Thanks for cereal

Cold cereal is my lifelong treat that I don’t know if I could ever give up. I’ve given it up temporarily now and then when I was giving up sugar, but I always come back to it.

When I was a kid I used to dump additional sugar in my cereal. We always had a sugar bowl, and there was also a phase where we had sugar packets. I would pour as many as three of those packets into my cereal. 

One day when I was about 8 or 9, my dad asked me if I had ever considered trying cereal without the pile of sugar. I tried it, liked it, and never put sugar in again. I still can’t fathom putting it in, and I don’t like “sugar” cereal anymore. Rice Krispies, cornflakes, Chex, all the “bland” classics where the sugar to fiber ratio qualifies them as a treat, are just the amount of sweet for me.