Good morning readers! I’m sure you’re all hungry this Saturday morning, and you just can’t bear the thought of going out in the cold for a yummy calorie loaded breakfast sambich from a drive through, and you’re too embarrassed to ask people who live with you if they will prepare sustenance for your sorry ass one more time.
Fear not! No one starves today!
I’m sorry, I’m not going to teach you how to prepare a full and satisfying breakfast like this one:
In fact, I’m not even going to teach you anything as complex as the preparation of toast yet, readers.
When we get past our tutorial on Hot Things That Make Food But Can Burn You, I promise I will extol the secrets of delectable and lightly singed toast upon you all. That tutorial will come right after my upcoming lesson called Sharp And Pointy Things You Can Use To Make Your Food Small Enough To Cook And Eat
But for today, we will stick with something so simple, I’m sure even you can do it. We’re going to make cereal! ( Well, we’re not really going to make it. I don’t even know how that’s done.) That’s done by really smart scientists in labs and stuff that turn this:
I’m not going to tell you how to make it, exactly, I’m going to give you instructions for preparing it to be eaten. And I’m talking about cold cereal, right out of the box. Not any of that nasty, lumpy, hot cereal that makes my skin crawl. Besides, this class isn’t advanced enough to make hot cereal….yet…But I don’t know why you’d want to. Alrighty then! Let’s get moving, or you’ll be begging for someone to make you lunch by 10 am!
CEREAL:
Ingredients:
Box of Cereal (Your choice)
Milk (Again, your choice. Soy, Almond, Cow, Goat, Coconut, whatever strikes your fancy)
Tools needed:
A bowl (like the kind they put soup in for you)
A spoon
Good hand/eye coordination
Level of difficulty:
Moderately Advanced
Preparation Time:
1 Minute~ Really~! This is something that can be done very quickly once you get the hang of it! Trust me, would I lie to you?
Instructions:
Pour enough cereal out of box into bowl to almost fill it. Do not overfill! This could be a disaster! Make sure to leave some room at the top. About the width of your finger.
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Once the cereal is in the bowl, slowly add the milk. Again, be careful not to overfill.
Now you can eat it (with the spoon) and enjoy! Bon Apetit! I’m so proud of you!
Here’s a few more tips regarding cold cereal preparation:
If the box leads you to believe what’s inside might be healthy, or looks like a bird could build a nest out of it, feel free to liberally add sugar to make it edible.
If the cereal box is brightly colored, or has cartoon characters on it, or you’ve actually witnessed children eating it, it’s probably fine to eat just the way it is without additional sugar.
Fun Cereal Add ins~
Sliced fruit like bananas or strawberries add a delicious twist to cold cereal. Since we haven’t covered using a sharp knife yet, please get someone who usually feeds you with more technical knowledge to do the slicing for you. If no one with such skills is available, stick with fruits you don’t need to slice, like raisins, blueberries or raspberries. You could also add chocolate chips, M&M’s or go crazy and just dump in a bag of trail mix. On second thought, you could just pour that trail mix in a bowl and drown it in milk. Now that’s some cereal! Crushed pineapple is not recommended.
Stuff that you probably won’t want to add to cereal:
Potato Chips
Peanuts
Wasabi Peas
Corn Nuts
Alternate Preparation:
If you like to march the beat of a different accordion, or just don’t like milk, you could try eating your cereal with a different liquid, like coffee, water or bourbon.
Advanced Techniques:
Wow Cheeky, I”m so stoked that I can make cereal, but I still have to depend on others to supply me with food the rest of the day, don’t I?
Heavens NO, dear readers! Cereal isn’t just for breakfast anymore. You can actually live on this stuff! Just look at the label! All kinds of chemicals, additives and other nutritional goodies for you. Your box of sweet crunchy goodness is practically a food pyramid by itself! Think of the milk as the mud that Charlton Heston used to stomp into the straw to make bricks for that big pyramid in Egyptonia.
If you live alone, and this recipe is new information for you, frankly, I’m shocked that you’ve survived this long, but Yay! for you. Cereal is great, but sometimes you want a heartier meal. No problem. I have a great recipe for you.
Before preparing your cereal, add one of your favorite condiments to the milk and stir well. Ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise or salad dressing will work just fine. Pour your milk mixture onto the cereal and then add hot dog slices. Yum! To make it a more well-balanced meal, toss in some carrots, broccoli, or other vegetable. You can eat this cold if you like, but it does taste better when it’s hot. If you do plan to heat it up, you could also add some shredded cheese. (As long as it’s already shredded, please don’t attempt this yet, it’s beyond your current level of expertise.)
