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Twenty years ago, I met a couple with a young son who decided not to let the kid have sugar. I wonder how that might have worked out for the kid now that he's grown.
I assume the kid hit 18 and went on a sugar binge as soon as he tasted it the first time.
Anyone have experience with this?
Opposite here. I was born in 1969, so I was a kid in the seventies. My mom was a stay-at-home housewife who packed my school lunches. Often it would consist of a sandwich made of just margarine and sugar on Wonder Bread with the crust cut off (cut diagonally), with either a Jello chocolate pudding or a Ding Dong back when they were wrapped in foil.
margarine and sugar?
on bread?
so like how does that work out long term ?
are you o k?
When I was a kid, we did cinnamon toast: wonder bread toasted and slathered with margarine, covered in enough sugar to form a slurry with the melt, then sprinkled with cinnamon. More crunch came from the sugar than the toast. I'm kinda fat now
I used to love this as a kid.
Now as an adult, I found a fun substitute. Slice some cucumber. Then add cinnamon, salt, and whatever sugar substitute you like. It's not quite the same as the real thing, obviously. But I haven't had the "real" version since I was a kid. It's a nice throwback that satisfies the want for a desert-like item with few calories.
We had a shaker of cinnamon and sugar mixed. It was an old jar with a metal lid that my dad punched holes in.
I don't eat sugar, or margarine, or bread anymore, but I still remember how good it was.
I'm four years older than you. I got better lunches than you, but not too much better. Margarine was supposed to be better than butter, so that's what we got, too. Coffee was thought to be bad, so my mom switched to Postum. She worried that I was eating too many eggs when I learned to make them myself. My mom somewhat tried to be good about food for us. We didn't get the sugary cereals, we got corn flakes, and rice crispies, but we put sugar on the cereal anyway, and she didn't stop us. She didn't keep soda, candy, or other snacks in the house as a rule, that was just for "special occasions", etc.
What we had was playing outside.
I gave up sugar completely about eight years ago, it was the single best health choice I made.