Hippee cereal brand kids sugar cereals: always they make me sad

They just don't taste like lucky charms, no matter how many cute lemurs made me buy the damn thing.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3385/3227052453_7120f42ef4.jpg

Tho chocolate is almost too chocolatey. It is just weird.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rroJMj3cGLg/R20uQnlqLdI/AAAAAAAAAHk/55jyEH7dzaY/s400/Envirokidz.JPG

Liek I should have known since it was sitting next to this but man there was a coupon and everything.

I remember Gorilla Munch as being pretty tasty.

Haven't tried those ones. They do sell them here in health food stores, but I can't figure out what the sense is of shipping a would-be environmentally-friendly product like that halfway round the planet.

We do buy these though and they are FANTASTIC:

http://www.mummydeli.com/images/products/5011766777728.jpg

Strangely phallic rocket ahoy there.

I think the only one I've had is Peanut Butter Bumpers.

not to be all high fructose corn syrup dude, but all the ones I used to enjoy in childhood taste like fucking shit now because of the high fructose corn syrup, so gimme the hippie ones over Agri-Lobby Frosted Flakes

yeah these things always taste bad, organic hippee cookies usually suck too

trader joe's makes a corn flake w/o hfcs, those are decent

Oh man if only you were raised on the stuff, J0hn D., then we'd understand each other.

Srsly I just had some mountain dew w/cane sugar and it tasted...so...wrong. Like Aspartame if it could actually taste like sugar.

organic hippee cookies usually suck too

For real. I can make a totally amazing organic cookie at home IF PRESSED, it is so weird they cannot. I think it is bcz they use grape juice as sugar.

If pressed menaing I am not of the budget to buy organic sugar/milk/eggs/butter/flour.

Are u mad? Panda Puffs rock!!!

I have not had them bcz I am not too crazy bout pandas. Whereas lemurs are one of my favorites.

I turn four or something in the cereal aisle, I swear.

uhg abbott I feel sorry for you if corn syrup soda tastes better to you than a good jarritos, it's like you got taught how to breathe in a catbox and now if you don't smell cat pee the air smells funny

If I were buying sugary cereals, I'd buy this stuff way before buying Lucky Charms or whatever. But I get concerned about the sugar content in Raisin Bran, so.

You're right J0hn, I'm a cat people. I didn't want the world to find out but yes, world, I like to breathe ammonia. I was reared by a cat. I'm a cat people!

No I think it is just Mtn. Dew bcz Jarrito's is the business (tho in Mexico it has HFCS!).

mexican coke

my general rule is never eat a cereal that has an animal on the front of the box that looks like it might have poop that looks like the cereal inside the box.

which would have made "lemur magic" or whatever up there a no go

LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

so lucky charms is out, right?

(xxpost) greetings from the land of high sugar cereals...
http://www.foodcomm.org.uk/parentsjury/Awards%20Feb03/coco_pops.jpg
...that look like poop.
And are about 40% sugar or something...

You know, I have no idea what monkey or pro-simian poops look like but somehow I suspect they are not rodent-like pellets.

try these
http://adweek.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/coco_rocks.jpg

The radiated tortoise eats plants (even cacti!), fruits, and lemur feces.

I guess that they're called "Coco Rocks" because "Coco Turd Explosion" wouldn't fit on the box...

The John Spencer Poos Explosion

Imagining that monkeybear thing is stirring his own poop and giving me the thumbs up has brought actual tears to my eyes

It's a monkey, called Coco

Why does it have Mickey Mouse's face??

http://www.britsuperstore.com/acatalog/Kelloggs_Coco_Pops_Straws375g.jpg
http://www.britsuperstore.com/acatalog/Kelloggs_Coco_Pops_Mega_Munchers_375g.jpg

The straws are particularly disturbing, because, as simian Coco says in the adverts, "coco pops are so chocolatey, they even turn the milk brown"

You know, I have no idea what monkey or pro-simian poops look like but somehow I suspect they are not rodent-like pellets.

― test drives at ur own risk i cant go with you too many bees (Abbott), Wednesday, May 13, 2009 5:12 PM (9 minutes ago)

see now this is the sort of dangerous assumption that could lead to a really unpleasant breakfast adventure

Maybe if you were a radiated tortoise you'd feel better about this.

I have never seen any of this shit and we get our groceries from the local hippie co-op

grapes don't even HAVE nuts

Are u mad? Panda Puffs rock!!!

