r/mildlyinteresting • u/nevermndthealbatross • 1d ago
My cereal came in two small bags instead of one big one.
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u/lolalala1 1d ago edited 16h ago
To keep it from going stale. The fiber draws in water.
Edit: Why is it so addictive?
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u/epidemicsaints 1d ago
Exactly, you see why when you finish the first bag. Tastes like paper and ashes if it's stale. I love this kibble though.
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u/Suitable_Magazine372 1d ago edited 1d ago
It tastes like pellets from a pellet grill when fresh. My mom loved that stuff ❤️
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u/epidemicsaints 1d ago
Yeah that hay taste is one of those things if you like it, you crave it every day. I have loved it since I was little. But I know better than to try and convince anyone.
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u/roslinkat 1d ago
I'm now craving the hay-tasting cereal, All Bran
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u/epidemicsaints 1d ago
I love that one. As a kid we had Fruit & Fibre, which was really coarse flakes and chunks of dried fruit, like leathery little apple or peach cubes and those weird date pellets. It was my absolute favorite.
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u/RockstarAgent 23h ago
I prefer Raisin Bran, but if I ever get something like the fiber cereal, I mix it into a big bin with other cereals so I have a variety of flavor.
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u/epidemicsaints 23h ago
I like how the raisins get hard and chewy in the cold milk, against the soggy flakes.
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u/Connect_Rhubarb395 1d ago
That reminds me of how I describe my love for green tea: "The nice smell and taste of an aquarium."
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u/mrDuder1729 1d ago
Something is wrong with your green tea...
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u/r3dditr0x 1d ago
I can rock with Raisin Bran but that stuff's a lil too hardcore for me.
(and, yes, I realize Raisin Brain isn't exactly good for you, given the sugar)
Same with Grape Nuts which feature exactly 0% grapes.
To each their own, though.
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u/science_vs_romance 1d ago
I remember being a teenager and being so proud of myself for choking down a bowl of plain Total Bran Flakes one time. Then I brushed my teeth, accidentally gagged myself and puked it all up in the sink.
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u/jsands7 1d ago
I was always a Cracklin Oat Bran cereal kid growing up; I swear it’s different now though, doesn’t have the same pop
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u/louellem 16h ago
That makes me sad to hear - I too loved that as a kid. I called it "buckle cereal".
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u/Charimia 1d ago
Grape Nuts is good… with an ungodly amount of sugar added.
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u/smellmyfingerplz 16h ago
Grape nuts with honey, loved it but would fart so much wife no longer allows me to eat it
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u/queer-scout 19h ago
I have never had this cereal but your comment convinced me to try! I used to work with rabbits that were fed a lab pellet that smelled like sweet hay and I always thought it smelled delicious. Now I can find out.
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u/LegitPancak3 1d ago
I’m partial to Grape Nuts with milk and honey myself. Yea you have to grind your teeth and it may taste bland to most but I love it :)
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u/Suitable_Magazine372 1d ago
My Mom loved Grape Nuts (tooth removing bolts) too. It’s what she ate before she discovered Fiber One (wood pellets)
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u/Rortugal_McDichael 1d ago
Pro move I learned when traveling a lot for work and eating hotel breakfasts: mix 50/50 fiber pellets like the above and a sweet cereal of your choice (they usually had something resembling cocoa pebbles or cocoa krispies in the battery of gravity-fed grain silos). You get some fiber, less sugar, and your milk still tastes sweet at the end.
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u/prole_arms 1d ago
Who cares what it tastes like. It’s low calorie, high fiber, and have you seen the colon cancer rates?
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u/Suitable_Magazine372 1d ago
That reminds me, I need to send in a poo sample to my doctor for testing. Thx 💩
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u/Parking_Locksmith489 18h ago
Now you just sent a short video of you passing the stool on your phone. Just remember to put it in a Ziploc.
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u/Jimbobjoesmith 1d ago
lol cereal is like human kibble
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u/epidemicsaints 1d ago
My other fave are the little Chef Boyardee single serves with the pull tab top, straight up pet food for kids.
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u/AnnoyedVelociraptor 1d ago
For that poop that feels like 10 times larger than usual, but is a clean wipe.
An hour later you still feel that awesome relief.
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u/brookuslicious 1d ago
I swear Metamucil poops make me feel like a new woman. Clean colon and clean TP, what more could I ask for?
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u/Longjumping_Youth281 1d ago
And yet they still can't put it in a resealable bag.
