothes through one piece at a time by hand to squeeze only 75% of the water out, focusing the entire so the rollers didn't rip the buttons off dad's work shirts? They'd have a nervous breakdown!
They bought ONE ten year old car and while dad drove that to work mum WALKED to do the shopping - when there wasn't a ColesWorths every 2km - so she either caught the bus, or in spite of having left home and gotten married, got a lift with her mother on Thursday nights so they could share the cost of petrol and be able to bring home more than 4 bags of groceries at once. Her mother or more likely, father, had to drive because many mums in the 1960s and even 70s didn't even have a driver's license.
They rarely bought bought new clothes except for the kids because they grew out of theirs, wearing the same clothes themselves for years, repairing holes or paying for repairs, wrote letters and talked on the phone and visited neighbours (still no car remember) instead of using "e devices" with $$ per month plans, and with no monthly subscriptions they talked about the movie on FTA last night viewed on a shitty secondhand black & white TV her parents gave them, cathode ray tube, with resolution in LINES not DPI, snowy reception, only 5 channels (if they were lucky and the VHF house antenna a dozen meters up in the sky worked) or 2 channels if it was damaged in a storm 3 years ago so they were now using a coathanger that had to be turned when you changed to the other of the only 2 channels now, because the aerial was so high they had to save up to pay someone danger money to climb the thin pole to fix it, with shitty resolution that faded in and out every several seconds meaning they missed 20% of the movie (hence the reason for visiting the neighbours, so collectively they could work out all the bits they missed).
i.e. Todays SOOKS blame someone else for THEIR OWN lack of self control, inability to delay gratification or just go without entirely and put a plan in place to reach a goal. AND when you present them with solutions (like hey, why not buy a cheaper home in a country town you can rent out that will rise on the same tide as all other boats, get your foot in the door, to save a deposit for your own home in Central Avocadoville, they can't mentally cope with "going without" some of their toys for a few years, begin hyperventilating, then stamp their feet and blame everyone else, pout and whine… "Well I'll just rent forever then!"
Perpetual children and mental weaklings! The men need to stop drinking soy lattes, put on their big boy pants (after taking off their nappies and taking the trousers back from their wives), learn to set goals, delay gratification by saying "no" to every future wealth-stealing toy and indulgence, cut up the credit cards which cost you double the value of things, sell the other 3 cars, cancel all the whiny-leftist-mind-virus-installation subscriptions, buy some clothes at op shops for a change, learn to sew a button, cancel the yearly holiday, and buy some (homebrand!) peanut butter instead of avos… Then become an adult and stop blaming other people who struggled much worse than you ever have or ever will, who have only UNREALISED wealth now anyway (because they still have to LIVE in their home, not SPEND it) which has only risen to ridiculous value thanks the same avocado generation because they are silly enough to keep buying homes at high prices instead of agreeing, "Ok… NONE OF US are buying homes until prices fall." But they can't do that, because again, they're too selfish to delay gratification. If ten agreed, 9 (or all 10) would sneak into the next auction (which is also a mug's game) and overbid. ("Gotta them all" generation, right?)
I admit to being astonished when, on another thread about the federal Bill Relief energy supplement, a young person who was gainfully employed and with no dependents, claimed that young people had been 'shafted' once again, because the supplement only applied to families with kids, pensioners and retirees (ie fixed income).
@Sweet3st: LOL. Yeah I saw that. I just shook my head and moved on.
(If so many weren't unmarriable having been indoctrinated by the man-babies on The Project and miserable barren radical feminists whose only friends are their 7 cats, they wouldn't be in that position.) Oops, did I just say that out loud? YES!
- Sorry, typo. The end should have read: "Gotta get them all" generation. i.e. Pokemon. (To show both their immature obsession into adulthood with infantile things, and their resentful greed someone else worked for something they're not prepared to - but think they should still "get them all" - all they want - anyway.)
after that massive unhinged whinge, you call other people sooks. Avocados are like $1
@Emerald Owl: It's not about their (current) COST … it's what the generalisation/stereotype REPRESENTS. As I said the first comment that I replied to would go "Whoosh!" over many heads. They would THINK they got it, but miss the deeper playful jab-in-the-ribs meaning. Obviously you're one of those. Because you're holding up the current price of avocados as if you've scored some bonus round no-one else reached, when you actually missed the point entirely.
