How to make regular cheerios taste good?
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elisabeisme wrote: »frosted mini wheats has more iron than Cheerios. I recommend going to the grocery aisle and reading the boxes to find an alternative you like better.
Is there a way to make regular mini wheats taste like frosted mini wheats?
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BlondeBeauty5 wrote: »skullshank wrote: »skullshank wrote: »darrensurrey wrote: »I'd just take iron tablets if your iron is that low.
Wait wait, I have an idea, grind the iron pills into a powder and sprinkle it on the cheerios. Your eyes will make your brain think the powder is sugar.
but it wont TASTE better! PLZ PAY ATTENTION!
How do you know? Have you done it? What kind of support is this forum.
you know what, you're right.
i apologize for being a bully.
OP, i think MrM is onto something here!
let us know how it goes!
Why would I try it? I'm not lacking iron. I eat a T-Bone steak every day for breakfast. And I eat cheerios. T-Bone steak coated in Cheerios. That's how I make my plain Cheerios taste better.
You're definitely not lacking iron but you could potentially be having other health problems. A steak for breakfast isn't healthy. Did you know that eating red meat every day like that majorly increases your risk of heart problems?
Also you can get too much iron. I hope you don't cook your steak in cast iron. You might wanna get checked for hemochromatosis.
Hemochromatosis is hereditary. It's not caused by cooking in cast iron pans.0 -
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I like the multi grain ones, they have great flavor0
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pepperpat64 wrote: »AlisonH729 wrote: »
Use orange juice instead of milk. Problem solved.
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Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »Isn't the iron in cereal added, not naturally there? If that's the case, I'd just eat what I liked and take a supplement.
OP has posted here a few times before. She is an extremely picky eater (almost like a toddler), and she has an irrational fear of swallowing a pill, she won't eat Flinstone's vitamins, and she usually refutes helpful suggestions saying that they won't work for her.
I'm not personally attacking OP, as I'm sure she's an overall nice person, but that is how her threads usually pan out.
Is she trolling or something?
I honestly don't know.
I'm sure she has some reason why she can't take the liquid iron supplement. It may upset her delicate taste buds?
too wet?
^Poor OP.
Is that a glass of wine? I don't like wine, I feel for this woman.0 -
darrensurrey wrote: »I'd just take iron tablets if your iron is that low.
Wait wait, I have an idea, grind the iron pills into a powder and sprinkle it on the cheerios. Your eyes will make your brain think the powder is sugar.
Or just snort it. I mean, this forum already established that carbs and sugar are crack or something, so if you're going to pretend the iron pills are sugar might as well do it rihgt.0 -
BlondeBeauty5 wrote: »If you're looking for iron, don't forget dark chocolate and cocoa powder. Both have more iron per ounce than beef liver.
Also - most breakfast cereals have a lot of iron. Multigrain cheerios have 51% more iron than regular. (62 mg vs 40mg)
Spinach as an iron source is questionable at best. It doesn't have that much at all. Spring mix has more than 2x the iron of spinach.
How does dark chocolate have more iron than beef liver? I looked up Ghirardelli dark chocolate and it has like 15% for 3 squares (although it does depend on the kind of dark chocolate like 60%, 70%). I'm not a fan of dark chocolate but it's tolerable. I'd eat it if it were super rich in iron but 3 pieces seems like a lot for only 15%.
Multigrain cheerios have the same amount of iron as the regular. I looked it up and they used to have 100% (that would have completely solved my problem) but they changed it. It's still a good suggestion though and I plan to try them.
They should just make a cereal called IronRich or something like that where they can load up on the iron and it's only for women who are menstruating. That way nobody will complain and ask them to lower the iron content.
Yeah you're right. I checked the nutrition label on a can of spinach at the store and although it had 15% iron for a 1/2 serving it also had 15% calcium. That will just cancel each other out.
I'm not sure what spring mix is. I haven't heard of it.
