What's Your Favoritest Cereal?

Fresh blueberries are right-o, too.
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xpost: grapenuts, ehh?

Right now I think my favorite cereal is a decidedly less healthy one -- Honey Bunches of Oats. With almonds. And 1% milk. Or 2% -- can be either. But preferably 1%. I too love Frosted Mini Wheats, and I quite like Crispix too.

My other current fave: Barbara's Cinnamon Puffins. Mmmmmm molasses.

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(also comes in PUMPKIN variety, which is equally delish)

How do 1% and 2% milks compare with the UK's standards? Skimmed and semi-skimmed?

(for me it's always cornflakes)

Your real low sugar cereals are Shredded Wheat and Weetabix.

Trader Joe's Muesli Cereal Blend and Corn Puffs are lovely also. There ought to be an international law that requires a Trader Joe's on every corner of every street in the world.

Jesus God! The bloat! Did you then burst like a goldfish?

Also, wheat Chex. All Chex is pretty good, but wheat owns.

See, I haven't really eaten sugary cereal since I was little. One of the last times was when I ate three bowls of Fruity Pebbles and then barfed in raging technicolor.

generic albertsons brand raisin bran/granola cereal is pretty awesome, surprisingly enough.

What I really like are hot cereals. I could go for a bowl of oatmeal or Cream of Wheat most mornings. Oatmeal cooked with a chopped Granny Smith apple rocks, and so does Cream of Wheat cooked with a handful of dried cherries or chopped dried apricots.

Runners-up: Wheat Chex and Corn Chex

Cheerios
Corn Chex
Kix
Grape Nuts

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I ate enough cereal between the ages of 5 to 19 to kill a mastodon (assuming cereal kills mastodons, who knew?) and the only milk I ever crave is whole milk which I doubt would be the best thing for me.

xpost-hahahaha

i know. tastes good, though.

Wow, I can't even drink whole milk, too rich.

same here. i'll cook with it, but i can't drink it.

I briefly ate cereal as a small kid with applesauce. Not good. I love soybeans, miso, tofu, etc...but loathe soymilk. If I'd had it as a kid I'd probably love it but I think I was exposed to it too late.

Grape-Nuts are in no way healthier than any other cereal!

Seriously though, how appetising does THIS look???
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Ha ha ha! No way! I've always had a pretty high tolerance for high-fiber foods, which is why I had no idea certain vegetables (e.g. broccoli) were supposed to make one gassy. I certainly didn't feel the effects! (Now greasy food, OTOH -- that's a totally different story which I won't get into.)

Grape-Nuts are in no way healthier than any other cereal!

Hm. I always thought of it as a "healthy" cereal. Oh well. Was the '80s, after all. (She says as she attempts to rationalize....)

(Also really good stuff named in this thread -- Product 19 and granola.)

Man, Cinnamon Toast Crunk is pretty good!

oops CRUNCH

crunk would be something

really into Honey Bunches of Oats w/ Almonds. It's delicious, usually on sale at my grocery store, and is a little lower-cal than most other "healthy" cereals.

chocolate Honey Bunches of Oats are my jam. the chocolate clusters are just sugary enough to satisfy my junk food craving without actually crossing over into junk food territory. predictably, I tend to eat all the chocolate bits straight out of the box before I've even finished half of the cereal.

Quaker Oatmeal Squares are damn good as well.

Cinnamon Toast Crunch was my fav cereal as a kid.

I think my fav just for taste would be cracklin oat bran but that's not that great for you. I'm sorta into fiber one's frosted mini wheat style. Also really love Cinnamon Life.

Coco Pops 4 life

cinnamon life is my #1 cereal forever and possibly underrated by most cereal enthusiasts imo

*high five*

I don't eat that much cereal tbh because I usually eat breakfast at work and oatmeal is easier there. I have found the most amazing oatmeal:

http://www.betteroats.com/oats/lavish/dark_chocolate/

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ALL BRAN 4 LYFE

what is with this weird usa cereal with ppl on the box?

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clicked in here to rep cinnamon life, hi five

between my previously testimonials for triscuits and my love of wheat chex, it is apparent that i'm a sucker for grids of wheat

Chocolate Oatmeal?

ENBB you are my hero.

I like the Kashi cereal with strawberries

i'm also one of those weird dudes who eats grape nuts though

:D to cin lyfe

Kashi is really healthy and is pretty good. I buy it sometimes but only the Crunch one.

I love grape nuts.

VG that choc oatmeal is SO GOOD and it's healthy too.

where do you find it?

Raisin Bran is my go-to fiber cereal

COOKIE CRISP

x-post Just the local chain supermarket.

I never realized I had so many opinions on cereal.

never had cookie crisp

it's like... a bunch of cookies

so gooood

http://www.healthcastle.com/images/products/cer_kashi_strawberry_fields.jpg

Go Lean Crunch is pretty tasty but it rips the shit out of your palate
Grape Nuts are good
I can't really think of a cereal I hate?

