Not a freak, but it's kinda wasteful... 

I refill my bowl with cereal and keep eating until there's no milk left. If there's ever anything left it's not much, and then it depends on how I'm feeling.

Toss it because it tastes disgusting. Of course, I dislike the taste of milk anyway and would not drink a glass of it given any choice whatsoever -- let alone one that's had time to warm from being on the table for long enough for me to eat a bowl of cereal or absorb weird flavours off of the cereal.

I don't pour a lot of milk on cereal anyway, though -- enough to make sure all the cereal bits will be sufficiently moistened by the time I eat 'em is just fine by me.

Drink it. Milk leftover from Honey Nut Cherios is some of the best stuff ever.


Also, not cereal milk....but I think I want to try to make this.
http://gizmodo.com/5869688/how-to-make-milk-thatll-get-you-hammered/gallery/9

*applauds Scix, gives standing ovation*

I was raised with my grandpa in the house; he'd been a WWII prisoner of war, and knew what it was like to become a living skeleton. Food was not allowed to be wasted. I later had to learn, as an adult, that there are occasionally good reasons to toss food out. Not anywhere included in those reasons is "I don't like this food that I regularly put on my plate." Try it and don't like it? Okay. That's something you don't put on your plate/in your bowl anymore.

I really don't see the sense in throwing cereal milk out. You were consuming it just a minute ago, flavors and all, with the cereal itself. And those last bites of cereal are always more milk than cereal, anyway. If it's too disgusting, or there's too much of it? You need to consider using a lot less milk. I applaud Cythy for, at the very elast, using only enough to moisten it...but at the same time, I've gotta say: how long does a bowl of cereal take to eat if the milk would have time to warm? My milk's always nice and cold when I finish my cereal. And as to the flavors...as I mentioned, it tastes the same as it did a moment ago. To me, it always tastes exactly like milk and whatever cereal I'd just been eating. Same flavors, but now it's all in liquid form rather than mixed liquid and solids. A change in texture, perhaps, but otherwise no difference from when the bowl was newly poured.

And back to Scix...I don't understand what people have against pizza crusts, in general. Pizza crusts are delicious. I was actually really sad, once, when someone ordered a no-crust pizza for our group.

I was raised with my grandpa in the house; he'd been a WWII prisoner of war, and knew what it was like to become a living skeleton. Food was not allowed to be wasted.

Hear, here. My great-aunt wasn't a POW, but she did have to raise my grandma and five other siblings as a teenager in the Depression after great-grandma got an early ticket to Heaven. The "Clean Plate Club" was virtually a sacrament.

I've gotta say: how long does a bowl of cereal take to eat if the milk would have time to warm?

1 -- A small quantity of milk doesn't take very long to get warmer than refrigerator-cold, and refrigerator-cold is the only temperature I can stand milk at.
2 -- Like Narcissa, I prefer to read (or internet) while I eat, if I'm eating alone, and I'll talk with my companions if I'm not. Rushing through a meal has never been in my repertoire; adjusting to having to eat lunch within half an hour at school was a serious problem for me. It took a few weeks before I was able to eat enough food during the lunch break; fortunately, I brought my lunches, so I could eat during afternoon break, too, etc.

And, wrt going poor and being hungry, I've been there -- and I still toss the milk in the cereal. When I was that poor, I didn't buy cereal I wasn't willing to eat dry.

1 -- A small quantity of milk doesn't take very long to get warmer than refrigerator-cold, and refrigerator-cold is the only temperature I can stand milk at.
2 -- Like Narcissa, I prefer to read (or internet) while I eat, if I'm eating alone, and I'll talk with my companions if I'm not. Rushing through a meal has never been in my repertoire; adjusting to having to eat lunch within half an hour at school was a serious problem for me. It took a few weeks before I was able to eat enough food during the lunch break; fortunately, I brought my lunches, so I could eat during afternoon break, too, etc.

I take a very long time to eat, myself, which is why I was confused (and I read/talk/watch TV while doing so)...but if you can only stand it at right-out-of-the-fridge cold, I guess I can kinda understand. My milk, though admittedly there's a lot of it, tends to stay just-barely-above-fridge-level cold for at least half an hour or so. It typically takes about an hour, unless it's the dead of a hot summer, for it to get to what I'd personally consider warm.