What cereal do you eat?

I'm addicted to Kashi Strawberry Fields right now! Yummy!

I love love love chocolate multi grain cherrios. Also, I am testing out this Apple cinnamon protein cereal.. here is the link to the site..they have a lot of other protein goodies as well.

http://kaysnaturals.com/

Kelloggs Product 19 - yummy yummy!!

I think the Kashi Go Lean is like eating twigs but love to add Kashi Go Lean Crunch to nofat yogurt for breakfast. Low fat and you get crunch and calcium in the yogurt.

Breakfast is my favorite meal of the day..... I almost always have the following:

Bran Flakes
3 tbsp of Dietary Snack mix (a mixture of sunflower seeds, pepita's, almonds, cashews, and raisans--for some reason I can't spell that today lol)
vanilla soy milk

It's delicious! and very filling. :-)

Lisa

I've started reading cereal nutrition labels and have been surprised at how much added sugar many high fiber cereals have. The Kashi Go Lean is an offender, and I loved it.

So, since sugars are a problem for me, I've switched to Publix Organic Flax Flakes [Available in the south only, sorry] as I love their nutty taste. Kashi Autumn Shredded wheat and regular Cheerios are good too. For me, what's important is high fiber and low sugar. I almost always have fresh fruit in my cereal, whether a banana, strawberries, blueberries, cut up peach, etc .. That adds natural sweetness. Of course, 1/2 c skim milk or soy milk.

Once a week I make real, steel cut oatmeal. While it cooks, I heat skim milk in bowls, sprinkle a little splenda [of course, a little honey is good too] in it and spoon in the oatmeal. I sometimes add dried cranberries, raisins or apricots while it's cooking and top with a couple chopped walnut halves. It's a little chewy, tastes so good and is very filling. It's so much better than instant oatmeal which has many chemical ingredients and a lot of sugar.

Kashi toasted berry crumble
Shredded mini wheats
Honey nut cheerios
raisin bran

Occasionally some capt'n crunch

I don't really eat cereal because I find that it doesn't keep me full for very long. When I do eat it I only like CHeerios, rice crispies, corn flakes (I don't like any sugary or sweetened cereal). Special K with red berries is good too because it is a little sweeter but not coated in sugar.

Fiber One Raisin Bran clusters or Fiber One Caramel delight.

I'm with P Jilly- I do oatmeal in the mornings (with some cinnamon and vanilla-it's out of this world) but at night or sometimes as a snack I eat Kashi Heart to Heart Warm Cinnamon or Honey Toasted Oat. They are relatively low sugar, decent bit of fiber and pretty darn tasty.

If I've run that day I may splurge on some Honey Nut Cheerios (more sugar, less fiber, but a long time favorite of mine).

I always put cinnamon in my oatmeal, but I've never tried vanilla. Sounds delicious! I wish I hadn't just had breakfast. I'll have to remember to try that tomorrow! :happy:

2 weetabix and chopped banana - delicious, and plain cheerios!

I've started reading cereal nutrition labels and have been surprised at how much added sugar many high fiber cereals have. The Kashi Go Lean is an offender, and I loved it.

I started reading labels too, and besides the high sugar, so many of these cereals have corn and soy fillers, and if it isn't organic, chances are, it's gonna be from GMO corn and soy.

I stay away from processed commercial cereal now and stick with steel cut oats, wheat bran, and other whole grains for breakfast.

Kashi Go Lean Original:

Kashi Seven Whole Grains & Sesame: Cereal (Whole, Oats, Long Grain Brown Rice, Rye, Hard Red Winter Wheat, Triticale, Buckwheat, Barley, Sesame Seeds)Textured Soy Protein Concentrate, Evaporated Cane Juice, Brown Rice Syrup, Chicory Root Fiber, Whole Grain Oats, Kashi Seven Whole Grains & Sesame Flour (Whole Oats, Long Grain Brown Rice, Rye, Hard Rye Winter Wheat, Triticale, Buckwheat, Barley, Sesame Seeds)Expeller, Pressed Canola Oil, Honey, Salt, Cinnamon, Mixed Tocopherols (Natural Vitamin E) for Freshness.

I do steel cut oatmeal in the slow cooker (double boiler method - no clean up ) and have hot oatmeal every morning. I usually sweeten it with a couple of pumps of Starbucks sugar free caramel syrup (will have to try the vanilla though) and put my fresh fruit on top of it (raspberries are my favourite.) A 1/4 cup of oatmeal in the slow cooker makes ALOT and its only 150 calories.

However, this may change because I have a sneaking suspicion that the oatmeal is spiking my blood sugar even though I also eat protein in the morning. I'm about to check. If it does, no more real oatmeal :grumble: but I'll still eat the instant Oatmeal which although less healthy does not spike me.

Wish me luck!

P.S. Blood sugar levels did not show a spike so it's oatmeal all the way for me.

I make my own cereal concoction and then portion it up into little baggies for the week. Each week or 2 it varies depending upon what granola I buy or what nuts I choose to use, but for the most part it is something like this for each serving (1/4 cups if I have several things to add, or I'll up it to 1/2 cup if only a couple things to add). And I LOVE it. It tastes so good to me, stays crunchy in my milk for a long time and definitely fills me up and keeps me full.

0.5-1 oz raw nuts (usually almonds, but sometimes I'll use walnuts or 1/2 and 1/2)
1/4 cup Original Fiber One cereal (I choose this one because it doesn't have any added sugar like All Bran or Bran Buds do)
1/4 cup of granola (this is where it gets fun because there are SO many yummy flavors of granolas out there and then it makes the whole bowl taste good)
1/4 cup of Uncle Sam original cereal
1/4 cup of Kashi cereal (this varies too to keep it interesting)
1 tbsp of flax seed

If I'm at home when eating it I will sometimes also add 2 tbsp of wheat germ (that stuff has to be refrigerated)

I realize with milk and all this stuff it comes to like 500 calories and while that may work for someone my size I know it is high for the majority, so if you're sticking closer to 1200, you could just cut the servings down even farther or just don't add all the ingredients.

I think making this is so fun because I get to be creative and add stuff that I might not normally eat like seeds. Maybe next week I'll add some raw pumpkin seeds or some craisins to jazz it up.