Per ounce. Dark chocolate has 15% of daily iron in 1 ounce. Beef Liver has 10% in one ounce. Of course a serving of chocolate is around an ounce, and a serving of liver is more like 5 oz, so the liver will have more per serving.
I looked up the numbers on regular and multigrain cheerios. multigrain have 51% more iron (at least in the US).
Spring mix is this:
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I add honey to them, but I also eat mine with just a tiny bit of milk. The milk actually gets sweet with the honey in it. It's great!0
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Marshmallow Fluff & rainbow sprinkles. That's how I used to eat them as a kid.0
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put cayenne pepper on them! for serious!!!0
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BlondeBeauty5 wrote: »skullshank wrote: »skullshank wrote: »darrensurrey wrote: »I'd just take iron tablets if your iron is that low.
Wait wait, I have an idea, grind the iron pills into a powder and sprinkle it on the cheerios. Your eyes will make your brain think the powder is sugar.
but it wont TASTE better! PLZ PAY ATTENTION!
How do you know? Have you done it? What kind of support is this forum.
you know what, you're right.
i apologize for being a bully.
OP, i think MrM is onto something here!
let us know how it goes!
Why would I try it? I'm not lacking iron. I eat a T-Bone steak every day for breakfast. And I eat cheerios. T-Bone steak coated in Cheerios. That's how I make my plain Cheerios taste better.
You're definitely not lacking iron but you could potentially be having other health problems. A steak for breakfast isn't healthy. Did you know that eating red meat every day like that majorly increases your risk of heart problems?
Also you can get too much iron. I hope you don't cook your steak in cast iron. You might wanna get checked for hemochromatosis.
So I guess if he eats his steak for dinner instead of breakfast he's totally healthy, amirite.1 -
BlondeBeauty5 wrote: »You're definitely not lacking iron but you could potentially be having other health problems. A steak for breakfast isn't healthy. Did you know that eating red meat every day like that majorly increases your risk of heart problems?
Also you can get too much iron. I hope you don't cook your steak in cast iron. You might wanna get checked for hemochromatosis.
This should be awesome....
The amount of comments I could come back with are so many I can't decide. But instead I'm deciding that it's just so sad I won't go there. So so sad.
but but..... I was counting on you...
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Try the multigrain Cheerios -- they have a little bit of sweetness to them0
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Just ask Iron Man for some help
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BlondeBeauty5 wrote: »skullshank wrote: »skullshank wrote: »darrensurrey wrote: »I'd just take iron tablets if your iron is that low.
Wait wait, I have an idea, grind the iron pills into a powder and sprinkle it on the cheerios. Your eyes will make your brain think the powder is sugar.
but it wont TASTE better! PLZ PAY ATTENTION!
How do you know? Have you done it? What kind of support is this forum.
you know what, you're right.
i apologize for being a bully.
OP, i think MrM is onto something here!
let us know how it goes!
Why would I try it? I'm not lacking iron. I eat a T-Bone steak every day for breakfast. And I eat cheerios. T-Bone steak coated in Cheerios. That's how I make my plain Cheerios taste better.
You're definitely not lacking iron but you could potentially be having other health problems. A steak for breakfast isn't healthy. Did you know that eating red meat every day like that majorly increases your risk of heart problems?
Also you can get too much iron. I hope you don't cook your steak in cast iron. You might wanna get checked for hemochromatosis.
Did you know that everyone who breathes oxygen eventually stops breathing oxygen?0 -
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BlondeBeauty5 wrote: »pepperpat64 wrote: »BlondeBeauty5 wrote: »skullshank wrote: »skullshank wrote: »darrensurrey wrote: »I'd just take iron tablets if your iron is that low.
Wait wait, I have an idea, grind the iron pills into a powder and sprinkle it on the cheerios. Your eyes will make your brain think the powder is sugar.
but it wont TASTE better! PLZ PAY ATTENTION!
