The Cereal Craze

I wish there was a manual with feeding instructions for teenagers, a schedule that would help with grocery shopping.

For example: these three weeks, buy extra bacon.  Bacon will be cooked for every meal and snack.  Followed by weeks of a terrible bread shortage, as in, a loaf will disappear in a day (and no, it wasn't because the dogs took it).    The need for fruit snacks, goldfish crackers and pudding cups will alternate, just have a box of each on hand at all times.

That sort of manual would be very helpful in this situation.  Three days ago, I bought 4 boxes of cold cereal.  Four boxes lasts two weeks.

Or it would have, except there is a cereal craze going on here, and every box I checked (including the boring  cereal!) has about 1/4 cup left in the bottom.  I should have been forewarned when I came home and saw the number of cereal bowls lining the counter, or this morning when I saw boys lined up in the kitchen and at the table, all with bowls of cereal, but I still had no idea how much cereal was being eaten until I picked up four almost empty boxes.....

Some days I do not mind tossing it all in a bowl and trying a new flavor combination, but today was not one of those days.  I'll have toast, thank you very much!