Remember that broken TV in the kitchen? Well, that’s not a TV after all. It’s an oven! I know, right?~ You guessed it readers, you can put your most bestest cereal creation right in there, set the timer for a couple of minutes, and Vi-Ola! Hot steaming bowl of…….oh, you get the idea. Now who’s cookin with gas? Er, I mean nuclear death rays.
ha,love it! Thanks for the pingback.
You’re welcome! 🙂
Lol, brilliant! Thank you for the pingback 🙂
Thank you! Who else could write a 1000 word post on making a bowl of cereal? Maybe I should get a life! 🙂
Hmmm – wasabi peas and rice cereal. Could be a new trend – a savory Asian Breakfast with soy milk. But then again, maybe not…And thanks, CD for taking us back to the basics.
You’re so welcome! We all have to start somewhere. Most recipes just assume we already know all this stuff!
I once wrote a song called ‘Breakfast with a ceral killer’
One part went;
Neighbors said there was no one calmer
Than that nice young Jeffry Dahmer
He said come over for dinner later
We’ll see what’s in the refrigerator
Now THAT’s funny!
When am I not???
I don’t eat breakfast ever ever ever. Hubs does, son does, DIL does. I don’t know how anyone can eat the first thing in the morning. It makes no sense to me. Son used to get massive breakfasts before he left for college and still does whenever he’s home. Breakfast burritos–2 huge ones–omelets big enough for 4, and even steak and eggs when i used to cook meat (never eat it but I used to cook it). Hubs is a cereal guy but I portion control him.
About your “alternate preparation” section – I once had to use apple juice to eat cheerios with. Well, I didn’t have to, I could have picked orange juice instead. And another time, I did pour water into my cereal. That’s what I get for still being half asleep at breakfast time!
I did see someone do that once, water I mean. At one of those hotels with breakfast, yuck! I usually eat cereal dry, I just snack on it through the morning at work. That’s my breakfast. And a whole lotta coffee
You are cheeky aren’t you?
Who me? Surely, you jest.
Your post made me hungry. I had to dash into the kitchen to get my bowl of cereal before I could read it all.
I’m so glad you came back to read the rest! 🙂
My quirky husband blends his cereals. Heaven forbid he consume straight Raisin Bran.
Nothing wrong with that. Make sure you tell him about the recipe with the sliced hot dogs. If he’s not too kitchen savvy, make sure you slice them for him, ok?
The hot dog recipe made me throw up a little in my mouth.
MIssion Accomplished!
Cheeky you are my savior, how else would I have mastered the art of making breakfast. Thank God for you!
So glad to be of help! Thank you for your kind words. 🙂
Moderately Advanced??? I just set my kitchen on fire you hack!!
Are you kidding me? I’d really like to know just how you managed that with the information provided. You sir, are a genius.
Well, I didn’t eat the cereal fast enough so I took to the toaster oven to toast them all up again. Then, once it was nice and warm I dumped it all from the bowl to the pan. Sparks started flying and flames lept from the oven. Luckily, I still had the sink full of water from where I had been soaking some dishes, so I just threw it in there to extinguish the flames. So now I’m hungry and down an appliance. I’ll be writing your superiors to ensure you never give out advice again. Martha Stewart you are not!!
Gentle Reader,
Since I clearly warned against the use of anything hot or sharp and pointy until after those things are covered in upcoming tutorials, I fear you don’t have a leg to stand on. No, I’m not Martha Stewart. I’ve never slapped anyone, or run over them with my car. However, after this conversation, I’m tempted to hunt you down and make both those things happen.
You also didn’t mention that I had to eat the cereal quickly. You didn’t say anything about soggy cereal. I’m suing!!
I eagerly await hearing from whatever lawyer you can get to take your case, kind sir.
You won’t be so eager in front of the judge!!
My, you’re so full of threats, aren’t you, my adorable cartoon Stormtrooper friend.
It’s what we do. We don’t follow through. We’re all talk.
Oh yeah, King and Queen of EmptyThreatLand, you and I.
😉
Hey, somebody’s gotta do it, eh?
Yep, toughest job we’ll ever love, right?
Job? Are you getting paid to do this? If so I’m getting hosed.
Um, only in the sense that my job is so boring I can do it blindfolded, with one hand tied behind my back,and blog and tweet at the same time.
Challenge accepted.
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