When I see what some of the kids at my school eat for breakfast, it totally grosses me out, and not because I'm pregnant, but because...well, you'll see.
I will admit that when I was a kid, I did not eat the most nutritional of breakfasts. I usually had caffe-latte (a.k.a. cafe au lait) (give my parents a break - we're 100% Italian) with Froot Loops and Chips Ahoy cookies. NOT your breakfast of champions. (God, it was good, though. I wish I could still eat like that!).
At least it was breakfast food, though. It's not like I was eating a piece of chicken or a plate of spaghetti at 7:30 a.m.
Many kids nowadays eat the weirdest things for breakfast. The most popular food: Flamin' Hot Cheetos. If you walk around outside my school on any random day, I guarantee you will see at least 10 people eating Flamin' Hots before 9:00 a.m. I've observed this for several years now at 2 different schools. When I spoke to a friend about it, he informed me that he heard something on NPR about it. I googled it and, lo and behold, found the link to the segment: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5394069. Apparently, this is a nationwide problem! "They" think that the spiciness of the product stimulates endorphins to be released, thus creating a buzz from the food. Great. Get all buzzed up on Flamin' Hots then come to my reading class. Those 2 mix well.
The non-breakfast food for breakfast is not limited to cheetos, though. At 8:00 this morning, I was opening my window (because my room is 8,000 degrees, but that's another story) and happened to look down to see a kid eating a huge-ass slice of pepperoni pizza! Where the hell did he get that at 8:00 a.m.? I know there's a breakfast truck like a block away, but pizza? wtf?
I know the school's breakfast and lunch is nothing fantastic, but, hey, it's free for most of the kids AND it's breakfast foods like waffles, doughnuts, pancakes, or cereal...y'know, breakfast food.
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