Notice how no one engaged with you but a coherent and logical conversation is happening around your comments?
gruel
.What? Like suffering?
Where do you come up with this bollocks?
Weetbix/porridge/toast were the staples up until the 1990's. The sugary shit didn't really start until then.
Rice Bubbles were first advertised in Australia in the 1930s.
Coco Pops and Corn Flakes were, certainly, around when I was a kid. So they at least go back to the 60s.
The sugary shit has been around a long time.
The sugary shit has been around a long time.
Rice Bubbles, Coco Pops and Corn Flakes are nothing compared to what is on the market now. The fact that you could only come up with 3 examples when today's market has dozens and dozen's clearly demonstrates this point.
The sugary shit has been around a long time.
The big difference is that it used to be the exception not the rule.
These things are loaded with sugar and that list was just off the top of my head. I didn’t eat much else that was around then but there was stuff like Froot Loops as well. This wasn’t the exception, most kids had this sort of stuff for breakfast washed down with Milo.
We also had lots of lollies like liquorice blocks, whizz fizz, Red skins, Sonny boys and lots of weird shaped things like bananas, lips etc.
What we didn’t have was ready access to fast food joints like McDonalds. Our fast food was fish and chips from the Greek place.
The other thing was we weren’t chauffeured anywhere. You walked or rode to school or anywhere else you wanted to go.
Just wondering how old you are? Were you around in those times because I was.
We also had lots of lollies like…
Again the exception rather than the rule.
For me and everyone I knew these were treats. I live near a school and I see LOTS of kids eating this shit for breakfast, lunch and afternoon tea. No-one did that when I went to school. You had real food (usually a pie or sandwiches), then you had lollies. Today the balance is skewed massively to sugar. I see kids drinking a 600ml Coke or Red Bull for breakfast, that never happened at l when I was at school.You can't deny that the food balance got a lot worse after the 80's. The obesity epidemic is a testament to this. 25% of kids are overweight or obese. I went to a school of 1800 kids and there was only 1 kid in our whole year who was fat.
Just wondering how old you are?
Old enough to have witnessed this transition first hand with my own eyes.
Today the balance is skewed massively to sugar. I see kids drinking a 600ml Coke or Red Bull for breakfast, that never happened at l when I was at school
Australia is the dumping ground for American 'goodness', so we're getting all their fast food crap joints starting to pop up, their breakfast cereals etc. Most American food is pumped full of sugar (or corn syrup). Kids are seen in tv shows, drinking 'pop' all the time.
Speak with a lot of kids and thanks to our TV/Social network/Movies they think America is the best place on earth. Sadly for those that have been, we know better.
But you're right, go back a decade ago and seeing kids drinking softdrink for breakfast would be seen as crazy, now its the normal.
@JimmyF: Who lets their kids drink soft drink for breakfast? Certainly nobody I know.
I do agree with the corn syrup issue with American food.
Who lets their kids drink soft drink for breakfast? Certainly nobody I know.
Maybe you need to start doing the school drop off and pick up. Lots of high school kids walking around with soft drink/energy drinks in the morning. So guessing a breakfast kick start :)
@JimmyF: Why are you doing a school drop off? Shouldn’t your kids be making their own way to school?
We put bottles of premade cordial in the freezer to take to school and drink during the day. We also got our small milk bottles at school for morning tea.
Soft drinks are just wrong for kids unless as an occasion food.
Why are you doing a school drop off? Shouldn’t your kids be making their own way to school?
LOL Good way to deflect from the issue at hand. Maybe if more parents did a school drop off, the kids wouldn't be drinking a 600ml coke for breakfast!
As I said, go do some school drop offs and you might be surprised what kids are consuming in the morning or not.
We put bottles of premade cordial in the freezer to take to school
Good for them.
Soft drinks are just wrong for kids unless as an occasion food.
