We’re really not big cold cereal eaters. I haven’t been since I was a little kid. But lately I’ve been making homemade custom-blended low-oxalate granola, which is mostly used as a topping for plain yogurt with fruit and honey. (Most commercial granolas have things in them that are on Tom Scud’s kidney stone avoidance list.) So typically it’s oats toasted in coconut oil, brown sugar, vanilla, with shredded coconut, walnuts and various dried fruits. Sometimes cranberries, sometimes regular or golden raisins or blueberries, less often apricots, etc.
I also typically have some Familia muesli in the pantry in case we run out of granola (I can eat it, even if he shouldn’t).
We don’t keep any of the kind of cereal you describe in our cabinets. The kids are gone and we don’t want them. We don’t keep any hot cereals around either because they’ll just cool off. But we usually have containers of oatmeal and cream of wheat that we never eat because they’re a couple of years old when the rare urge to cook and eat them arises so we don’t want them then. We do go through grits regularly, and there will be kasha too but we rarely eat that for breakfast.
My mom was a health food nut in the '70’s so we never had sweetened cereal. The home made granola mixed with home made yogurt comment above gave me flashbacks and shivers…
Now at the ripe age of 48, I indulge in my missed childhood. I always have Fruit Loops, Frosted Flakes and Cocoa Krispies on hand.
None. I hate cereal, and always did as a kid. One of the true blessings of adulthood is to not have to eat cereal. Or drink milk. Give me a bowl of cut up berries and banana with yogurt. Give me some eggs. Give me a bagel with cream cheese. But don’t give me no cereal!
Do you people have any idea what breakfast cereal is made of? It’s those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners.
Never touch the stuff. If I want a quick (uncooked) breakfast, I heat up a length of leftover baguette and eat it with Irish butter and French blackberry preserves and a cup of strong black tea with milk.
Most often, I have either the generic equivalent of Honey Bunches of Oats, or Life, for breakfast. I also sometimes have strawberry-flavored frosted wheats, crunchy raisin bran, or honey nut Os, often enough to keep those on stock, too (generic brands all, except for Life, which the generics can never seem to get right if you can even find them at all). I’ll occasionally pick up something else, depending on what’s on sale, but those are the mainstays. In general, I prefer my cereals sweet, but not sugar-is-the-first-ingredient sweet.
I absolutely love cereal. I think it goes back to my love of getting up before anyone else on Saturday mornings and watching Superman (the old George Reeves series) with a huge bowl of Something Fun, like Lucky Charms.
Nowadays, I eat a lot of cereal, but it’s healthier (Grape Nuts, Weetabix, or Mini-Wheats) – hey, I’m in my 60s.
But on Saturday mornings, I get up before anyone else and watch Superman on DVDs, with a huge bowl of Something Fun, like Lucky Charms (or, Trader Joe’s has a whole-wheat Cinnamon Toast Crunch, yum!).
Yeah, I’ve pitched the idea to her before. But she’s not interested. And now frankly I live in dread that she might join, and via her postings, destroy my mystique. :eek:
If you do a google search, you will discover a thread entitled something like “ask qadgop’s daughter”, some years back. I only point that out because said daughter worked hard to preserve my mystique.
I always said I pretty much only ate Cheerios, maybe Rice Krispies, because they float. I couldn’t take soggy flakes soaking up milk and sticking to the bowl. But then I found Obol. Genius!!
Although I still tend to just have Cheerios in the house. I always have the regular, but will also regularly buy multigrain, fruity and apple cinnamon.