Oh I'm sorry. The full name is Peanut Butter Panda Puffs which is fun to say AND eat.

And I don't know what kind of organic hippie cookies y'all are eating. But Wheatsville in Austin does amazing vegan chocolate chip and vegan cashew butter cookies. And they sell even yummier peanut butter cookies. I forget the company that makes them though.

I can't imagine a vegan cookie being good. (NB I consider butter a v important ingredient in most anything but a salad. Not Paula Dean levels, but some.)

^ real talk esp. when it comes to baked goods

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http://www.ukgoods.com/images/fullsize/mcvities-ginger-nuts.jpg

http://www.english-shop.de/images/McVities%20-%20HobNobs%20Oaty%20Biscuits.jpg

http://www.opchocolate.com/images/pink_wafers.jpg

^^^ awesome vegan junkfood

But healthfood-type vegan cookies are generally a bit rub. Ginger biscuits are normally good though.

HOBNOBS ARE VEGAN?!

They're like my most favorite things ever. mmmmmm.

Yeah, Hobnobs are vegan. Not the chocolate ones though, sadly.

I can't imagine a vegan cookie being good.

Vegan baked goods probably have a higher fail rate, but I've also had vegan baked goods that were outstanding and no less rich or moist-tasting than regular baked goods.

NOBBLY OATY BISCUITS

urgh vegan baked goods are THE WORST. chickens lay eggs and cows need to be milked, just use them already

when i was a counselor in a summer camp several years ago (lol i know), the smartest one of my kids and i were talking one day. conversation went like this:

Justin: You know what I don't understand?
ME: What?
Justin: Why they name cereals that are good for you different things. Mom (a co-worker) buys Berry Trix, but the organic kind are called *makes amazing disgusted 8-year-old face and pairs it with extreme sarcasm* Berry Wheat Puffs.
ME: Roffle roffle roffle.

vegan baked goods are THE WORST

yeah but not really. vegan or not, people who just suck at baking can't be helped. otoh, i've had some vegan baked goods that would make you slap your mama for seconds.

^^also this

if there was a market for human breast milk it'd be the same fucking thing - u need to produce that shit constantly by some external means[

if cows are like people, they can breastfeed indefinitely without getting impregnated (see: wetnurses). Human female breasts will generate milk as long as there's suckage - it doesn't harm anybody (except maybe the kid who's being fucked up by being breastfed forever, cue youtube clip of 8yo british breastfeeder...)

i don't like where this milky discussion is going

yea sorry guys i didn't mean to derail

also i don't know much about breastfeeding

tits aren't vegan

band name

this is where all my dairy products come from fwiw

except for cheese, cuz that's just too wide a field of deliciousness

what makes me more sad than hippie brand sugar cereals (which i actually think are pretty good!) are generic sugar cereals that come in large translucent bags

i like to refer to that as the "malt-o-meal" effect

I think we could say that cows have a different biology to humans and leave it at that.

yeah, more nipples

can't wait to go home and fire up the youtube^^^^

like little britisher piglets

what makes me more sad than hippie brand sugar cereals (which i actually think are pretty good!) are generic sugar cereals that come in large translucent bags

I straight fucking GREW UP on these. Albertson's would have them on sale every couple months for $1 each (like 3 lbs. of cereal) so my mom would buy as many as she could. (Also she was Mormon so we had to have a 'year's supply' of food and why not cereal?) These were usually the only pre-made snack we had around. She wouldn't let us eat the fruit bcz it was used as decoration, which was a source of many arguments between me & her. Anyway, it was basically a ritual to come home from school & have a bowl of Marshmallow Mateys.

I haven't bought any since then. Man oh man.

So many Sunday afternoons spent with Cool Blue and Li'l Oaty:

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L'il Oaty found those flakes in his mum's pouch.

She is one Cool Mom.

One cool slightly-flaky-around-the-gusset mum.

http://theboard.byu.edu/index.php?area=viewall&id=797

confirming A) my malt-o-meal suspicions and B) the malt-o-meal/mormon correlation.

morm-omeal

So much sense is made, johnjusten.

Mormons are surprisingly terrible cooks 90% of the time. I got reminded of this at my brother's wedding reception. ugghhhh

I don't know how personal experience would lead one to believe that Mormons would be passable/exceptional cooks. It's not like we're talking about the French.