Not disagreeing, ours only drink soft drink a few times a week at most.
@JimmyF: So you think the kids are buying the coke on their way to school? Maybe but, frankly, there is little to stop them buying them at lunchtime or after school instead. If you give kids pocket money they buy what they want. It is about educating kids because you can’t watch them all the time.
I’m genuinely perplexed by the school run thing. I, distinctly, remember walking home from kindergarten at age 4. I’m sure there must’ve been an adult supervising it but it wasn’t my mother because they used to pin letters home to my parents on the back of my dress. Later my siblings and I walked to school from almost the time I started primary school. This included traversing a non monitored rail crossing. It had to be very special to get driven to school.
Maybe it is all down to the same thing. It is about choices and responsibilities. The sense of achievements when you make the right choices and learn from the wrong ones.
So you think the kids are buying the coke on their way to school?
Who knows, kids have it, they are drinking it. That was my comment, you seemed 'shocked' this was happening.
I’m genuinely perplexed by the school run thing. I, distinctly, remember walking home from kindergarten at age 4.
Walking home…..so how did you get to school? Surely your parents didn't make you walk up hill both ways?
Not that it is any of your business or concern, but you seem so stuck on it. The school is on the way to my work, so yes I dropped them off in the morning on my way to work. GASP the horror of it all. How will they become functioning adults from this, who knows! But they do make their own way home.
The point was, you seemed 'shocked' kids are drinking coke in the morning, you now seemed shocked kids get dropped to school. I'm seeing a trend here.
As I said, maybe if you did some school runs, you would be more intune with what kids are doing. Maybe your own kids are using their pocket money to buy coke on the way to school!
Maybe it is all down to the same thing. It is about choices and responsibilities. The sense of achievements when you make the right choices and learn from the wrong ones.
You seem to assume a lot of things from other peoples comments. You also assume your kids are making the 'right' choices when you're not looking.
@JimmyF: I haven’t said I was “shocked” by anything. I think kids shouldn’t drink soft drinks for breakfast and I am perplexed by school runs. Frankly Boomers don’t shock that easily. In the words of Blade Runner, “I've seen things you people wouldn't believe”.
I can only comment on when I was a child and we were expected to find our own way to school and on the children of my friends who were also expected to find their own way to school. None of us turned into “coke fiends” of any sort.
Give the kids some exercise and a sense of responsibility. Do you think your kids are making the right choices when you aren’t looking?
I haven’t said I was “shocked” by anything. I think kids shouldn’t drink soft drinks for breakfast
You seemed surprised it was even happening. Close enough to being shocked.
I am perplexed by school runs
You do you, I'll do what works for me. Its a strange world out there. If you did a school run every now and then you would know that.
I can only comment on when I was a child and we were expected to find our own way to school
As I said, you had to walk up hill both ways?
Give the kids some exercise and a sense of responsibility
ok boomer, thanks for your parenting advice, but did you not read the fact that they have responsibility and make their own way home.
Do you think your kids are making the right choices when you aren’t looking?
I'm ok with what they are doing, are you with yours?
At least I know mine are not drinking coke for breakfast, can you say the same thing?
@JimmyF: You are the one who seems to be shocked by my comments. Me, I’m just expressing interest this seems to have been normalised.
How do you know what your kids are doing once they get to school? One of their fellow scholars might be handing them a coke once you have left. You seem to think Breakfast extends into school time.
Honestly mate you need to learn how to chill and not impress your emotions on others.
I had to make my own way both ways. Not sure where you get the “up hill both ways” apart from in your imagination.
I, distinctly, remember walking home from kindergarten at age 4.
Then someone invented the automobile.
Then someone invented the automobile.
LOL!
Yeah they are coming across like people can't have it any different to them. If they walked uphill both ways, then their kids must too!!
Honestly letting a 4 year old walk home from kindergarten these days in a city would be reckless and child services should investigate them! Can't believe they are entertaining such rubbish should happen.
@JimmyF: Of course a 4 year old could walk home from kindergarten if they are accompanied by an adult. I didn’t say I walked uphill both ways that seems to be someone else’s bizarre dream.
