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AIBU to want to live on breakfast cereal for rest of my life???

49 replies

cerealdate · 15/10/2018 20:05

Bloody love the stuff- didn't feel like a full dinner tonight and waited till kids off to bed before I munched down on 3 -yes 3 bowls of cereal! Didn't want to give a bad example (yadayada) and yes I do realise I am a secret cereal eater!!! And not balanced diet etc etc
I don't eat the real sugary stuff as try to give kids relatively healthy stuff - cornflakes- wheetabix- Rice Krispies

Would happily miss roast dinner for cereal....
Crunchy with cold milk uuummm....

Way off for another bowl

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userofthiswebsite · 15/10/2018 20:13

I adore cereal and milk.
Frosted Wheats, Grape Nuts... so many.

lolaflores · 15/10/2018 20:13

Special K . Could mainline the stuff. Crunchy Nut Heroin kept me alive during pregna cy as u couldn't keep much else down.
Rice Krispies are all about the texture in my mouth and make me happy for some reason.
I am not a foodie. Cereal satisfies me on many levels.
A smug slimming friend once said in a tone dripping with revulsion "u do know Special K isn't very weight conscious?"
I felt embarrassed but I wasn't eating it cos I was on a diet or anything. I just really like it.

Stonebake · 15/10/2018 20:14

Shock yabu! Cereal is the worst food ever. Look it up. It’s scientific fact.

Moussemoose · 15/10/2018 20:16

Cereal is God's own food. End.of.

DrWhy · 15/10/2018 20:16

I could live on special K red berries maybe alternated with hot buttered toast made with fresh home made white bread. I know neither of these are healthy which is why I don’t live on them but mmmm

StoorieHoose · 15/10/2018 20:18

Love cereal! I had it for dinner too. Rice Krispies were my pregnancy craving and i got through tonnes of the stuff.

lifechangesforever · 15/10/2018 20:18

Yes, I love cereal. I can't buy it anymore though because I would just eat it all in a day.

Krave is my absolute favourite.

My mum keeps telling me that there's chemicals in all cereals that causes cancer. She's batshit.

LukeSkywalkerBoots · 15/10/2018 20:19

Yanbu. I could also live on cereal. Weetos, shredded wheat, you name it. Just give me that with cold almond milk and a spoon.

Grumpbum123 · 15/10/2018 20:20

I never ate cereal until my hospital admission now I seem to have a bowl of crunchy nut cornflakes before bed!!

MrsStrowman · 15/10/2018 20:21

I've got gestational diabetes, I'm managing it well with diet, but by my god I miss a nice bowl of crunchy cereal with ice cold milk. I can only have small amounts of complex carbs with something with high protein now (I'm so sick of eggs), and I've switched to almond milk, cereal sends my glucose levels higher than cake ☹️

Busybusybust · 15/10/2018 20:22

Can’t bear them! Why would you put something crunchy into a bowl and then pour milk on it to deliberately make it soggy?!

Bluebolt · 15/10/2018 20:24

My perfect day is no breakfast, a really large lunch and a huge bowl of cereal for dinner with freezing milk and sometimes a chopped banana. It was my diet when single.

iliketomoveitmoveitMOVEIT · 15/10/2018 20:25

Kellogg’s glorious granola with chocolate? YANBU.

Anything else? Sorry, Yabu!

Singlebutmarried · 15/10/2018 20:26

I’m going to have cereal tonight.

DD also sometimes has a bowl before bed.

iliketomoveitmoveitMOVEIT · 15/10/2018 20:26

Mrs Strowman - have you seen the nature valley protein bars? They’re only 10g of carbs and come in all sorts of flavours (i like the chocolate or salty caramel) - you might be able to tolerate one of those to fill the cereal gap??

iliketomoveitmoveitMOVEIT · 15/10/2018 20:27

Currently half price too Grin

www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/293837253

StoorieHoose · 15/10/2018 20:28

Chopped banana, cornflakes and cold milk is food from the gods!

eurochick · 15/10/2018 20:30

Three bowls of some cereals would be about 1500 calories!😳

MrsStrowman · 15/10/2018 20:34

@iliketomoveitmoveitMOVEIT ooh they do sound good, I've seen them but just assumed they'd be loaded with sugar, I've got a follow up dietician appointment on Thursday so I'll ask. I'm being really strict with it at the moment, PFB and the diagnosis panicked me a bit, but I had a small piece of cake yesterday (first sweet thing in two weeks) as it was SILs baby shower and midwife said it was fine to. My levels after were still quite under the limit so I might be able to start to reintroduce some things. A cereal bar with a glass of cold unsweetened almond milk might just hit the spot ... 😋

Poodles1980 · 15/10/2018 20:37

Just had a trough of rice crispies with ice cold milk for my dinner. I don’t care if cereal is bad for you. MY MAME IS POODLES AND I AM A CEREAL ADDICT

Fluffyears · 15/10/2018 20:39

Soggy bits floating in milk....boak!

Branleuse · 15/10/2018 20:42

I have a bowl of alpen every night before bed. Its my favourite meal of the day

Eliza9917 · 15/10/2018 20:42

I would eat tons of crunchy nut cornflakes, crunchy nut clusters and Coco pops but I don't eat cereal because carbs/sugar :(

RyderWhiteSwan · 15/10/2018 20:51

Three weetabix, cold milk with a generous dash of evaporated milk on top. Delish!

LeftRightCentre · 15/10/2018 20:53

Sultana Bran is the dawg's.

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