How to pick a Breakfast Cereal

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!

oatmeal of course:happy:

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 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

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.

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.

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.