Golden Grahams-a purely non-political thread

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<p>You might want to compare the Smart Start label to the Golden Grahams - not sure the Smart Start is as smart as it sounds. It is loaded with sugar.</p>

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<p>My absolute fave breakfast are these all natural millet and flax cinnamon crackers (made with splenda) that I get at our health food store. They’re loaded with fiber but not a lot of calories.</p>

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<p>Do you think Cinnamon Toast Crunch is as dangerous as Golden Grahams ?</p>

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<p>I have heard that over 90% of all people who have had sex before the age of 21 have also, at one point, tried Cinnamon Toast. Not sure about Cinnamon Toast Crunch, but you can’t be too careful.</p>

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<p>purplexed,
Did you know that you can compress that squishy white bread into the size of a marble? This has been tested in our kitchens.</p>

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<p>“Did you know that you can compress that squishy white bread into the size of a marble?”</p>

<p>My dad has shared the delightful high school anecdote of he and his neighbor friends using entire loafs (rejects from his friend’s Wonder Bread store job) as softballs to hit from the roof into his neighbor’s pool.</p>

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<p>I have never had Golden Grahams…I less than three Honey Bunches of Oats. I hope they’re not dangerous.</p>

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<p>deceptacon,
OMG, that’s hilarious. Did it float??? No let me guess, it expanded into millions of disgusting white foofy crumbs.
They probably didn’t know what the he** happened to their pool!</p>

<p>That sounds like something my kids (and my husband) would do. Except to our own pool. :eek:</p>

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<p>Momof3…I was being (or trying to be) funny…not serious about the bad habits thingy.Sorry if the humor didnt come out properly!!
My S came home the opposite way…ate all sugary cereals before college, asked me for Raisin Bran Crunch and Grape Nuts .But he did develop a new taste for bacon,grits and biscuits with everything.New for a Yankee that is…</p>

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<p>doubleplay,</p>

<p>I don’t know, I’ll have to ask him! No pool defacing is better, though, than my camp experience:</p>

<p>Twenty-some-odd little kids with those edible “candy bracelets/necklaces/whatever the heck else they make” on, jumping into a chlorinated pool. You could see this floating rainbow of dye above each kid as they went under.</p>

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<p>Cathymee,
Where did your son go??
My favorite southern dish- Shrimp and Grits! OMG, ymmmm! You gotta try Crooks Corner in Chapel Hill. That’s first place cuisine.</p>

<p>Second- (not a dish) boiled peanuts. Especially the cajun kind.</p>

<p>Third- pulled pork, black eyed peas and hamhocks, rice.</p>

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<p>I used to entertain myself that way growing up. Something I did while watching TV. I’d get a slice of bread and flatten into a tiny square or make a ball out of it and eat it. Brings back memories. Trying to remember what show I watched back then – Julia, maybe. Anyone remember that show?</p>

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<p>We have breakfast cereals and dessert cereals. The dessert cereals are eaten at night. Current dessert cereal favorite is Captain Crunch. :)</p>

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<p>Julia…
Was that the show with the black girl who was a nurse? I used to watch that show, and I liked it. Can’t really remember what it was about, but it had a catchy opening.</p>

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<p>cathymee,
I actually assumed that you were trying to be funny and forgot to add one of these. :slight_smile:
mathmom,
I did not realize the distinction between breakfast cereals and dessert cereals! I will have to ask S tonight which category the Golden Grahams fit into!</p>

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<p>Every time H goes grocery shopping, he comes home with Cap’n Crunch. Yuk! The kids love it. I recently saw a woman buying Quisp at a nearby grocery store. I thought that had been discontinued years ago. My younger brother ate bowls & bowls of that every day. I don’t know how he is alive today.</p>

<p>Honey Bunches of Os is a great dessert cereal.</p>

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<p>Sticker, my brother used to eat bowls of graham crackers with milk and sugar for breakfast. Not Golden Grahams (they didn’t have them in the 60s) but actual Honey Maid graham crackers.</p>

<p>Now that I think of it, my brother may have inadvertently invented Golden Grahams.</p>

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<p>Quisp! We had Cap’n Crunch when I was little, but not Quisp. So- when I saw it offered in a store last year I just had to try it, and… it tasted pretty much like Cap’n Crunch. That said, our standards include my nut-filled homemade granola (that I think is delicious, but the kids think tastes like wood chips), Oat Bran, and Cheerios. A few times a year I’ll buy the pack of assorted small boxes of sugar cereals. Younger son always goes for the Golden Grahams or Cinnamon Toast Crunch.</p>

<p>Any Calvin & Hobbes fans here? I always loved his cereal of choice: Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs, I think–</p>

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<p>lspf72 –</p>

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Hee, mathmom, we do too! I mean, hey, at least the cereals have vitamins, right?</p>

<p>We tend to buy whatever sugary treat is on sale at the grocery store (hello, dirt-poor grad students :)), although this week I think Special K was on sale, so I can pretend to be healthy for the week.</p>

<p>Cereal-related thing: My MIL takes Fiber One cereal and coats it in clumps with melted chocolate chips – they taste just like those haystack cookies people make with chow mein noodles, but they have lots of fiber. (Just don’t eat eight, like my FIL did one day.)</p>