Proper noun

1. A manufactured breakfast cereal made of a wheat and bran mixture baked into flakes.

Quotations

• 1993, Marcus Miller, in Bass Heroes, Tom Mulhern (ed.), Backbeat Books, page 34

  Sometimes when I'm feeling my Wheaties, I want to be the one to go out and experiment, and I expect the drummer to help me by keeping it down.

• 2005, Christopher Kennedy Lawford, Symptoms of Withdrawal, William Morrow and Co., page 159

  Drugs were my Wheaties. My breakfast of champions. They made me feel fortified.

• 2006, Stephenson Humphries-Brooks, Cinematic Savior, Greenwood Publishing Group, page 79

  For the first time in the history of the Cinematic Jesus, the traditional barriers that relegated Catholic sensibilities to European-produced films, for example, Il vangelo Matteo (1966), are removed, and Catholic piety becomes as mainstream as Wheaties.