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u/rob_s_458 1d ago
But when I buy a package of socks, for some reason that bag is resealable
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u/throwaway098764567 1d ago
you don't want stale socks do you
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u/COCKJOKE 15h ago
I recently bought undershirts that came in a resealable bag but there was a hole on the front of the bag so you can feel how soft the shirts are. I now realize I bought stale shirts.
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u/BrickGun 1d ago
Even after 50+ years on this planet I still don't understand why cereal bags aren't zip-loc'd by now. Well, except that non-sealing bags allow the cereal to go stale faster... so maybe it's the Kellogg's™ method of planned obsolescence?
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u/Bananaland_Man 18h ago
I wish all cereals did this, I can't stand stale cereal, and it often goes stale before I finish it...
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u/AdWooden2312 1d ago
Fibre two wasn't as catchy a product name.
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u/TheGringoDingo 1d ago
It’s a bit more accurate, though, seeing how fiber works.
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u/ComicConArtist 1d ago
fiber poo
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u/Appropriate-Log8506 1d ago
It’s named after how long you have to chew it to be able to swallow. One minute.
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u/aclockworkporridge 23h ago
Everyone in these comments: if you're coming for Fiber One, you'll have to go through me first. I am a diehard hater of big brands like the rest of you, but you'll have to pry my morning poop twigs from my cold dead hands.
You truly do not understand the ethereal plane of existence that a well-fibered life brings. I love my rabbit food, and I love it's weird two bags, and there's nothing you can do to stop me.
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u/fuzzypurpledragon 23h ago
I, too, love FiberOne. Milk is good, yogurt is better. I've been told I am weird for enjoying "old people" foods.
Ever added a little fresh fruit or compote? Yum!
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u/aclockworkporridge 22h ago
Oh absolutely. Fresh fruit, Greek yogurt, maybe a little granola. Poopin like an absolute dream and excited for breakfast every morning.
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u/only-ashes 10h ago
okay you've convinced me to get some from the store when they open
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u/aclockworkporridge 8h ago
Also watch for sales because God damn is cereal expensive, and Fiber One even more so.
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u/UnSCo 16h ago
I used to eat this shit every morning and you’re tempting me to going back to my horrifying routine. I know my gf would judge the shit out of me. It’s such a healthy breakfast I feel like.
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u/aclockworkporridge 8h ago
Would she judge you, or would she be jealous of your ascendance to a higher power?
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u/Sinavestia 13h ago
I actually had a box recently that was one big bag, following week back to 2.
This is my favorite cereal, I typically split it 50/50 in the bowl with cheerios.
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u/PresentationDull7707 18h ago
You can also have high fiber by eating fruits and vegetables that no doubt look and taste better than fiber one cereal. Not to mention the other benefits you get from eating them.
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u/aclockworkporridge 17h ago
I totally agree, but as someone who has gone through phases of religiously tracking all micronutrients and fiber I get for 3-6 month periods, it is extremely difficult to get what you need from fruits and veggies without a very flexible budget, taste preference, or timetable for food prep.
I think it's super important that people do whatever they can to get their minimums from raw sources, but it's also critical that people make compromises in the name of a sustainable habit. Diet absolutism has created a really dangerous dichotomy in the American diet, and studies show that even affluent, health conscious Americans are deficient in a ton of areas, including fiber.
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u/LowBad535 12h ago
I used to eat insane amounts of fruits and veggies, but always had chronic constipation. I tried prunes, metamucil, probiotics, other fiber supplements etc. This is the only thing that keeps me regular.
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u/SpiralingDownAndAway 13h ago
Would you recommend these to someone new? I’m struggling to incorporate fiber and tried cleaner morning meals like yoghurt with fruit and granola but I keep getting bored and breaking diet. I used to use Metamucil but the amount of lead lawsuit scared me off
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u/aclockworkporridge 8h ago
Honestly, yes. I will caveat by saying to treat it like a supplement. I.e. it is always better to get nutrients from natural sources (fruits, veggies, etc), but supplement where you observe a gap. It becomes yawningly easy to hit your fiber target when you use Fiber One, but you shouldn't necessarily always eat it. So it's better to plan your day, get as much fiber as possible, then do the math to see whether you need a bowl of it.
Great mixed with granola, yogurt, fresh fruit, etc as well. Honestly the taste isn't terrible. Also worth noting it does have some sugar alcohols in it. Doesn't bother me personally, but some don't love that.
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u/Ok-Relative2129 1d ago
Why are you eating gerbil food?
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u/Quiptastic 22h ago
Because it has 18g of fiber and 90 calories per serving, and isn't flavored to the point to where i want to eat three double bowls of it in a single sitting. It mixes well with peanut butter and honey, too. I've never shat more regular in my entire life.
