Sustain

I don’t feel like Weet-Bix. How disconcerting. Weet-Bix is my breakfast habit and I am an orderly person of routine. If I pick something up then I put it back in its place. If it’s not in its place then I have no idea where it is and I wander aimlessly with no clue about where to hunt, certain the item will never be seen again.

Similarly I am now stranded standing in front of the cupboard, staring up at the cereal shelves, frozen with indecision.

I just don’t feel like anything as heavy as Weet-Bix. But if I don’t eat a decent amount then I’ll be hungry and cranky later.

The Husband has a small collection of little Kellogg’s travel cereal boxes. One of those is Sustain. I’ve never eaten Sustain because they always used to advertise it as the cereal eaten by athletes at the AIS and I am not a sporty person so surely it was never meant to be eaten by people such as myself. Though I’m not an iron man and I used to eat Nutri-Grain, and they always have cricketers on the Weet-Bix box so I guess my thoughts are illogical.

But! This box of Sustain has no picture of a fit person leaping hurdles! So maybe it’s safe to eat.

Ripping the top of the box open, pulling out the little sealed plastic bag inside. Bah, they never put a realistic serve of cereal in these things. Struggling with the bag… open, will you? Ah! Upending it into my bowl.

Oh, my apologies. This actually does seem to be a decent-sized bowl. Peering. Uh-oh, mostly cornflakes. I don’t really like cornflakes. What else? I see rice flakes, wheat flakes, a few oats, the occasional sliver of almond, some sultanas and currants…

Enough staring. Pour in milk enough to provide pleasant moisture but not too much to avoid sog. Seating myself with a spoon and the paper.

Crunch. Noisy cereal! The main taste is the corn, but not as strong as I was fearing. The mixture of wheat and rice flakes don’t have much taste in themselves but they keep the corn mild.

In the first few mouthfuls there seemed to be a honey sweetness but that’s died away now. Maybe that was dried apple that I’m confusing. The sultanas are nice, adding some sugar chew. The currants are a bit hard, there’s one lodged in a molar now. Pretty easy to miss the almonds with all the crunch of the flakes but they’re there.

Half-way through the bowl. Trying to leave some dry piles of cereal on the sides so they’re not soggy before I want them.

This isn’t half-bad. Don’t know how full it will keep me, flakes seem like they would digest quickly, but I think it’s hitting the spot for now.

Mixing the last bits into the milk. Less crunch than at the beginning but still definite bite.

Well, Sustain, I guess it remains to be seen if you live up to your name, but right now I think I would eat you again.

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Specifics: Travel pack of Kellogg’s Sustain