Your Favorite Cold Cereal?

[Zomby Woof]

Poll question: Your Favorite Cold Cereal?

I like classic Cheerios, with a sliced banana and skim milk.

[newcriminal]

1. Life has always been my favorite.

[Shell Beau]

2. I could never pick just one. My favorite

healthy cereal is bran flakes, but I love all of the kiddie cereals.

[Zomby Woof]

3. Bran is important at my age!

:P 40% Bran Flakes do the job. :hurts:

The only kids' cereal I ever eat anymore, and it's rare - are the chocolate ones like Cocoa Puffs, Count Chocula, etc. I do NOT need the sugar, LOL. Plus, I need all my teeth. :D

[Shell Beau]

4. Cocoa Pebbles are yummy too!

[Zomby Woof]

7. Heck yeah!

And their clone, Cocoa Krispies!

[Swede]

5. My current favorite is frosted mini wheats.

But my favorite changes quite often.

[EastTennesseeDem]

8. You're on the right track

It's got to be Brown Sugar Frosted Mini Wheats for me. Yum.

[crim son]

6. It has to be Captain Crunch with Crunchberries, but

I very rarely eat breakfast and if I do it's more likely to be spaghetti than cereal. But CCwCB, damn that's good. :D

[Captain Hilts]

53. Boo-yeah on both breakfasts!!!

[LiberalEsto]

9. The absolute BEST summer breakfast

Regular Cheerios with milk and a scoop of peach or strawberry ice cream. My mom sometimes let us have this on really hot summer days. :9

[Zomby Woof]

11. Damn

I may need to try that. It is still summer in CA. :D

[LiberalEsto]

43. Go for it! nt

[AwakeAtLast]

59. That has to be the Best. Breakfast. Ever!

Sounds positively yummy! :9

[applegrove]

10. Once a year I'll buy a box of Captain Crunch. I had an great aunt who used to do that

and I think of her every time I do it.

[DainBramaged]

12. Rice chex

[soleiri]

13. I'm on a cold cereal kick

After months of oatmeal.

Kashi Cinnamon Harvest. I'm even eating it as a snack.

yummm.

[woofless]

14. I think Wheaties are delicious.

I also like Wheat Chex. Why are these simple preparations so freaking expensive?

[Zomby Woof]

16. I like Wheaties a lot

Should have had them on the poll.

Try Malt-O-Meal brands. They are comparable to the major brands, and half the price/double the volume. Come in resealable plastic bags.

[Chan790]

17. "Because people will pay it?" is the universal answer to these sorts of questions.

Why is pasta expensive? For a one-time investment of $30 and 5 minutes worth of effort per batch you can have pasta superior to anything sold in the supermarket for literally $0.15/lb. The average American cooks and consumes more than 40lbs. of pasta a year at an average of $1/lb.

Why are soda and soft drinks so expensive? I can buy a bottle of Kola syrup (Good for about 5 gal. of soda) for $2 and seltzer water for less than $0.20/L. and make my own cola. I can buy lemon juice for $1.29/bottle and 5lbs. of sugar for a few bucks and make lemonade on the cheap. A box of teabags is under a dollar. On the other hand, soda is around $1.79 a 2L bottle locally and Country Time Lemonade Mix and 4C iced-tea mix are $6 each for a can yielding 28-quarts.

Hummus costs about $3-4/6oz. tub to purchase and about $0.50/lb. to make. Tapenade is just as inflated in price vs. cost. Pasta sauce? I can buy a can of stewed tomatoes 2 for $1 and reduce it myself...it's not like I don't already have the spices to make sauce, I have to doctor the jarred crap anyways to be palatable.

People have to pay these prices for simple-to-make food-stuffs because we "culturally-forgot" how to make simple staple foods once we could buy them at the supermarket. Ironic...if the average American learned how to make the simple foods they eat most from scratch, they could cut their food budget by 75% and eat better than they do now.

[lost-in-nj]

15. Special K

with fresh strawberries, blueberries and bananas

yum....



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[Chan790]

18. I love Special K.

I totally want some now and I already spent my weekly food budget.

[NewJeffCT]

19. I've been eating Cheerios for breakfast for 30 years now

unless I'm on vacation, rare is the morning I don't have them.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

20. Thirty Years? You're going to be late for work....

Sorry.

[Mudoria]

21. Raisin Bran... loved it since I was a kid.

[proteus_lives]

22. Other-Golden Grahams.

Yum.

[ccharles000]

23. lucky charms

[TK421]

24. Golden Grahams were always my favorite...followed by Peanut Butter Cap'n Crunch

[Burma Jones]

25. My Favorite Hangover cure used to be Wheaties with Baileys and Milk.....

My favorite cereal now is Strawberry Fields

[Avalux]

28. I love Raisin Bran; I add walnuts to it. n/t

[nuxvomica]

26. That's exactly how I eat 'em too

I tried the Honey-Nut kind but I couldn't finish it. That stuff is awfully sweet.

[Broken_Hero]

27. Captain Crunch with Crunch Berries

but there are a lot to choose from.

[Demoiselle]

29. Cheerios bananas and skim milk! YAY!

And liberal Democratic too! I feel part of a great family.

