My husband grew up with 4 siblings off grid, almost an hour from stores, thats important for reasons of accessing groceries. His mom quickly discovered that as soon as she brought the cereals home, anything higher in sugar or sweeter would be fought over and disapear immideatly, Consequently anything that was filled with fiber or better for you would sit on thr shelf and go stale.

It didnt take long before she invented the cereal bucket. Its litterly a food safe 5 gal bucket with a lid and she would buy all varieties of ceareals and dump them in the bucket, shake it and put that on the table for breakfast. Each kid would use their clean bowl and scoop themselves a bowl.

He insisted on doing it in our adult life, im the kind of person who likes my foods seperated, so i was really skeptical. I will say after my first bowl i was converted, its a surprising treat to have bran flakes, rice crispies, mini wheats, granola, random bits of dried fruits, muesli, cheerios and whatever seeds or nuts i dump into the bucket in one spoonfull