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Fruity Pebbles ... I can't get enough of them .. its true that there is more sugar in them then I'd care to discuss, but as noted above, there is as much if not less than than other so called 'healthy' cereals have, so I don't feel quite so guilty.

I loved them since I was a kid but recently fell back in love with them after my kids insisted on getting them at the store a few weeks back ...

When I was little, I loved plain old cornflakes or puffed wheat cereal. Now, my absolutely favourite cereal is Kashi 7 Whole Grain Puffs - in fact, I'm eating a bowl of it as I write:-).

I was a weird child I guess - I never liked anything that was too sweet, I even stopped adding sugar to my tea and coffee altogether when I was 9-10 (a family friend from Turkey told me round that time that if I wanted to know what good tea or coffee really tasted like, I shouldn't "mask" their taste with sugar, so I tried - and I loved what I tasted. Haven't had sugar in my tea or coffee (iced or hot) ever since. That argument doesn't stop me from adding milk to my tea or coffee though:-)). In any case, I don't ever crave super-sugary cereals, not in the past, not now, and not because of any health concerns but just because my taste buds don't appreciate it.

My favorite cereal, ever since Quaker added extra suger to their Quaker Oat Squares, it the organic version of the same made by Barbera's. I'll even suppress my great deep-seated loathing of raisins when it comes to a bowl of raisin bran. I think there's something to appreciate in every box of cereal, even Product 19 (because it makes a wicked vegetarian "meat" loaf). Golden Grahams, Honey Bunches of Oats, Fruity Pebbles, Cap'n Crunch Peanut Butter... these are a few of my favorite things. There are few cereals I can't learn to love. Except those marshmallowey bastards. Taste the rainbow of abomination of both cereal and marshmallow kind.

I miss a couple of the oldies, like Oat Flakes (my all time favorite, not available here) and Kellogg's Pep. Most cereal has way too much sugar for me.

I don't care for sugary cereals at all and never had them as a kid. The ones I love are:
Life (plain)
Cheerios (love the new multigrain version)
Quaker Corn Bran
Special K red berries
Kashi Honey Almond Flax
My mom's homemade granola

pjracz10--I haven't had grape nuts in so long I almost forgot I loved that one too. I'll have to buy a box next time I'm shopping!

Some of my earliest memories are sitting at the kitchen table, taking OCD-ish pleasure eating Trixx, Lucky Charms, and Frankenberry--fishing out hte marshmellows or eating the colored circles in order, or in the case of Lucky Charms, saving the pink marshmellows for last because they seemed rarer...

Gradually I moved onto Golden Grahams, Frosted Flakes, and Honeycomb, with occasional forays into Oatmeal Raisin Crisp. I did like Product 19, but because I was always having Special K shoved down my throat as a 'diet' cereal, I developed a special dislike for it..

Now, I don't eat cereal. It makes me feel rather bloated and the times I've tried any cereal, it tastes sort of boring and 'samey'--I'd rather have a muffin at breakfast.

I was and still am a fan of Cinnamon Toast Crunch and for awhile French Toast crunch.

Kashi. anything but GoLean Crunch. It's just too hard and scratches the roof of my mouth. Love the cinnamon harvest.

My brother and I went through so much cereal as kids, that we were rarely treated to name brand boxed cereal. Most of ours came in bags that were then dumped into a big air tight plastic container. When we did get "good" cereal, we loved Cinnamon Toast Crunch and Peanut Butter Cap'n Crunch. We still give my parents a hard time when we go to their house and see they have multiple boxes of name brand cereal in the cabinet. Usually with disbelief, "What? We never got Cocoa Puffs as kids! We had to eat Oat Oh's!"

Even though we coveted name brand cereals, we were smart enough to think Cookie Crisp was the most disgusting thing ever invented.

Was I the only one who thought the "balanced breakfast" that commercials always showed was incredibly large? All I needed before school was a bowl of cereal or 2 pieces of toast.

My mom never bought the sugary cereal. It was usually Wheaties, Shredded Wheat or Raisin Bran. When she was in a generous mood, we would get Kix or, on very rare occasion, Corn Pops. Always the generic brand.

But the thing was: we didn't really like the healthy cereals. They would sit in their boxes and inevitably become stale. Then, she would pour all the stale cereal into one of those Tupperware cereal containers to make this gross stale cereal mishmash, which of course we did not eat. THEN, when that had sufficiently aged another month or so, she would make Ranger cookies out of all that stale cereal! I would nary turn down a cookie, but Ranger cookies with that sad mix were hard to choke down. Blech.

Of course, now that I'm an adult, I like all those healthy cereals. My husband likes sugary kid stuff, but I'll take Kashi or pretty much anything with "twigs and berries" over any of that sugar coma-inducing crap.

Confession...I can't even have cereal in the house! Cookies, chips etc., no problem. A box of cereal, and it can be something as plain as raisin bran and thats it. It will start with one bowl and then I'm thinking "Mmmm, that was good! I'll just have one more." Famous last words! And I don't even try to kid myself that this is in any way healthy. You eat a whole box of anything and its not a good idea. So I'm afraid I'm limited to the single serving boxes they have at work....sigh:) It would be too embarrassing to go to the counter 12 times in front of colleagues.

where's the love for rice krispies?! that was my absolute jam as a little kid. i think my dad still has a few almost-empty boxes on his shelf dated from the early nineties. and they're probably still good! sadly, all the healthier krispie-alikes are nowhere near as tasty, and i can't really bring myself to buy rice krispies these days.

I used to like Life cereal as a kid. Now that I'm an adult, I still really like it, but I've gotten much better at milk management to make sure it doesn't get soggy in 10 minutes. Also, I still love Count Chocula when I can find it.

My Mom decided back when I was 6 that I had a regularity problem because I did not poop on command at precisely 7:15 am and 7:00 pm each and every day. As a result, she force-fed me little bran turd-like cereal for breakfast and stewed prunes for my bedtime snack. I detested that bran and remember hurling it all over the kitchen table one morning. That turned me off milk and cereal for life. I can still feel those pellets ripping up my throat on the way out. Ugh!

As an adult, the only cereal I will eat is Cinnamon Toast Crunch with no milk and not at breakfast time. Yum.

My mom would only buy Special K, Rice Krisipies, or Cheerios when I was a kid, and the only way I would eat it was with a spoonful of sugar sprinkled over the top, which basically negated the reason for purchasing a healthy cereal. It was the biggest treat for me to visit my aunt's house because she almost always had Cap'n Crunch, Trix, Froot Loops, or Fruity Pebbles - everything I wasn't supposed to have but thought was delicious!

I take a lot of kinds of cereal, but I always like a little bit of sweetness. My favorite cereal both as a kid and now is Banana Nut Crunch. I don't get it very often, because it's usually cheaper to get Raisin Bran Crunch or Honey Bunches of Oats with Almonds. I need to get around to finding a good granola recipe, because that's pretty much the common factor between these cereals!