Cereal: It's Not Just For Breakfast: Party Mix Edition

Our cereal pantry wouldn't be complete without mentioning this cereal. Our family favored this & this, though when it was time to "home make" this, we'd have this on hand as well as a bran version that's since been discontinued, in so that we'd have four varieties coming together when we made it for ourselves. Mom would collect the corresponding manufacturer's coupons & we'd be stocked up.

Dad, ever the measurer, would have one of our sets of these out & he'd be finely measuring each ingredient for our homemade batch. Each cereal box promoted to be included had the recipe on it, & the recipe was designed for a large bowl to be measured & mixed in the microwave oven. Dad would lay out a long strand of these to pour the hot-from-the-bowl mixture onto when it was time for it to cool. And this would've been before they began selling them in the smaller sheets. The kitchen would smell of this & the salt would mentally draw everyone for a nibble.

We most often had it in large supply coming up now, at this time of the year. Dad would often look to mix fresh batches sometime after Sunday church & our weekly early afternoon phone call to Grandma. In this way it'd be ready to go before a Sunday evening football game & he could watch & listen to all of the highlights as well as the game without interruption. Now-a-days, when calling & getting calls from his grandkids, he'll check about how they've mixed up their own batches because "Ya gotta have snacks when you're watching the game." And they all smile to one another over the phone line & share with the cousins & neighbors later on that they called one another about mixing up their respective batches.

It was great to have "leftovers" of the mix because it seemed harmless & even welcoming to have enjoy it as a breakfast - after all, it was made up primarily of breakfast cereal. It was amazing how an ingredient, such as this, could leer an eater on in.

To eat on its own, straight from a cereal bowl, this was my favorite. It felt the lightest on my tongue & seemed most easy to digest. And for someone most interested in eating it dry, these were welcome characteristics.

If it was a gluten free cereal back then, the manufacturer didn't promote it. It probably had high fructose corn syrup in it then too. Most of the varieties that exist today like this, like, this, this, & this  didn't in those days.

I never really got into any of these varieties as I got away from eating processed cereal around the time they were added to the lineup. Though I remember feeling most inappropriate even considering this variety - as if I'd be betraying my enjoyment & favoritism of this cereal from so many years of my childhood. The advertisers had taken everything, including the box's color mix to brand it.

I'm not sure if it was because the homemade version of this was more messy to make as we had it very sporadically. We didn't usually get it premade either. I think this was because it'd have hared a manufacturer's coupon with this, which we would have given preference.

I don't have any memories of being sent back to college, even from an extended weekend, with any remnants of our homemade batches, though I'm positive I had bags of this in my dorm room stash from time to time. I remember enjoying the wafers, because of their crispness, the most. And maybe because they weren't an ingredient included in the homemade version. I'd typically dig to specifically eat them in so that I could bite into them as if they were a cookie & preserve them rather than eat them as mindlessly as the rest of the mix.

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