PSA: GrapeNuts "cereal" is godawful.

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kranky

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Originally posted by: dullard
I see you don't know how to eat GrapeNuts properly. It does take a little work. Here are the proper steps.

1) Poor about a cup of the cereal into a bowl.
2) Just barely moisten the cereal with milk. Enough to take the hard crunch out of them but there should NOT be a single drop of milk unabsorbed. You might want to start conservative with less milk (say 1 tsp at a time).
3) Stir.
4) Repeat steps 2 and 3 to get just enough milk but none that is not absorbed.
5) If some milk is left unabsorbed, don't panic. You can add just a little more GrapeNuts and stir. When the balance is correct, there is no longer a "clink" as the hard cereal hits the bowl but there is also no milk on the bottom.
6) Add 1 heaping tablespoon of sugar. Possibly 1.5 tbsp if you really like sweets. But for the love of God, don't ever try 2 tbsp per cup of cereal!
7) Stir thoroughly so that every granule has at least one shiny sugar crystal adhered.

The resulting sugary mass is one of the world's greatest food treats (well #1 is Craklin Oat Bran right out of the box).

dullard, I just want some breakfast. I don't want to play chemistry class.
 

dullard

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Originally posted by: kranky
dullard, I just want some breakfast. I don't want to play chemistry class.
That is why I rarely eat them. But they are really good if you do put out the effort. If you don't use milk, they are like gravel. If you put too much milk you get dirt flavored milk. So the balance is critical. The result from my method is a very nutty flavored sugar. It is basically candy.

 

Aves

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I'm with dullard. They can be really good or really bad depending on how you make them.
 

elektrolokomotive

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Grape Nuts rock!

Never with sugar. What are you guys thinking? Just a little milk. Good over yogurt too for a change of pace.
 

11thHour

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Grape nuts is cool, and when needed is great for sandblasting grafitti off walls as well.
 

PingSpike

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What is the point of eating a healthy cereal if I have to smother it with sugar to make it edible? That defeats the entire purpose. I might as well just buy a box of T dawg's frosted flakes and be done with it. Besides, thats treating the symptom not the problem.

I will stick to my Total and oatmeal from now on.
 

dullard

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Originally posted by: PingSpike
What is the point of eating a healthy cereal if I have to smother it with sugar to make it edible? That defeats the entire purpose. I might as well just buy a box of T dawg's frosted flakes and be done with it. Besides, thats treating the symptom not the problem.

I will stick to my Total and oatmeal from now on.
Cereal for the most part is the most unhealthy food of the day. Don't fool yourself into thinking of it as being healthy. The only real exceptions would be the high fiber cereals.

 

Viper GTS

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I genuinely like the stuff, & will eat it dry (though the flakes are better if you're eating it dry).

Grapenuts + Yogurt is great too.

Viper GTS
 

hemiram

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Grape nuts are GREAT! But like everything else, they aren't as good as they used to be. It's happened to a lot of cereals over the years. Captain Crunch isn't as "crunchy", "Golden Crisp" used to be called "Sugar Crisp" and were a lot better! Lucky Charms always sucked though.

Back when I was a kid, I had Grape Nuts all the time. They were HARD and crunchy, not wussified like they are now, and don't taste exactly the same now as they did then, either. You folks that say they are "like gravel" crack me up, they are about half as hard as they were 30 years ago! Around 1980 or so, they suddenly softened them up for soem reason. I guess it was to make the people who can't chew able to eat them.

My favorite cereal was "Rice Krinkles". Basically rice krispies sprayed with a hard sweet glaze. More of a candy than a cereal. The boxes were racially offensive to asians and about the time that started up, they pulled the plug on them.

 
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