What was your favorite cereal as a kid ?

[rogerballard]

[Phoenix61]

1. Life and Apple Jacks nt

[Rhiannon12866]

2. The first one looks like Sugar Smacks and that was one of mine.

My brother liked Sugar Pops - they're both still around, but have different names now.

[rogerballard]

4. Probably Sugars Smacks...

or puffed rice with LOTS of sugar, Captain Crunch and Raisin Brand. Oh where, Oh where did my teeth go !

[Rhiannon12866]

7. For me, it was either Sugar Smacks or Frosted Flakes, but the name of that one's changed too

And we usually had hot cereal before school, but we put plenty of sugar on that, as well. These days, it would probably be Raisin Bran, and the raisins make it sweet enough for me.

[Arkansas Granny]

5. Grape Nuts Flakes. Not only did I like the taste, but Roy Rogers and

Dale Evans did ads for the brand.

[SCantiGOP]

43. The interesting thing about Grape Nuts:

It contains neither grape nor nuts??

[Arkansas Granny]

49. You have a point, there.

[area51]

3. Cocoa Krispies

[brewens]

51. Second that! I liked Coacoa puffs, Captain Crunch and Frosted Flakes as well. n/t

[stonecutter357]

6. oatmeal with blueberries and bananas .

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

8. Probably Frosted Flakes.

My childhood was more than a half century ago, so I don't remember a lot of details. I do seem to recall adding sugar to Frosted Flakes.

Once I had kids of my own, I became something of a Food Nazi. No pre-sweetened cereals. Cheerios and other bland cereals, and to be honest the only reason I gave them cereal was because they didn't like a cooked breakfast. One son literally gagged on eggs. The other simply wasn't hungry the first three or four hours he was up.

[applegrove]

9. Fruit loops. Though i sometimes buy captain crunch as a treat. Well not

in the last ten years.

[lastlib]

25. Mom never bought sweetened cereals when I was a kid.....

Usually Cheerios, Raisin Bran, or Shredded Wheat. When I got to college, I went on a Froot Loops binge(!) because it was the only cereal in the cafeteria that didn't gag me. They gave out the one-serving boxes, and I always took extras. At one point I had a stack of 655 single-serving Froot Loops boxes in my dorm room; my roommate finally made me pack 'em up, but while I had 'em, I was eating sometimes four boxes a day for snacks, plus a couple for breakfast in the cafeteria! But I think I've only eaten Froot Loops maybe a couple of times since graduating.

[applegrove]

46. My mom did't allow sugary cereals either but occasionaly we'd

Get the mini box set variety pack and all of us kids would go for the one package of fruit loops. I bought fruit loopsw a few times as an adult. My favourite great aunt admitted when she was 90 that she had a box of captain crunch in her kitchen for treats and of course that inspired me. Mom allowed only raisin bran or rice crispies in the house normally.

[hurl]

10. King Vitamin!

[pnwest]

35. Me too, I miss that shit!

Holy cow, I don’t remember the commercials bring that cheesy, tho! LOL

[randr]

11. Maypo w maple syrup

[elleng]

40. YAY!

[TexasProgresive]

12. Grits with butter and black pepper and still is.

[Lunabell]

13. Peanut butter cap'n crunch

[Control-Z]

14. Lucky Charms! eom

[DFW]

15. Ethereal Cereal

Well, it WOULD have been, anyway.........

[brucefan]

16. Life

Still eat it at 62!

[edbermac]

64. Hey Mikey!.

[mindem]

17. Wheat Chex

I never did like the overly sweet cereals with fake flavors. I'm all about raisin bran and oatmeal now.

[Chipper Chat]

18. Sugar Crisp.

Golden Crisp never tasted the same.

[MuseRider]

19. I WANT MY MAYPO!

Yeah, that.

Is it even still around?

[red dog 1]

53. Me too!

(It's still around)

[woodsprite]

20. Frosted mini wheats! n/t

[Generic Brad]

21. It's a three way tie

Raisin Bran, Frosted Flakes, and Captain Crunch.

The only one I have eaten as an adult has been Raisin Bran and that was only one box. My wife did not grow up with cereal and refuses to consider buying it.

[doc03]

22. Co Co Wheats nt

[jberryhill]

23. Sugar frosted sugar flakes, with sugar

[Sneederbunk]

36. +1

[tazkcmo]

24. Quisp.

We seldom ate anything but cornflakes with instant milk

[lkinwi]

26. Cocoa Wheats, Cocoa Wheats cant be beat. 🎵🎶

[CozyMystery]

27. Sugar Smacks & Cocoa Krispies, only on Saturdays (cartoon morning)

[Historic NY]

28. Life - mini frosted shredded wheat.

[Ohiogal]

29. I loved Sugar Smacks and Cap'n Crunch

Now I cringe at the thought of them. May as well just eaten the sugar with a spoon right out of the sugar bowl!

