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.
Sure, on occasion. Like maybe after you’ve been sick and you’re easing yourself into eating anything at all. But to tell people who are struggling to afford food to eat expensive cereal for dinner is obnoxious. I don’t know what it costs elsewhere but here, in Brooklyn, if it’s not on sale, a box of Kellogg brand cereal can cost over $7 a box. And the cereal aisle is 90% sugary cereal with little to no nutritional value. If people are struggling to buy food, junk food is the first thing they should buy less of.
Diet cola is one of my junk food weaknesses. But I drink a lot of water, coffee and tea and a lot less diet cola than I used to.
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.
I don’t think that Giant Eagle sale is anything new or brilliant. To me, the weekly sales of traditional dinosaur grocery stores have been around for a very long time. Their sale items are loss leaders designed to get people in the store and, while they are in, buy some stuff that is not on sale. I really dislike that style of grocery store. I much prefer the stores that have everyday low prices and no weekly (or daily, even worse) sales. The stores with that model have everyday artificially inflated prices that only get reasonable when an item is on sale. And customers have to shop more often to get each week (or Wednesday’s) sale. If only more stores had everyday low pricing like Trader Joe’s model. Of course, TJ’s is almost exclusively house brand.
