03 Sep 2003 | leroy said...

I am a cereal monogamist. It's been Grape Nuts for years (mostly because I believe it cures a hangover). Now I am on a store brand Raisin Bran kick. Smart Start had my attention for a couple of weeks, but it has too much sugar in it to be truely good for you.

03 Sep 2003 | Ben Langhinrichs said...

Cheerios. I have been eating them since I was a young kid, and I am now 40. I sometimes make oatmeal or Cream of Wheat, but mostly, I still eat Cheerios. My only recent change is that starting about two years ago, I started mixing in some Shredded Wheat 'n Bran, which is my wife's sole cereal, but just a bit. Mostly, it always has been Cheerios and probably always will be.

I love the title of this post, by the way.

03 Sep 2003 | jupiter said...

Why don't you try a more natural way? No artificial Nestle/Kellogg's stuff - just put some oats, wheat, rye and flax seed together with natural yoghurt, honey and fresh fruits on top (strawberries together with raspberries and blueberries are delicious). That's what you call "Muesli" in Switzerland.

03 Sep 2003 | Michael Spina said...

Corn Flakes for me, with 1% milk. When I was a kid I switched between Corn Flakes and Rice Krispies, but I've been on Corn Flakes for years now.

I'm kind of a food monogomist in general; for some reason I can find one thing I like and eat it every day.

03 Sep 2003 | Darrel said...

Cinnamon Toast Crunch (or any of the generic knock-offs).

Yea...way too much sugar.

But I like sugar.

03 Sep 2003 | Mike said...

Oh I am bigtime, Honey Nut Chex is the best!

03 Sep 2003 | Bill Litfin said...

As a kid, it was Cinnamon Life (known around our house as "Uncle Tim Cereal" because my mother's youngest brother ate it). Now that I am a grown up... it's something like Cheerios - though I do love the European meusli, jam and yogurt concoction and would eat it every day if it were practical for me.

03 Sep 2003 | JF said...

Steel cut Irish Oatmeal in the winter. Nothing in the summer.

03 Sep 2003 | kev said...

yeah. breakfast? what's that?

03 Sep 2003 | kernel p said...

My wife makes me eat this every day, all year long. Probably the same as JF's breakfast but without the nice tin. It helps if you pour a little milk in it, otherwise, you could choke on it.

03 Sep 2003 | Andrerib said...

I'm a cereal monogamist. 15 years in a row eating Nestle's Chocolat cereals named Chocapic.

What I would really like is a cereal dispenser like the one for ice. You just had too to press your breakfast bowl to the a handle and collect your favourite cereals!

03 Sep 2003 | Don Schenck said...

Smart Start. Earlier, I was in love with Buc-Wheats ... boy do I miss that cereal.

Had a fling with Crispix last week, though.

As a child, it was Quisp and Quake. Loved 'em.

But I normally eat an Egg McMuffin with hot mustard at 8 a.m., and oatmeal or sardines at 10:30.

03 Sep 2003 | Brad Hurley said...

Earlier, I was in love with Buc-Wheats ... boy do I miss that cereal.

If enough of us wrote to them (who made it, was it Post, Kellog's, ?), they might bring it back. Ah, that "snap of maple flavor."

When Kellog's began putting sugar into Nutri-Grain cereal, I wrote them a letter to complain. Two years later, I got a note from them with a coupon for two free boxes, saying that so many people had complained that they went back to their original recipe. Unfortunately, most people do like sugar in their cereal, and Kellog's stopped making Nutri Grain breakfast cereal a few years later due to lack of demand (though I think they still make the bars).

I also love steel-cut oats in winter...one bowl of that stuff will tide me over til the afternoon.

03 Sep 2003 | ant said...

Hi, my name is Anthony, and I'm not a cereal monogamist. I'll admit it. I like to play the cereal field. I can't help it. Every trip to the grocer I find myself ogling some fancy-pants cereal in pretty printed cardboard. "Hi, what's your name?" But after a while, the thrill wears off, and I always come skulking back to Cheerios, begging for forgiveness.

03 Sep 2003 | p said...

1/2 kellogs all bran
1/2 vector cereal
then a lot of soy milk (soy nice brand)

been that for about a year now. before that it was just 100% vector with soy-good brand soy milk. i've not deviated from this, not even for a day. i wake up and i'm not in my home i either skip breakfast, or eat toast or a bagel instead. if it's cereal, it's gotta be the above.

