Do you drink the milk or dump it?

[Vannie]

Only when I'm having Cocoa Krispies.

 

[gsdx]

If it's not absorbed into the cereal (I rarely eat sugared cereals), the milk left over is imbued with the flavours of the cereals or raspberries or cinnamon I've put it on. Why throw it away?

Milk is good for you. Milk with all that other good stuff should not go down the drain.

 

[cityboy-stl]

I use almond milk unsweetened on cereal now. I guess I'm the only one but I dump it. Somehow drinking it seems gross to me. I know that is weird and wasteful and makes no sense...but it does. I do try to measure the milk so there is not much left over though.

 

[Dominus]

Do you eat cereal with other people often?

I started observing the milk dumping phenomenon all the way back in grade school.

And this very phenomenon almost broke up a couple that we know. This came up in one of their arguments. She always dump. He thought it was wasteful. He works all day every day driving for Lyft and uber while she stays at home to take care of the baby. Probably why he took it as an attack on him.

Yes, I'm well aware that there were other problems. But they chose this particular one to manifest their problems.

 

[MakeDigitalLove]

I am boring with breakfast...my husband makes us a shake everyday with fruit and veggies in the nutri-bullet and it fills me up...sometimes I scramble a few eggs or eat hard boiled ones...or some Farmer John's sausage...for protein....

That shake sounds delicious.

 

[zoltanspawn]

I don't like cereal or milk either. Unless it's homemade granola or muesli, which I prefer to eat with a non-dairy milk or a plain, high-quality yogurt and fresh fruit. The boxed, factory-made stuff from the aisle is expensive and bad for you. It's most often highly-milled grains with lots of sugar. It seems like food we've been conditioned to eat in spite of its insipidity. It's obviously been an enormous commercial success, but I doubt you'll find too many nutritionists or chefs who champion it.

On weekdays, I eat eggs (usually whites) with lots of sauteed veggies, the aforementioned homemade wholegrain cereals, occasionally a bit of meat or toast/bagel. On weekends, breakfast is congee, pho, noodles or rice--so, there's the highly-milled grains--but made with love, and never insipid.

I started observing the milk dumping phenomenon all the way back in grade school.

And this very phenomenon almost broke up a couple that we know. This came up in one of their arguments. She always dump. He thought it was wasteful. He works all day every day driving for Lyft and uber while she stays at home to take care of the baby. Probably why he took it as an attack on him.

Yes, I'm well aware that there were other problems. But they chose this particular one to manifest their problems.

You didn't say anything back in grade school?

You're probably right not to say anything to your couple friend, though, especially if it's already coming up in one of their arguments over breakfast.

 

[bankside]

I think cereal got a bad rap during the carbohydrates pogrom in the past decade or so, but lots of people shifted over to . . . erm, breads and yogurt that had been boosted with sugar, and whiskey.

Whiskey is NO way to start the day, unless you're in Accounting.

Hah re carbohydrates pogrom.

 

[nycguydowntown]

Only when I'm having Cocoa Krispies.

Lol---were you a Count Chocula fan---

I use almond milk--but always drink it---my Italian grandma like aristomatic's family taught me to waste nothing so would never toss it.

 

[Alistair]

I am surprised at the number of people who still eat cereal with milk.

I don't think that I have had dry cereal with milk since I was 12 years old.

We go through 3-4 family size boxes of cereal a week. Both of us eat a bowl for breakfast and quite often a bowl as a snack. I always drink the milk. I've never dumped it out. But my roommate's daughter doesn't drink the milk. She dumped a half bowl of cocoa crisps down the drain. It clogged the drain so bad it was like it turned into concrete.

If aristomaniac doesn't mind me adding a question, who here pours the cereal into the bowl first and who pours the milk in first? This is a hotly contested topic lately.

 

[peeonme]

We go through 3-4 family size boxes of cereal a week. Both of us eat a bowl for breakfast and quite often a bowl as a snack. I always drink the milk. I've never dumped it out. But my roommate's daughter doesn't drink the milk. She dumped a half bowl of cocoa crisps down the drain. It clogged the drain so bad it was like it turned into concrete.

If aristomaniac doesn't mind me adding a question, who here pours the cereal into the bowl first and who pours the milk in first? This is a hotly contested topic lately.

I pour cereal in first, then add milk.

 

[Dominus]

I alternate between both methods.

 

[bi4rightguy]

I love the milk left over from it, i always drink it.. I do sometimes eat it w/o milk tho normally with sweet tea but i never eat it for breakfast normally either dinner when no one wants to cook or as a late night snack.
the ones of you who pour out your milk are animals LOL j/k

 

[Pierresro]

I only use cream in my coffee milk used for Roux´s in cooking

 

[gsdx]

If aristomaniac doesn't mind me adding a question, who here pours the cereal into the bowl first and who pours the milk in first? This is a hotly contested topic lately.

I have never poured the milk before the cereal. With the cereal in the bowl, I can judge how much milk to pour, and it is different for different cereals. Some are more absorbent and require more milk.

 

[Alistair]

I've never poured the milk before the cereal. I think only a psychopath would do that

 

[Vannie]

swallowers 13

non swallowers 5

 

[tarallucci]

When I eat or drink... the dish or cup end up being cleaner than before using them. Though it's happened that I dumped some milk sometimes. Doctors say we should drink milk until 30 because the bones are still forming.

 

[PrinceCory]

I pour in the cereal first and then just enough milk to moisten the cereal, then I stir. I hate soggy cereal. The left over milk I basically pour down the drain. Usually it's only a couple tablespoons of milk or less. Actually, i leave about a tablespoon or less in the bowl for the cat for her breakfast.