On this week's installment of Why We Cook, Erica turns your ideas of breakfast on their heads. Forget what you think you know about the first meal of the day!

This week on Let's Get Real, Erica Wides talks about "the most important meal of the day" - breakfast. Specifically, Erica gets real about breakfast cereals, and the expanding waist line of the average American. Erica discusses the origins of "foodiness" and the anti-carnal propaganda of Kellogg's cereals. Ever wonder how your grandparents stayed so fit eating eggs, bacon, and "fatty" foods for breakfast? Or why you crash after eating sugary cereals? All this and more in this week's Let's Get Real. This episode has been brought to you by Edwards.

"We expend so few calories a day because everything is done for us!"

"During the industrial revolution, people stopped physically working and started physically expanding." --Erica Wides on Let's Get Real

Cereal has been a part of Americans' breakfast since the 1950s, but Erica Wides is here to tell you that- once again- the public has been hoodwinked by Foodiness. This week on Let's Get Real, Erica is diving into a big bowl of sugary cereal to tell listeners that cereal isn't real food. Tune into this episode to hear how industrial agriculture has taken over the Midwest to turn grains into corn syrup clusters. How have the fake food corporations brainwashed people to believe that breakfast cereals are a necessary part of every morning? Listen in to learn how some cereal brands have expanded to make other foodiness products in addition to their unhealthy, bastardized oats! Thanks to Cain Vineyard & Winery for sponsoring today's program, and thanks to Knifeshow for today's break music.

"Cereal is the quintessential foodiness product because we were raised to believe in it." [6:45]

"If cereal was the original foodiness product, it has gone even further down the rabbit hole because now there are foodiness versions of foodiness those products." [18:00]

-- Erica Wides on Let's Get Real