How do you know? Have you done it? What kind of support is this forum.
you know what, you're right.
i apologize for being a bully.
OP, i think MrM is onto something here!
let us know how it goes!
Why would I try it? I'm not lacking iron. I eat a T-Bone steak every day for breakfast. And I eat cheerios. T-Bone steak coated in Cheerios. That's how I make my plain Cheerios taste better.
You're definitely not lacking iron but you could potentially be having other health problems. A steak for breakfast isn't healthy. Did you know that eating red meat every day like that majorly increases your risk of heart problems?
Also you can get too much iron. I hope you don't cook your steak in cast iron. You might wanna get checked for hemochromatosis.
Hemochromatosis is hereditary. It's not caused by cooking in cast iron pans.
It's also caused by too much iron in the diet. I've heard of several cases where men were cooking in cast iron and got the condition. Their doctor told them to stop cooking in cast iron and it went away. So yes you can get too much iron in the diet.
No, you can't. It's hereditary/genetic. Someone who has the condition can overload on iron from everyday sources, because their bodies can't process it properly. But it's not caused by iron intake. It's very difficult to overdose on iron from normal food sources and the small amount that comes from cooking in cast iron. You'd have to be taking a large amount of iron supplements to cause an overdose.
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Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »Isn't the iron in cereal added, not naturally there? If that's the case, I'd just eat what I liked and take a supplement.
OP has posted here a few times before. She is an extremely picky eater (almost like a toddler), and she has an irrational fear of swallowing a pill, she won't eat Flinstone's vitamins, and she usually refutes helpful suggestions saying that they won't work for her.
I'm not personally attacking OP, as I'm sure she's an overall nice person, but that is how her threads usually pan out.
Is she trolling or something?
I honestly don't know.
I'm sure she has some reason why she can't take the liquid iron supplement. It may upset her delicate taste buds?
too wet?
^Poor OP.
Is that a glass of wine? I don't like wine, I feel for this woman.
You know, I'm not sure. It looks frothy, so maybe it's some kind of beer?
Or it could be toilet water. I don't know.0 -
pepperpat64 wrote: »BlondeBeauty5 wrote: »pepperpat64 wrote: »BlondeBeauty5 wrote: »skullshank wrote: »skullshank wrote: »darrensurrey wrote: »I'd just take iron tablets if your iron is that low.
Wait wait, I have an idea, grind the iron pills into a powder and sprinkle it on the cheerios. Your eyes will make your brain think the powder is sugar.
but it wont TASTE better! PLZ PAY ATTENTION!
How do you know? Have you done it? What kind of support is this forum.
you know what, you're right.
i apologize for being a bully.
OP, i think MrM is onto something here!
let us know how it goes!
Why would I try it? I'm not lacking iron. I eat a T-Bone steak every day for breakfast. And I eat cheerios. T-Bone steak coated in Cheerios. That's how I make my plain Cheerios taste better.
You're definitely not lacking iron but you could potentially be having other health problems. A steak for breakfast isn't healthy. Did you know that eating red meat every day like that majorly increases your risk of heart problems?
Also you can get too much iron. I hope you don't cook your steak in cast iron. You might wanna get checked for hemochromatosis.
Hemochromatosis is hereditary. It's not caused by cooking in cast iron pans.
It's also caused by too much iron in the diet. I've heard of several cases where men were cooking in cast iron and got the condition. Their doctor told them to stop cooking in cast iron and it went away. So yes you can get too much iron in the diet.
No, you can't. It's hereditary/genetic. Someone who has the condition can overload on iron from everyday sources, because their bodies can't process it properly. But it's not caused by iron intake. It's very difficult to overdose on iron from normal food sources and the small amount that comes from cooking in cast iron. You'd have to be taking a large amount of iron supplements to cause an overdose.
