Iam no Robert F. Kennedy Jr., but standing in the cereal aisle of a local grocery store, I began to think about some of the things he is trying to change in the daily eating habits of Americans. Besides taking the food dyes out of our food, he also is pushing for less sugar in our food choices.

You see, as someone who has to keep an eye on my daily carbohydrates count, I have been paying closer attention to how much sugar is in some of my favorite foods. As a product of the baby boomer generations, I grew up on mostly home-cooked meals — not so much fast food.

We ate things such as meat loaf, spaghetti, oven-baked chicken legs, stew and chicken pot pie. There was always a vegetable or fruit selection on the table along with white bread and butter. Fast foods meant an occasional order of

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