Is Your Childhood diet wreaking havoc on your adult body?

When I was a child we ate cereal for breakfast. Afterall- EGGS were the demon causing us to die instantly of a heart attack if we ate them. And Wheaties were the breakfast of Champions

When I was in Grade 6 I had to leave home by 715 to catch the early bus. So my cereal was consumed around 7 am. The brilliant 1980s school system did not believe in snack breaks…after all why would kids need to eat a snack half way through the morning? It would just make a mess and cause extra work for the school

So we went from 7am to 12 pm with NO SNACK, NO WATER AND NO FOOD

I remember being so hungry in class that I could eat paper

But we were eating a nutritious well balanced bowl of cereal that the Grain and Milk Marketing Boards and the cereal companies told our parents was best

Recall that In the 1960s that huge faulty Heart Study had come out influencing the food production of the 80s all the way to now

So what’s my point?

How many people still eat cereal for breakfast because that’s what they ate all their lives

They probably don’t even think about it

Its not their fault-they are just eating what their parents told them to eat

And how many of us cook the exact foods we grew up eating?

This may be great

But what influenced your child hood diet?

If you are in your 40s or 50s

Kraft Cheese Slices had ½ a glass of milk

#CheeseWiz was the perfect lunch companion

#SpaghettiO's were a warm nutritious lunch

You may have enjoyed a Swanson’s TV Tray Dinner

#KoolAid or Tang may have graced your table

If you are in your 30s you probably ate

#Juiceboxes

#Lunchables

Pizza on bagels

Gigantic bowls of pasta

#SmilyFries

Hamburger Helper

#KraftDinner

Take a minute and think about what you cook regularly?

What are your go to foods?

What do you resort to eating when you just cant think of any recipes?

What are your default recipes?

Are these foods you really want to use to nourish your body?

Do you still have underlying concerns about fat from the 1990s? Relying too much on carb substitutes?

Or is it time for a rethink?

Now, I am not saying everything we ate was bad

I am thinking about the emergence of convenience and processed foods and how they infiltrated our thinking.....and how we can't seem to get thesethings out of our lives :)