cereal???

kashi brands are good. they have whole grains, fiber etc

Depends on the kind and what your nutritional goals are. In general, I find that most are "bad" for me. There are a few that are "good" for me. My favorite healthy cereal? Kashi Go Lean with soy twigs, honey puffs, and something else (it's got a long name), but 1 cup has (I think) 160 calories, 10 g fiber, 9 g protein, and 6 g sugar. It doesn't taste half bad with almond milk.

I have been eating Irish Oatmeal for breakfast and add 1/4 cup granola. With granola I don't have to add sugar. Good fix for breakfast. Reading labels can give you a good idea what the target group is

Fact:

When buying cereal, skip brands that have sugar listed as the first or second ingredient. Those products contain too much sweetener to be healthy. (Source: www.runnersworld.com)

I eat honey bunches of oats with almond milk... all together its around 150 and the sugar in the cereal is low!

I eat Kashi Go Lean. It seems to be best overall for me for fiber, calories, protein and sodium. Not the most exciting cereal, compared to the old favorites, but still satisfys my cereal craving for the most part.

I love Kashi Go Lean with stevia, almond milk, and a heaping teaspoon of cinnamon. I love cinnamon..

insulin spikes caused by bad carb sources (ex : cereals) help produce fat and also boosting troponin which is a precursor to serotonin.
Sugar converts to fat really easily & 2% milk has 9g of sugar a serving.

I personally have quaker old fashioned oats with water. After it's finished cooking I mix in whey protein powder for flavoring.
or have 2 hard boiled eggs.

I just went through the same dilemma! lol

This helped me out a little: http://eatthis.menshealth.com/slideshow/great-cereal-spectrum#sharetagsfocus

However, after standing in the cereal aisle for a long time reading the labels on all the "healthy" cereals, I ended up with Special K Vanilla Almond and All Bran Buds to add more fiber.
I biggest concerns was finding a cereal with a good balance of calories, fat, carbs, sugar and fiber.

Hope this helps.

My favs are Special K Protein Plus (100 cal, 10 g protein, 5 g fiber) or Fiber One cereal (14 g fiber)....I usually take 1/2 the serving and mix it with yogurt. I do stay away from ceral most of the time b/c I like to eat in bulk and you can only have a small serving of cereal for the calories. I would rather have 1/2 cup of egg beaters and 2 slices of turkey bacon!! About the same amount of caloires, more protein and more to eat!!

I like cold cereal a lot. My favorite is grape nuts but I also like the chocolatey cereals with a little milk as a dessert. I think there are better options than cold cereals. but we eat them because they're easy and tasty.

IMHO, it's a better option to actually just cook up some cracked grains, oats or rice (or all three together yummeee) in some water and add a little salt and maybe some molasses or honey.

The cracked grains that you have to cook yourself are in a more natural state and less processed and in my mind a better option. I'm not really sure how they make the cold cereals. Even if it's a whole grain cereal like Grapenuts, I'm not sure that it hasn't been processed with super high heat, or that maybe everything has been stripped out of it and then added back in. I'm not saying that this is in fact what happened.. just that I don't know enough about the process to be sure that this isn't how they do it. ALSO, most of the cereals have BHT... a few don't but the majority do.

I do still eat cold cereal but I don't consider it to be all that healthy and it is something I'm trying to cut out.