Actually Healthy cereals?

Puffed wheat. Shredded wheat. All Bran. Grape Nuts. Oatmeal. Red River.

millett

Except for the All Bran and Grape Nuts cereals mentioned above, these are all one-ingredient cereals. Some require cooking. You can't get more whole grain than that. What's to hoax?

It's all going to depend on what you mean by healthy. Many cereals can be part of a healthy diet, though. I tend to go for cereals that have lower sugar and/or more whole grains and fiber. Cheerios is one of the best for that (1g sugar per serving). Another good thing about most cereals is that they are fortified with vitamins and minerals.

I also eat mini-wheats (yes, even the frosted kind) and bran flakes on a regular basis. On occasion, I will buy the chocolate cheerios or cookie cereal, but I view those as more of a treat and not a staple of my diet. For me, it comes down to reading the label and making sure that it fits in my goals. Carbs are not horrible, but I do try to make sure that sugars are lower and fiber is higher in my regular breakfast cereals.

Oatmeal is also a good option, and I recently found whole-grain cream of wheat. They take a bit more time to prepare, but I can control how much sugar I put in them (usually as honey or fruit).

Yeah, it's the foods I put around the cereal that make it so good. I like making refrigerator oats with regular yogurt and a bit of fruit and nuts.

My steel cut oats I cook with currants or raisins and eat with Greek Yogurt.

TeaBea wrote: »

I just look for protein and fiber counts, preferably lower sugar.

Steel cut oats have an amazing texture. I use add-ins for protein and fat.

Kashi Go Lean (original) .....I don't tolerate the chicory root extract (inulin) that so many other high fiber cereals have.

Special K (original) has a decent protein count, but I need to add some fruit to get some fiber in.

I generally consider milk my protein with cereal, although I do appreciate a few grams in the cereal itself.

I just eat Uncle Sam original with some vanilla Greek yogurt. I've been looking to pick up a bag of Nature's Path chia cereals when I'm finished with my current boxes.

Breakfast cereals get stuck in my Iffy category. Wouldn't call them healthy, but things like Cheerios...I would say they're unhealthy, either.

I took on breakfast cereals for the iron. I needed more iron, so in they came. I don't eat the high-sugar deals, but do eat have them several times a week.

i eat a crap ton of oats...

For me, anything with a decent fiber to sugar ratio is good.

cwolfman13 wrote: »

millett

Our ancestors cereal

Kashi go lean!

I like fiber one original. 60 cals for 30g, and gives you nearly a full day's fiber.

I like rolled oats "cooked" in yogurt for an hour and topped with fruit.

One way to avoid hoaxes is to pass on anything with nutritional claims on the box as this will likely be marketing hype.