Not sure why you think getting a child to get exercise by walking is rubbish. A bit of exercise doesn’t hurt a children provided it is done at their pace. Better than shoving them in a car.
Yup, they invented the automobile and the scrum that is the drop off at schools. You might want to read about the chaos this causes around a lot of school districts.
Not sure why you think getting a child to get exercise by walking is rubbish. A bit of exercise doesn’t hurt a children provided it is done at their pace. Better than shoving them in a car.
LOL So the only right way in the world is your way…
You think chauffeuring a child is better for their health than walking?
Not every kid is in walking distance to school, some even have to GASP take the bus or train. The horror.
Whatever you say.
Yes we all know you had to walk to school, uphill both ways too. We get it. But seriously go seek some help if you're so bent out of shape over someone else's kids getting a lift to school. You clearly have some childhood issues that have never been resolved over walking uphill both ways.
@JimmyF: You seem to be obsessed with walking uphill both ways. Not sure you understand geography but that might be your schooling. Repeating things over and over doesn’t make it true. No matter what Lewis Carroll tells you.
How can a child not be within walking, riding or public transport to the local school? Perhaps you are sending the kid to the wrong school or you didn’t think it through properly before picking your current accomodation.
I’m not “bent out of shape” you seem to be the one bent out of shape at the fact I was perplexed. This is just a mild thought in passing. Maybe you need to take a breath and step back to understand your reactions. They seem to be OTT. Perhaps stop drinking the red bull.
You seem to be obsessed with walking uphill both ways
Did you ever hear a whooshing sound while walking to school uphill both ways?
How can a child not be within walking, riding or public transport to the local school?
Your claim was that kids can ONLY WALK to school…..But now its ok for the kids to take the bus/train? Make up your mind. So kids can sit in a bus to school, but can't sit in a car? Hmmm interesting view.
Perhaps you are sending the kid to the wrong school or you didn’t think it through properly before picking your current accomodation.
Thanks boomer, but you purchased all the good 'accommodation' to turn into scum rentals.
But in all seriousness your comments are just full of spite and nastiness. Away trying to put someone else down, says more about you than me But ts ok, I've got more Christmases left than some, so I can wait for some people to 'age' out of the world.
I’m not “bent out of shape” you seem to be the one bent out of shape at the fact I was perplexed
Considering this is a breakfast thread, you are the one so focused on someone elses business of how their kids get to school. I would say you are.
Maybe you need to take a breath and step back to understand your reactions. They seem to be OTT.
LOL Again, I'm not the one bent out of shape over me taking the kids to school. You are. You're the one spewing the comments telling everyone what they should be doing, not me. But it is now my turn.
You are the one who replied to my comments because you had been disbelief kids drink coke for breakfast and had to tell me it wasn't true as you haven't seen it.
It isn't my fault you are so hands off your own kids school life and never take them to school to see this in person. That is a you issue, not a me issue.
We're done. Enjoy the walking uphill both ways!
@JimmyF: The whooshing sound was my reply to your pathetic insult that you keep repeating ad nauseam. Only you guys don’t know when you have had the insult turned on you. What is really sad is I have to explain this to you.
It is just so easy to get you guys riled up it isn’t funny. Obviously you guys just have no resilience, or perspective, left so you respond to whatever bait is dangled in front of you.
It is easy to see this because you seem obsessed in breaking down everything that people say and respond to every bit of it.
Me, I want the next generation to have some of the advantages we got. I think housing is ludicrously priced at the moment and want the Government to do what it can to break up people having housing portfolios.
However, your sad pathetic insults don’t encourage the very people who might be able to help you to get off our arses. Get some better material for a start. Dear lord that insult is so lame it is embarrassing. The fact you keep repeating it shows a lack of imagination.
However, your sad pathetic insults
You're the one been dishing them out from the start.
encourage the very people who might be able to help you to get off our arses
LOL So we can all walk uphill both ways to school like you did?
See this is the problem, you assume so much about people and what they are doing, but are so wrong, Thats the pathetic part about you and your replies.
