What are your favorite breakfast cereals? The cereal wars account for a lot of advertising revenue. I’m interested in seeing which brands are the most popular.
Do you buy only one or two brands regularly?
Do you prefer variety and buy various brands throughout the year?
If you buy generic store brands please indicate the type of cereal (generic corn flakes).
Long list of cereals.
I plan to tally up the replies and posts results in a few days. Perhaps do a poll if there’s enough interest.
My choices are…
Life
Honey Bunches of Oats with Almonds
Grape Nuts
Generic Shredded wheat, bite sized
Hot Cream of wheat
I keep two full plastic cereal containers on my counter-top. I vary the brands throughout the year. I have a third plastic container for cream of wheat.
It’s been a while since I’ve bought it, but I love Trix, but only the variety that’s just colored balls, and not the variety that has weird shapes. I’ll admit, though, that I probably wouldn’t be able to tell the difference if I if them both blindfolded.
Those seven cereals are among the most delicious things ever made by man. I was going to order them from most favorite to least favorite but found that I couldn’t choose. They’re all so amazing.
Grape Nuts
Cracklin Oat Bran
Shredded Mini Wheats
Life
Honey Nut Raisin Bran (or whichever is the one with the nut-covered raisins)
Honey Nut Cheerios
Granola (too expensive though)
Cold: Frosted mini-wheats, any flavor.
I never get sick of those two, which is a good thing, because they’re the highest in iron other than Total, which I find soggy and disgusting. I wish I could find a non-frosted shredded wheat that was iron fortified, but I haven’t yet.
Oh, and to pick an unhealthy one: Fruity Pebbles. Yes, I know they’re pretty much nothing but non-nutritive cereal varnish and dye, but I think that’s why I find them so appealing.
I buy one generalized box (shredded wheat) in a variety of flavors for me and I buy him Grape Nuts and we both occasionally have the oatmeal. He’s an old man like that.
We don’t have variety really, but we eat a lot more oatmeal in the winter. I buy the Oatmeal Squares whenever I can find them (they’re a very retro cereal). I stock up and buy the Shredded wheat 2/5 or 2/4, it’s usually 4-5/box. Sometimes I’ll buy a “sweet” or “sugar” cereal, like some sweetened organic corn flakes or organic lightly sugared cinnamon toast crunch style cereal as a dessert. Those brands vary widely and are rare.
I’m hopelessly devoted to Fiber One, but I’ve been cheating lately with the Publix generic version. And if someone happens to come out with a cereal containing fifty-eight percent of the recommended daily fiber, I might dump (ha!) them both.
If I decided to get all crazy and just eat some regular (ha, again!) cereal, I’d choose Life. (Choose Life? Okay, I’m not laughing at that one.)
I have fond memories of the junk cereal my grandma used to buy me too, especially Cocoa Puffs and Honeycomb.
I eat a lot of cereal, and I usually buy the same 3 or 4 brands. Every now and then I’ll try something new, or buy something I haven’t had in a long time.
My usuals are:
Honey Bunches of Oats with Almonds
Rice Chex (ETA: and if I’m at Kroger, I’ll buy the Kroger brand called Rice Bitz)
Special K
I’ll almost always have at least one of the above in the cabinet, and often two or all three.
Somewhat less frequently, I’ll buy either Cinnamon or Maple & Brown Sugar Life or Frosted Shredded Wheat Minis.
Maybe once or twice a year I’ll get some Captain Crunch or Cheerios or some new kind of Kashi brand cereal.
blueberry morning
frosted mini wheats (strawberry)
kashi autumn wheat (like the mini wheats but sweetened with honey)
cheerios
the kind i don’t ever eat but love:
lucky charms
cinnamon toast crunch
crunchberries
and no one ever knows what i’m talking about but there was this limited edition cereal called princess cereal which had a picture of some of the disney princesses on the front and came in a pink box. it was basically lucky charms with strawberry puffs instead of the little oat things. so good.
I’m the same way with Kellogg Sugar Pops and Post Sugar Crisp. I loved them as a dry snack on the sofa watching tv. I finally forced myself to stop buying them a few years ago. I like rice krispies but they never filled me up. I’d get to work and be starving an hour later. So, they were mostly a late night snack that I gave up. I Don’t really need a bowl of cereal late at night.
At any given time, I’ll always have in my cupboard a box each of Life, Honey Nut Cheerios, honey flakes (Honey Bunches of Oats and the like) and raisin bran, plus usually one or two others. The first two I only accept the brand name, since I find the imitators inferior, but the honey flakes and raisin bran are whatever’s cheapest (usually but not always generic), and the final one or two vary depending on what’s on sale.
I love Kellogg’s Mueslix, but I don’t see it nearly as often as I used to, and it’s expensive. Post’s Great Grains with dates are almost as good, so I buy them quite often. Other frequent purchases include cinnamon Life, cinnamon Quaker oat squares, Kix, generic corn or wheat Chex analogues, and Post Grape-Nuts. Sometimes I buy Safeway’s toasted rice flakes (a Special K analogue). Interestingly, I was in Florida last week and bought some Publix toasted rice flakes, and they were considerably different from Safeway’s version.
I used to enjoy Kellogg’s Raisin Bran but got a bit put off when I learned that it actually has more sugar in it than the obviously “sweet” cereals. Which is kind of dumb considering the big dollop of brown sugar I stir into my oatmeal!
Fiber One, the original variety, is about the only one I eat these days. I love it. My other favorites include: Shredded Wheat, Wheatabix, Life, Chex, and Cinnamon Toast Crunch. I don’t really get around to buying these anymore, though.
