Nostalgic cereal you had growing up (healthy, donut, pancakes, breakfasts)

[mofford]

Cocoa Krispies still taste OK, not as good as they used to but I can still eat them without adding sugar. I feel bad for the kids that were deprived of sugar cereals, eating puffed wheat or cheerios without the help those products need to be swallowed. That must have been hard. My dad has been eating one of those big shreded wheat biscuts every morning for 60 years, and he still eats them out of the same bowl he bought in 1965. It's one of those simulated wood grain plastic bowls, and he does not use milk or sugar, he pours coffee with some half and half over the biscut and lets it soak for a few minutes and digs in. The man is 81 years old so there might be something to that, but I'm not going to try it.

Cereals like Grape Nuts are very tasty, but you must have the right equipment to eat them on a regular basis. I used to use a tupperware bowl with lid and spoon to keep my sugar in, and spoon the sugar one teaspoon at time into the cereal. That is very inefficient and messy, what works so much better is one of those sugar flask bottles with the little plastic thing that pops out when you tip the bottle upside down, so it pours out in a nice uniform fashion. You only need two pours, after you eat the top layer of Grape Nuts that are saturated with sugar, the sweetness fades and you give them a second pour to finish the job. You did it right if those last few kernals you spoon out of the bottom of the bowl have lots of sugary goo that clings to the spoon.

Sugar cereals used to be so good, they always turned the milk whatever color and flavor the cereal was. Frankenberry would turn the milk pink, Booberry blue, Cocoa Puffs gave the milk the same look and taste as if you added 3 teaspoons of Nestle Quick to it. Thats the way it should be, very natural and a good way to get fussy kids to drink their milk that would not normally drink it.

I'm sure many of you are wondering what stage of diabetes I'm in now, and if I have lost any limbs yet. Let me assure you, that by riding my bicycle over 2000 miles per summer, and walking 4 miles a day in the winter, even on the coldest days, that I have managed to keep to a trim 240 pounds (I'm 6' 3") and only have a very slight slight high blood pressure problem. Isn't that amazing, and I have been doing that exercise thing for 10 years now, and havent smoked a cigarette since Oct 18th 2011 at 9 PM. It's all about willpower people, have your cake and eat it too, I have never weighed over 270 pounds my whole life. I never drive to the dentist, I walk there.

[JobZombie]

I loved the sugary cereals like Sugar Crisp and Sugar Smacks. Wish they never changed them.

[Wurzig]

We liked a lot of General Mills cereals, especially if they contained a prize:
Trix
Cocoa Puffs
Lucky Charms, (but they were invented when I was 'older')
Kix
Rice Krispies, (because they talked to us Snap, Krackel, Pop)
Cheerios
Sometimes Grape Nuts, (if that's all we had)
Shredded Wheat
Chex (all kinds)

[greatblueheron]

Trix, Kix and Cocoa Puffs.

[lubby]

we were always allowed any cereal we wanted and since my loved corn pops and frosted flakes we always got that. My mom never worried about sugar when we were kids. My dad was a sweet freak and he would eat any sugared cereal my mom bought. At my grandpas house he always bought life cereal or total. I liked life cereal and still do. My other grandparents had sugared cereals as well like lucky charms and alphabits. My cousin lived with them so they bought what ever cereal he wanted.

[STT Resident]

Born in England at the end of WWII, didn't have any of those sugar-drenched cereals. Best breakfast cereal was real oatmeal with brown sugar or honey and the "top of the milk". Milk was delivered in bottles back then with the thick cream risen to the top. There was always a chase to get down first for that cream and before my mother would shake up the bottle to disperse it! (I was the youngest by six years so usually didn't win the cream race!)

[JobZombie]

We had milk delivered in bottles and it always did, and still does, taste better from a glass bottle. It was regular milk back then, no 1% or 2%, and we didn’t get the kind with cream in it although it was available.

I remember sending away for this little yellow plastic battery powered helicopter seen on the back of a cereal box, I think it was Sugar Pops, where you had to send in 3 box tops. The propeller would spin around and back then that was really cool. There was usually a prize in the cereal or something on the back to send away for and sometimes that determined which cereal we’d be eating for a while.

[g3org3]

+1 for Kellogg's Concentrate

[DawnMTL]

My grandmother used to give me Cocoa Puffs in the morning, on the rare occasions that I had slept at her house.

(Now that I wrote that, I realize that they must've been stale. But I didn't care.)

[lubby]

Originally Posted by g3org3

+1 for Kellogg's Concentrate
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when did this cereal come out??? I have never heard of it.