How to pick a Breakfast Cereal

nsueflorence

http://www.drmirkin.com/nutrition/N180.htm

I eat cereal pretty much every morning. I am looking for a better alternative then what I have been eating (high sugar). I found this site that has listing on recommendation.

What else is a fast healthy choice?

HidyleDidyle

Post, Shredded Wheat with Bran. Great with berries or bananas on top.

JaydeSkye

I eat Kellog's All Bran, then add dried cranberries because the cereal has 100% of all the essential vitamins - which means I don't need to take a supplement. I'm not into pill popping and I love my cereal!

bmmadden

Multigrain cheerios

sue26

oatmeal of course:happy:

AmberElaine84

My new favorite is in the organic aisle. Cascadian Farm dark chocolate almond granola. It's 250 cals w/ half cup of skim milk and fills me up until lunch.

5mule

Only choose from the All Bran or High Bran Cereals list on that site. The list above it is terrible if you are trying to lose weight. Go with the site's recommendation about oatmeal, some raisins, and a small handful of nuts. I add a sweetener packet, cinnamon, and a dash of salt. You will be full all morning. Don't use flavored instant like maple syrup brown sugar raisin whatever. Plain instant is okay. Quaker old fashioned oats is my favorite - 2.5 min in the microwave, stir after the first min and 30 sec - watch it to make sure it doesn't boil over. You can make it taste like pretty much anything if you get creative, and as long as you don't add too much fat or sugar, it's a great breakfast. And with a side of eggs it's even better.

5mule

Yes to HidyleDidyle! The Post Shredded Wheat N Bran is an awesome choice.

MissingMinnesota

my favorite is Kellog's Fiber Plus Cinnamon Oat Crunch Cereal

BoresEasily

The best way to pick a breakfast cereal, bread or anything else really is to carefully check the list of ingredients. Healthy alternatives don't list sugar in the first 3 ingredients. The further down the list and the less sugars(substitutes) the better. Substitutes are as follows, fructose, dextrose, glucose, sucrose, anything ending in ose is a sugar which most people are uunaware of. If you're looking for healthy alternatives look at Kashi.

BoresEasily

This if for All-bran.

WHEAT BRAN, SUGAR, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, MALT FLAVORING, CALCIUM PHOSPHATE, CALCIUM CARBONATE, SALT, SODIUM ASCORBATE AND ASCORBIC ACID (VITAMIN C), REDUCED IRON, NIACINAMIDE, PYRIDOXINE HYDROCHLORIDE (VITAMIN B6), RIBOFLAVIN, (VITAMIN B2), FOLIC ACID, THIAMIN HYDROCHLORIDE (VITAMIN B1), VITAMIN A PALMITATE, VITAMIN B12 AND VITAMIN D.

This is for Kashi - Go Lean

Soy grits, seven whole grains and sesame cereal (hard red winter wheat, long grain brown rice, whole grain oats, triticale, barley, rye, buckwheat, sesame seeds), evaporated cane juice syrup, corn meal, corn flour, soy protein, wheat bran, oat hull fibre, corn bran, honey, evaporated cane juice, natural flavours, calcium carbonate, salt, annatto colour.

Notice the drastic differences? By the way I forgot to mention honey/syrup for sugars.

If you're eating processed soups I would recommend making your own. They're so ridiculously high in sodium. I used to think I was clever by buying Campbell's Healthy Request and eating a couple of those a day, until I learned that each can has like 1600g of sodium. And there I was wondering why I felt like crap and all dried out after eating those.

Oats, Oatmeal, (impressed by Shredded wheat too), or really read the ingredients when it comes to other cereals.

virginiagomes

Fiber One- Original

AmberBelandria

Thanks for posting this I love cereal and could eat it all day. Thanks for the great answers!

soysos

steel cut oatmeal or cheese grits, there is no better way to start the day. make them in large batches then nuke em come breakfast time. the big problem I have with most cold cereals as well as most instant varieties is that they have no substance, ok for a light snack but it doesn't linger I'm hungry again in an hour or so. plus foods high in insoluble fiber make me nauseous.

amakenm

Cereal makes you fat! Spikes blood sugar, slows your metabalism. Doesn't satiate.

I would have to pick the least worst: Organic Thick Rolled or Steel Cut Oatmeal.

All those processed cereals and granola bars are horrible.

Grokette

oatmeal of course:happy:

I agree with this if it is Steel Cut Oats.................

I will never touch any mainstream cereals with a 10 foot pole.

Katherine912

Special K Protein Plus is great. It has ten grams of protein and five grams of fiber per serving. It's also low in a sugar and carbs. I usually add some raisins and serve it with skim milk for around 160 calories a bowl. It's yummy and filling.

nikhil_c8

oatmeal of course:happy:

I agree with this if it is Steel Cut Oats.................

I will never touch any mainstream cereals with a 10 foot pole.

Agreed...Plus its so cheap

Grokette

Special K Protein Plus is great. It has ten grams of protein and five grams of fiber per serving. It's also low in a sugar and carbs. I usually add some raisins and serve it with skim milk for around 160 calories a bowl. It's yummy and filling.

