Cereal and Fruit Loops
I’m not one who regularly eats breakfast in the morning, although I used to have it every morning when I was growing up. My mother used to get healthy cereals that did not have added sugar, but I still liked them. I would eat Cheerios, Kix, Raisin Bran, and Rice Krispies. When it was cold outside, my mother would make us oatmeal or scrambled eggs. But once a year, or so it seemed, she would buy us a treat; Fruit Loops.
I loved Fruit Loops. I loved the colors and the flavors. I liked how each piece stayed crunchy in the milk. I enjoyed the sweetness that the milk became. In fact, where I normally left the milk that was left over in the bowl, I would either ask for more Fruit Loops to sop it up, or drink the milk from the bowl just to savor it all the more.
I would even alter the way I would eat the cereal. Usually, I would just scoop up and eat up the whole spoonful without really paying any attention to what was going in my mouth. However with Fruit Loops, I would pick out a color and eat only that color first. Then I would pick out another color and eat that all up. I would repeat the process until my favorite color was left. Sometimes, at first, I would try to see how many of one color I could scoop up. By the time I would get down to just one color left, I would only eat one piece at a time.
Last night, I came home from food shopping and brought home a special surprise: a box of Fruit Loops. At night, in bed, I kept thinking of having them in the morning. When I got up, I poured a bowl for me – and one for my son. I felt proud as I sat there sharing something that was dear to me as a kid.
