Healthy Cereals?

lukeout007
lukeout007 Posts: 1,237 Member
edited November 9 in Food and Nutrition
Any suggestions for good tasting, nutritious, and low calorie cereal? I've been eating multigrain Cheerios and Kellogg's crunchy nut.
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  • jezlightyear
    jezlightyear Posts: 167 Member
    i generally stick with porridge oats and spice it up with some fruit, berries are generally the best! i tried putting a couple of squares of dark chocolate in before microwaving the other day and that tasted pretty nice too (:
  • kristilovescake
    kristilovescake Posts: 669 Member
    Most cold cereal isn't healthy; it's super processed and loaded with sugar and preservatives.

    I usually stick to hot cereal (oatmeal) in the morning with half a scoop of protein powder, brown sugar, cinnamon, and flax seed. Sometimes chia seed if I remember. It leaves me feeling pretty full at about 250-300 cals depending on what's in it.
  • daeljo
    daeljo Posts: 38
    Chocolate cheerios! <3
  • Tree72
    Tree72 Posts: 942 Member
    Many of the Kashi brand cereals have reasonably healthy nutrition stats. Their plain Go Lean Cereal has 140 calories per serving and has 13g of protein and 10g of fiber. Not bad at all when you're in a hurry in the morning.
  • katieonline
    katieonline Posts: 7
    Oh cereal.. how I miss it. Actually Ive found Cascadian Farms Organic cinnamon squares (similar to Cinnamon Toast Cruch) is low in carbs and sugar VS other cereals.. and it doesnt taste like crap. Use almond milk stay with serving sizes and its under 135 calories.
  • Mangoaddict
    Mangoaddict Posts: 1,236 Member
    Love Kellogs crunchy Nut
  • angiebarker
    angiebarker Posts: 127
    Newmans own cereals have a lot of fiber and omega 3. and they come in like 5 flavors.
    http://newmansown.com/product_list.aspx?subcategoryid=13
  • vakaranshah786
    vakaranshah786 Posts: 49 Member
    Shredded Wheat low fat low sugar/salt
  • helloflopsy
    helloflopsy Posts: 17
    Oats so Simple porridge is great! Easy to make and keeps me full till lunch! Ha ha I sound like an advert

    http://quaker.co.uk/oat_so_simple
  • missle30
    missle30 Posts: 40 Member
    I just bought the Kashi go Lean cereal yesterday. With a little milk and packet of splenda it wasn't bad!
  • acrue21
    acrue21 Posts: 22 Member
    I like Total! Its loaded with Vitamins and doesn't have tons of sugar.
  • NoAdditives
    NoAdditives Posts: 4,251 Member
    I eat organic whole grain cereals.
  • JustLena75
    JustLena75 Posts: 114
    I like the new Peanut Butter Multigrain Cheerios, 'original' Fiber One or the Fiber One with Flakes. Also I like Quaker Oatmeal Squares.
  • thepetiterunner
    thepetiterunner Posts: 1,238 Member
    Trader joe's Bran Flakes - Best. Bran. Flake. Cereal. EVER.
    Special K Vanilla Almond, with Berries or Cinnamon Pecan - Splash with some almond milk ... total crack I tell you!
    Multigrain Cheerios - The best of all the cherrios, I think.

    Other than that, I'm not much of a cereal fan. Just doesn't fill me up, but it's great as a treat. :)
  • Dtho5159
    Dtho5159 Posts: 1,054 Member
    Ugh, I miss cereal...I ate some last week and was hungry within an hour... When I have my breakfast sandwich, Im good thru lunch.
  • BoxingCoachMo
    BoxingCoachMo Posts: 420
    if i am on a health mission i tend to stick to porridge oats, with whole milk, nuts and raisins.

