Warning: I love cereal

chrisjathompson
chrisjathompson Posts: 227 Member
in Food and Nutrition
It's my favourite thing to eat. I use to have a bookcase that contained every type of cereal I could find, and I would eat about 3 heaping bowls as a meal, with some toast.

Now, I knew a full heaping bowl was more than a serving. But I never thought that a heaping bowl is more like 5 or 6 servings :(

Here's one of my favourite cereals. Notice the box shows a heaping bowl. Not a huge bowl, but there's a nice amount of cereal. Notice the little stain of cereal in my bowl? That's 1 serving.

Watch out for cereal, weigh it too because I found what they call a cup, isn't a cup either.

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*For size reference, the box is a small "eco" sized box, and that's a teaspoon. It may look like a giant bowl and spoon, but it's not. Just cheap walmart starter dishes :)
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  • Kinnyminny
    Kinnyminny Posts: 6
    oh my god. I'm the EXACT same...cereal is my faveeee thing in the word! can easily eat 100g...
  • YAYJules
    YAYJules Posts: 282 Member
    I am the same way. I love it so much in fact, that my now husband had my picture put on a wheaties box with a marriage proposal. :-)
  • daydream_believer
    daydream_believer Posts: 332
    I am the same way. I love it so much in fact, that my now husband had my picture put on a wheaties box with a marriage proposal. :-)

    haha that has to be the cutest thing i have ever heard! :happy:
  • NaomiJFoster
    NaomiJFoster Posts: 1,450 Member
    I'm a cereal FREAK. I *have* to start my morning with cereal or the whole day just goes to hell. I also love the Nature's Path cereals. And Barbar's Bakery. High fiber/low carb/great flavor.
  • chrisjathompson
    chrisjathompson Posts: 227 Member
    I'm a cereal FREAK. I *have* to start my morning with cereal or the whole day just goes to hell. I also love the Nature's Path cereals. And Barbar's Bakery. High fiber/low carb/great flavor.

    Nature's Path peanut butter is an awesome cereal too! Easily my second favourite.
  • MrsRawwwr
    MrsRawwwr Posts: 166 Member
    I had cereal for dinner last night. :drinker:
  • Xiaolongbao
    Xiaolongbao Posts: 854 Member
    I love cereal too. And this is why I weigh it EVERY single time. If I let my self start estimating then I can easily eat a double serve.
  • chrisjathompson
    chrisjathompson Posts: 227 Member
    oh my god. I'm the EXACT same...cereal is my faveeee thing in the word! can easily eat 100g...

    That bowl has 55g, 100g is nothing.

    I think I was eating 1 - 2 lbs per meal. haha.
  • SweetestLibby
    SweetestLibby Posts: 607 Member
    I love cereal too. And this is why I weigh it EVERY single time. If I let my self start estimating then I can easily eat a double serve.

    The first time I actually measured a bowl of cereal I realized I was doubling the serving size! It didn't help that I don't like a lot of milk in it - just enough to wet it!
  • HRLaurie614
    HRLaurie614 Posts: 260 Member
    I am the same way. I love it so much in fact, that my now husband had my picture put on a wheaties box with a marriage proposal. :-)

    haha that has to be the cutest thing i have ever heard! :happy:

    Ditto
  • NaomiJFoster
    NaomiJFoster Posts: 1,450 Member
    I had cereal for dinner last night. :drinker:

    Breakfast for dinner is the best thing in the entire world.
  • shineyapple
    shineyapple Posts: 94 Member
    i had cereal last night too....about 4 cups of it...
  • rockerbabyy
    rockerbabyy Posts: 2,258 Member
    i dont have issues eating more than one serving of cereal at a time - in fact, if i dont then im starving in an hour. thats why i tend to not eat it for breakfast unless its just a quick snack and im planning an actual breakfast for later. the only cereal i cant eat more than a serving of is grapenuts - my fav cereal but it is more filling and no matter how hard i try i just cant eat two servings lol
  • Healthydiner65
    Healthydiner65 Posts: 1,486 Member
    I love cereal but I found that Honey Bunches of Oats with almonds has so much iron that I hit my daily requirement every day! It also keeps me full until lunch. If I eat cherrios I am starving in an hour!
  • tammymusic1
    tammymusic1 Posts: 243 Member
    its crazy when you measure it how much you are really allowed to have.
  • MissFitee
    MissFitee Posts: 106 Member
    To be fair. You're supposed to eat it as topping on yoghurt(or milk - bleh!) and on top of an already full bowl of yoghurt it would create the small mound. Your bowl looks to be just a bowl of cereal, nothing else?