There's a Mormon catering service???

I'm glad my mother knew not to be fooled by feeding us with tons of commercial cereals. I mean, just because the box says "with vitamin A&D!" or "now with added iron!" doesnt make it healthy.

Apparently Nutri-Grain - which is advertised on TV as "iron man food" and implies it will give you massive bulk with its iron and protein and whatever - is the most nutrionally bereft, low-fibre, high salt cereal around. We weren't allowed to touch anything brightly coloured and sugary, so no froot loops or frosted cornflakes or whatever. Weetbix, sultana bran and toast.

And I'm pretty glad TBH.

Did u kno that orange juice that is fortified with omega 3 has fish oil in it to do that?

yeah we weren't allowed any overtly sugarized cereals either. Life, Wheaties, grape nuts, that's what we got...

I've never been a huge fan of cereal anway, mainly cause I dont like milk all that much. I'd much rather a breakfast of eggs and toast.

on our birthdays we were allowed to pick a sugary cereal

what are all yall feelings on krusteaz

i never had sugar cereals at home either, which led to a first semester of college where all i ate was capn crunch. then i got really ill and realized i was an idiot and started eating person food.

Haha, growing up in the 70s, that's all I ATE was sugary cereals, unless it was the weekend and mom made pancakes. To my shame, I used to eat Peanut Butter Crunch or Count Chocula out of a margarine tub. (No, I do not weight 300 lbs today.)

I don't know how personal experience would lead one to believe that Mormons would be passable/exceptional cooks.

I guess bcz there is so much emphasis on being a good housewife (part of which is feeding the family). Also bcz my mom is am amazing cook and I just thought all Mormons were like that. I guess I blocked all the memories of potlucks of gelatin and au gratin spuds and beanie weenies and rice krispie treats and other midwestern shit. I forgot a primary ingredient in half the food was canned cream of mushroom soup.

I forgot a primary ingredient in half the food was canned cream of mushroom soup.

nothing wrong with this imo

ok thats not actually true, i am just hungry

All the kids on that breastfeeding programme are now dead.

That breastfeeding program is one of the most WTF things I've ever seen and I'm a fairly liberal pro extended breast feeding type of gal but c'mon that's just insane!

Hippie cereals are kinda lame i.e. https://thebetterhealthstore.com/images/prod/de1862702350.gif Never tried that one actually but wack packaging. What is far more depressing to me though is the huge number of people who feed their kids ultrasugared cereal without giving it a second thought. I know kids can be picky, but it's mostly based on what they're exposed too, if you feed them this crap/give in and take them to McDonald's all the time of course they're gonna be ruined for anything else. This is probably a topic for another thread, but I see so many obese kids who are constantly eating chips, drinking sugared "juices" and it's like WTF parents?

https://thebetterhealthstore.com/images/prod/de1862702350.gif to complete my schizophrenic post.

Haha, growing up in the 70s, that's all I ATE was sugary cereals, unless it was the weekend and mom made pancakes. To my shame, I used to eat Peanut Butter Crunch or Count Chocula out of a margarine tub. (No, I do not weight 300 lbs today.)

fuck yeah. the fakeout stuff is for the birds. ghostbusters is my alltime fave, frooty loops AND marshmallows even kelloggs doesn't have the balls to put out something like that today, though the short-lived spongebob cereal came close (still a fiend). i eat hippie crap now mostly -- and in that i include loldense stuff like frosted mini-wheats i never would have gone for that much hearty wheatness as a kid.

oh wait i do buy the kashi 'honey puffs' to mix w/ real honey smacks, those are too sweet for me now, i'm not crazy

is trader joe's rebranded kashi, or evil knockoff?

hey is everyone else getting that b3tt3rh3alt#.com security notice BS when they click onto this thread? Poor choice of image source on my part apparently. Apologies.

^ I didn't

When I was a kid my cereal choices were nearly exclusively either Rice Krispies or Special K, although whatever (likely small) nutritional value they had was cancelled out when I dumped a tablespoon of sugar into my bowl. I ate Froot Loops sometimes but without milk because they got soggy way too fast and soggy cereal is the grossest kind of cereal.

Marshmallow Mateys.

These were our break-fast of choice in my third year of college! Ate them every day except for the time when my hippie roommate tried to make granola.

Juice on your cereal instead of milk: C or D?

HUGE DUD

I think you'd better consult your taste buds on that one, pal.