    Or Wholemeal toast with eggs.
  • fae14
    fae14 Posts: 54 Member
    I don't often eat cereal, but sometimes I just want it. I got for Special K protein plus. No idea if its all that great for you, but the nutrition label stats are good. =D
  • SmartAlec03211988
    SmartAlec03211988 Posts: 1,896 Member
    Kashi GOLEAN. Love it.
  • cydonian
    cydonian Posts: 361 Member
    I usually buy Mom's Naturals brand anything (my favorite is the Sweetened Wheatfuls for my daily fiber intake!), no preservatives or anything. It's going to have sugar, but that's no different than most hot cereals out there, unless you buy plain oatmeal. Try to go for plain things -- Cheerios, bran flakes, Chex, Crispix, etc.
  • 3dogsrunning
    3dogsrunning Posts: 27,167 Member
    Original Fiber 1 is my new fav. When my trainer put it on my diet, I seriously questioned her and I have to eat it dry. I eat it with a half a cup of blueberries and it is seriously the best part of my day.
  • kittyninja
    kittyninja Posts: 118
    Kashi Go Lean with cinnamon and blueberries :D
  • yankeedownsouth
    yankeedownsouth Posts: 717 Member
    Kashi Go Lean Crunch is my new fav!
  • TeaBea
    TeaBea Posts: 14,517 Member
    Kashi - yum!

    MANY are higher fiber, higher protein, lower sugar. Some Kashi cereals have better stats than others. Mostly, you can't go wrong here.

    Kashi Faves:

    Heart to Heart Warm Cinnamon (like cinnamon cheerios)

    Heart to Heart Cinnamon Harvest (like cinnamon shredded wheat)

    Kashi Go Lean (the "crunches" have waaay too many calories for me) ... I like Go Lean on top of yogurt with berries.
  • Cross_fitter
    Cross_fitter Posts: 30
    Oats are your only healthy cereal. add some banana or whatever fruit you like. Other packaged cereals are high in sugar and carbs. You could also try eggs on toast for a high protein start to the day.
  • Cross_fitter
    Cross_fitter Posts: 30
    ......researchers found rats lived longer on plain water than with puffed wheat cereal. The study found rats lived over a year when fed unprocessed whole wheat. Yet when that wheat was puffed into a cereal and fed to the animals, it killed them off in less than two weeks. Rats fed plain water lived for two months, far longer than those fed cereal.
    This does not even account for the infamous health effects of the corn syrup, fructose and other sugars found in most breakfast cereals, nor the disease-producing effects of trans fats and damaged oils......

    http://lindaprout.com/nodietblog/2008/07/21/death-by-breakfast-cereals/
  • TeaBea
    TeaBea Posts: 14,517 Member
    ORIGINAL Special K has good protein stats, fiber not so much. Add fresh fruit that has a decent fiber count and you're good.
  • garnet1483
    garnet1483 Posts: 249 Member
    I like Kashi Go Lean Crunch, it's essentially a meal. Since I've started eating it regularly, other cereals don't do it for me on their own. I feel undernourished unless I supplement them with something else. With the Kashi, I don't snack, or overeat at lunch, because breakfast was filling.
  • 3dogsrunning
    3dogsrunning Posts: 27,167 Member
    Oats are your only healthy cereal. add some banana or whatever fruit you like. Other packaged cereals are high in sugar and carbs. You could also try eggs on toast for a high protein start to the day.

    I know some of the Kashi cereals do not have any sugar in them. Fiber 1 original has no sugar in it. Oatmeal is also high in carbs and is pretty comparable with Fiber 1.
  • TeaBea
    TeaBea Posts: 14,517 Member
    Oats are your only healthy cereal. add some banana or whatever fruit you like. Other packaged cereals are high in sugar and carbs. You could also try eggs on toast for a high protein start to the day.

    I know some of the Kashi cereals do not have any sugar in them. Fiber 1 original has no sugar in it. Oatmeal is also high in carbs and is pretty comparable with Fiber 1.

    Be careful with Fiber 1 - it has chicory root. Some people (myself included) have trouble digesting chicory root.
  • firesoforion
    firesoforion Posts: 1,017 Member
    I love cereal (grape nuts are my favorite, but I love most of them!), I don't really like oatmeal, but what you can do is just eat the oats in milk without cooking, and it's a lot like cereal (like a mueslix). Add fruit and it can keep you from missing the less healthy foods somewhat. I'm even curious about toasting them in the oven to crisp them up before hand, though I've never tried that.
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