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I think it's a combination of that, and the general lack of latchkey kids in general. Cereal was a completely safe thing for kids to prepare and eat themselves
by silisili 3y ago
I think it's a combination of that, and the general lack of latchkey kids in general. Cereal was a completely safe thing for kids to prepare and eat themselves when you left for work before them, and got home after them. It's what we all ate every morning before school.
For a variety of reasons, such lifestyles seem way less common today.
- chickenfeed 3y agoI don't know, there's many people with dairy intolerance. A bit off puffed grain draped in sugar with a sprinkle of vitamins, in a headache inducing substance doesn't sound like the best start for any kid. But agree that it was a go to for me when getting back from school. But then again we starved ourselves to keep our dinner money when we were kids. And barely ate well at all. Pretty envious of those kids that had parents that cooked for them. My second school had good food. If I had spent the money on a dinner I would have done much better than eating at home. My third school had crap food. Envious looking back on those that had free school meals. This is in the UK. But this is years back, and I wouldn't be surprised if the quality of lunches has dwindled to nothing, or even if schools have canteens. I visited a hospital a decade or so back, and it had a KFC on the concourse.