What's you favorite hot cereal?

[Mikey]

Never had hot cereal as a kid

Tried it as grown-up and didn't like it.

Too sticky - like eating paste or paper mache

[thunderbolt]

They still make Raisins and Spice. I have a box in my kitchen cabinet.

Not in Florida. No one carries it.

[Hector]

I honestly believe I'd rather not eat than have to eat hot cereal.

I honestly believe you'd relish every last drop of hot cereal if you were locked up in some dungeon two weeks without eating...

[Earth 2 Chris]

Quaker Instant Oat Meal, Strawberries and Cream or Pumpkin Spice.

Chris

[megomania]

Cream of Wheat with milk and lots of sugar.

[Duncan]

Oatmeal - preferably Quaker original that has been gently heating for 45 minutes or an hour with lots of water...basically to a tapioca consistency. Then add cinnamon, brown sugar and raisins and/or other dried fruit and let it soften for a while. Maybe add a little skim milk just before eating. Mmmm. I'm very lucky that our cafe at work has this available every day, except for the "other dried fruit."

[Duncan]

How on earth could I have forgotten to mention grits!!! Mmmmmm---a big bowl of warm, corny goodness drenched in butter and some Bob White table syrup!! It's like eating a piece of liquid cornbread!!!

I can't get into grits (instant, at least) for breakfast. However, the food trucks around here do grits & cheese or shrimp for lunch. Good stuff.

[Rallygirl]

We'll cross that moat if I ever come to it. For now, won't touch the stuff with a ten foot pole.

I honestly believe you'd relish every last drop of hot cereal if you were locked up in some dungeon two weeks without eating...

[apes3978]

"Essential Everyday" brand fruit & cream variety pack... (Strawberries and cream, blueberries and cream, peaches and cream, and bananas and cream.)

[HardyGirl]

I wish they would make the Blueberries and Cream its own separate flavor (not in the variety box) like Peaches and Cream or Strawberries and Cream. It's really tasty!

"Essential Everyday" brand fruit & cream variety pack... (Strawberries and cream, blueberries and cream, peaches and cream, and bananas and cream.)

[SentientApe]

As far as instant oatmeal, it has to be Bananas and Cream, hands down! Naturally, of course, on a cold snowy morning such as this, the Banana flavored packets are long gone.

So, I am presently finishing off a bowl of four packets of Strawberries and Cream Instant Oatmeal with a diced-up banana. Yum.

But as to the original question... grits would have to be the number one go-to choice, and I lamented aloud that we are again out of them as I devised the strawberry/banana solution. Regular oatmeal (with butter and brown sugar) is an old favorite. Cream of Wheat and Fatima take me back to my childhood: warm morning memories! I have a vague memory of hot milk over Shredded Wheat at my grandmother's house -- was that a thing?

I have to make a case for kasha -- I want to like it, but it is so incredibly bland by itself. Last week, I had lunch (at Russian Tea Time in Chicago) of beef stroganoff served over a mixed bed of egg noodles and kasha, and the heavy buckwheat taste overpowered everything else. I am still experimenting with traditional recipes, and the only thing that works for me is to mix cooked kasha with beaten eggs and fry up the resultant patties; dill weed and sour cream (or mushroom gravy) are the traditional toppings. Research continues...

[KosmiCKennY]

chocolate Malt-o-meal with butter and sugar, yum! Original is good too! If not Malt-o-meal then quick oats with butter and sugar, those are the only hot cereals i will eat.

[Tyme2tyme]

Deep in the south, it's gotta be grits. Had some yesterday morning and will again tomorrow.