I'm 40 years old and eat about three boxes of cereal a week. I find it to be a perfectly acceptable substitute for dinner in a lot of cases.
I've decided that for the most part, boxed cereal can be broken down into two categories:
1) Cereals that must be eaten quickly, or they turn to nasty mush-shit if they sit in milk too long. These include the Flaky Bran Cereal (Frosted-flakes, Raisin-Bran, Wheaties), the circle-oat cereals (Cheerios and derivatives) and the odd-shaped thin crisp cereals( Rice-Crispies, The flintstones cereals).
2)Cereals that are at peak when they have soaked in milk for a while. These include cube shaped wheat/rice/corn cereals (Frosted Mini-wheats, Life, Crispx).
I usually prefer the soaked-cereals, but find that each one has very specific soak times before their peak starts to decline.
The one cereal that I've tried that doesn't fit seems to be Grape-nuts. I'm not sure how anyone manages to eat these things. They're like mini granite- balls that grate your teeth until you just give up. I've tried coating in sugar, soaking in milk, nukin in the microwave and nothing has ever made them edible to me.
Yeh i probably put too much thought into cereal.....
