L: Mom, what’s for dinner?
J: Cereal
L: That’s not dinner, that’s for breakfast.
J: Sometimes we eat breakfast foods at dinner time. It’s fun to change it up a bit, do something different every now and then. When mommy was a little girl, Lou used to make pancakes for dinner sometimes.
L: Oh, OK. Can I have Lucky Charms?
Yes, folks. Eating breakfast for dinner can save you money. Things like cereal, oatmeal, fruit, and pancakes are often less costly than the meat, canned veggies, applesauce, and prepared biscuits we tend to buy to throw together a meal.
This week some General Mills cereals
are on sale at our local grocery store for $1.88 each. There are coupons right in the cereal aisle for 75 cents off 2 boxes of GM cereals. Coupled with returning a few of my brother’s soda cans and my re-usable grocery bags, I paid about $3 for two boxes of GOOD cereal that would have normally cost $8! (The NEW Cheerios with oat clusters are normally $4.29 a box)
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, you know. Even if it’s at dinner time!
I used to beg my mom for pancakes for dinner. Breakfast for dinner is still my favorite!
Me too! Especially because she would make Mickey Mouse eared pancakes or put smiley faces or our initials on the pancakes.