Anyhow, as I said, we're done….. Enjoy the small time you have left on this world. This is my last reply to you. Unlike you, I would rather spend time with my kids than spending the day putting strangers down from my high horse.
You are incorrect go back to high school.
You are incorrect go back to high school.
Sound like you're already there…
Is not! Is too!
Corn flakes are not that sugary
The sugary shit has been around a long time.
Out of what you listed, the only one that would be classed as sugary shit would be coco pops, and this was more for the 'kids' as a treat back in the day.
But in the scale of the american breakfast shit that is hitting the shelves today, coco pops is looking like a health food compared to them.
Rice Bubbles are 10g of sugar in 100 g.
Corn Flakes are 10g of sugar in 100g.These aren’t insignificant amounts.
Also a lot of these breakfast cereals do come from American varieties.
@try2bhelpful: Even Weetbix has sugar. (maybe salt too) Apparently they have less sugar now.
Guns and sugar. It all makes sense now.
@Protractor: The real problem is corn syrup. If only they used corn syrup on their guns we could reduce two problems.
Mmm corn flakes with sugar! had that a lot in the 90s. I didn't (and still don't) have milk on my cereal.
I remember Coco Pops, Fruit Loops and Nutra Grain in the 80s and probably 70s. All full of sugar. Appreciate their is more variety today but the sugary stuff has been around for a long time.
Appreciate their is more variety today but the sugary stuff has been around for a long time.
No-one is saying it didn't exist, refined sugar has been around for hundreds of years, just that it massively increased around about the 1990's.
Yeah but they didn't really take off until they started printing university degrees on the box.
Don't forget Frosties.. those were always the best, although Tony the Tiger's probably dying a slow diabetic death.
Coated in umm… energy… to get your day started the right way.
But honey or maple syrup was commonly added to weetbix and porridge at home. Some people would sprinkle just straight up sugar on top.
Same with pancakes which were also, while not daily, common.Lemon and sugar on crepes.
All of this cereals convert to the equivalent of about 8 tablespoons of sugar, without the additional sugar they started adding on in the 80s and 90s.
I remember all the "sugary shit" cereals in the 80's when I was a kid. Cereal ads were a thing during Saturday morning cartoons and wrestling!
And all bran + sultanas
Rice Bubbles. If you got in early you could get the cream on the top of the milk bottle because it wasn’t homogenised back then.
Weetbix with a bit of hot water and milk and sugar.
Toast with jam or butter.
An egg flip.
First, most people think anyone over 35 is a "boomer." They're not. Baby Boomers were 1946-1964 so at least 59.
Anyway…
Pancakes, butter, maple syrup
Bacon/eggs and sometimes a sausage and half a tomato both cooked in a frypan tomato flat side down
Oatmeal/oats + milk + brown sugar
Weet Bix/Coco Pops/Rice Bubbles/Sultana Bran, etc. Hated Fruit Loops though - disgusting!
Scrambled eggs on toast add slice of ham at xmas from the leg of ham in the fridge
French toast
Vegemite/peanut butter on toast
I used to have "chicken roll" on toast (like devon) a lot until the idiots at Steggles ruined that by dropping it and keeping the other less popular and absolutely filthy shit roll with bits of beak and feathers they probably still make today. (The one I got cost more and used to be like real chicken and no-one makes anything like it today.) Told my parents don't buy that other crap so they lost a customer overnight.
Sardines on toast
Salmon on toast
Canned soup (usually tomato) + dribble of milk + toast (in winter)
Fish fingers
Grilled ham, tomato, cheese on toast
Just ham + tomato on toast
Just tomato + cheese on toast
Crumpets + golden syrup or honey
Bubble 'n squeakSo, everything except avocado.
everything except avocado
They're not made of money.
