My name is Kimberly. I’m 31 years old and I thoroughly enjoy mauling a bowl of children’s cereal.
Trix.
What could be better than a bowl of round pebbles of something they claim to be made from whole wheat healthy crap….
…which we adults know they are made from unicorn poop, rainbows, love and sunshine with a kilo of sugar…
…for breakfast?
Nothing. There is nothing better.
Except for Lucky Charms but that isn’t what this post is about.
Trix.
On this particular morning, I had ran out of my oatmeal.
Oh the humanity.
I eyed up the box of Trix on the counter and the whole wheat bread.
Whole wheat bread.
My life is more exciting than keeping me regular, I promise.
I became a rebel that morning and reached for the Trix.
I took my seat at the kitchen table.
My spoon took a dainty dip into the milk that was already turning into some fruity concoction that will rot my teeth no doubt.
Put the pebbles into my mouth.
And the heavens parted.
I blew through not one but 2 bowls ignoring the fact that the pebbles were like chewing on glass cutting up the roof of my mouth.
While my 3 year old watched in horror.
Chunky: Mom!
Me: Oh…this…is…so…gooooood.
Chunky: Mom!
Me: Kid…I…can’t…hear….you…over…the…crunching
Chunky: Mom!
Me: Quit…ruining…my…moment….Look….a….purple…one!
Chunky: MOM!
Me: WHAT?!
Chunky: Trix are for kids. And you’re old.
Oh.
How about that compliment for a Monday morning?
*Do you eat your child’s cereal?
not only do we have sugared cereal in the house, but it’s not for the kid, it’s for me! sometimes i have a bowl instead of ice cream
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Oh my lord, I could eat Golden Grahams All. Dang. Day. Especially late at night. Or anything sugar laden and delicious. It was, by far, the hardest thing to give up with weight watchers.
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I got the child Chocolate Cheerios.
Guess who’s been eating the whole lot?
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We don’t buy cereal for the kid… we buy it for me!!! Sugared, sweet crap! Mine, mine all mine!!!!
Oh… when Soup gets older we will take stock in Cheerios!
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Bwahahahaha! I’m sorry. This post had me laughing my butt off. I think I almost peed my pants. You are SO funny, Kimberly!
Yeah, I do. Corn Pops for me.
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My husband loves the sweet cereals. We have at least 8 different varieties in the pantry. I won’t touch it. Hate sweet things in the morning.
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LMAO! I’ve always been strictly against children’s sugary cereals. Until. My grandson came to visit a few years ago, along with his father, my rebel son. I sent them to the grocery store and they brought back Lucky Charms. My grandson “forced me” to try a bowl and I have been smitten ever since. Sometimes I buy a box just because I’m pissed off about something. Takes the edge off. Now if they would only invent Lucky Charms flavored wine, it would be a win..win.
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I’m the rotten mom that doesn’t buy the sugary sweet cereals (they get more than enough at grandma’s, and plenty of other treats for dessert, etc.) but the real reason I don’t is that while they are perfectly happy to consider Oat Squares a treat *I’m* the one who can’t restrain myself around things like Cinnamon Toast Crunch…
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Does anyone else here remember taking a box of Lucky Charms (when I was a kid, half of our diet consisted of sugar – no one advised parents not to give it to their kids – in fact, it was encouraged) – and taking all the sugary weird-shaped pieces out, and leaving the box filled with only the boring, bland pieces of cereal? I did this, until my mother wised-up and started buying Chex or something.
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I’m not big on kiddie cereals, but I love to have an occasional Toaster Strudel!
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Lol – unicorn poop, rainbows, love and sunshine with a kilo of sugar, they need to put that on the side of the box under ingredients! Sometimes that stuff is so good, a two bowl morning means it was REALLY good that day! Always a nice touch when your kid tells you you’re too old for something as well
Whatever kid – haha!
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Forget the kids! I buy that shiz for myself and they better not touch it. HA!
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Sugary cereals are my weakness.
Especially lucky charms!
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Ha! Schooled.
We don’t generally buy sweet cereal, because C doesn’t really eat cereal. My husband sometimes buys Golden Grahams and the two of them can plow through that. Oh, and he bought Froot Loops (Fruit Loops?) recently and C ate a bunch of those. So we quit buying it, because we’re mean like that.
I don’t eat it though. Don’t like the sweet stuff.
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Oh my goodness yes – I’ll eat whatever we have on hand, but my husband’s even worse than I am, eating it late at night, dry, by the handful. I love to mix Golden Grahams with Coco Puffs – hellz yeah. What’s funny is that all of a sudden the two schoolagers have decided they don’t like cereal, and when I insist that’s what’s for breakfast (or dinner, whatever) he picks the healthiest cereal we have (usually plain Cheerios). Messed up.
