Growing up, my Mama always used to make a big, hot lunch for the family to enjoy after church. Then for dinner, we had to “fend for ourselves” – which meant everyone in the family opted for one of two things: cereal or popcorn. I always went for cereal.
Tonight, when dinner rolled around, I reached for the old familiar.
Meeker told me that I couldn’t eat out of a wineglass, but I do what I want. This was a mix of Kashi’s Autumn Wheat and Peanut Butter Bumpers. Most of the Kashi was hidden under the milk, but you can see one little piece nestled in between the Bumpers.
Perfect Sunday dinner.
Did/does your family have any unusual meal traditions?
My Sunday meals were always something Italian, parked in front of football. Still love that tradition myself even now!
We have always always done breakfast for dinner on Sunday nights. My mom would get out the griddle and make pancakes. For some reason, during my senior year in high school, I decided that I always wanted cereal instead of pancakes. I still always have cereal or some sort of breakfast for Sunday night dinner and can’t wait to carry on the tradition with my family.
Friday nights were when we could have soda and I’ll always remember the large, 16 oz., I think, glass bottles of grape Faygo from those nights. Now I need a Pepsi, or sometimes tea or coffee, just to make it from 6 p.m. to the kids bedtime at 8 p.m..
“Meeker told me that I couldn’t eat out of a wineglass, but I do what I want.”
I LOVE that!! I see no reason not to eat cereal out of a wine glass!! It makes it fancy!
My mom often did the same! That left us to scrounge around for things like cereal and toast, too.
I love family meal traditions! Unfortunately I can’t really think of anything except we always ordered pizza for Monday night football Other than that we never really stuck with too many eating traditions. I love your cereal tradition! I would always go for cereal!
Cereal for dinner is tops!!!
Our tradition is usually pizza Saturday! Keith makes the BEST gluten-free pizza!
My mom is the same way! If she cooks a big meal during the day, she always say “you’re on your own for dinner!”
mmmmm!!! my sunday meals growing up was always boboli pizza!!!
I love eating cereal out of clear glasses
I can’t think of any unusual traditions. We didn’t really eat breakfast growing up. That’s kind of weird.
My Sunday meals were very similar!!!
And those peanut butter bumpers look awesome, kind of like Captain Crunch’s pb cereal which I LOVE.
We’ve done sushi on Christmas eve for the past two years. Odd..but yummy!
haha i use SO much more milk than you! i didn’t know kashi had a peanut butter cereal! yummmm!
I just had cereal for lunch….and I may have had it for breakfast as well. Can’t go wrong! When I was little we had tons of weird traditions, my favorite was how we’d always eat asparagus with our fingers and dip them in Italian salad dressing!
Haha, “fend for yourselves” was a phrase my mom looved to use. It usually resulted in cereal, like you, or toast with butter. So comforting.
Every time we got grocery shopping Adam and I get the hot bar at Wegmans for lunch. It might not quite be a tradition but it is my favorite date!
I LOOOOOVE Peanut Butter Bumpers!!! They’re so delicious! They rival even Peanut Butter Puffins which are my other favorite
Thanks for Mike’s birthday wishes – he felt so privileged to get one from “Cake Katie” haha.
And I know! Katie, the whole time at the Turning Point do you know what I was thinking?! “I WISH I COULD TAKE KATIE HERE!!” Someday it will happen…I promise
Happy (Stupid) Monday – at least it’s almost over and then you only have ONE DAY LEFT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You lucky girl!!
we SO did that on sundays too!!! i loved it
i usually made pancakes!
You just described my family!!
Sunday nights were always “fend for yourself” nights, and I always opted for cereal too. It usually involved LIFE and/or fruity pebbles…haha.
And I love that you ate your cereal out of a wine glass. Nothing wrong with that!
My family and I had that exact same tradition. We would always eat cereal on Sunday nights because lunch was always bigger than usual. Even though I’m married now, my husband and I still do that a lot.
can i just tell you.. i registered for stemless wine glasses yesterday JUST so i could use them to eat cereal out of! not kidding!
I bet this PB cereal is the perfect happy ending for a Sunday!
Wish you a great week, Katie!
Summer´s HERE!
Brazilian XOXO´s,
Gabriela
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You only have ONE more day left, right?????? Woooo you did it!!!! The last day is easy peasy!!! What do you do for the summer????
When my daughter and I would get Drive-Thru for supper, we would come home and sit on the living room floor to eat and watch TV…. It just didn’t taste as good if we weren’t on the floor!!
haha omigoodness “fend for yourself” is definitely a term used in my family regarding meals wayy to often! I’ve never heard anyone else use it