What Are Your Favorite Cereals?...Be a Frootloop in a world full of Cheerios!

I grew up eating Muesli. It's kind of raw granola. My family is German, father was born over there. I guess Muesli is Swiss? My grand aunt lived in Zurich.

Anyway, the stuff was super healthy and I did not mind the taste.

I love Cream of Wheat. Love hot cereal. One of the things I found, when I ran out of Cream of Wheat...is that you can take basically any cold cereal...add some milk and cook it up into hot cereal. Might have to add some cinnamon, honey, bit of butter, salt...but pretty easy to convert them to a decent hot cereal.

I have also done that with a bran muffin. Just crush it up, add milk, cook it up...makes a nice hot cereal. I like to add ginger...and sometimes even spike it with a touch of cayenne.
 
Mine is Bob's Red Mill steel cut oats. Stir in 1 Tbsp all natural peanut butter, 1 Tbsp roasted sunflower seeds, and 1/2 Tbsp real maple syrup. Add fresh blueberries or raspberries when available. A cup of non-fat Icelandic Skyr on the side makes it a perfectly balanced, low cal breakfast.
 
These single-serve boxes were a big hit when I was a kid.

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Anyway...I guess my favorite cereals are Cheerios, flavored Quaker's oatmeal and farina with American cheese. I remember back when I was "Poor Girl", Pathmark, formerly one of the major supermarkets in N.J. used to have a No Frills brand. I discovered that their No Frills version of Fruit Loops were better than the name brand. My son and I loved them. I stopped eating sugary cereals decades ago though.
 
I rarely eat cereal since I was a kid, but I still love Cream Of Wheat to this day. Also, oatmeal with butter and salt. I like Kellogg's Special K for a cold cereal.

As I child, I liked Rice Krispies and Corn Kix. Some years ago I bought a box of Kix and was shocked at how sweet it was...I don't remember it being that sweet as a child.

Recently, I've discovered that a bowl of chocolate cereal any kind, fills that need for a sweet snack instead of ice cream.
 
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We either get different cereals here in the UK - or at least with different names..
Mrs.L generally has muesli with cold milk for breakfast, but only 'Jordans' brand. I like 'Weetabix' or Bran flakes with cranberries or blueberries (and cold milk). Sometimes we have porridge (Scotts Old fashioned porage(sic) oats) - just cooked in water with a pinch of salt with warm milk.
 
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