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u/Noname_left 21h ago
I just mix a serving with a tastier cereal (raisin bran crunch and special k fruit and yogurt mainly) and it bumps even more fiber in and tastes good.
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u/Belfind 1d ago
One hand, it is slightly more plastic used so more plastic waste. However, from a consumer side of someone that doesn't eat a lot of cereal fast it is a great idea. So many times I have gotten to the last 1/3 of cereal its stale AF.
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u/Kennyvee98 1d ago
glass jars are a good thing, or those ikea sealing clips work wonders
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u/SwimAd1249 23h ago
The thing about plastic waste is that usually it's still preferable (like in an environmental way) to have more of it if it means wasting less food.
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u/BritishLibrary 21h ago
Cucumbers are the best example of this I think.
Studies showed you can nearly triple the viable shelf life of a cucumber when it comes in a plastic wrap.
Massive reduction in food waste / improvement in quality in return for a bit of plastic.
Difficult thing on sustainability is always going to be the tough choices on what is better in the bigger picture
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u/Nervous-Masterpiece4 23h ago
Funnily enough we use the same machine used to make chicken pelletes in plastics recycling to process waste plastic film.
It's a brute force affair tearing and compacting the film through the holes rather than heat based options like friction agglometators.
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u/ForTheLoveOfGodKaren 1d ago
I think you mean your cardboard pellets came in 2 bags. Signed someone who eats high fiber cereal. Also raisin bran ftw.
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u/noxvita83 20h ago
Is it just me, or do these look like the pellets from the quarter machines at petting zoos where you'd buy a small handful to feed to the animals and coax them over to you?
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Gen z in here laughing all ha ha ha hee hee ha ha ha
Wait till you hit your 40s. You'll wish you'd been on top of your fiber.
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u/SleepylaReef 1d ago
Fiber One has always done that
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u/nevermndthealbatross 1d ago
This is my fifth box and the first time I’ve gotten it. Maybe different packing facilities have different bags.
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u/onthenerdyside 1d ago
Perhaps it depends on the size of the box? Have you mostly been buying smaller boxes?
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u/Bownaldo 20h ago
Yeah, I have an Amazon subscription for these and they randomly come in either the one or 2 bag boxes.
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u/AsanoSokato 1d ago
Looking at a box of it right now bought just a week ago, and it is one bag. Have bought it often and never before seem two bags.
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u/SeemedReasonableThen 21h ago
Ours has always been two bags until a couple of months ago, when it suddenly started being just one bag. Same size box, same store.
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u/Gravity-Glitch 20h ago
It's changed recently! I buy it every week and now all my bags are singlar regular cereal bags
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u/bubbafatok 1d ago
For years I've wished all cereals would do this. Can't imagine it's that much more plastic use, and it would help keep all the cereal fresher.
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u/srcarruth 1d ago
Get a sealing container, dump it in there and it'll keep better
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u/GayMormonPirate 1d ago
With shrinkflation, the current usual cereal box size holds like 2 bowls of cereal max.
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u/peachnecctar 23h ago
I don’t like extra waste but I honestly wish all cereal came like this. I rarely want to finish a whole box all on my own before it goes stale
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u/MikeLynnTurtle 19h ago
Your cereal looks like my turtle’s pellets. No offense, I commend you for being on top of your gut health, but I suspect my turtle’s pellets taste better.
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u/lordmulgar 1d ago
Looks like Creature Pellets in No Mans Sky
https://nomanssky.fandom.com/wiki/Creature_Pellets
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u/mrlotato 1d ago
Seems like a waste of plastic while also giving you less food but I cant prove it
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u/shotsallover 1d ago
They’re getting ready for the next round of skrinkflation where you’ll get half the amount for the same price.
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u/IOUonehotcarl 1d ago
I love it when cereal comes like this. I don’t always want it. It’s nice to be able to indulge in a guilty pleasure during a weekend when you’re feeling bad about yourself, but it not something f you should have all the time… Damn…told on myself
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u/chocoeatstacos 22h ago
Ugh I remember this stuff. Whenever my mom went on a diet, so did we. This stuff was the worst. Along with some ice filled skim milk. Blech.
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u/andromeda-unchained 20h ago
It looks like those pellets that you feed your pets. But yeah, that type of packaging prevents all of your cereals from going stale after you've opened them if you're not the type to transfer it to another air-tight container.
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u/Zentirium 18h ago
Gonna admit, saw the bags and didn’t think it was cereal at first. Thought it was dried mealworms you’d feed to a lizard until I reread the post
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u/no_sight 1d ago
Boy these pellets really look like rabbit food