It never stuck with me through the morning at all. If I had to eat it, I preferred oatmeal with raisins, or on the rare occasions we had leftover rice, warm rice with raisins and brown sugar.

I LOVED Grape Nuts!!! (with like a teaspoon of sugar) Like crunching down some sweet gravel...

I've wanted to buy some in my older years, but my teeth would probably rebel! lmao

I LOVED Grape Nuts! (They're just too hard with my dentures. )

...and letting them get "softer" in milk is just LOL

MORE SUGAR PLEASE! The pink milk at the bottom of the bowl was a nice touch too.

My default breakfast nowadays is Kodiak protein oats with a teaspoon of Sugar in the Raw and frozen banana slices to cool it down but I keep Cheerios around for the occasional snack or meal substitute. To me, there is nothing more refreshing than Cheerios with skim milk. But I also like corn flakes, Rice Krispies and raisin bran. When I was a kid, my favorite was Cocoa Puffs but I tried them as an adult and could not handle the sweetness. Honey Nut Cheerios is an inedible abomination, BTW.

I loved Quaker Instant Oats of the maple and brown sugar variety.

Favorite cold cereal... Gosh there were so many. I haven't had cereal in 20 years, but if I could have just one bowl today, it would either be Crunchberry Captain Crunch or Lucky Charms.

Don't know how often Mom bought them, but it was just fun to cut them open a pour milk in the box.

Of those, I think Sugar Pops were my favorite.

... but it would lead to fierce competition. My sister and I would have killed each other for the fruit loops.

my mother selected for us - Wheaties, Corn Flakes, Rice Krispies, Raisin Bran, Chex, Cheerios, Life, Mother's Oats, and Cream of Wheat. As a treat, she would occasionally permit my sisters and I to indulge in the sugary temptations of the Kelloggs Variety Pack, Captain Crunch, Trix, Sugar Smacks, or Quisp.

These days, I buy the plain bran flakes and raisins separately.
The raisins in the pre-made stuff have the texture of pea gravel.

... I ate a lot of oats. Still do, but adult oats, steel cut oats.

Grape Nuts.

I also loved Sugar Smacks, Sugar Pops, (good skiing snacks!) and Life...

I've been a chocoholic since way back.

do.

but i wasn't a real breakfast eater as a child (still am not, often won't have anything more than coffee until I've been up an hour or two).
Sweet cereals- capn crunch, apple Jax, raisin bran, that kind of stuff. Hated oatmeal, though I tried it several times, think it's a texture thing.

a favorite as an adult. Cold cereal as a child was usually Cheerios. Sometimes my mom would buy us the variety pack and I always tried to outmaneuver my sisters for the sugar pops. I don’t usually eat cold cereal now, but if I get the urge, I’ll get either Great Grains, Honey Bunches of Oats, or Golden Grahams. Hope you are having a good day, Deb!! 😊

We usually had boiled eggs and toast, though. My British grandparents' influence on my mother. We had egg cups and Mom would cut the toast in fingers.

She used to line up the cereal boxes in front of her so she wouldn't have to look at me.

of peanut butter toast.

Sugar Pops.

Cooked, but still with texture, a Big pat of butter, and heavy cream. No sugar.

My favorite cold cereal was, wait for it, Grape Nuts!
Probably because my dad liked them, but I noticed very young that they never got soggy. Crunchy until they were gone.
I always like corn & rice Chex right out of the box.

All time favorite, biscuits and gravy.
2nd eggs (any style) and the flesh of a pig, bacon, sausage, or ham.
Bread, toast or pancakes, on rare occasions.

Might as well inject the sugar strait into my arteries.

Maaaaybe on a rare occasion Fruit Loops, or Pebbles; which we may have had staying over at a cousin's house, ans not ours.

I really enjoy Cream of Wheat/Rice as an adult. I'd often made it really thick. At the ALP I'm at we get it regular which is fine: wheat, rice, and ?farina. It's funny, while I enjoy herbed, and non-hot spiced foods, I love these bland breakfast foods.

Raisin Bran's ok.
I don't think we ever had hot cereal as a kid.

Oh, how could I forget, duh, various granolas as an adult!
There's what I call "granola dessert" which is Trader's Joe's Chocolate Granola! Yippie! 😄🥰

I make excellent cookies with Corn Flakes, too!

I like the occasional mash-up as well; mix Apple Jacks with Froot Loops, or Golden Grahams with Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

I like Crispix, too. That's my wife's favorite.

When I was very young, money was crazy tight for my family. My mother made us eat puffed wheat; she told us to add sugar, but no amount of sugar prevented it from tasting like cardboard. I was at least eight before I even tried a cereal which was advertised on TV.