When I was a kid, my mom ate only one type of cereal: Cheerios. Later, when my spoiled younger sister came along, the cabinet somehow became filled with stuff like Fruity Pebbles, Cocoa Pebbles and Lucky Charms. And okay, I’ll cop to liking Lucky Charms, but the rest? I shudder. Something about the milk turning murky colors freaks me out.
So now that I’m grown and can buy any type of cereal I like, my cabinet usually holds stuff like Corn Chex, Vanilla Almond Special K and Kashi Honey Almond Flax. But cereal process is critical in this house. First into the bowl is fruit, preferably strawberries or blueberries. (No fruit when I was growing up, unless you consider white sugar a fruit :-)). Then you put in the “base cereal” which is normally the less sweet cereal (Corn Chex, Cheerios, Kix) and then on top, you sprinkle the accessory cereal (Special K, Honey Bunches of Oats.)
The exception to this is when eating Kashi. Although Kashi is technically the accessory cereal, it must go in the bowl first so as to soak up a little milk. If not, you can break a tooth on that stuff.
What kind of weird breakfast rituals does your family have?
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As you probably already knew, today is National Cereal Day. I craved cereal when I was pregnant with Smarty Boy, and it remained my go-to snack after he was born. In fact, I ate so much the kid’s hair smelled of cinnamon because he was nursing. My hand to God!