[Moondog]

30. I guess I'm pathetic.

I really don't care for the sugar rush, so I avoid that stuff. I like (... gasp ...) the little spoon-sized shredded wheat thingies and, goddess help me, Grape Nuts. Which I call grape's nuts. At the same time. As in, in the same bowl.

I know, I know. I am not worthy to be allowed to post on this esteemed forum. I suck. And that's the end of it.

[Moondog]

31. Dupe.

Just put a new Wacom tablet in, and I clearly have not broken the code on how to use the damned thing!!!!!

[Moondog]

32. dupe

[FriendlyReminder]

33. Shredded Wheat (either frosted mini or the old fashioned kind)

[cordelia]

34. Total. Love it. n/t

[jus_the_facts]

35. Clusters...

:P

[ornotna]

36. Wheetabix

[Adsos Letter]

61. Weetabix, with sliced bananas and half-and-half...YAY!!!

[elshiva]

37. Other:

[kath]

38. Grape-Nuts w/ sliced banana (or blueberries) is pretty damned good...

[pokerfan]

40. Grape-Nuts and yogurt

Let it sit a couple of minutes so the cereal softens up a bit.

[Adsos Letter]

62. Grape-Nuts and Yogurt...YAY!!!

[abq e streeter]

39. Bill and Ted's Excellent Cereal ( I'm devastated that they don't make it anymore)

[grasswire]

41. grapenuts

but I can't eat them anymore. 49 freaking grams of carb in half a cup.

I also like honey nut shredded wheat. Can't eat that either.

[SeattleGirl]

42. Cheerios!

Love them Cheerios! :9

[NJmaverick]

44. Special K is pretty good

[meow2u3]

45. My favorite is Cheerios

Regular, Honey Nut, and Apple Cinnamon. The last tastes like Apple Jacks, but far less sweet. I don't need all that extra sugar.

[Brickbat]

46. Bowl of Cheerios and three spoonfulls of sugar. I like PB Captain Crunch and Lucky Charms, but I

usually eat Cheerios. And the sugar.

[Pool Hall Ace]

50. This reminds me of a story.

Years ago when my mother fractured her tibia and was relatively immobile, I made sure she had breakfast every day. When she was ready for breakfast on the first morning, she asked me to bring her coffee and Cheerios in to the family room so she could eat while she played her video games. She thanked me, and took a spoonful of Cheerios. She immediately made that "yuck" face and said, "You didn't put any sugar on this!"

So I brought the sugar bowl in and loaded up the spoon. "Wait," she said, "not that much!"

"Oh," I replied, "so you just want a soupçon of sugar?"

She chuckled and asked me what a soupçon was. I explained it to her, and every day after that she would always ask for her coffee and her soupçon when she was ready for breakfast.

As for me, I actually like Cheerios without any sugar! :P

[Brickbat]

51. Hee, cute! I have to say I have quite a bit more than a soupçon. I know I shouldn't, but it's one

of my few vices I've retained through the years.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

47. I'm really weird, but I like bran. Plain bran.

Not raisin bran, but bran with nothing added.

Why? I think because it reminds me of when I was a kid and went to my grandmother's house, and the only cereal she had was bran. So I'd have it, and I always like by the end how it turned to a grainy mush.

I know, that's very strange, but I like it for nostalgia's sake.

[pink-o]

48. When I was a kid in the 60s, I used to go thru a box of cereal every other day!

I ate 3 regular meals, and about 6 bowls of cereal in between those meals! And I was a skinny beanpole, since I was rapidly growing to my full height of 6'1" (I'm a chick, BTW). I'm sure that was fed by boxes of Fruit Loops, Trix, Cocoa Puffs, Lucky Charms, et al. Then when I was 15, Cap'n Crunch Peanut Butter hit the stores. I mixed it with Cocoa Puffs and was in hog heaven!

My mother couldn't figure out why 1) I never wanted dessert or sweet stuff. 2) I was totally hyper-active all through school.

Nowadays, at age 54, I don't eat much milled flour or processed carbohydrates. Brekkie is fruit, yoghurt and nuts. Lunch is a protein bar. Snack is a smoothie. Dinner is a salad.

I leave the sugar high and stuff to you young thangs now!

[Lethe]

49. Capn' Crunch, bitch

it is the best

[Captain Hilts]

52. Wheat chex, Cocoa Krispies kept in the freezer, Post Fortified Oat Flakes, Cap'n Crunch w/berries. n

[WinkyDink]

54. Raisin Bran---Wegman's Brand. $1.99 of yum!

[Graybeard]

55. Grape Nuts, but no more than one third cup.

Someone posted that they ate a half cup of them. That's way, way too much for me, (200 calories). I find a small portion very satisfying.

[mnhtnbb]

56. Special K with CHOCOLATE--yum, yum.

[madamesilverspurs]

57. Cheerios, two reasons:

Helps me not get yelled at about cholesterol, and some days chasing the last two or three around the bowl with my spoon is the only exercize I'll get.

[AwakeAtLast]

58. OMG - Total has this new flavor. Blueberry Pomegranate

I know, I know - some artificial flavor. But holy cow does it taste good!

I've had three boxes of it in the past month and a half, and that's a lot of cereal for me. I'm out again, I need to head to the store......

[Adsos Letter]

60. Weetabix, with half-and-half and sliced bananas...

:9