Cereal Killer

Another new obsession (it must be that time of year) is cereal and soy milk. I could never eat cereal because I don't like the uber-sugary kinds and the normal kinds taste gross without milk. Milk makes me want to hurt cows for producing such vile substances (otherwise known as lactose intolerance -- which has decreased over the years to a slight irritation). But, while on the blissful Emirates airlines, I discovered I like soy milk. Ah, wonders of wonders, I can join normalcy by eating cereal for breakfast.

Well, I bought low fat soy milk. It tastes kinda like water that has gone bad, but only a little bit. With cereal, it tastes fine. But you know what they don't teach you? Milk to cereal ratios. Even when I worked at the daycare, I poured milk for cereal, but I told those two and three year olds to tell me when they had enough milk. At two and three, they knew better than I. Shoot.

Well, because it's a novelty, I eat a lot of cereal for breakfast, for snacks, etc. But I get the ratio wrong. So I have to add more cereal (I invariably overestimate the necessary quantity of milk). I went through a whole box of cereal in a week. That's unheard of, I realise. But I didn't want to waste the milk, so whenever I would have a bowl of cereal, I would end up with two. So if I had it once for breakfast and once for a snack, that turned out to be four bowls in a day. Luckily, I saved money on other food because all I ate was cereal.

I bought my second box today and I have high hopes for my ratio skills. I mean, I've been working. I think I have a "fill line" that I designated out of the design on my bowls. Here's hoping. Or I'm going to be sick of cereal in like a week.