Cereal & Milk
39kcal2g protein2.1g fat3g carbs*Estimates computed from the ingredient list; cost uses average US supermarket prices. Not a substitute for packaging measurements or your receipt.
Contains dairy · only in an optional ingredient: gluten
Restrictions
ContainsdairyIt is in an ingredient you cannot leave out.
Only if you add itgluten (oats rolled)Leave that ingredient out and the dish does not have it.
Diets
VegetarianPescatarianNo porkNo alcohol
Worked out from the ingredient list. It knows nothing about brands, shared equipment or cross contamination, and it is not a certification — if you have an allergy, you still have to read the label.
Ingredients
Servings:
| 40 g | ready-to-eat cereal (flakes or puffed shapes) |
| 125 ml | milk (cold, whole) |
Optional
Not counted above. The dish works without them.
| 40 g | granola (in place of flaked cereal) |
| 50 g | muesli (in place of flaked cereal, soaked) |
| 3 tbsp | rolled oats (for the overnight Bircher form) |
| 1 unit | apple (grated, for the Bircher form) |
| 1 unit | banana (sliced) |
| ¼ cup | blueberries |
| 1 tsp | honey |
| ½ cup | yogurt (in place of milk) |
Steps
- measure1 minby weight, into a dry bowlcereal, 30–40 g per adult — weigh it rather than eyeballing the bowl, because the same 35 g is a heaped cup of puffed rice and barely half a cup of dense granola; portioning by bowl volume is why granola servings run double what people intend
- top1 mincereal already in the bowl, milk straight from the fridge+ cold milk, about 125 ml to start and no more than a cup — pour it last, over the cereal, not the cereal onto standing milk, since absorption begins on contact and a bowl filled onto milk is already softening before it is full
- prep0 mineat immediately, top up mid-bowljudge the pour against absorbency rather than a fixed volume: porous flakes and puffed shapes want less milk and a second splash halfway down, baked clusters tolerate a fuller pour. There is no defensible soak time — texture is a continuous slide from brittle through a briefly tougher stage into collapse, and the failure mode is simply a bowl left standing, which is why the last third goes uneaten