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Is there any possibility this is done just to make it blindingly obvious to the viewer that Breakfast Is Happening™?
Seems like someone grabbing a couple breakfast bars and a canned beverage might plausibly finish the task quickly enough that a viewer may not notice, particularly if it’s not the foreground of the scene.
Or maybe it’s for the same reason anyone coming back from the grocery store will have a paper bag with celery stalks and a baguette poking out the top? No reason other than that it’s the conventional way of demonstrating the trope.
In others words "assume the viewer is too stupid to understand up cereal + day light + kitchen + after night time scene = breakfast."
That's one issue I have with a lot of newer shows and movies. Yes the older ones were guilty of it too, but now it feels like we're being spoonfed every detail. "Did you catch the foreshadowing?? Here lets play it 3 times in slow motion, zoom in on it, and have a character say "oh look, that might be important later""