    I totally agree anyway. Weigh your food... AND cereal can be pretty calorie dense and useles as a filler... granola is even worse imo.
  • michellemarie3434
    michellemarie3434 Posts: 28 Member
    I don't even keep it in the house. If I let myself, I could easily eat a whole box of Life cereal. OH YUM!!!!
  • jessicabell9461
    jessicabell9461 Posts: 6 Member
    Cocoa pops are very dangerous for me, could easily eat two massive bowls full!
  • avababy05
    avababy05 Posts: 930 Member
    I love cereal too and usually have Special K cinnamon pecan.With almond milk.

    The last few days I was craving banana granola which I know is high fat but had to have it so,I did!

    Once it's gone,I won't be getting more.
  • Milliemocha
    Milliemocha Posts: 26 Member
    I love cereal!!!! It's one of my fave foods. Pretty much any cereal tho it seems my favourites re the ones with all the calories!!
  • chrisjathompson
    chrisjathompson Posts: 227 Member
    To be fair. You're supposed to eat it as topping on yoghurt(or milk - bleh!) and on top of an already full bowl of yoghurt it would create the small mound. Your bowl looks to be just a bowl of cereal, nothing else?

    I totally agree anyway. Weigh your food... AND cereal can be pretty calorie dense and useles as a filler... granola is even worse imo.

    The point was to have nothing else in the bowl except the cereal. I never thought of using anything other than milk, but even a photo with milk wouldn't bulk 55g of cereal up, unless you eat it like soup?
  • strawberrygashes
    strawberrygashes Posts: 210 Member
    I seriously thought I was the only one to have a cereal addiction - when I want a snack, I grab a few handfuls of cereal (I'm known to do this all throughout the day) when I REALLY crave it I will have a bowl of cereal with milk (aswel as the handfuls)... I don't just eat it for breakfast either, I have cereal for snacks and sometimes for lunch. My partner joked that he needs to start buying me my own seperate cereal so I can stash it haha.

    When I first started weighing I was shocked at how little a serving was, but I quickly got used it. If I'm within my macros I know I can have another if I want later. I also eat more filling cereal too i.e oats, shredded wheat, weetabix so a smaller bowl fills me up better. If I've been for a long run I take advantage of my body needing more carbs. I <3 cereal :)
  • chrisjathompson
    chrisjathompson Posts: 227 Member
    Cocoa pops are very dangerous for me, could easily eat two massive bowls full!

    Yum
  • busycitystreets
    busycitystreets Posts: 64 Member
    Ya. I love cereal too! Vector has a good serving size, 1.25cups. Seems like lots to me, maybe because it has big flakes.
  • LisaLbsOff
    LisaLbsOff Posts: 22
    Lol love this post... Love cereal also ;)

    Sugar puffs
    Special k red berries
    Honey nut clusters
    Mapel & pecan porridge
    Frosties
    Cinnamon flavoured (any as long as its cinnamon) haha

    Gosh you got me thinkin cereal here haha
  • LisaLbsOff
    LisaLbsOff Posts: 22
    OMG notice all mine is sugary cereals haha
  • chrisjathompson
    chrisjathompson Posts: 227 Member
    Ya. I love cereal too! Vector has a good serving size, 1.25cups. Seems like lots to me, maybe because it has big flakes.

    Yeah, it's weight is still the same at 55g compared to most cereal's suggested serving. The calories are similar as well. I suspect that 1.25 cups is more like a cup, smaller as you get near the bottom of the box.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    Thanks now I had to have cereal for dinner (the same brand, but the oatbran flakes). I had 45 grams of it, so i guess it's 1.5 serving.. which is about right for me.

    I've actually always sorta known the normal serving for cereals because when i was a kid we had those little boxes that only contained one serving of them. But yeah it's easy to underestimate.

    And yes it seems to be some yogurt under the cereal on that box. And I need to buy those next time. They look yummy.
  • chrisjathompson
    chrisjathompson Posts: 227 Member
    I've actually always sorta known the normal serving for cereals because when i was a kid we had those little boxes that only contained one serving of them. But yeah it's easy to underestimate.

    I never thought of those little boxes being a serving. I hated them as a child because they were so much work to prep 5 of them for breakfast. We took them with us camping, I always hid a full box from home in the station wagon ;)
  • tinkerbellmad
    tinkerbellmad Posts: 25 Member
    So I'm not alone! I could live on cereal... I only recently become aware my 1 serving was actually about 3/4 servings ????

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