03 Sep 2003 | Melda said...

I'm an Oatmeal Crisp w/raisins kinda girl (converted a mere month ago during a weak moment on holiday) but I got there through Harvest Crunch and Honey Bunches of Oats (I was young and naive).

Its gotta have more to offer than just flakes to do it for me.

03 Sep 2003 | Benjy said...

Does it count as cereal if it doesn't have marshmallows in it and no cartoon character on the box?

I'm not much of a cereal/breakfast person, so I don't buy it that often but when I do I tend to buy whatever sounds good to me as I browse the cereal aisle. Usually something like Golden Gahrams, Raisin Bran, Cinnamon Life, etc. Something with a little sweetness to it...

03 Sep 2003 | One of several Steves said...

Grape Nuts since I can remember. Well, since high school. When I even get around to eating cereal anymore. Which is rarely. And usually at night.

There's a question: how many people eat cereal at "non-traditional" times? I rarely have it for breakfast, but rather as a snack at other times.

03 Sep 2003 | Chris said...

Generally speaking, I can live on Cheerios. (and did at times in college). However, with kids in the house, I an often tempted by the Fruit Loops or Lucky Charms that my wife tends to buy for them.

03 Sep 2003 | Darrel said...

If I were not married, most likely I'd be OK with cereal 3 meals a day. And maybe a bowl for a snack.

03 Sep 2003 | coudal said...

Grape-Nuts, which my less-than-enthusiastic 6 and 4 year-olds refer to as "Daddy-Kind."

03 Sep 2003 | Gordon Gecko said...

*@%in' wimps.

03 Sep 2003 | Mikkel R. Jakobsen said...

I'm not really into cereals, but a friend of mine has admitted to me that he has been loyal to Frosties for about 20 years. And giant punch bowls of it at that!

03 Sep 2003 | Toby said...

Cheerios, but I add frozen blueberries from Trader Joe's (and occasionally TJ's vanilla-flavored powdered soy protein).

Except for Saturday mornings, where I have found that two or three bowls of some Evil Sugar Cereal (Frosted Miniwheats, Fruity Pebbles or Captain Crunch) perfectly complement Jackie Chan Adventures on the WB. Then everything is right with the world.

03 Sep 2003 | Baasch said...

I am very much a cereal monogamist. Like relationships that seem to last from 1 to 2 years a piece. I remember it being Lucky Charms for years, then Cinnamon Toast Crunch, then Honey Nut Cheerios, and now it's Tony's new cereal...Cinnamon Krunchers. That's good stuff.

03 Sep 2003 | the poster formerly known as fajalar said...

I have been eating 7 in the Morning. It has the same texture as Grape Nuts, but has far-better-for-you ingredients, more protien and fiber, and less sodium and sugars.

Course, I also eat other hippie foods like Amaranth Flakes and Blue Corn Flakes.

03 Sep 2003 | JF said...

I love Amaranth Flakes.

04 Sep 2003 | initialThought said...

1/2 bowl of smartstart mixed with 1/2 bowl of cheerios...a perfect combination!

04 Sep 2003 | the poster formerly known as fajalar said...

I love Amaranth Flakes.

Hippie. ;)

Speaking of which, 2 boxes of Amaranth Flakes for 5$. Not bad.

04 Sep 2003 | Jocke said...

Sounds like your not really a monogamist Brad. You've had so many cereal-girlfriends that you can hardly be blamed for being a monogamist. ;-)

04 Sep 2003 | Xavier said...

Kellogg's frosted flakes (aka frosties here in europe) drown in soy milk are my morning dope!

04 Sep 2003 | Don Schenck said...

On weekends I make eggs over easy and center-cut bacon. I amaze people with my ability to flip eggs by tossing them; takes a soft touch.

I'd say I eat more cereal at "weird" times than in the morning.

04 Sep 2003 | Bob said...

I've been on Cinnamon Life in the morning for a few years now.

But what's really good is Blueberry Morning after a good workout. I come home, do some ab work, push-ups, then hit the treadmill. Get a shower and pour a bowl of Blueberry Morning. Silly! Toward the end of my treadmilling, it just calls to me.

