Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Important Stuff Folks

Based on the title of this post I am sure you thought I was going to discuss the oil spill, immigration laws in Arizona or the war in the Middle East.  But that's not what's on my mind today.  Nope today I am going to discuss cereal - namely kid's cereal.  I love it - so much in fact that we always have a nice variety in our pantry (it helps that I have a walk in pantry and can dedicate a nice size shelf to breakfast food).  Currently we have the following in stock at our house - Apple Jacks, Honey Bunches of Oats, Honey Nut Cheerios, Honeycombs and my all time favorite:

Yes I love Fruity Pebbles.  I have been known to eat a bowl (or two but who's counting) for dessert (Chatty even requested a bowl for dessert too on occasion).  Actually I tend to eat it more for dessert or a snack than breakfast - weird I know.  Needless to say I was super excited when I saw Fruity Pebbles were $1 a box at the grocery store last Saturday.  I picked up two boxes and seriously debated buying up to the limit of 4, but refrained (although the sale goes through today so I still have time..).  I seriously love kids cereal - I haven't met many I don't like.  My other all time favorites besides Fruity Pebbles are Apple Jacks, Lucky Charms, Golden Grahams, Crackling Oat Bran (OK not really a kid cereal), Captain Crunch, Frosted Flakes ... and the list goes on and on.  One thing I don't like - generic store brand cereal (I know name brand cereal isn't cheap so I wait until it is on sale and/or I have a coupon)! Seriously if it isn't Kellogg's, Post, General Mills, Quaker, etc. it isn't going in my grocery cart.  I am a cereal snob! 

What cereals do y'all like?  Am I the only 30 something mom who eats the cereal she buys for her kids?

7 comments:

Melissa said...

I am a cereal addict too! My all-time favorite is Golden Grahams, but I will honestly eat almost any kind of cereal...Cheerios, Froot Loops, Honeycombs, Special K, Cocoa Pebbles, I could go on and on!

"Kids" cereals are for everyone! :)

The Lenzers said...

we eat it for dinner all the time, in fact i had lucky charms for my snack just now (dry). we love LC or cinnamon toast crunch lately. i stopped buying it b/c i was eating the whole box. Connor usually picks based on the box...right now shrek has been on some cereals so we eat those, no matter what!

Dee Stephens said...

again, honeycomb was the junkiest cereal we ever got. My fav..Kashi..

Sara said...

I used to be a serious cereal addict. I love them all too. Fruity Pebbles are one of my favorites too! And Cocoa Pebbles because then you can drink the chocolate milk. Mmmmm!! I love Apple Jacks and Captain Crunch too. Without the berries.

Mind you - I haven't had any of these since college. My favorite cereal over the past few years was Smart Start with Antioxidants. Love it!! It has little granola clusters in it too. Delish. I also love Crispix with banana cut up in it.

Now I'm craving cereal. Thanks a lot.

Brooke said...

I loooove Froot Loops! It's kind of sad how much I love them. I also like Cinnamon Toast Crunch, but I'm not guaranteed to have that on hand at all times.

donatelli98 said...

Sara - Mr. ESPN loves Smart Start too and Dee - I like Kashi when I am feeling healthy - my aunt introduced me to it. I love the big crunchy clusters. Basically I just really like cereal. Last night Chatty and I shared a BIG bowl of Fruity Pebbles (end of the first box) for dessert. Mr. ESPN commented that he was surprised I only bought 2 boxes!

starnes family said...

I love them all, but have been not eating nearly as much as I used to. Low carb crap diet. Lame.