Dry breakfast food portable storing and direct mouth feeding container apparatus

A flaked and granular fibrous cereal food product storing and direct mouth dispensing package apparatus comprising a plastic container having an internal volume for holding the cereal food product, having a container wall, a closed bottom and an open top and having a body with an axial dimension and a transverse dimension suitable for holding in one hand, the transverse dimension being sufficiently large for filling the container with the cereal food product from a cereal box through the open top without spillage from the box of the cereal food product, the container wall having a first fastener near the open top, a spout cap having a larger open end and a smaller open end, a sidewall extending around the larger open end with a second complementary fastener on the sidewall for connecting to the first fastener on the container wall near the open end of the container after the container is filled with the cereal food product, the spout cap having the smaller outer open end remote from the larger open end, the spout cap having a tapered sloping wall connecting the larger open end and the smaller open end, for holding the cereal food product along the sloping wall while the container and the spout cap are tipped for directly feeding the cereal food product into a human mouth, the spout cap having an internal volume at least 15% of the container internal volume, for permitting free flow of the cereal food product along a surface of the cereal food product formed within the cap spout and the container when the container and cap spout are tilted for causing the surface of the cereal food product to exceed an angle of repose, the spout cap having a mouthpiece projection extending outwardly from the outer open end at an angle to the tapered sloping wall, the mouthpiece projection having walls extending generally in an axial direction with respect to the container and the spout cap, the mouthpiece projection having an internal transverse dimension sufficiently large to permit passage of largest pieces of the cereal food product and the mouthpiece projection having outer dimensions sufficiently small to be compatible with a human mouth, the projection having a length sufficiently short for avoiding jamming of the cereal food product flowing therethrough, the mouthpiece projection being oval in cross-section normal to the longitudinal axis thereof and being contoured to the open mouth for preventing spillage of the cereal food product during direct mouth feeding.

A method of storing and direct mouth dispensing of a flaked and granular fibrous cereal food product, comprising filling an internal volume of a plastic food container with a cereal food product by pouring the cereal food product from a cereal box through an open top of the container, storing the cereal food product in the container, connecting a larger open end of the spout cap to the open top of the container, providing in the spout cap a void having an internal volume of at least about 15% of the internal volume of the container, providing a smaller open end of the spout cap remote from the larger open end and connecting the larger open end and the smaller open end with a tapered sloping wall, extending a mouthpiece projection from the smaller open end at an angle to the sloping tapered wall and in a direction generally parallel to an axial direction of the container and spout cap, holding the container with one hand and placing a longer section of the mouthpiece projection inside a human lower lip, tipping the container and the spout cap and engaging a human upper lip with a shorter section of the mouthpiece projection and engaging sloping sides of the mouthpiece projection between the longer section and the shorter section with the human lips, flowing the cereal food product into the spout cap and forming a surface of the cereal food product in the spout cap and in the container, tipping the spout cap and the container beyond an angle of repose of the surface and freely flowing the cereal food product along the surface and into and through the mouthpiece projection into a human mouth, tipping the container and spout cap downward and stopping the free flow of the cereal food product along the surface through the mouthpiece projection and into a human mouth and capping the mouthpiece projection.