Me neither!

I think I like cereal a lot more than I realized tbh. Want some now.

I can't really think of a cereal I hate?

― congratulations (n/a),

Oh there are a few Trader Joe cereals that I can't stand

i used to like honey bunches of oats a lot when i was a kid but now it leaves me w/ a weird aftertaste and uncomfortable tingly mouth, i dunno what that's all about

Special K with Strawberries was another favorite, except there's never enough strawbs in there, I always eat them first and then just end up with a bowl of Special K

i didn't realize they still made Cracklin Oat Bran. Used to love that.

Only cereals I hate are the EXTREME fiber varieties, and cheap nasty granola.

this thread is making me want to eat cereal again, i've been eating peanut butter sandwiches for breakfast for the past year or 2 because i don't like milk, and because they're portable and i eat breakfast at work a lot

There was a frozen yogurt place near my old apt that would mix in one of like 100 diff toppings and make it like a Blizzard. They would do it with Craklin Oat Bran and it was incredible.

Maybe it's not the Trader Joes brand I was thinking of -- I think it's called Uncle Sams or something like that

Kashi's Go Lean Crunch is tooth-shatteringly not-very-enjoyable.
Also destroy any supermarket chain's 'home brand' version of popular cereal. Guaranteed sadness in every box.

you mean bag

lol

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Malt-o-meal's ripoffs are generally solid, esp. the frosted shredded wheat

ZIP N POUR

doubling down on Life!!

No mention of that Ezekiel 4:16 on here... used to love their plain version, but it got really expensive...

When I visited my grandmother as a kid, she would have those variety packs of individual sugary cereals my parents would never let me have at home. She would then encourage me to use half and half on my Frosted Flakes. That was awesome.

omg
literal heaven

so I've never tried the ezekiel, was always curious
will definitely put a good plug for heritage oats
amazing hearty crunch

Ezekiel's maybe similar to Grapenuts...
I would use it as a base layer with a more affordable granola or muesli or something on top...

My go-to these days is Life mixed with Nature’s Path granola. I prefer Barbara's Multigrain Spoonfuls to Life, but I can't find it as easily anymore.

it's so hard to find
was just talking to a friend about the Life Barbara's equivalent
by the way Life is really good as ice cream topping

I've been mixing Grape Nuts into my yogurt for a few years now. So good. And filling!

Quaker fuckin Oat Squares

I make a mean granola. Nothing out of a box can touch it.

recently had a muesli moment by Quaker that I was pretty sure was going to redefine my life that I have never been able to find since, and I'm a bit upset

easy come easy go I guess

xpost pkbr my grandma had those boxes too! only time i ever got to eat coco pops & i loooooved them

bob's red mill granola is really really good

One of my earliest memories is eating Apple Cinnamon Cheerios out of the box by the handful at my great aunt's house in Long Island. I was a fan of the whole Cheerios line in those days.

As a bigger kid I was fond of eating handfuls of Rice Krispie Treats cereal out of the box.

When I moved into my first squalid house in Bed Stuy with a motley crew of other burnouts, the corner store sold something called Honey-Ohs! and everyone in my house got hopelessly addicted to them and we'd sot around eating handfuls of them out of the box.

i have never eaten cereal with a spoon out of a bowl of milk.

crazy!!

rice krispies was my favorite for years

started my day with a bowl of cinnamon life for several years, mostly skip breakfast lately but I could get back into it

would love to know your granola recipe aimless

yeah, me too...

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In the brief moment when I went to a nutritionist maybe 10 years ago, the only thing that stuck was to eat protein for breakfast. So I took a chance on Kashi and now those are the only cereals I eat.

Favorite is the Cinnamon Crunch, which most of my stores don't carry, so I have to buy several boxes when I can find it.

I like to mix the Chocolate Crunch and Peanut Butter Crunch and make Reeses.

Next time I get some Cinnamon Crunch, I'm going to combine it with the Maple cereal and make French toast.

who makes the hearts and O's cereal? is that kashi? that one is so good

There’s a lot of great cereals out there, but I get so quickly bored of particular brands and yet don’t want to stock up my pantry with a vast array of them a la Jerry Seinfeld.

I’ve lately been impressed with the Aspen line of cereals from Canada. Grape Nuts Flakes is another favorite. Would like to try a peanut butter cereal but the one I see most is the Puffins one which has virtually no fiber (so why bother). Seconding the Barbara’s Multigrain Spoonfuls rec. The Kashi variety that is like imitation Cheerios is pretty good… (still don’t grasp the difference between Kashi and Kashi Go though…)

Aspen is good stuff. That kinda powdery thing that it's got... really on it's own texture...

