It was one of those, "Oh, you haven't finished your meal, and I don't want to sit here awkwardly not eating and watching you eat so I'll go get just enough food to keep me seemingly preoccupied, attentive, and functional until you are finished eating, not to rush you or anything, and not to sit here doing nothing, and I don't have a paperclip, pen, or my knitting with me."
"I'm going to go get some cereal" just might be code for "I am finished, but selfishly (avoiding awkward lingering) considerate (not rushing the other)."
Either that or you didn't really end up eating anything anyways, and you figured that you must eat something. And wheat was on your mind.
Conversation Cereal is perfectly acceptable. In fact, I encourage it. I'd even encourage you to get the cereal along with your first meal so you can spend more time in the long run having a conversation - where it not for its easily-mushing propensity.
Don't be wasteful. Get just enough. And finish your conversation, sans pressure.
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