Nothing hits the spot like a really good bowl of cereal. Sometimes, it’s all you actually want, whether it’s as a quick snack, in lieu of cooking dinner or, you know, for breakfast.
And let’s get one thing out of the way: The best (and only correct) method for the perfect bowl of cereal is to pour the milk first, then the contents of the box. If you don’t already subscribe to this method, try it and watch your cereal-consuming life change.
But regardless of how you handle your milk, not all cereals are created equal — though many of them include a mountain of sugar and are probably not actually recommended as part of a healthy diet. No matter because great cereals are unbeatable.
So here’s our extremely unscientific ranking of these 20 random big brand-name cereals.