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I found your spoon. Also, I less than three Cinnamon Toast Crunch. http://lolimage.com/13308_Cereal+Killer+Spoon/
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Oh man! I can’t keep sugar cereals in the house or else I’d eat every last crumb. But if I could choose, it would be Lucky Charms. Those things are definitely magically delicious!!
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I bought myself 5 boxes of cherry tomatoes and I plan to eat them all, except the kid just stole a box. Totally not related to this post, but I don’t have a cereal story and the kids are playing with my tomatoes and it might cause me to be mad…
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Didya wash his mouth out with soap?!?!?
That’s the problem with teaching your kids to speak, man.
I can go crazy over a colorful box of cereal. I have never eaten anything that didn’t have a cartoon character on the front of the box.
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Mini Wheats! I love them! I actually really love Corn Pops, but I never buy them…I think I will next time I’m grocery shopping, those are awesome.
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I used to live on Fruity Cheerios, before all the milk protein intolerance bullshit. They are essentially fruit loops but they feel so much healthier being cheerios that happen to be rainbow-colored.
Now my mornings are filled with healthy fruit and whole grain toast. And the occasional entire box of brown sugar frosted pop tarts. Yum!
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I am on an extreme high from eating a half a bag of jalapeno chips. Alone. In front of the TV. Washed down with wine.
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I love me some Trix. And Lucky Charms. I refuse to buy my children ‘children’s cereal.’ For their well being. Totally. NOT to keep me from eating an entire box in one day. Really.
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Haha love cocoa puffs! Although lately I’ve been getting Kashi cereal & my daughter will be eating that while I down a few bowls of cocoa puffs when I’m craving it. Damn kids cereal!
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You were getting high on Trix!
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My favorite cereal right now are whole grain cheerios but I’ve been known to chow down on a bowl of cinnamon toast crunch or honey smacks (I eat those as a snack without milk, too.)… We don’t keep too many of the sugary cereal boxes in the house.
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Do I eat my kids cereal? How bout I buy kids cereal for myself?! Specifically Cap’n Crunch. I mean seriously… Pea probably eats more healthy cereal than me. She eats Life & Honey Nut Cheerios. Not me. I can’t mess with Trix though. It scares me what color it makes my poop.
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Funny…I just took a pic of all the cereal boxes in my house for a post…we’ve got about 10 or more. But the best? Cinnamon Toast Crunch. I CANNOT have those in the house. All that sugary goodness….YUM!
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As I read this, I’m enjoying some Lucky Charms! No effing lie.
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I can’t eat my kids’ cereal because they contain gluten, but I always guilt over the fact that they are sweetened (to facilitate my life). We never had sweet cereal as kids, except in plastic baggies in our Christmas stocking – no lie.
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lol. I am a HUGE fan of TRIX. I think most people are, right. I mean, how could a bowl of colorful corn puffed pebbles with a happy rabbit on the front not make you happy?
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So funny. No, I don’t eat kids cereal. But I am completely obsessed with the adult cereal I eat. God help our entire household if we run out. Because I NEED it.
So, yeah, I kinda get it.
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Before this mega health-kick I’m on, TOTALLY. I would down two bowls of Lucky Charms in 5 minutes. When I was preggo with my daughter, that was my favorite thing to eat as a late-nite snack before bed. But these days, I’m torturing my kids by only feeding them oatmeal or whole-grain waffles/pancakes instead of the sugary goodness that I ate every.single.morning. of my childhood.
I’m such a mean mommy.
xoxo {Miss you}
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I buy cereal and hide it behind other things so certain people in my house won’t find it. What?
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Hee! Love it!
(Also? I’m a Pops girl. All the way. #Don’tJudge)
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That’s hilarious. Even though it reminds me of those commercials, which made me cry all the time when I was little. Also, that came up with Lindsey last week and I was all, “um, that commercial was the most crushing thing I’ve ever seen, it was all he wanted in the world and those kids wouldn’t let him have it and not just in an I’m-just-following-orders way but in a cruelly taunting way” and she was like, “huh, never really thought about it” and I was all like, “YOU WERE A MONSTER!”
The point of this story is I’m fun to be around.
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ha ha funny! I think the only kids cereal i go for is Lucky charms. love those marshmallows
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My husband will buy a sugary cereal and hide it from the kids until after he gets at least one bowl of it.
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I can’t sleep. And I just ate a bowl of Captain Crunch. Truth.
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YUMMMYYYYY/ I love trix although I’m Old!!
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I know I am older than you are and I eat Trix from time to time.
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um no, I occasionally LET them eat MY cereal! IT IS ALL MINE… ALL MINE! The Sailor has been known to keep a stash of Captain Crunch behind the seat of his truck for my “that time” of the month.
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I haven’t had kids cereal in years and I’m thinking that’s probably a good thing since it’s so sugary good.
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I love me the cereal aisle. I eat cereal on the regular as dinner when I’m not so hungry. My fave is cinnamon toast crunch. And cocoa puffs. NOM.
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