What are your favorite breakfast cereals?

I LOVE breakfast cereals of all stripes, from boring old-fart stuff (All-Bran, Wheat Chex) to “adult” stuff (Grape-nuts, Corn Flakes) to hippie granola stuff (Kashi, Mueslix) to kid stuff (Cap’n Crunch, Reese’s Peanut Butter Crunch). I’m not sure I’ve met a cereal I don’t like.

Am I nuts, or did Waffle-O’s cereal come with a little syrup packet?

Joe

I’ll eat hot cereal even in the summer, and I’m particularly fond of oatmeal and Cream of Wheat.

For cold cereal, I like (unfrosted) shredded wheat, either the regular or mini size, and Cheerios with blueberries. I keep a bag of frozen blueberries in the fridge freezer, and toss on about a quarter cup or so. They defrost almost instantly.

Quaker 100% Natural (they LIE! :D)

Cocoa Pebbles

Fruity Pebbles

Frosted Mini-Wheats

Raisin Bran

Cinnamon Toast Crunch

Cookie Crisp

Honey-Nut-Clusters

Cinnamon Life (my kid’s favorite)

Capn’ Crunch with Crunchberries

Corn Pops

Frosted Flakes

Can’t think of anymore. I rarely eat them except to munch out, but I do impulse buy cereal, goddamn the brightly lit well-advertised aisle all to hell in my grocery store!

My sons eat Cinnamon Life more than anything.

Also: Cream Of Wheat is a lost art. Cooking it up in a pot and dousing it with milk and sugar is divine, although its been years since I had it.

I’m dying to figure out a way to turn my sons onto it.

Shredded Wheat

Special K

Rice Chex

Alpen

Special K Protein Plus is the only one I currently eat. I have it every morning, actually.

I also like Cheerios but I eat those dry as a snack, never with milk.

I’m not a big cereal person, but Grape Nuts used to be my favorite. But the last decade or so has brought a change either to the cereal or to myself, and it no longer seems to stay crunchy for very long; I cannot abide soggy cereal, so…no cereal for me. =/

Frosted Mini Wheats.
Life.
even better, Cinnamon Life.

Though I adore granola, it’s too fattening to eat alone, every day. I sometimes buy a scoop from the bulk foods section of the store, there are half a dozen kinds, to sprinkle over oatmeal, yogurt, fruit, etc.

I would choose oatmeal over any cold cereal, though. I loved Maypo when I was a kid, but it doesn’t taste the same. :frowning:

Crispix, or the store knockoff “Crispy Hexagons”
Bran flakes–don’t care who makes them, I just shovel them in because they are good for me
Oatmeal–no frou frou flavors except maybe maple and brown sugar

I also like shredded wheat but not enough to buy a whole box. Granola in all its incarnations is yummy, but usually has too much fat and sugar to contend in the breakfast sweepstakes.

Cold cereal must be sprinkled with a bit of brown sugar and doused with icy cold skim milk.

I like Life cereal - really soggy and smothered in sugar.

Sultana bran

I’m rather fond of Lucky Charms.

They came out when I was eight or so, and I’ve enjoyed them ever since.

They don’t make them any more, but, when they were available, I loved Frosted Bran Flakes. The Baby Boom meets Middle Age…

Special K Red Berry
Special K Vanilla Almond
Fiber Plus Antioxidants, Berry Yogurt Crunch

With 1% milk.

Wheaties, when I am in the mood for something flaky.

Great Grains when I want something nutty.

Hm. I love-love-LOVE Honey Graham Ohs. I also like bran flakes and shredded wheat. And Chex and Crispix.

Man, a lot of you are paying a shitload of money for name-brand cereals that you can get much cheaper (and just as good, IMO) as a store brand. I can find most chex cereals, shredded wheat, cheerios, etc. in generic for example. Why pay $5 when you can pay $2.50?

I love Cream of Wheat and Oatmeal is a second.

Cold cereal, I love Special K, Life, and Cocoa Krispies and Honey Nut Cheerios.

For myself, I often buy storebrand or Malt-O-Meal…but Malt-O-Meal ALL have gluten in them, even the rice and corn based ones. The name brands often don’t, even if they’re not labeled gluten free (well, they may have some cross contamination from processing lines, but that small amount of gluten doesn’t seem to cause a problem) so the sprog gets Chex (which are really gluten free and labeled so, except of course for the Wheat Chex) or Rice Krispies, or Aldi’s brand of Apple Cinnamon O’s or Crispy Rice. She’s on a cinnamon kick at the moment, so she’s working her way through a box of Cinnamon Chex, which is pretty hard to find consistently around here.

My favorites, and I don’t care about brand, are the Cinnamon Toast Crunch or Froot Loop type varieties.

Ooh, I haven’t had Golden Grahams in a long time, but I love those, too!

I’ve been eating Kashi Island Vanilla shredded wheat biscuits lately and I really like it. My favorite guilty pleasure cereal is Reeses Puffs.