Anthony's communication skills are extremely limited, but one thing he can do is give us an idea of what he wants to eat, if we give him choices.  For example, we show him several breakfast cereals, and he taps on the one he wants. Through this process, we have ascertained that he quite likes Reese's Puffs® cereal.  Recently we were out of that cereal, and Anthony was looking through the cupboard and tapped on one cereal only to realize it wasn't the Reese's Puffs, so he kept looking.  We ultimately had him eat the cereal he tapped, but he clearly wasn't terribly interested in it.

Being the good parents we would like to think we are, we dutifully bought Reese's Puffs for Anthony and looked forward to him enjoying them again.  At breakfast, we opened the cabinet door expecting Anthony to look through the cereal boxes.  It was behind others, so we cleared away the ones in front.  However, as we were doing that, he immediately reached for a bag of caramel chocolate popcorn that his grandmother bought for him as an Easter treat.  We laughed and tried to tell him that, no, popcorn is not for breakfast, while proffering him his heretofore favorite meal.  He pushed away the cereal box and continued tapping the popcorn.  As keeping Anthony from getting upset is a top priority for us, we determined that caramel chocolate popcorn would indeed be an acceptable breakfast for one day.  We then took steps to put it out of his sight.