I still love Cheerios, but I rarely eat cereal these days. Of course, now I am craving them!
I always eat my cereal, dry, un-sugared. My mom never bought sweetened cereal…too decadent. If you wanted sugar on your cereal, you had to have it in milk, because otherwise the sugar would just collect at the bottom of the bowl and you would end up eating a spoonful of sugar at the end…again, decadent. Mary Poppins she was not! If you had milk with your cereal, you had to drink it all at the end…with things floating in it…you couldn’t add more cereal (you guessed it, decadent) to make it come out even. Since I couldn’t bear to drink the sweetened milk with stuff floating in it, I ate my cereal dry, unsugared, with a milk chaser. And then I stopped eating cereal at all.
Then when I discovered I could mix cereal and yogurt…heaven! And when I realized, Hey, I’m an adult, I can eat cereal anyway I want to…well, I use Splenda now, but I sugar my dry cereal. Except for Cheerios, which are just too good plain.
I can’t think of the last time I had yellow-box Cheerios. I go through phases with the apple cinnamon, strawberry-banana, yogurt and multigrain varieties. I love the multigrain.
Did you know that if Cheerios get stale, you can bake them and restore that crunchity freshness? Heat oven to 350 and put them on a cookie sheet. You don’t need to pre-heat; just toss them in there. A couple of minutes works just fine. Let them cool off, and they taste good as new!
Cheerios are a staple breakfast food for me. Right now, I’ve got generic Honey Nut Cheerios on top of the fridge, but I usually buy real Cheerios. They’re just about the cheapest non-generic, so I’m cool with that. No sugar on top, but I love cutting up fruit on top. Mostly berries, bananas, and peaches.
I am also going out to lunch with my sister today, and really want a bowl of Cheerios with really cold milk. I don’t think the waiter at the restaurant is going to be pleased when I say, “This all looks great, but do you have any Cheerios? No? I guess I’ll have the vegetable tempura, then. :(”
I know, I know cheerio is a greeting and salutation where you are from…But question: Do the stores in the Britons carry yellow box general mills cheerios?
Not that I’ve ever seen. What we seem to have here are Multigrain Cheerios and Honey Nut Cheerios under the Nestlé brand. It was news to me (ie while reading this thread) that the original Cheerios weren’t the multigrain ones.
I prefer Kelloggs over the generic brand of corn flakes. Even over Cheerios.
Also, put the sugar (or substitute) on before the milk, because the milk dissolves the sweetness.
Cheerios are best for snacking, though.
I get the generic toasted oats since they’re much cheaper and I can’t tell the difference. Sometimes it pays to be unsophisticated.
I just checked and these have modified corn starch and modified wheat starch but no HFCS. They have 23g of carbs and 3g fiber vs. 21 and 2 in the genuine article. I think I can live with that.
Also, I eat them plain with milk. There’s something about them that just doesn’t invite the addition of sugar.
Didn’t like Cheerios much as a kid, because they were another “low rent” food we had to eat. We never got sweet cereals. I put a lot of sugar on back then and thought they tasted pretty much like the box they came in.
As an adult, I’ve eaten them with 2%, skim, and chocolate milk. With yoghurt. In homemade trail mix and homemade party mix, as well as in the storebought versions. With fruit, with sugar, all by themselves in the milk. In peanut-butter-chocolate squares.
Regular or Honey Nut, but none of those bizarre Apple Cinnamon or other fringe varieties.
As for the tv ad claiming, “It’s okay to love them this much,” showing a childlike (but not charming) man adding milk to a big boxful and eating it straight from the box like a Fun Pak, no, no, it’s not. It’s not okay to love them that much, unless you suffer from Prader-Willi syndrome.
I kind of miss Cheerios. Cereal mostly is seen as a dessert-type snack food here. They’ve only got a few kinds, though, not the really kiddy “made with artificial fruits flavors that taste nothing like the real thing, but ‘r’ real good” sinful ones, but almost everything they’ve got has loads of sugar. The closest thing to plain cereal is Corn Flakes. I’ve switched to eating this healthy froufrou muesli stuff I can only get in a couple stores for breakfast. My wife loves Corn Pops, which you can’t get here. We shipped back 6 boxes of the stuff the last time we visited the US.
IIRC, I have been eating them for over 57 years. I might have started as early as 1949 (I was born in 1943) but I’m not sure that far back. As long as I can remember, they have been my cereal of choice.
As an aside…I love that commercial with the woman and her mentally challenged brother. She flicks a Cheerio at him and it gets lodged between his eye and his glasses. It just makes me giggle.
