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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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Starlings27 · 15/10/2018 20:53

Cereal is as appetising as a bowlful of gravel, in my opinion.

BrickByBrick · 15/10/2018 20:55

My ds pretty much lives on a diet consisting only of cereal (asd)

We see the paed every year and he is following his growth lines absolutely beautifully so something must be working.

We just get through a lot of milk.

CheekyRedhead · 15/10/2018 20:57

Special k red berries. Bloody love it 😋 used to be a big fan of crunchy nut. Way too sweet for me now

Chosenone · 15/10/2018 20:57

God I love cereal too. I know it's not healthy and need to watch portion size but cornflakes with ice cold milk are what gets me out of bed in the morning! Also love rice Krispies, frosted where, just right and weetabix/porridge.

elQuintoConyo · 15/10/2018 20:59

I'm eating my Monday Night Coco Pops right now!

They even turn the milk chocolatey Grin

deste · 15/10/2018 21:03

Im going on holiday next week and are staying with DDs in laws, there Will be 8 people. This has given me the courage to tell then I eat cereal at lunch time. I thought it was only me.

PrivateParkin · 15/10/2018 21:03

I love it when I have a nice cereal in, it's really something to look forward to when you first get up I find!! Grin Especially if it's a cold miserable Monday or something.

I love frosted wheats as PPs have mentioned, i don't buy them much (like once or twice a year) as I'd just stuff them down in a couple of days. Also like Special K, shreddies (pref with hot milk on a winter's morning, perfect).

I also used to love Start, but I don't think they make it any more?

Villainelle · 15/10/2018 21:04

Are those people claiming cereal is terrible all doing Slimming World? SW hates cereal for some reason. But their own crappy bars are ok 

JustDanceAddict · 15/10/2018 21:09

Crunchy nut cornflakes should be illegal 😆 I can’t buy or if constantly eat them.,

ogglet · 15/10/2018 21:10

Crunchy Nut with Ice cold Milk and Sliced Banana... No Meal better in my opinion!

NewYoiker · 15/10/2018 21:10

@PrivateParkin they do in Sainsbury's!!

JollyAndBright · 15/10/2018 21:11

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

This ⬆️

Upsy1981 · 15/10/2018 21:13

I haven't bought crunchy nut in ages as I was actually addicted! I have had to go cold turkey. I am now on rice krispies but I do add a spoonful of sugar.

PrivateParkin · 15/10/2018 21:14

Ooh thanks NewYoiker! Will investigate...

HopefullyAnonymous · 15/10/2018 21:14

Clusters. It has to be clusters. The nestle ones, not Kellogg’s

lolaflores · 15/10/2018 21:22

BUT. Who will admit to eating Ready Brek? Cos that's very wrong. I just can't bear the memory the texture and the orange flow it left round me that made the other kids laugh and call me Orangina

Starlings27 · 15/10/2018 21:26

@Villainelle, I’m not doing SW. I just hate cereal. Too much effort for too little pay off.

StoorieHoose · 15/10/2018 21:31

Even the memory of the smell of ready brek gives me the boak

iliketomoveitmoveitMOVEIT · 16/10/2018 11:58

Good luck mrsstrowman! I had GD and they didn’t spike me, when all sorts of stuff did Hmm, so hope you get on ok.

Lots of luck with the pregnancy and birth!

Stonebake · 16/10/2018 12:08

I hate SW nearly as much as I hate cereal. You could eat two or three donuts for the same calories as a big bowl of cereal as well, but that isn’t why I dislike it. It’s just such a functional food. I sometimes eat it for breakfast because I can’t think of anything else to eat, but it would never be my choice of food. It’s not even proper food, it’s like flavoured cardboard.

AnotherPidgey · 16/10/2018 12:29

Not a cereal fan. I can't swallow it if it's gone too soggy. I then end up hungry about an hour later anyway. Muesli is passable as it takes longer to digest. I want a breakfast to keep me going to lunchtime!

Lost5stone · 16/10/2018 13:00

Im lost5stone and I'm a cereal addict. It has been 8 days since my last bowl.

Seriously when I lived alone as a poor 20 year old I only ate cereal and drank bottles of wine. I was only a size 10 but god my insides must have been fucked

golddustwomen · 16/10/2018 13:21

God I love cereal! I could eat it for every meal. YANBU!!!

ToadOfSadness · 16/10/2018 13:30

Why would you put something crunchy into a bowl and then pour milk on it to deliberately make it soggy?!

But you eat it before it goes soggy, spoon it from the bottom of the bowl so you get milk and crunchiness in the spoon together. You don't leave it in the bowl to get soggy, unless it is Weetabix which makes a good slop.

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