Favorite Cereal?

[fishwrapper]

1. Cinnamon Toast Crunch
2. 312-way tie.

 

[CentralIllinoisan]

Bran Flakes. I get three-quarters of a bowl, fill the milk to the top of the flakes and add two packets of sweetner (used to be a heap of sugar when I was younger).
Let it sit. Once the flakes are soft, I push them over to one side and let the milk pool on the other. I spoon the milk while getting a few of the soggy flakes in each bite. By the time I reach the end, I have a sweet bran paste to eat. Mmmm.

Love Lucky Charms, Frosted Mini-Wheats and Life for snacking purposes. I go through 2-3 boxes of cereal a week.

 

[Jeremy Goodwin]

Hadn't had anything to eat since 4ish and this thread inspired me to check out the cabinet to see what cereal we had. I was happy to see a sample size of Cinnamon Toast Crunch. I devoured that, then had some regular Cheerios, but added raisins to it. It was the first cereal in at least a month, if not longer.

Don't want to thread jack / take this too far off topic but:

What is your milk to cereal ratio?
-I fill the bowl with cereal, then add milk almost to the top. It's not a science, but I know some people use a lot less milk than I do. Once the cereal is gone I keep refilling the bowl until the milk is gone. I know some drink the milk when the cereal is gone, but I'd rather fill it up with more cereal and stop eating once there is no more milk in the bowl.

Do you ever mix cereals?
-If I'm at the end of the box I will, other times I will just for the hell of it. When I mix it's usually basic cereals. Combine Cheerios and Raisin Bran. Cheerios and Crispix. Both are good mixes of crunch and texture. I'd don't think I'd mix sugary cereals.

 

[Mayfly]

I do the whole pour cereal until the milk is gone bit too. Regular Cheerios with bananas or blueberries and honey on top is by far the most delicious combination I have ever had.

 

[HejiraHenry]

Raisin Bran is the one cereal I really, really like with milk.

Frosted Flakes are good, too.

Cheerios and the various Chex permutations are best served as Party Mix.

But No. 1 on my cereal killer hit parade is/are Froot Loops.

As much as I like Froot Loops, I must warn you:

You do NOT want to eat nothing but Froot Loops for 2 or 3 days, as I did once a few years back. That's all I'm saying about that.

 

[mike311gd]

Hadn't had anything to eat since 4ish and this thread inspired me to check out the cabinet to see what cereal we had. I was happy to see a sample size of Cinnamon Toast Crunch. I devoured that, then had some regular Cheerios, but added raisins to it. It was the first cereal in at least a month, if not longer.

Don't want to thread jack / take this too far off topic but:

What is your milk to cereal ratio?
-I fill the bowl with cereal, then add milk almost to the top. It's not a science, but I know some people use a lot less milk than I do. Once the cereal is gone I keep refilling the bowl until the milk is gone. I know some drink the milk when the cereal is gone, but I'd rather fill it up with more cereal and stop eating once there is no more milk in the bowl.

Do you ever mix cereals?
-If I'm at the end of the box I will, other times I will just for the hell of it. When I mix it's usually basic cereals. Combine Cheerios and Raisin Bran. Cheerios and Crispix. Both are good mixes of crunch and texture. I'd don't think I'd mix sugary cereals.

I fill the bowl, leaving about an inch before reaching the top. Then I add about a cup and a half of milk, so the cereal is resting at the top. I try to conserve everything at my house. Usually, one bowl is all I'll have, but recently I've added a little bit more cereal once I've finished the first bowl. But I drink the milk after my second trip.

And I'll only mix cereals if I'm at the end of the box. However, I rarely have more than one box of cereal in the house. I've got three in the house now, so it's a definite possibility.

 

[mike311gd]

And Mayfly, quit using that expression. Classless.

Seriously, dude. There's nothing wrong with Cap'n Crunch. ...

Mafia Boss: You come to me and ask me to kill a man I do not know. Now I ask you, why should I kill this "Count Chocula"?
Cap'n Crunch: Because that son of a ***** has been spreading lies! My cereal does not cut the roof of your mouth! ... With all respect.

I changed my point about Captain Crunch, but the fact still remains. It tears the roof of my mouth up near the end of the first bowl. I still eat it occasionally, maybe because I am a masochist, and maybe because that executioners' mask is in my closet, but still, it wreaks havoc on the roof of my mouth.

Expect a hit soon. That's all I'm saying. They don't call him Cap'n for no reason.

 

[friend of a friend]

Super Colon Blow

Or Quisp :D

 

[Van Lingle Mungo]

All time favorite: The original S'mores. The day General Mills discontinued it was a black day for breakfast.

As it stands, Cinnamon Life, Frosted Mini-Wheats, Rice Chex and Crispix are in the current rotation.

 

[Lone_Star_Speed]

Sugar fix: Alpha Bits

Less sugar: Crispix

Feeling risky: Fruit Lupus

My dad's favorite cereal: Prostituties - "they don't snap, crackle, or pop...but they sure do bang!"

 

[AreaMan]

Favorites as a kid: Total Corn Flakes (though they don't seem to have this brand anymore), Lucky Charms, Mr. T cereal, Rice Krispies.

Favorites now: Cracklin Oat Bran (though they jip you with the small-ass box), Raisin Nut Crunch, Kellog's Corn Flakes, Special K.

Worst cereal ever: I second Captain Krunch.

 

[dooley_womack1]

I don't eat cereal anymore, but I used to be a Golden Grahams man. Too bad it's among the most expensive and never on sale.

And now I can't sleep, wondering what awful thing Mayfly said about Cap'n Crunch.

 

[amraeder]

Favorites: Rice Chex, Apple Cinnamon Cheerios, Honey Nut Cheerios, Lucky Charms, Rice Krispies.

As far as the amount of milk goes, it depends on the cereal. Rice Chex are best soggy, Rice Krispies deserve very little milk. It's a science.

 

[Guerrillascribe]

I'm dating myself with this reply but I loved Boo Berry and, whenever I am back in the states, I always get a box of Honeycomb and a box of Apple Jacks to take back with me!

 

[Lone_Star_Speed]

Anybody remember Body Buddies cereal?

 

[TrooperBari]

I'm dating myself with this reply but I loved Boo Berry

YES! You, sir, are Good and Right and True.™

Milk is awfully expensive in this neck of the woods, so I'm currently out of the cereal habit. In the past, Peanut Butter Cap'n Crunch (a non-mouth-slicing alternative), Frosted Mini-Wheats and Cracklin' Oat Bran were go-to brands, but this is my all-time favorite:

 

[imjustagirl2]

No milk division: Cookie Crisp, Corn Pops (just snack on it while on the computer or watching TV)

Milk division: Corn Flakes, Crispix.

When I get on a Corn Flakes kick, which I do ever so often, I can put down several bowls in a sitting and put down a whole big box in like three days.

 

[BigSleeper]

I've settled into a routine of having generic raisin bran every morning.

Growing up, Fruity/Cocoa Pebbles, Grape Nuts and Cinnamon Toast Crunch were always a faves, but the Holy Grail of cereal was always Boo Berry.

I never understood what the distribution deal was. In my neck of the woods, you could easily get your hands on Count Chocula or Frankenberry, but not Boo Berry. It wasn't until college when I was visited another part of the state that I found it. Bought a dozen boxes and brought them home.

 

[Lone_Star_Speed]

Boo Berry always shows up around Halloween. Sadly the same can't be said for Fruit Brute or Yummy Mummy.

 

[EStreetJoe]

Quaker Oatmeal Squares (Brown Sugar) and Honey Nut Cheerios are currently two of my favorites.