Its not quite that the body can't process it correctly. An average person is capable of absorbing 5-10% of the iron in food. People with Hemochromatosis can absorb 20-30% of the iron from food.
ETA: well, I guess that would be "not processing it correctly". phuq.
Pepper is right: High Iron does not equal hemachromatosis. Hemochromatosis is high iron caused by C282Y or H63D mutations in the HFE gene or by having 2 copies of the HFE gene.0 -
pepperpat64 wrote: »BlondeBeauty5 wrote: »pepperpat64 wrote: »BlondeBeauty5 wrote: »skullshank wrote: »skullshank wrote: »darrensurrey wrote: »I'd just take iron tablets if your iron is that low.
Wait wait, I have an idea, grind the iron pills into a powder and sprinkle it on the cheerios. Your eyes will make your brain think the powder is sugar.
but it wont TASTE better! PLZ PAY ATTENTION!
How do you know? Have you done it? What kind of support is this forum.
you know what, you're right.
i apologize for being a bully.
OP, i think MrM is onto something here!
let us know how it goes!
Why would I try it? I'm not lacking iron. I eat a T-Bone steak every day for breakfast. And I eat cheerios. T-Bone steak coated in Cheerios. That's how I make my plain Cheerios taste better.
You're definitely not lacking iron but you could potentially be having other health problems. A steak for breakfast isn't healthy. Did you know that eating red meat every day like that majorly increases your risk of heart problems?
Also you can get too much iron. I hope you don't cook your steak in cast iron. You might wanna get checked for hemochromatosis.
Hemochromatosis is hereditary. It's not caused by cooking in cast iron pans.
It's also caused by too much iron in the diet. I've heard of several cases where men were cooking in cast iron and got the condition. Their doctor told them to stop cooking in cast iron and it went away. So yes you can get too much iron in the diet.
No, you can't. It's hereditary/genetic. Someone who has the condition can overload on iron from everyday sources, because their bodies can't process it properly. But it's not caused by iron intake. It's very difficult to overdose on iron from normal food sources and the small amount that comes from cooking in cast iron. You'd have to be taking a large amount of iron supplements to cause an overdose.
Its not quite that the body can't process it correctly. An average person is capable of absorbing 5-10% of the iron in food. People with Hemochromatosis can absorb 20-30% of the iron from food.
Pepper is right: High Iron does not equal hemachromatosis. Hemochromatosis is high iron caused by C282Y or H63D mutations in the HFE gene or by having 2 copies of the HFE gene.
Thanks! That is a better explanation than mine. :-)0 -
Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »Isn't the iron in cereal added, not naturally there? If that's the case, I'd just eat what I liked and take a supplement.
OP has posted here a few times before. She is an extremely picky eater (almost like a toddler), and she has an irrational fear of swallowing a pill, she won't eat Flinstone's vitamins, and she usually refutes helpful suggestions saying that they won't work for her.
I'm not personally attacking OP, as I'm sure she's an overall nice person, but that is how her threads usually pan out.
Is she trolling or something?
I honestly don't know.
I'm sure she has some reason why she can't take the liquid iron supplement. It may upset her delicate taste buds?
too wet?
^Poor OP.
Is that a glass of wine? I don't like wine, I feel for this woman.
You know, I'm not sure. It looks frothy, so maybe it's some kind of beer?
Or it could be toilet water. I don't know.
It looks like Guinness. I make that face too. I think it tastes like meat. Hey wait a minute!
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I love cereal, and cheerios are one of my favorites, so you are in luck!
Some of my favorite ways to spice it up and make them a little more flavorful are:
- Sprinkle some Truvia all natural zero calorie sweetener on top
- Use unsweetened chocolate almond milk on them instead of regular milk
- Use unsweetened vanilla almond milk and a Tsp. or two of cinnamon
- Slice up some bananas and strawberries and mix in with them
- Dice up half a fresh apple and add that and some cinnamon! Tastes like apple jacks
Enjoy!0
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