it's usually Kashi Crunch.

I don't eat cereal anymore. Sort of. I did find the perfect breakfast that balances out my sugar:

Maple flavored Instant Oatmeal, a teaspoon of Almond butter, topped with blueberries and a splash of vanilla Protein shake.

and

Frosted Flakes!!!!!

Now, either Raisin Nut Bran or Corn Chex. I put sugar on it, so it's really the same thing.

I might have Raisin Bran once a year now.

cereal just doesn't taste good to me anymore -- not sure if the ingredients/quality are different, or my tastes have changed significantly.

For a while I was completely hooked on Special K if I had fresh blueberries on hand... I was living in Providence, RI for the summer and there were incredible blueberries in all the stores. I probably had a blue tinge to my complexion because it was damn near all I ate.

Then:

Now:

Cap'n Crunch - Crunchberries and Peanut Butter Crunch but not original
Apple Jacks
Fruit Loops
Fruity Pebbles
Cocoa Pebbles

And I remember Quisp and something from another brand that was very similar and I liked them both.

I rarely eat cereal now but when I do it's plain ol' Corn Flakes, sometimes with a banana. I recently tried a bowl of Frosted Flakes for old times' sake and it was so sickeningly sweet I couldn't finish the bowl. I was kinda sad.

Rice Krinkles were sugar-coated Rice Krispies. The mascot was a Chinese boy. Not very politically-correct, although night quite as bad as the Frito Bandito.

"Linus the Lion-hearted", in which most of the characters also hawked their own cereal.

There was Linus hawking his Crispy Critters
Lovable Truly the mailman was hawking Post Alpha-Bits
Sugar Bear was hawking Sugar Crisp
And So-hi the Chinese guy (who had sheep that went "Ba-a-a-a-a, ba-a-a-a so-o-o-o-o-o&quot was hawking Rice Krinkles.

But, geeze, that was a loooooooong time ago! I remember all of the other characters, and I remember there being the show, but I don't remember a thing about it. And, I probably watched it every Saturday. Damn, I feel old.

Roar, roar, roar for Linus the Lion-hearted
Roar, roar, roar for Linus the Lion-hearted
Linus is the one who lines up the fun
He's the host of which we boast
So roar, roar, roar for Linus the king
Linus the star
Linus the Lion-hearted

...I looked it up. Sure enough, it's on YouTube. A blast from the past:

It seems like I had forgotten some of the lyrics to the theme song

Anyway, Linus the Lion-hearted was one of my favorite cartoons when it came out, which I think was 1965 or 66. And keeping with the spirit of the OP, I sent away for a Linus the Lion-hearted color-by-number water color set with X number of boxtops from Post cereals. The water colors were pretty weak, I was only able to color about one of the three or four coloring sheets that I received.

My focus now is a good ratio of fiber to total carbs. Of course I mix it with our home made granola and another Trader Joe - Organic Golden Flax, or Organic 9 Whole Grain Crunch

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Now, Trader Joes Honey Nut Os or McCanns Steel Cut Oatmeal. But most often I eat fruit and a piece of toast for breakfast.

I can eat oatmeal if it has some texture, instant and quick gross me out.

as a kid I would eat sugar cereal dry like a snack (capn crunch, cocoa crispies, apple jacks, cocoa puffs, etc)
now I can eat good granola dry, but I really prefer my cereal in the form of tortillas or a side dish of rice or barley with a non-breakfast type meal.

soggy cereal in milk makes me queasy

Bunny, whose weird eating habits I've posted about before, will mug you for your Special K. No other cereal floats her boat so far.

But I loved Alpha Bits when I was little, for all the right reasons.

for as long as i can remember.

They don't make them anymore.

As for now, I'm a hot farina fan.

I wish they still made them.

...and oatmeal

when it had the fruit shapes. Ever since they brought in the puffs and added more wheat grain, it doesn't taste the same IMO.
Now my #1 favorite cereal is either Apple Jacks or Waffle Crisp.

They brought it back for a short while a few years ago. I was thrilled. But sadly, it was only for a short time.

I don't do well with the carbs....

at 6 and at 60!

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I don't eat cereal now. I usually eat two hardboiled eggs with tea if I'm good or two egg mcmuffins if Im bad.

Kelloggs variety packs and we kids would always fight over who got the one fruit loops. Was the only time she allowed sugary cereal in the house and there was only one of them.

