Breakfast Cereals (which one do you suggest?)
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Voices: ChadMan, lizanneh, optimumhealth, jennsutherland, TheAng, YMark, JetJaguar, Fenrir, cccc, wjohns7, pengudeus, road2health, and girliepop
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Oct 14, 2009 8:30pm
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I am really big into breakfast and I try to alternate between Oatmeal and a Cereal mix but I was looking to mix things up with a different cereal mix… Do you guys have any suggestions for a HIGH Fiber Cereal? Here is what I currently eat:
Nutrition info on the meal above:
And this keeps me full pretty much until lunch! Thanks in advance, |
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Oct 14, 2009 9:05pm
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Hi Chad! I actually don’t recommend breakfast cereal at all. It’s my opinion that the majority are highly processed corn or wheat with sugar and lots of added vitamins. Grape Nuts, for instance, is basically hard little white bread crumbs. It’s less than 50% whole grain. Now certainly some are better than others. I do think that Kashi GoLean is pretty decent nutritionally, as cereals go, although don’t confuse it with GoLean Crunch which is significantly higher in sugar and not recommended. There’s also shredded wheat, which is one of the better ones from a minimally processed whole grain perspective. Anyway, if you’re looking for a great breakfast, why not eat eggs? I love heating up mushrooms, spinach, onion, or whatever veggies I have around and tossing them in an omelet. If I’m not in the mood for a traditional omelet, I add some black beans and serve it in a whole wheat tortilla with salsa. That’s one of my favorite breakfasts. If you’re into oatmeal, you could try making pumpkin oatmeal. Just put canned pumpkin into your whole oats while you’re cooking them. I wrote a blog article about this subject a while back. Here’s a link in case you find it helpful. |
| Oct 14, 2009 9:05pm |
Kashi products are excellent. |
| Oct 15, 2009 5:37am |
If you’re looking for a cheap, healthy alternative to oatmeal, try making a batch of cinnamon quinoa – toss in a handful of dried fruit if you’re feeling fancy. It really keeps my energy steady, and has a decent amount of protein and fiber. I make a big batch of quinoa on the weekend, and I’m good to go all week. Here’s my recipe on DB: http://dailyburn.com/recipes/quinoa_-_cinnamon Or, if you want to go eggy, try making a batch of egg muffins – again, you make a big batch on the weekend, and you’re set for the week. |
| Oct 15, 2009 9:52am |
You really do have to read the labels on cereal – I’m learning more and more that nothing on the box means anything except the nutrition label and the ingredient list. Men’s Health listed plain shredded wheat as the best pick. I’ve also seen them say good things about cheerios but it’s not really a high fiber cereal. Only 1 gram of sugar though. |
| Oct 15, 2009 12:36pm |
Go Lean isn’t too bad for a cereal. Good amount of fiber. |
| Oct 15, 2009 2:10pm |
“You really do have to read the labels on cereal – I’m learning more and more that nothing on the box means anything except the nutrition label and the ingredient list.” True, I was surprised to find the Fruit Loops my daughter eats were actually better than the Fiber One I usually ate for breakfast. |
| Oct 15, 2009 2:52pm |
@JetJaguar – the fiber one must be horrible then, fruit loops is like.. 90% sugar |
| Oct 15, 2009 4:45pm |
Personal favourite for me is natural muesli with added almonds, goji berries, blue berries, chopped strawberries, and almond milk. Nothing artificial in it, and only natural sugars. |
| Oct 15, 2009 5:07pm |
It is horrible. It’s the frosted shredded wheat variety, and it has more sugar than fruit loops (though admittedly we get the reduced sugar fruit loops, which are still like 85% sugar). The only thing going for it is more fiber, everything else is about a wash. |
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Oct 15, 2009 10:39pm
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Cereals are cereals, not mini-cookies marketed as cereals. Rice (brown, red, black…), buckwheat, quinoa, corn, spelt, amaranth, millet, wild rice, all the other bird food… I prefer buying them separately, but it’s not always possible. All that into the rice cooker. They can be just cooked, or made into porridge. At the limit, rolled cereals, wheat, oats, quinoa…. or flour of roasted cereals or their germs. I use bran as an ingredient to make bread or cookies. Oh, I eat the cereals from the box when I stay in homes where they buy that. I was told a few times I had to eat those wet sweets to give the “good example” to kids. |
