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I am on a rice krispies with strawberries kick. Great combination.

I'm pretty much a purist when it comes to cold cereal. Cheerios, bananas (must be organic though - they're so much better) and skim milk.
Hot oatmeal requires raisins, dark brown sugar and maybe a sprinkle of good cinnamon. Sometimes change it up with dried apples or other dried fruits, but dates? Haven't ever tried that - ooo, I've got to! Love dates.
I make my own granola, so it's no holds barred on what goes in there.
It never ceases to amaze me when people can eat breakfast at 5:33 AM JEP.

Banana slices, blueberries, and strawberries (when the berries are in season) on top of a mix of All-Bran and Kashi Go Lean. Plus a few shakes of cinnamon (I put cinnamon on top of everything!). Just a splash of milk though.

On Oatmeal, I'll do cinnamon and blueberries, and usually just a spoonful of brown sugar or Splenda.

Can I expand the question to yogurt? What do you put on top of yogurt?

I like to mix in the same cereal and fruits as listed above. I also like to use a sweeter cereal, like cinnamon toast crunch, in plain or vanilla yogurt for a snack or dessert treat.

@luswim06 - on the yogurt thing, that is the only reason I make granola. I don't know if I could eat them separately or singley. I would never think to just eat granola in a bowl w/milk. I know other people must because it seems they sell a lot of it. My kid eats granola with yogurt on top, I eat yogurt with granola on top, funny, huh?

I like oatmeal made with a dousing of vanilla soymilk for extra heart health and dried cranberries or goji berries.

I like to put on top...more cereal! I picked up the strange habit from my dad, mixing different kinds of cereal together. Usually something basic (like cheerios or cornflakes) with something a little sweeter (granola, especially the orange and cranberry bulk kind from Fairway). Yum!

Any fruit will do -- bananas, blueberries, raspberries, raisins, dried cranberries.

Hot cereal (plain) is perfect with apples and dark brown sugar. Mmm.

Also, I couldn't tell you what's in it, but this is my new cereal comfort food.

I prefer my cold cereal plain, but almost anything is good on oatmeal: nuts, dried coconut, vanilla, honey, agave nectar, brown sugar, maple syrup, dried cherries...not all at once of course.

Nothing. :(

Although people who know me wouldn't be surprised. I'm one of those weird people who steams seafood and eats it as is, without salt, pepper, herbs, butter, etc. When I do eat cereal, albeit rarely, it's for dinner and it's usually Life. It has enough flavor and is quite sweet.

Savecara, I have mixed and matched cereal as a kid as well. It's cool to know that I'm not the only one! We always had muesli and Life, and then a random 3rd cereal.

Another thing I used to do as a kid was to throw cereal in a glass with milk and watch Saturday morning cartoons. A few times a year, I'd add a bit of powdered strawberry Quik (yes, I'm that old - this was in the 1970s) for a sweet fix. This was the only sweet thing we had in the house other than turbinado for coffee, since my parents didn't care for sweets...and probably why I don't care for them either.

Almonds, berries and flax seeds on dry cereal with soy milk (vanilla is tasty). Berries, nuts, buttermilk and fancy vanilla sugar (when I have it) on steel cut oats.

i love putting freeze dried mango, blackberries, raspberries and strawberries on top of my homemade granola {oats, maple syrup, coconut, almonds, pecans, sunflower seeds, cinnamon, thank you, mark bittman!}. they're crunchy and tart. i go back and forth between using almond milk and goat's milk.

@PerkyMac LOL sorry! No, you're not ancient. :D
I'm quite picky about the preparation of my seafood -- steaks too, but I don't steam them! I've tried them with sauce, butter, and other herbs through the years, but I think it comes down to me just absolutely loving the way they taste alone that the other flavors end up distracting me (for a lack of a better explanation) from the flavor that I thoroughly enjoy. Weird, huh?

I have oatmeal 6 if not 7 days a week. I usually add frozen fruit except in the summer. My favorite combos are peaches with blueberries, cherries, or raspberries. Add walnuts and maple syrup and I'm in comfort food heaven. I also like apples with dried fruits like raisins or cranberries plus the walnuts and maple syrup and a dash or two of cinnamon. It's like apple crisp for breakfast!

MMmmm...some interesting cereal combinations & will try a few of them!

CookiePie--now your cereal recipe does sound very good!

Curious--I have another question for everyone...do you have a favorite cereal bowl which you MUST eat from that is just the right size/shape & for some reason always makes your cereal taste a little bit better?

I generally do lots of stuff to my oatmeal - fruit, something crunchy, a tiny bit of sweetener like brown sugar. Cereal - usually just milk.

My favorite breakfast..going on 4 years now...is cottage cheese mixed with maple syrup or honey, topped with grapenuts cereal and blueberries ( ok, I know you asked what we top our cereal with, but I flipped it and told you what I top with cereal!)YUM!