Plain bricks of wheat
I ate you as a 6-year-old, mushy with grated apple and sultanas
I ate you as a teenager, made up with hot chocolate powder and hot water
I ate you as a university student, mixed with yoghurt and topped with fruit
I like you mushy, warm in winter and cold in summer
I like you with stewed fruit and no milk
I like you with frozen berries that are partially thawed
I like you with chocolate soy milk
I can eat you at any time of day
Sometimes I eat you plain, straight from the packet
Sometimes I eat you daily for weeks
Sometimes I ignore you for months
But you are always in my pantry
And you never disappoint.
What is your favourite way to eat weetbix, if you eat them?
I've never been a weetbix person :/ I like my cereal to stay a bit more crunchy and never got into cereal till I was older and then liked special k but now I probably rarely eat cereal at all.
ReplyDeleteAnything other than weetbix, I like crunchy too - and mostly dry or near dry. I make a soggy exception for these!
DeleteWhen I was a kid I loved weetbix with brown sugar and warm milk because I'd think the brown sugar was like chocolate but now I mostly like them with peanut butter or vegemite spread on them - though I confess I threw out the remains of a pack recently because it had been there so long - I go through phases with weetbix too
ReplyDeleteI've actually never had them plain with a spread, despite having them plain without anything. I think I need to try the vegemite and peanut butter options!
DeleteI never ate Weetbix until I was in the hospital and didn't have any choice. If I'm hungry I can eat three!
ReplyDeleteI am always impressed by the athletes who claim 10 or some such...such a lot of wheat in a single bowl!
DeleteWhen I was little, it was Weetbix with a centimtre-thick layer of brown sugar on top, and a little milk, or weetbix vegemite sandwiches (split in half, butter and vegemite, sandwich bakc together), then as a teen microwaved into a hot mushy paste. Good times.
ReplyDeleteHot mushy paste was my teenage approach too...although mushy is a defining feature of most of my methods. I have to try the vegemite sandwich though!
Deletehaha we go through so many Weetibix in this house too! Its Charlottes standard breakfast
ReplyDeleteAw, yay - another good Aussie child ;)
DeleteI dont eat them very often although I like them. I had no idea that they were eaten with so many variations.
ReplyDeleteI suppose when the product is quite plain, you need to be more adventurous with the toppings!
DeleteNever even heard of weebix before. What in the world is it? Sounds like it goes good with a lot of different combos.
ReplyDeleteI think they're an Australian thing - I don't even know if there is a US equivalent?! The UK has their own version but in effect, they're plain dry wheat biscuits, a bit like what you'd get if you turned wheat cereal flakes into a block. They have a great capacity to soak up moisture and also other flavours :)
DeleteI grew up on weetbix too. And I used to have mine with hot milk and a sprinkle of raw sugar. My father ate his sprinkled with wheatgerm (that was the fad health item of the 70's) xx
ReplyDeleteOh yes, that 70s delight! It reemerged as a trendy smoothie addition in the early 2000s too I think, but I haven't seen it around for years now! Food fads are always amusing :-)
DeleteA fine ode to the Australian institution that is weet-bix :)
ReplyDeleteI never ate them as a kid, but my dad would devour them. Now that I'm older, I'm much more wiser :) Love them.
Your Dad was onto a good thing :-)
DeleteCereal has never been a part of my eating regime, I used to live off toast for breakfast but now I'm more likely to down a smoothie. I do always keep weetbix in the house for the young man as he has eaten them for breakfast (with too much sugar for my liking) almost all his life.
ReplyDeleteMr Bite is like you in the taste department, although he did have weetbix as a child. I think I'd prefer smoothies for breakfast and cereal for snacks actually, but sometimes smoothies are tricky when I am having breakfast at work!
DeleteI don't think we have weetbix here! So sad. But I love your ode to them..so cute!
ReplyDeleteThanks Joanne :) And no, I think they're Australia (and a variant in the UK) specific!
DeleteHehe! This is such a cute post ;). I've actually never had Weet-Bix. Now I'm wondering what it tastes like...
ReplyDeleteKind of like wheat flakes, but with a different consistency!
DeleteCute post!!!! hahahaa
ReplyDeleteI like to crumble them and cook with them :-) But I don't buy them too often to be truthful!
Ooh, cooking with them is a new option! I haven't done much of that.
DeleteI like Weetbix in winter with warm milk - enough so that they are soft and moist, not so much that they are sloppy. My friend uses them in rum balls, but I don't like that so much.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure I'd like the rum approach much either!
DeleteHaha! Very creative. I don't like smushy food unfortunately but the rest of the family used to eat them everyday too.
ReplyDeleteYou do need to be into smush to really embrace weetbix I think ;)
Deletethat does look great with all the fruit!
ReplyDeleteFruit is a great addition to most things isn't it?!
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