Cereal without Milk

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If you can tolerate milk, then you probably enjoy cereal whenever you feel like it. You pour it into a bowl, and then pour over some milk. Simple and easy. But if you are lactose intolerant and do not trust all these “fake” milks then you have to get creative, if you want to continue enjoying cereal. I have figured out three ways to keep eating cereal now that milk is not in my life. Let me say that my sister, who can drink milk, is grossed out by what I do. I don’t find it gross. I don’t even find it odd. It’s yummy. First there is oatmeal. I eat steel cut oatmeal. Years ago, I used to sprinkle raisins and brown sugar on top, add a little butter and pour on some milk. Now, I don’t have sugar in the house, and like the oatmeal enough that I don’t usually add raisins, but sometime I do cut up a little fruit on top (strawberries, apples or peaches). Then, to make it creamy, I put four small lumps (about a teaspoon each) of frozen vanilla yogurt on top. It melts and creates little streams of yumminess. Second, I really like Trader Joe’s Raisin Bran cereal. It has lots of whole grains in it, and is fiber rich. It also tastes good in a bowl, with orange juice poured over it. This is the one that grosses out my sister. But if you like cereal and you like orange juice, mixing them shouldn’t freak you out. I like the taste, and the cereal doesn’t get mushy very fast. The final one is not really like eating cereal. It’s more like having a dessert. I put a muesli type cereal into a small custard dish, open up a small container of fruit (pineapple perhaps) or cut some up (strawberries again) and get out a container of yogurt (peach, raspberry or cherry). Then I dip my spoon into the yogurt, scoop up a small bit of fruit, and dunk it into the cereal. Yes, it is a small job to eat it this way, but I have tried mixing it together, and don’t like the consistency. This way works just fine. What other ways would you eat cereal, if you were now off of milk or cream?