Breakfast Cereal

Why rice crispies? Cold cereal leaves me starving - but the bran flakes are likely a lot more filling than rice crispies.

trying_to_burn wrote: »

I was told that bran is too high in carbohydrates and would inevitably make me fatter

Apparently Rice Crispies have no nutritional value so as a snack will have less of an impact on your waistline in comparison

Oh. Dear. God.

No. Just eat your bran and enjoy

Rice crispies are basically nothing but sugar - like maybe the worst cereal ever. Eat your bran and be happy.

If it fits in your calories, helps you to feel full, and makes you happy I say go for it! I would end up starving about an hour later, but maybe that is me?

Not sure what choices you have, but my go-to breakfast cereal is Total Whole Grain Flakes by General Mills. It is about 100 calories per 30g serving. It gives me 100% of the US recommended daily allowance of several different vitamins and minerals...

I don't particularly care for the taste by itself, but I crumble it up and use it as topping for my morning yogurt (currently vanilla flavored Greek yogurt.) I don't find cereal with milk very satisfying, but with my yogurt it is VERY filling.

Your friend may mean well, but is uninformed.

Carbs don't make you fat if you're eating an appropriate number of calories. Personally I don't eat cereal because I find the serving size to be so pitiful but if you're weighing it out, logging it, and you're satisfied eating then it go for it.

Word of general advice-- people are going to tell you that you can't lose weight/be healthy eating all kinds of things. For some people who have certain medical conditions, that might be true. But for most people as long as what you're eating leaves you feeling sated and happy, and as long as you're getting a reasonable balance of macros (protein/carbs/fat) and micronutrients, you can eat what you like and be just fine.

Stick to your bran flakes. They are much healthier. I like Weetabix with hot milk and honey myself. Also Oats are good. I also like Maple and Pecan crunch but it is a bit on the high calorie side so I tend to use it as a topping on yoghurt or mixed with a lower calorie cereal. If you are inside your calorie allowance it is all good really.

Eat the bran, ditch the rice krispies, at least the bran will keep you full and regular. The rice cereal is pretty much air. ps I like shredded wheat with bran and Kashi go lean original, fiber one original, shreddies.

I am addicted to the Fiber One cocolate cereal....they're high in fiber and it's 80 cals per serving (30 grams). They fill me up and i like the taste...

I normally eat Fruit & Fibre for breakfast with 1% fat milk, do find I get hungry about an hour and half later though, didn't realise that was a bi-product of having cereal for breakfast. Was bought up having cereal so am used to it, and like the taste. Fruit & Fibre sounds like a healthyish option (also like Frosties, and chocolaty cereals), at minimum it shoudl be giving me 1 of my 5 a day (alas filling up my dried fruit quota). I also generally chop a banana up on top, as am trying to make each meal = 2 of my 5 a day.

Have been told that cereals aren't that healthy (was wondering whether it might be healthier or not buying bran flakes and then adding dried fruit myself to the mix, Tesco did cereal toppers for a while which were really good for this, but alas seem to have been discontinued). Now under the qualm whether I should stick with my 1% fat milk or go back to whole as am hearing different advice from different nutritionists.

IXChicharitoXI wrote: »

1.5 serving of Kashi go lean and 1 serving of cocoa puffs is definitely a meal of champions.

I like how you think

Bran sounds way better for you that rice krispies. My personal favorite is the Kashi Strawberry Fields. Nom nom nom....