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So happy about this post. I, like many people who commented, have had to endure endless ridicule for using water. Obviously it's not as yummy as milk, but in a pinch it works! My personal favorite is Honey Nut Cheerios. Hooray to Ms. Zimmer for making water and cereal ok!!!

The original post doesn't say anything about giving up milk due to calories. Only that it was too much milk. Since anyone who isn't of European descent (any many of us who are) shouldn't have cow's milk, I imagine it gave her digestive problems. My partner stopped having gastro-intestinal issues when she gave up cow's milk. I've noticed health improvements, too.

when I was 13 or 14 I was visiting my dad, and he had almost nothing to eat in the house, (I think once I even ate expired bacos and cheese for dinner there) and I needed breakfast. I was starving.

there was cheerios, and the only liquid in the fridge was beer, so I ate cheerios and beer for breakfast. it was actually pretty good.

I once saw a lady pour diet coke,
on her cereal...AND eat it.

Yeeech. Unsweetened almond milk or coconut milk (http://www.turtlemountain.com/products/coconut_milk_beverage.html) would save a lot of calories (either will be 40-50 calories per 8 ounce serving) and taste a whole lot better.

I like my cereal soggy and with milk. If there's no skim milk available, I'll use a little bit of whole milk mixed with water. But it MUST be soggy. And never for breakfast.

@Deeberry: I do the ice cube thing too! I started putting frozen fruit on my cereal and after that, cereal without always seems horribly warm. So if there's no frozen fruit around, I have to toss in a couple ice cubes.

when my dad was a kid he saw the picture on the cornflakes box of a bowl of cornflakes with peaches in it and thought the peaches were chunks of margarine. After this he went through a phase of insisting on eating his cereal with spoonfuls of margarine in it, no milk (you couldn't see any milk in the picture)

I eat cereal every morning with the exception of weekends when I have time to make a hot breakfast. I have a nice rotation of high fiber cereals going in our pantry and then throw in some steel cut oats every so often. I always add milk whether its hot or cold cereal. If we buy "junk food cereal" then that's a Saturday morning treat, not an everyday food.

I can not even begin to point out how flawed the logic of eating cereal with water is. Does she think she is doing herself a favor by not eating the milk? I am not sure how much cereal she actually consumes, whether it's two bowls or four, but unless they are mixing bowl sized, the milk is not going to make her fat, the cereal is. And if she actually has a compulsion to eat four bowls of cereal a day, then she should get some counseling.

Coming home drunk and, ahem, otherwise chemically altered one college evening back in the late 70s, I had a nasty case of the munchies. Being a college apartment though, my choices were limited. I settled on the dubious combination of Rice Krispies and Sloe Gin.

Not bad. Though for the life of me, I cannot recall if Messrs. Snap, Crackle, and/or Pop slurred their respective utterances.

I love my cereal dry,no liquid and have a cup of coffee with it. My Mom always had her cereal with coffee and milk added

I don't bake, baking scares me. One time in high school I decided to overcome this fear and suprise my mother with a pan of brownies. I hate nuts in my desserts, but she loves them so I figured I'd take one for the team and throw in the bag of walnut pieces I found in the back of the pantry. Well, she takes one bite and makes this face because apparently the nuts were rotten and the whole pan of brownies was ruined. I still don't trust nuts in baked goods and haven't thought twice about baking something since then.