on occasion. But I don't want to *have* to eat it, especially every night. And certainly, a lot (but not all) of cereals are pretty high in sugar. Plus most (but again not all) people will put milk on their cereal, so now dinner is the cost of cereal plus the cost of milk.
But all of that would be better than chips and Pepsi for a meal. Those have almost zero nutrition value (at least with a bowl of cereal, you're getting grains...hopefully...and you're getting calcium with the milk). I'm not saying I've *never* had chips and pop for a meal; in fact, I came pretty close today with my lunch consisting of a handful of frozen mini samosas, another handful of the homemade french fries Dad made and the last few sips of a mini bottle of Pepsi*. But I certainly don't make a habit out of it.
* I know myself well enough to know I will likely never voluntarily go soft drink-free. I go in spurts...I'll go several months where the only pop I drink is the few times I go out to eat at a fast food restaurant (I tend to get iced tea at the nicer places), then I'll break down and get some of the mini bottles of pop, or maybe a 20 oz. bottle of something. But it literally takes me several days to finish even a mini bottle of pop and maybe a week to get through a 20 oz. pop, so I don't consider it TOO unhealthy <g>.
Kind of off-topic but...we have a local grocery chain, Giant Eagle, which recently began doing something that's IMO kind of brilliant. Every Wednesday, they have a product on a one day "super sale", and sometimes they even give a product away for free. I've gotten a roll of the store brand parchment paper, a travel size bottle of the store brand hand sanitizer and a can of Coke's new "spiced" flavor (raspberry with...I don't know what else but it's pretty good), all for free. I got a container of the store brand salsa, which honestly is one of the best salsas I've ever had outside a Mexican restaurant, for 99 cents; it normally sells for $4.99. Tomorrow I'm going to get a box of Cheerios for 99 cents. I call this brilliant because I know I'm not the only one who goes to Giant Eagle for the sale item and then grabs a few more things "as long as I'm here". So customers are getting amazing deals on certain products and the store is selling items to those customers that the customer wouldn't be out buying normally.