[onecaliberal]

30. Fruit Loops

[blogslut]

31. Team Flakes

They've been discontinued twice. I loved the flavor.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

33. Oh, I loved those too!

[50 Shades Of Blue]

32. Kellogg's Frosted Flakes and 40% Bran Flakes.

Also loved the original Special K which is nothing like it used to be. I was already hitting my teens when Cap'n Crunch came along or that would be #1. It's nothing like it used to be either.

[pnwest]

34. King Vitamin!

[PossiblePasts]

37. King Vitamin, Life, and Boo Berry

I can't remember the last time I had a bowl of cereal for breakfast.

[Freddie]

38. Post Fortified Oat Flakes

Anybody remember this? So good! Had kind of a malt taste. This was a healthy cereal and we would kill the box in 2 days. Of course they stopped making it even though you'd think there would be a market for it now.

[lunamagica]

39. Chocula

[ailsagirl]

41. Trix, frosted flakes

Cheerios

[kairos12]

42. Captain Crunch by a long way.

[LeftInTX]

44. Cocoa Krispies and Fruity Pebbles.

I could eat a box of Rice Puffs in one sitting.

My mom spoiled us. We had an array of sweet cereals at our house. When a new on came out, she would buy it. I was in high school when Fruity Pebbles came out. I loved drinking the fruity milk in the bowl.

[CTyankee]

45. Probably Kellogg's "Pep." Or oatmeal (not from a mix but from those round tubular boxes...

[Kali]

47. Mom wouldn't buy that crap.

Now I know why.

I can't stand cold cereal with milk, can eat the candy versions dry if somebody buys it, but I never do. Ruin your upper palate with Capn Crunch - did it have glass in it? WTF? Coco Pebbles and Puffs, Frosted Flakes, Apple Jacks, Life, Fruit Loops. The zoo used to have fruit loops in gum machines to feed the animals - that is how old I am.

[Grammy23]

48. Hands down , Raisin Bran was my favorite.

But once in a while my mom would buy the multipack of individual boxes of cereal. What a thrill! One time when my sister and I were with our mother shopping for groceries at either Kroger or the A&P, we begged her to buy Cocoa Puffs. We nagged her for aisle after aisle until she relented but “only if we promised to eat it.” Of course, we did! We got it home, filled a big bowl, sat down to eat it and were in for the disappointment of our young lives.

Instead of the wonderful chocolatey taste we were told we’d get, we got a weak cocoa taste that was more than a little weird and it turned the milk a kind of purple color. Blick. I think we never begged her for a certain cereal again. Well, until Captain Crunch came along.

[dawg]

50. Freakies!

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[Onyrleft]

57. The "free" toys were little figures of the characters on the box.

And they had bios on the box.

[True Dough]

52. My favorite cereals from when I was a kid

still carry over into my adulthood. Only the ones that have been discontinued are ones that I don't buy anymore.

Still eat Cocoa Puffs, Frosted Flakes and Sugar Crisp/Golden Crisp.

I don't mind the taste of Cap'n Crunch but it tears apart the inside of my mouth and sticks in my teeth.

Although I enjoy cinnamon in many things, I do not care for sugary cinnamon cereals.

[TalenaGor]

54. team flakes, Lucky charms, crackling oat bran

I know...weird kid lol

[montana_hazeleyes]

55. Kix were my favorite.

then Cheerios and Wheaties. Oatmeal and cream of wheat now and then.

[red dog 1]

56. Cheerios mostly, along with Frosted Flakes, Puffed Wheat & Puffed Rice, + others too

But the best tasting breakfast cereal I ever had was called Kellogg's Concentrate.
It came in a little gold box.
It didn't last long, they only made it from 1959 to 1965.

[Laffy Kat]

58. Not one mention of Trix that I can see.

Loved Trix but Mom usually got Kix instead which is really Trix w/o the sugary fruit flavors. I can't eat Trix now though, 'cuz Trix is for kids.

[Onyrleft]

59. I tried a bowl of Cap'n Crunch last month.

I had a sugar crash that lasted half a day.
Goodbye childhood.

[crazycatlady]

60. Lucky Charms

I wasn't allowed sweet cereals by my parents. BUt my grandfather and stepgrandmother always got them for us when we visited.

Both my sister and I spoke about Lucky Charms at my grandfather's funeral.

[TlalocW]

61. Boo Berry

The Monster Cereals - at least, Frankenberry and Count Chocula were sold year round in stores where I lived as a kid. Every now an then, you could find Boo Berry, and that was always a good day.

These days, Frankenberry and Chocula and Boo Berry are only sold around Halloween. I'll normally buy a box of each and have them for snacks, saving Boo Berry for last.

TlalocW

[hurl]

62. Get on the Malt-O-Meal mobile!

I can't find any of these advertisements on YouTube, but this is the first memory I have of being influenced by advertising. I used to run around the house pretending to be some kind of vehicle that was the Malt-O-Meal mobile. Most days, the cereal was cold, but some days we got Malt-O-Meal hot cereal!

[C_U_L8R]

63. Sugar Pops !!

[sakabatou]

65. Reese's, if I could get it.