we had avocado tree so had lots of them
sips monster zero ultra
Oh and we're not meant to eat grains, refined flour, sugar, etc - they're all the same - all forms of refined carbs turn to sugar and then fat. All cereals and that includes supposed "healthy" muesli, are crap, make us FAT, send us to SLEEP at school/work as our body fights to get it out the back passage asap. I recently started eating bacon (2 slices) and eggs (2) for breakfast (again) with a few mm end-slice of butter on top, and some days I don't feel hungry until the next morning. If I do eat again it's not at lunchtime, it's at dinner because I'm just not hungry at lunch. But if I eat cereal, bread, etc - things with refined carbs and sugar, I'm constantly hungry and can't get enough food. It's not just breakfast, it's cups of tea, biscuits with it right through til lunch… which then needs some kind of "desert" like a lamington or vanilla slice, and all afternoon it's tea and biscuits again to try and stave off hunger… That stupid "food triangle" most of us were indoctrinated with in school is UPSIDE DOWN! Grains, etc should the LEAST amount we eat and meat (with the fat) the MOST.
Actually vegetables should be what we eat the most of.
Depends on the vegetable. Potatoes, sweet potatoes, carrots… i.e. root crops? No. They are starch and sugar. And starch and sugar are the two fastest things that go straight to storage - packing on fat. This is why so many vegans are skinny (scrawny and sickly is more appropriate description) but actually have terrible health. e.g. Carrots are beneficial in various ways for horses like their skin and hair, they are mostly water, but are sweet and high in calories, so it's one method used to pack weight on them.
Preferably green leafy vegetables, the cruciferous types, capsicums, etc, it is better to restrict the starchy versions. A paleo diet was fine when you only lived to 35, not so much if you want to be healthy into your 80s plus.
You need a bit of everything including carbohydrates.
The secret is balancing your eating and life. Moderation, hydration, exercise, relaxation, etc.
@try2bhelpful: I don't know a great deal about Paleo but I do know the bullshit about meat and its fat being bad for you is… well, bullshit. Eating more meat and its fat and less of everything else actually puts your body into ketosis which begins fat from all areas of your body, including stripping visceral fat (from on your organs) that no amount of exercise and what most think of as "eating healthy" could shift. It switches you into burning fat as fuel and doesn't care where it comes from.
It gets people off statins and diabetes medications, lowers blood pressure until those aren't needed either, it lowers the bad type of cholesterol and raises the good… The opposite of everything most "experts" claim it will do. After experiencing what I have, several times, I'm waiting for them to claim the boogey man under the bed is real too.
It's just like they rubbished eggs, butter, cream, and claimed the brown axle grease recoloured yellow known as margarine was healthy, yet the 1970s and 80s when the did, were when the obesity epidemic kicked off (thanks to their dumb upside down food triangle) and at the very same time exercise became trendy. More people, exercising more than ever before, but at the fattest they'd been.
It's the same attitude, same thing Atkins proved through the 1970s, 80s, 90s… which idiot medicos still rubbish on TV saying, "Atkins is bad for you long term…" when the fools have never read his book, not looked at the diet, never spoken to anyone who has done it, and so think the entire thing is eating only meat for the rest of your life when that's only the first 1-2 weeks, then you increase the amount of green leafy vegetables (which you were already eating anyway), moving on to adding more and more foods like nuts, berries… but leaving out sugar, bread, potato… which is exactly what they say to do, only they use the word "instead" proving their ignorance.
@[Deactivated]: You might want to look at the autopsy they did on Atkins when he died. He wasn’t in good shape.
Honestly, you do what you want to do and I will stick with the nutritionists. Really not interested in getting into a discussion about this with someone who has their own “views”. You won’t agree with me and I won’t agree with you.
@try2bhelpful: LOL. Not many 72 year olds are! If he was still obese he would have died in his 40s or 50s. Oh and he died from a fall not his diet, but don't mention that (shhh….).
@[Deactivated]: Yup, he died from a fall but his body was in poor shape anyway. Of course there are obese 72 year olds. You guys seem to like LOLs rather than facts.
WHAT WE WERE GIVEN. AND WE LIKED IT
Or so we were told. Cereal mainly in the warmer months. In winter, thick lumpy gelatinous porridge from oats that had soaked on the stove all night, usually burnt on the bottom, grey and disgusting. Due to the obligation to finish whatever was put in front of you I was often late for school in winter due to porridge. I still can't smell cooked oats without gagging.