04 Sep 2003 | birdman said...

Hey, Brad. Try one of these, my current addiction: http://www.kashi.com/3pkcersam.html

04 Sep 2003 | dave said...

When I could, I would buy "TEAM Flakes", probably the best cereal made by a major manufacturer... alas, it has gone the way of the Marathon candy bar.

My wife is too quickly bored with one type of cereal, so we often switch off amongst the Trader Joe's offerings...

05 Sep 2003 | J.P. said...

Late to the party, but I'll add my two cents.

With a four-year-old in the house, I tend to buy whatever I can get him to eat in the morning, while sticking to three or four eggs mixed with a little milk and shredded cheese (all scrambled, of course) for myself. The problem, though, with buying the occasional sugary cereal for my kid (and I try to get him to eat eggs or something a little less sugary, like Cheerios, which I know has quite a bit of sugar, but it's not as bad as others, and now I'm rambling) is that some mornings I'll get up a little too late to make my eggs, and I'll break down and eat a bowl of his stuff.

Then I'm starving in an hour as the sugar buzz burns off.

Right now it's Berry Kix ("Kid tested, mother approved!").

And for the record, I am a HUGE breakfast person. I know some people can't eat breakfast because it makes them ill. I absolutely HAVE to eat as soon as I get up, or I'm a cranky bastage.

05 Sep 2003 | Brad Hurley said...

With a four-year-old in the house, I tend to buy whatever I can get him to eat in the morning

I don't remember this myself, but according to my older brother there was a one-year period, when I was around 7 or 8, when I would only eat food if it was white. Not much fits into that category...white bread, Cream of Wheat, possibly macaroni. How I survived, I don't know. I also went through at least a year of insisting that my supper be a plateful of Tobin's all-beef hotdogs and Kraft Dinner.

My girlfriend's 14-year-old daughter has been living with us since May, and I have never seen a green vegetable enter her mouth during that period. Her supper almost every night consists of poutine, a disgusting Quebecois concoction of french fries smothered with brown gravy and cheese.

12 Sep 2003 | JB Segal said...

Buc-Wheats! I actually found this post due to searching for evidence of their existance while eating a late night bowl of Frosted Flakes....

I tend toward short infatuations - Trix, for example - while I have long-running love affairs with a couple of different cereals - Froot Loops, Apple Jacks, the long-lost Buc-Wheats...maybe a few others...

27 Sep 2003 | Natalie said...

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13 Oct 2003 | allison said...

I am a cereal polygamist. I eat it all. Right now though I do admit to having a thing for Wheaties. But I mix it up with rice krispies, honeycomb, cornflakes, lucky charms, pops, silly corn, team cheerios, froot loops, and any other box that strikes my fancy. I dig the sugar cereals. I am a bix mixer. Three cups silly corn with a cup of something sugary and god awful for your health. It's the only way to go.

20 Nov 2003 | justin said...

lucky charms are the greatest cereal of all time. No question. Bring it back right now.

20 Nov 2003 | harpreet said...

yeh u no justin u r sooo right i used to love lucky charms too i dont understand what made the UK government to decide to stop them. as i was a child i used to enjoy them every morning when i had just woke up! and now the british government have runied that do u understand? i dont understand why they still manufacure them in America why not England as there is more of a demand here than there. America has alot of vaired options of cereals and in England we dont have mnay most of the ones here are all " Healthy Range" how about NO?! hey did u ever think of that... anyways like i was sayin i want lucky charms in my school we are raising a petition on Getting Lucky Charms back to the uk as we all used to enjoy them in our childhood. i hope that some one from the British instigate are reading this and hope to take my aciton further
thank you
Harpreet

20 Nov 2003 | harpreet said...

i mean british INSTITUTE!!!

20 Nov 2003 | pead said...

Yes Justin & Harpreet i do agree with you. i adored the exquisite taste of a lucky charm in my ealier days... i would appreciate it if they did come back because i think there is a lot of demand for them here in England aswell as other parts of the country i dont know why they always single Britian out!
AS LUCKY THE LEPRICHOURN SAID THERE MAGICALLY DELICIOUS!!!

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22 Jan 2004 | harpreet said...

why are you not talking about cereal