| Oct 16, 2009 7:49am |
@ TheAng, I just discovered that along with shredded wheat Fiber One, both the raisin bran variety and the honey cluster variety of Fiber One also has more sugar than fruit loops. |
| Oct 16, 2009 11:00am |
@JetJaguar Man, that doesn’t really surprise me since you are supposed to focus on the FIBER IS GOOD FOR YOU part and not the “but the rest will kill you” part. I looked at a sample box of fiber one something or other and it had about twenty ingredients – that just seemed unnecessary. Also it had sugar, corn syrup, HFCS and sucrolose! I guess they don’t think it will taste good otherwise. It read like a chemistry book. |
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Oct 16, 2009 11:28am
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While we’re on the subject, I like using Fruit Loops as a comparison for other products, because it has a pretty standard serving size, and people don’t usually dispute that it’s junk. To that end, I remember comparing Fruit Loops to Kashi GoLean Crunch (which is different than Kashi GoLean). The GoLean Crunch had the same amount of sugar as the fruit loops. Granted, it had more fiber and protein, but do you really need all that sugar to choke it down? I think CCCC has great advice on this front. If you must eat grains, steer away from cereal and make your own! |
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Oct 16, 2009 1:43pm
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I agree with lizanneh. I say no cereal. Way too much sugar, unless it’s homemade with nuts, seeds and berries. It’s missing adequate protein, it’s extremely yang (as in yin and yang) for a morning meal, and promotes a nice afternoon crash. |
| Oct 16, 2009 2:05pm |
I took my little brother to the store with me. We were both interested in eating better, so we looked for some good cereals for breakfast. Of course, we skipped over the usual name-brand cereals like Fruity Pebbles and Cinnamon Toast Crunch. We looked at the healthier cereal and got a general feel for what cereals were healthiest. …Or so we thought. I can’t remember the name of the cereal, but for laughs, we compared it to Cookie Crisp. But the true laughter was not because of the vast difference of the labels. Rather, the laughs ( and shock ) were from the fact that Cookie Crisp seemed to have a healthier looking label – relative to it’s serving size, of course. We decided at that point that if we were going to eat healthy, we would have to avoid those cereals all together. |
| Oct 19, 2009 4:19am |
What about Shredded Wheat & Bran? We combine that with a little bit of Grape Nuts, topped with ground flaxseed and some nuts for breakfast in our house. Sometimes topped with yummy fruit in season; berries in the spring/summer, peaches in the summer, chopped apple or pear in the fall/winter). All in all, LOTS of fiber, a fair amount of protein and good fats from the flaxseed and nuts. Perfect, simple, and VERY few ingredients, all of which I can pronounce! |
| Oct 19, 2009 6:47am |
Shredded wheat, just the plain kind, seems fine to me – it has one ingredient, wheat. I don’t really see why grape-nuts is all that bad either, not a lot of sugar and etc. I mean it is processed more than others but it still seems like a good pick as long as you watch portion sizes. |
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Oct 19, 2009 8:36am
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Grape nuts is essentially hard little bread crumbs. It’s less than 50% whole grain. I’m not a huge fan of Kashi in general (you can’t just assume all their products are healthy, because they are not), but their grape nuts equivalent product is actually 100% whole grain. It’s called 7 whole grain Nuggets. My DH loves to put grape nuts in his yogurt, so I’ve been buying this brand so that he’s getting something healthier than regular Grape Nuts. Yes, shredded wheat that contains only whole grain wheat is a pretty reasonable cereal, but I still think that there are many more varied breakfasts that trump it in the health department (such as eggs with veggies). Now, combine a small serving of shredded wheat with some fruit and a source of protein, and you’ve got a more balanced start to your day. |
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Oct 20, 2009 12:05pm
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Uncle Sam is the only way to do cereal. http://www.usmillsllc.com/usmills/productview_d… |