Wait, not Aspen, ALPEN...

Right, my mistake!

I was on a Fiber One Honey Clusters jag for a while, got burned out but might go back.

When I visited my grandmother as a kid, she would have those variety packs of individual sugary cereals my parents would never let me have at home. She would then encourage me to use half and half on my Frosted Flakes. That was awesome.

My grandfather didn't have the variety packs, but he did have regular corn flakes and a big ol' sugar bowl on the table, and would encourage a tablespoon or so before pouring the milk. That'll put a zing into your morning cartoon-watching.

I would do the same when my parents made me eat Shredded Wheat.

love shredded wheat! i love the giant ones

Those are the ones.

I usually eat oatmeal, but about once a week I'll have a bowl of half Life, half mini Shredded Wheat (not frosted).

As a kid, I judged cereals mostly on the marketing around them and the prize in the box. On those criteria, the clear winner was Freakies.

The cereals you could eat by the handful all day were Crunch Berries and Count Chocula.

I think it's a sad commentary on adult life that my current favorite is Nature's Path Heritage Flakes, topped with Grape Nuts.

I did send enough box tops to Battle Creek to get the Tony the Tiger monorail. What a disappointment that was.

I mostly skip breakfast now, but enjoy Bob's Red Mill oatmeal/meusli once in a while. Yogurt and fruit with meusli is also excellent.

I haven't eaten a breakfast cereal with milk in probably 10 years.

Out of the box, it’s Vector. Probably the Vitamin Water of cereals but I don’t care, I like its metallic crunch

never heard of it!

are all Bob's Red Mill mueslis relatively unsweet besides like raisins and etc?

Oh! Vector is Canadian-only, it seems

interesting! i'll ask my fam in Toronto if they are Vector folk

It's a dumb cereal. It came out in the late 90s and was marketed as a "meal replacement" because it has high protein. It's crunchy enough to be unpleasant, but I've always really liked it. It's probably poison.

lol. oh i see it's kellogg's. speaking of kellogg's, used to be a Crispix fan!

back in the day i was a cereal nutcase. i used to hang out on alt.cereal and shitpost, back in the day. i didn't actually know very much about cereal at all. there was this guy who had a great channel called "cereal time" where he talked about all different cereals, including old ones i'd never heard of like "sir grapefellow".

i always hated Life (in both senses of the word I guess) but transition has changed my palate so i might like it if i were to try it again

thing is I've gone gluten free... i'm not actually allergic to gluten, it just keeps me from stuffing my face with raisin bran constantly. so i eat cheerios now. there are like twenty different versions of cheerios. i swear there are more versions of cheerios than there are of cap'n crunch. not really. that one company that makes cap'n crunch just makes variations on that one fucking cereal. they came up with one trick (coat their cereal with a very thin layer of fat so it stays crispy in milk) in the '60s and they're still using those machines. there are _so many_ varieties of cap'n crunch. there are websites that track them all. they actually put out one called "Freedom Crunch" at one point... hardly any, though, and I think they burned them off in the Boston market (not Boston Market, though it sounds like a good place to sell Freedom Crunch).

i used to eat grape nuts hot. that was a bad idea. pretty disgusting. the thing is grape nuts were so hard they'd fuck up my gums. i got terrible gums.

in terms of granola i just get trader joe's pecan praline granola and mis it in to vanilla yogurt

i thought bob's red mill was just a local portland thing - do they have it elsewhere?

also, since there's a cereal called "vector", i have to know if there's a cereal called "raster".

just don't do a web search on 'vector rats public health'

Weetbix with a ton of sugar and half&half (soak the weetbix with a little hot water first)
Weetbix smothered in butter and eaten like crackers
Cornflakes with stewed fruit and half&half (usually rhubarb or peaches)
Frozen bananas/mango/peaches blended into an ice cream-like consistency and mixed with homemade granola (the only breakfast on this list that I actually eat occasionally)

i think i got cereal on the brain, somebody posted this meme:

https://x.com/zanyfen/status/1751332758335451468?s=20

and as an american i think this meme is exactly backwards. have they never seen an ad for Total?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzYaqk1vvbY

when i look at that poster i see them saying "You need ten hamburgers worth of Dilaudid to get the high just one hamburger worth of morphine provides!"

i mean measuring drug potency in hamburgers is weird, but honestly, it's not any weirder than us measuring things in metric when literally everything else is done in imperial. america is an empire, it's not a, uh, meter.

They didn't use the metric system to get to the moon.

Nor did they have cereal on the lunar lander. They did, however, have Tang.

Weetbix smothered in butter and eaten like crackers

totally forgot about doing this as a kid.

They didn't use the metric system to get to the moon.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux)

didn't use dope either, that stuff'll put you straight in the shitter (just ask flame schon). you want to get to the moon you need some uppers.