It was a big deal to have breakfast at her house, because we got to have those. We thought it was cool that we could all have a choice AND eat it from the box. The boxes were wax-lined, and had dotted lines to cut in order to make the box into a bowl. I can't see too many kids these days being impressed by that sort of thing.

things thrilled us way back when.

and now it's Autumn Wheat

Now it's Oatmeal with bananas, walnuts, brown sugar, and cinnamon...

I also liked fruit loops, Kaboom, coco pebbles, and cheerios, I still eat cheerios, plain, no milk, like eating chips (learned this from my toddlers years ago haha)

The thought of it now makes me cringe.

And Trix was my fave. But I'd eat anything from a box that you got to pour milk on. In between lunch and dinner. As a bedtime snack. Cereal was such a staple for me, my dad swore they should tie a feed bag around my ears an I'd be happy.

As for now...women my age can't eat processed carbs and expect to have a waistline! So I don't eat my childhood fave food anymore. Although every once in awhile I do Grape Nuts with berries and soy milk. A nice throwback to my childhood!

with no frosting when I was a kid.

Now? Frosted flakes.

I didn't grow up, I grew down.

when i was older i liked the post cereal with the freeze dried strawberries

later i liked some granola stuff--i think it was a quaker oats one and it was like candy in a bowl

of course i went through the frosted flakes phase, cinnamon toast crunch, and honey nut Cheerios.

the other day i had a bowl of graham crackers and milk

oh, yeah, and that sugary rice krispies that i guess they stopped making. i liked those (a throw back to the rice krinkles)

I will sprinkle granola on my yogurt every now and then.

Not bite-sized or mini wheats but the big shredded wheat that one cake took up the whole bowl. I remember it came in a square box that had a picture of Niagara Falls on it. I liked breaking it up into little pieces to fit the spoon.

Cereal now is Old Fashioned Quaker Oatmeal.

I liked Rice Krispies when I was a kid, still eat them now. I also like Wheat Chex or Wheaties or Special K.

Which is basically oatmeal with a mix of savory seasonings...allspice, cinnamon, garlic, ginger, onion, beef base, black pepper

good for cholesterol and diabetes.

I think Sugar Crisp changed its name. It was the one with the bear.

Just whatever had a bit of sweetness in it and had something interesting inside the box.

There was Cap'n Crunch (especially with the crispy peanut butter balls), Lucky Charms (with a "real" lucky charm inside specially-marked boxes), Fruit Loops, Apple Jacks, Honeycomb, Quisp/Quake, Alpha-Bits, Crispy Critters...

I also ate Malt-o-Meal just to get the little rubber-band-propelled Saturn V rocket that was inside specially-marked boxes.

I hated Frosted Flakes, Cheerios, and Corn Flakes. And Rice Krispies. I didn't care if they went "Snap, Crackle and Pop".

Today, I rarely eat cereal.

It was cornflakes or oatmeal.

My dad bought them in bulk quantities, something like you'd see in an army mess.

And powdered milk...

If you didn't mix up the milk ahead of time, like a day or two before, you could still taste the chlorine from the tap water. Freshly reconstituted powdered milk over corn flakes was nasty, but this milk warmed up in a pan and poured over oatmeal, it wasn't so bad.

If you did mix up powdered milk a day or two before and leave it in the fridge, then somebody else in the house would likely drink it before you got to it.

So I started making buttermilk for myself, fermenting it on top of the water heater. My siblings either didn't like buttermilk, or they couldn't reach it, so that worked for me.

I still like buttermilk, but I'd rather not have cereal for breakfast.

But, my town's water didn't have the chlorine issues, and while it wasn't as good as fresh milk, it wasn't quite as horrible as the stuff you had sounds.

We didn't really get much of a choice in cereals, either. My dad did the bulk of the grocery shopping, and he always buys what's cheapest or on sale. He often bought "Kaboom!", which was really nasty. It was fruit-flavored clown faces, which wouldn't have been so bad, except that they put so much dye in it, it tasted like the dye. We learned to have at least one of us go shopping with him, so that we could get something different. Quaker Oats products were pretty inexpensive back then, so we were often able to talk him into getting Cap'n Crunch in one form or another, or Life.

I'm getting "ungry-hay for Oot-fray Oops-lay"

milk. It's still my fav breakfast food; that is, when I have breakfast. I usually skip breakfast.