… still get good quality, and that was over a decade ago. Publix “Cheerios” are consistently $2 a box. So if people are forced to eat cereal for dinner, I can’t imagine why they would choose Kellogg’s.
The Kellogg’s cereal for dinner person might have pushed that idea a little more elegantly — as in, cereal can be part of a healthy dinner, same as their advertising for breakfast for so many years. Instead, we get a buck naked attempt to push their more expensive products on poor people, nutrition be damned.
I’m a little less upset with the PepsiCo snack food person, who suggested that chips and pretzels make good meal ingredients and sides, not good meals. But as you say, these are not nutritious ingredients, so people who are struggling would probably be better off without them.