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I like mini wheats. We call them tumbleweeds. I also have been buying rice krispies with strawberries. I just splash some milk to moisten and usually just a half tsp of sugar.

Cherrio's : ) Whole milk and my blue bowl.

I'm all about the Kashi Go Lean Crunch too, but have learned that I need to let it sit in the milk (or yogurt) for a minute before I start eating. I actually cracked off a piece of my tooth on it one time! That's SOME CRUNCH.

the homemade granola i've been making, inspired by mark bittman: rolled oats, coconut, sunflower seeds, almonds, and pecans, tossed with maple syrup and then toasted in the oven.

In a mug, with ice.

Either homemade granola, Peanut Butter Puffins, or the Whole Foods Golden Flax flakes.

I always eat granola or the flax flakes with yogurt too!

Barbara's Puffins,
ORIGINAL
not peanut butter
not cinnamon
just original.

Frosted Flakes are GrrrrrrrrrrrrATE!

Never for breakfast. Shredded wheat, wheat chex, or rice krispies for dinner when I'm too tired to make a mess, or late night hungries. With milk and fruit (banana or strawberries or blueberries) if I have any, in a soup bowl.

My current favorite cereal is the Whole Foods granola with raisins; it's absolutely delicious. I don't put milk or any other liquid in my cereal (never really understood why people did), so I'm always looking for a cereal that is nutritious but still has a good flavor and texture by itself (some are just too dry and dense!).

I typically eat whatever I get for the kids....usually Cherios, Cornflakes, Frosted Shredded Wheat or Raisin Bran. Once every month or so they get a sugar cereal treat, like Capn' Crunch, Honeycombs, Fruity Pebbles or Count Chocula and then I eat the whole box myself, lol. Ohhh, how I love the Count Chocula.

It's hard to pick a favorite, since I love most, but Crispix with very lightly sweetened milk (like 1/2 to 3/4 tsp) is always, always a pleasure. I rarely buy Lucky Charms, but I'm happy to find it at my mom's. Cinnamon Toast Crunch used to make me crazy, but I think they've messed with it.

I also like Cocoa Pebbles. Cocoa krispies are inferior, and the new mix of cocoa and vanilla is atrocious. i've worn lip balms that tasted more natural.

Life is best for eating straight from the box, though. With milk, you have about 7 seconds before it's mush. Honeycomb is second.

Corn flakes are best for hangovers or chicken.

Fruit is for unsweetened cereals. Dehydrated fruit already in the box is disgusting.

Kashi cereals--the 3 I've tried--were boring and excessively hard, but the one I sort of liked was quite calorie-dense. Granola I only like with yogurt.

I recently discovered the best vehicle for cereal is a 1-cup pyrex or similar measuring cup (plastic is preferred). Narrow and handled like a mug, so easy to drink from, but it widens slightly at the top for easy spoon access, and is generally roomier than a mug. Plus it's ridiculously easy for portion control.

What I hate are wide soup dishes for cereal, especially with rims (makes me dribble milk on my cheeks.

Often I use a ramekin when I just want a little snack (see Cocoa Pebbles). Or I have 2 small servings so it stays crunchy.

Can you tell I am student (and that I should be studying right now)?

I forgot my favorite part about eating cereal these days: sitting down to a bowl just after the dogs are fed.

It's so crunchy.

Rice Krispies, Rice Chex, Crispix...no sugar, very cold milk. I don't have a particular bowl these days. We have Fiestaware and I haven't found one bowl that I think is perfect for cereal, so I grab a different one each time it seems. I almost never eat cereal for breakfast but I often eat it after dinner.

Count Chocula, flooded in ice cold milk.

Peanut Butter Captain Crunch here. Because, you know, if you're gonna eat cereal out of a box, make it the really bad for you stuff. I can't keep it around the house, because I end up devouring a whole box in a matter of days.

for me nothing beats honey nut cheerios.

to eat it, i fill the bowl with ice cold milk and then shake a single layer of cereal over top--works best with cereal that doesn't sink immediately. I continue shaking the cereal over the top and eating it one layer at a time until the milk is about half-way down the bowl. by that time, the milk is sufficiently sweet to just drink down..or i've been known to put it in my coffee.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE Kashi Go Lean (NOT Crunch). I mix half a cup with a quarter cup All Bran, add just enough milk to make it wet, and sprinkle cinnamon on top. If there are strawberries and blueberries and bananas around, I'll put some on as well!

I also love making oatmeal, but eating it cold sprinkled with cinnamon and a bit of Splenda.

For a more dessert-type cereal, I love cinnamon toast crunch, especially with frozen yogurt. There is a fro-yo shop where I live, and you can select toppings, and I usually get cinnamon toast crunch.

For eating out of hand, I like Kashi Good Friends. It looks like twigs and is great for munching out of the box. I don't care for it with milk, as it doesn't stay crunchy long enough.

As for memories of sugary cereals past, does anyone remember Pink Panther Flakes?? They were on the market for a very brief time in the 70's and they were a sugar lover's dream. My brother and I would wait till my mom would go out with her friends, get a box and kill it in one night (so there would be no evidence). The milk was pink when you were done.

Also have fond memories of the layer of fat that would float on top of the milk after finishing Peanut Butter Cap'n Crunch.

barbara's shredded spoonfuls, kashi go lean, and childhood favorite--honey bunches of oats. ice cold westsoy unsweetened soy milk.

how could i forget!? sprouted cinnamon cereal by lydia's organics. nothing in the world like it: sprouted buckwheat, sunflower seeds, quinoa, pumpkin seeds, almonds, and cinnamon.

I was a big fan of Kashi Go Lean for a long time but switched to Bob's Red Mill "Old Country Style" Muesli. It is healthy, delicious and can be eaten either cold or hot. It goes very well with fage plain greek yogurt. Yummm!!!

Cheerios, Rice Krispies or Rice Chex.
I like them plain, unsweetened and good and soggy.

An oatmeal cookie crumbled atop yogurt.

Cripix

Rice Chex
Cap'n Crunch Peanut Butter or Crunch Berries
Raisin Bran

Kashi Go Lean Crunch is definitely up there! I also used to lovvvve the cereal "Clusters" but I think its retired :(.

Other favorites: Corn Pops, Frosted Shredded Mini Wheats, Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

Hillary
Chew on That

Do they still make Raisin Nut Bran? I used to go wild for those nut covered raisins.

I like getting the organic varieties of peanut butter crunch and honeycomb and mixing them together.