Grape-Nuts is a spartan, near-masochistic cereal -- and I love it.

It’s harder on your teeth than BBs. It’s markedly less interesting and diverse of ingredients than any muesli or granola, and its plain compact form is without the pretense of flake cereals. Grape-Nuts are the breakfast of choice for people that (just a little bit) hate both breakfast and themselves. Eating a bowl without allowing it to soak for a half hour is an act of violence. And it’s tiny packaging makes so much sense on a grocery shelf full of over-puffed cartoon monstrosities it’s practicality communist.

I have a psychological block against Grape Nuts since most of the time I had them as a child was at my grandmother’s house, who, as a good Depression-era baby, would give me a bunch of bad milk to pour over them. ETA: although I do think my experience was even more spartan than yours so NYAAA! :slight_smile:

That’s the one cereal that the store brand equivalent just never gets right. Corn flakes are corn flakes; ersatz Cheerios are good enough for me. But only Post’s Grapenuts are hard enough to mix with yogurt or sandblast rusted machinery.

Does the taste remind you of wild hickory nuts?

I love a nice bowl of Grape-Nuts and a little sugar, that’s been sitting in milk for about 5 minutes. Mmmmmm…

I always let my Grape Nuts soak in milk for almost ten minutes.

Plain Shredded wheat goes really well with Grape Nuts. Thin layer of Grape Nuts in the bowl, then the Shredded Wheat nuggets. Milk. Let it soak for about 7 to 8 mins.

I eat it in layers. Don’t stir it up. The flavors do blend while soaking in the milk. yummy

Other cereals will clear out your system. But they wimp out and use fiber to do it. Grape Nuts scrapes your guts clean.

When I ate cereal as a child I didn’t put milk on it because then you had to eat it so fast, and it got soggy.

Even Grape Nuts i ate dry. Grind, grind, crunch, grind.

Grape Nuts is not a cereal. It is a form of gravel.

I just bought a box of Grape Nuts on my last trip to the store. I had a bowl this morning. I don’t let mine soak. They have to be as hard as pea gravel and covered with just enough ice-cold milk so that when you’re done with the last bite of Grape Nuts, there’s no milk left in the bowl. I do make one concession to my inner hedoninst, though, and put a tiny amount of sugar on mine (alternatively, a few chopped dried dates if we have any). Especially if I have a long day ahead of me, and it will be a while before I get to have lunch, a nice big bowl of Grape Nuts gives me the oomph to get through the morning.

Love Grape Nuts, mix it with plain yogurt and some brown sugar and eat it fast because I hate soggy cereal.

I stay away from Grape Nut pudding and Grape Nut ice cream though.

My breakfast cereal of choice for most of my adult life:
50/50 mix of Grape-Nuts and Spoon-size Shredded Wheat; tsp sugar; nonfat milk.

Grape-Nuts only- also fine with me.

Edit: just saw previous post- me too. Eat it fast because I also can’t stand soft soffy cereal.
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Two great minds think alike. :wink: Shredded Wheat by itself has nearly zero taste. Mixed with Grape Nuts it gets some taste.

Also it saves money. Grape Nuts is so darn expensive in that tiny little box. I originally mixed Shredded Wheat as a filler so that I wouldn’t be starving by 10:30 AM at work. Then I discovered how delicious the combo was.

Grape Nuts is the one cereal that my ascetic parents keep in their house. When I still lived there and they weren’t watching me, I’d pour milk on it, then add a LOT of honey and microwave it for a few seconds. That gets it nice and soft and warm and sweet and mmmmm.

You’re only allowed to eat it out of the tiny four-ounce bowls, though.

I like to eat it totally dry.

Heh, I do the grape nut/shredded wheat combo as well. Usually as a way to use up left-over shredded wheat when I’m tired of eating it.

Grape Nuts are my favorite cereal as an adult, which weirds me out when I think about it too much.

“The reason it’s called “Grape Nuts” is that it contains “dextrose,” which is also sometimes called “grape sugar,” and also because “Grape Nuts” is catchier, in terms of marketing, than “A Cross Between Gerbil Food and Gravel,” which is what it tastes like.” – Dave Barry

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Once when I was young, my older cousin gave me dry grape nuts after smoking a joint.

Yes, she was a bit of a sadist.

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It’s fine. It looks healthy but is actually sweet, and once it soaks up the milk it has just the right amount of crunch.

But the question is not if Grape-Nuts is right for you but if you are right for Grape-Nuts? :stuck_out_tongue: