breakfast cereal for adults and children???
jlb1191
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After learning what was really in our many boxes of cereal...I was wondering if anyone has suggestions on what to eat. I can make myself a bowl of rolled oats in morning and manage to get them down but there is now way my child will eat that. Any suggestions for kids and breakfast cereal???
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Live Strong has a great article with the top ten: http://www.livestrong.com/article/89186-top-kids-cereals/0
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what about cheerios? theyre not bad...I think...or maybe honey bunches of oats, or shedded minis.0
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Kids taste buds can change.Only buy healthy cereal and they will eat it. They may prefer the sickly sweet stuff, but if you are strong, they will change (or at least accept it).0
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Kashi is a good brand and has several sweet cereals that your kids might like.0
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In my house we rotate between Cheerio's and Rice Krispies. We don't add sugar to our cereal and my daughter loves them both. I think it's just what they get use to.0
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No way Acg.
THIS is the cereal.
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We like the Multi-grain cheerios. They're excellent to take with us as a snack, too. I often put in blueberries or raspberries. And my 3-yr old loves oatmeal. He'll eat it plain or with a smashed banana added.0
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Why won't your child eat that? My 4 and 5 year old will ask for oatmeal. I'll put peanut butter in it, berries, banana, milk, cinnamon, raisins, apples, whatever I have available.0
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If I am ever taking in big carbs its cocoa crispies!0
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What's wrong with cereal? Let kids be kids for cryin out loud. A bowl of cereal in the morning isn't going to kill them. Just use skim milk instead of Vit D, or better yet the vanilla soy milk.
On that note. my toddler LOVES the frosted mini wheats with fruit in the middle. And my 8 year old willingly picks raisin bran crunch. 2 fairly good cereals.0 -
Shop at Whole Foods or somewhere sililiar. They make store brand cereals that are kid friendly without all the added garbage.0
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Go with something organic. No cereal is great, because they're all made from refined grains. But if it's organic, at least you know it's not being made with genetically modified ingredients. My kids love the Cascadian Farms cereals. If you have a Trader Joe's nearby, get one of their store brand cereals.0
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Kashi Go Lean Crunch! has a good sweetness and with frut added tastes even better! My kids are loving it.
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Oatmeal!!
Add in some fruit & nuts, or my personal favorite - a little maple syrup!0 -
cherrios, frosted flakes (in right portions they are fine), rice krispies, chex and sometimes i slurge on something sugary and sweet like trix or cocoa pebbles but they can only have it on the weekends. they love it. it's like a reward for being good all week.0
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What's wrong with cereal? Let kids be kids for cryin out loud. A bowl of cereal in the morning isn't going to kill them. Just use skim milk instead of Vit D, or better yet the vanilla soy milk.
On that note. my toddler LOVES the frosted mini wheats with fruit in the middle. And my 8 year old willingly picks raisin bran crunch. 2 fairly good cereals.
Yep. Let's up our kids with extra estrogen from soy!0 -
Hate all you want, but this man knows his cereal.
On another note. If you're looking for cereals with possibly better macro breakdowns for most peoples diets. Kashi Go Lean is pretty decent.0 -
They have a gluten free peanut butter Cherrios now..it is wonderful...tastes like Cap'n Crunch peanut butter. But hey it is multi grain Cherrios 0
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My kids love just plain wheat chex with strawberries or plain rice crispies, but sometimes i will sneak them a bowl of Puffed Brown Rice cereal and they love that too. I add stevia to them or agave nectar for sweetness. Of course, my kids eat pretty healthy at all of their meals because that's how my household is.... so, if they have Cocoa Pebbles once or twice, ya know, here & there.. then it's really no biggie. They know it's not all the time and since my boys are old enough to read (they're 7) then we look at nutrition labels together. That was a major thing for me. I never see kids read nutrition labels and I never read them until I started all this getting healthy business. We don't look at packaging because it's just an advertising lie (I work in advertising so I taught them the tricks that companies use to make the package look pretty but the stuff inside is crap). Then, when they were younger (4-5 yrs old), it was a game. "Help Mommy find the cheese with the smallest number on Fat. Who can spell the word Fat? Ok, good.... now check some cheeses and we'll see who wins". They would scour the cheeses for the lowest fat and then we would compare other stuff and talk about it. Kids are way smart and very helpful in my opinion.0
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Live Strong has a great article with the top ten: http://www.livestrong.com/article/89186-top-kids-cereals/
Great article. Thanks MJ0 -
Cheerios with fresh fruit for that sweetness they like. Bananas, strawberries and blueberries work great. Or Total cereal with fresh fruit is also good.0
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Plain ol' Cheerios. That was my favorite as a kid and still as an adult.0
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Just ate this. :P
You can always sweeten cereals with chocolate milk. It makes the so-called healthy cereals easier to stomach.0 -
What's wrong with cereal? Let kids be kids for cryin out loud. A bowl of cereal in the morning isn't going to kill them. Just use skim milk instead of Vit D, or better yet the vanilla soy milk.
On that note. my toddler LOVES the frosted mini wheats with fruit in the middle. And my 8 year old willingly picks raisin bran crunch. 2 fairly good cereals.
Yep. Let's up our kids with extra estrogen from soy!
Don't be judgmental!
Seriously, though, I wouldn't give my kids soy milk just because it tastes nasty. LOL!0 -
I give my daughter Special K with Strawberries.
One, because its got good grain, not tons of sugar and she is a strawberry addict. So it
works well for all of us.
She even likes HOney bunches of oats - as long as it doesnt taste like STRAW (KASHI), she'll eat it. 0 -
No way Acg.
THIS is the cereal.
I do really like the new cinnamon roll frosted mini wheats mini bites0 -
Cereal is awesome! Just show your kids what a true serving is and not just fill the bowl to the top. Side it with toast, juice or fruit and you're good to go. Eating right isn't about eating blah food, its about moderation. Eating one bowl is okay of any cereal, its when that one bowl turns into three that it is not so good.0
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I only buy dye free foods for my family (my son is sensitive to the dyes in food, makes him VERY hyper). I usually buy Kix, Life cereal, Cheerios, Rice Krispies. In the organic section of my grocery store they have organic versions of Cheerios & Rice krispies and you cant even tell the difference, they totally taste the same. The organic obviously cost a lil more but its worth it to me.0
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I've just started eating Fiber Plus Antioxidants Caramel Pecan Crunch (but they have lots of other flavors, too). It is very tasty, made with whole wheat. It is healthier than most and is sweet enough that I think even the kids would like it.
Don't let the boring name fool you, it is quite good!0
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