oatmeal versus cheerios

It's oatmeal hands down.

I've never been fond of "wet" cereal (cereal with milk added). It is against my "religion" to pay "$5 for 50 cents" worth of ingredients. What I have been doing lately is take my serving of old-fashioned oats and adding "craisons" and nuts and whatever else I feel like (and fits into my macros) and voila, I have museli. I could add milk to that if I wanted, I suppose, but I much prefer it dry.

Well Cherrios are processed therefore break down faster...

Huh?

so you will be hungrier that much sooner so using your example a 4 hour mileage out of a serving of oatmeal versus a 2 hour mileage out of Cherrios meaning I will now need a second bowl of the stuff means I am doubling the cost again for Cherrios so all in all

a $12.49 of 11 pound/5 kilo bag of cereal will give me as much energy as $168.00 of Cherrios.

That makes the real savings $155. 50 savings by the eating the oatmeal.

Yea, but you already factored this into your initial calculations.

I don't think that tripling the cost because the food has more volume when cooked is the right way to go. I could drink 8 oz of water after I eat a serving of cheerios and achieve the same effect in my stomach as eating oatmeal saturated with water (or milk). It's about how much you actually have to eat to get your nutrition.

If you're able to actually only eat 1 serving of cereal vs 1 serving of oatmeal and feel satisfied until lunch (or if you eat 2 vs 2), the oatmeal is still a better bang for the buck but not 3x better.

Cherries are good but empty calories, in my opinion, but oats are delicious and wholesome and much better for you.

So what about this is empty calories again? Is it the 25% Iron, 3g protein, 115mg potassium....what?

How about the 9g of sugar in 28g Cheerio portion? I would say right there are your empty cals.

Oatmeal over processed cereals any day. But that's my opinion.

To the original poster: Had to laugh at your calculations. But your thought are so true.

So magically the sugar negates everything else? that's the only way that'd make this empty so has to be true.

Seems legit

Cherries are good but empty calories, in my opinion, but oats are delicious and wholesome and much better for you.

So what about this is empty calories again? Is it the 25% Iron, 3g protein, 115mg potassium....what?

How about the 9g of sugar in 28g Cheerio portion? I would say right there are your empty cals.

Oatmeal over processed cereals any day. But that's my opinion.

To the original poster: Had to laugh at your calculations. But your thought are so true.

We're getting out of whack over 9g of sugar? Pfft.

Holy damn, I hate math.

Someone on mfp once suggested that she adds an egg and some plain yogurt to her oatmeal. Sounded awful, but I had to try it. Really good afterall and adds that protein many of us want more of.

We're getting out of whack over 9g of sugar? Pfft.

Holy damn, I hate math.

Then, just remember this.... Sugar is the Devil's work.

We're getting out of whack over 9g of sugar? Pfft.

Holy damn, I hate math.

Then, just remember this.... Sugar is the Devil's work.

^ This. I'm saying it with a glass of bourbon in my hand and not a martini (yes really), but the eye roll is the same. Unless you have a medical reason, cut your sweet tooth some slack.

Oatmeal for sure - with...
raisins if I am in the mood
milk, or
brown sugar
or...
cinnamon or
by itself.

Oatmeal is the best :blushing:

So if you add sugar to oatmeal that's different than there being sugar in Cheerios? The only way I can gag down oatmeal is if I add a couple tablespoons of brown sugar to it so it kind of defeats the purpose of choosing the "healthy" choice especially since sugar is going to kill us all.