So last May I completely swore of cereal. I have loved cereal since I was a newborn, okay if you want to get picky then a toddler. I loved it all and my love set in hardcore on those days I would stay at Gramma's house. She would give me my very favorite of all Peanut Butter Cap'n Crunch. Her favorite was Kellogg's Frosted Flakes. Over the years it became nothing but comfort food. In high school and college who didn't want to sit and eat cereal all day. Especially when it was served in those all-for-the-world-to-see-and-your-mouth-to-drool clear pour mass bins. Forget the other food.
In my twenties, I had moved on to Kellogg's Frosted Mini Wheats. Somehow, I determined it was healthier than the full-on sugary stuff. Over the course of nine years, I became a mini-wheat connoisseur determining who made the best frosted mini wheats. Eventually, I believed that the generic and competing national brands were better at it than Kellogg's themselves!
During my last few months before my 30th birthday I was chatting with a personal trainer friend and we got into conversation as to how cereal is one of the worst things that you could consume. All junk, just eating candy. I secretly knew this all along but did not want to admit it. So to ween myself off, I started eating organic cereal. Puffins was pretty good. Then by June I had gone cold turkey. After a few weeks I didn't miss it. Then on my 30th birthday I visited my two best friends in Florida. One of which had a cereal junky family like me. Oh dear. I was in trouble.
So by the end of August I was back on the wagon. But this time it was a better choice. My friends had taught me something new...mix cereals. Well, I used to love Honey Nut Cheerios but they were just so syrupy sweet for me now. Yuck. So I thought, why don't I mix them with Multi-Grain Cheerios. Lots of multi grain, little honey nut. There you go, that is how I made the perfect cereal.
Today I am finishing up the last of my double-box pack of Multi-Grain and double-box pack of Honey Nut Cheerios. It has lasted me since the end of August when I determined I had to load up on my new find at Costco. It is January of the new year and that is the present me. If it had been the twenties me four boxes wouldn't have lasted one month. As I am finishing up this last box I am done. Not completely done, but just done. Now that Cheerios has sided with us health-conscious Americans and deemed that their original Cheerios will no longer be made with genetically modified organisms I am going to keep one (only one) box of original Cheerios in the cabinet. Those will be for those occasions of a quick breakfast or a pre-dinner snack since my husband gets home from work a few hours later than I. But no longer do I gorge myself on cereal.
~with Angela O'
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| Photo Credit: www.honeynutcheerios.com |