Special K cereals are also filled with High Fructose Corn Syrup and soy (which is processed and not healthy). And this is not to mention that the grains are so processed that they have to fortify with the vitamins and minerals to try and tout it as being healthy.

I can't stand the likes of Kelloggs, General Mills and these main stream Food Manufacturers that are touting these cereals as healthy, when they are anything but healthy.

Please, I am urging you all to please become label readers and stop giving your hard earned money to these manufacturers that DON'T have your health and well-being at heart.

They want your $$$$ and that is all, their bottom line.

Ingredients:

WHEAT BRAN, SOY GRITS, RICE, WHEAT GLUTEN, SOYBEAN OIL, WHOLE GRAIN WHEAT, SOY PROTEIN ISOLATE, SUGAR, SALT, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, MALT FLAVOR, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, ASCORBIC ACID (VITAMIN C), SUCRALOSE, ALPHA TOCOPHEROL ACETATE (VITAMIN E), REDUCED IRON, NIACINAMIDE, PYRIDOXINE HYDROCHLORIDE (VITAMIN B6), RIBOFLAVIN (VITAMIN B2), THIAMIN HYDROCHLORIDE (VITAMIN B1), VITAMIN A PALMITATE, FOLIC ACID AND VITAMIN B12, TO MAINTAIN QUALITY, BHT HAS BEEN ADDED TO PACKAGING

Grokette

Cereal makes you fat! Spikes blood sugar, slows your metabalism. Doesn't satiate.

I would have to pick the least worst: Organic Thick Rolled or Steel Cut Oatmeal.

All those processed cereals and granola bars are horrible.

I like what your saying!! However, our words will fall on deaf ears because no one wants to hear the truth about our tainted food supply and the companies that are manufacturing these gross and fake foods for their bottom line of making a dollar.

Pril2000

If I have to eat cereal in the morning (I try to eat oatmeal or eggs) then I will have regular cheerios or kashi honey roasted o's. They're like honey nut cheerios but way better for you.

virginiagomes

Cereal makes you fat! Spikes blood sugar, slows your metabalism. Doesn't satiate.

I would have to pick the least worst: Organic Thick Rolled or Steel Cut Oatmeal.

All those processed cereals and granola bars are horrible.

So can you provide some better choices of breakfast? I am trying to learn here, but if you don't give other choices what is left to eat?
Please educate us on better breakfast choices.

amakenm

Eggs, meats; bacon/ ham/steak/chicken/turkey/red salmon, coconut oil, grass fed ghee, and cod liver oil, green vegetables, cayenne pepper, sea salt. Plain Greek yogurt, still too high in sugar to be a "regular".
You can get nitrate free breakfast meats "Applegate Farms" in health food stores, and organic chicken and beef are available at most major markets now. "NOW" non bitter Stevia is the sweetener I use, doesn't have the metallic taste so much.

I just wouldn't make cereal a daily breakfast routine, especially boxed cereals. When I'm serious about losing, I try to keep my total sugars under 10 grams a day ( lettuce, cucumbers, onions, broccoli, all have sugar), most cereals have 2 to 3 times that, and those that don't are so processed they convert immediately to sugar when you eat them.

I just try to avoid all possible sugars, bad carbs.

frenchfri87

kashi!!!:flowerforyou:

Grokette

Eggs, meats; bacon/ ham/steak/chicken/turkey/red salmon, coconut oil, grass fed ghee, and cod liver oil, green vegetables, cayenne pepper, sea salt. Plain Greek yogurt, still too high in sugar to be a "regular".
You can get nitrate free breakfast meats "Applegate Farms" in health food stores, and organic chicken and beef are available at most major markets now. "NOW" non bitter Stevia is the sweetener I use, doesn't have the metallic taste so much.

I just wouldn't make cereal a daily breakfast routine, especially boxed cereals. When I'm serious about losing, I try to keep my total sugars under 10 grams a day ( lettuce, cucumbers, onions, broccoli, all have sugar), most cereals have 2 to 3 times that, and those that don't are so processed they convert immediately to sugar when you eat them.

I just try to avoid all possible sugars, bad carbs.

You eat pretty similiar to how I eat.

Fage full fat Greek Yogurt has only 7 grams of carbs in a whole cup serving. i like it on occasion because I am slowly weaning out dairy in my eating plan.

fromaquasar

I make my own museli so when I eat it I know exactly what I'm getting. That said I probably only have it once a week.

I use only whole organic oats, coconut, almonds, walnuts, flaxseed, sunflower and pumpkin seeds then dried blueberries, cranberries and goja berries. Chuck it all in a tray and mix in a cup of olive oil (there is a LOT there) and a cup of organic orange juice, if you want add a small drizzle of raw honey - mix so everything is a bit damp then chuck it in the over on 100 degrees C and stir every ten minuted till it is all golden brown and no longer damp to touch - leave to cool and crisp up then store