My dad taught me this, old-timer's cereal. Break up a sleeve of Ritz crackers, and add milk and sugar. Even better, use evaporated milk.
Just started eating cereal a bit again, like twice a week as a desert, Lucky Charms. Never was allowed to get them as a kid. I also have a major thing for quaker oatmeal squares. Dry, out of the box, or with whole milk, 2% in a pinch.
Wife does this, she prefers saltines, and its either evap milk or creamer. Not only surprisingly good throw in some candied peanuts and you have a whole meal protein and all. You can also do this with garri litterally a poor mans meal.
Don't know about the "best", but I've always been partial to Frosted Mini-Wheats. But, I've recently discovered steel-cut oatmeal prepared in a rice cooker... Takes a while to prepare, but wonderful. I also ate a lot of Lucky Charms as a kid, but never really liked the cereal part of that. Found a place that just sold the marshmallows and combined those with Honey Comb cereal. Much better. Truth be told, I don't eat much breakfast anymore, so it is generally a lunch oddball treat to eat cereal.
"Breakfast cereal"?? Does this mean there is a lunch and dinner cereal too? Or is this another example of southern boy redundant grammar?
All cereals can be eaten for all meals. I'm guessing he meant which is best for the first meal of the day as your tastes and preferences could be different for lunch or dinner cereals.
There are cereals (the subject of this thread) and cereal grains, which are any graminoid cultivated for the edible portion of its fruiting body. Corn, wheat, rice, barley, and millet form the dominant types of cereal grains, and they form the largest portion of food energy used by humans worldwide, and by far are the largest food crop produced by mass. A good chunk of that goes to secondary use for animal food. Another good chunk goes to making beer.