Nutritious, healthy cereals that you'd recommend? - Diet & Nutrition Message Board

Concerned Male · 03-16-2006, 09:58 PM

It can be a little difficult to find nutritious cereals at the grocery store. There are so many different kinds to pick from, but several of the kinds seem to be loaded with sugar and other junk.

Is it true that if the first two to three ingredients or so on the label include sugar, then the cereal most likely has a lot of sugar in it? Also, some cereals have a lot of iron in it, sometimes added to it. I don't need any extra iron at all.

I was thinking about getting an oats type of cereal. I know what the commercials say about Cheerios being good for you and all, but is it really a healthy cereal? I recently got Bob's Red Mill Rolled Oats cereal. The cereal is just rolled oats, with no other ingredients added at all. I like it, but it's a little dry, and could use a little more taste. So I add a little soy milk or other type of milk to it like rice milk. Has anyone tried Bob's Red Mill's cereals before? Which nutritious cereals do you recommend?

F.R.O.S.T · 03-17-2006, 02:57 AM

Why not just get oats? You can make porridge out of it, or if you can't be bothered to do that (like me), you can just blend it up with some milk (also like me).

Jonistyle2 · 03-17-2006, 08:23 AM

just a quick note on "dryness." you do realize that ALL cereals are gonna be dry if you try to eat them without milk or yogurt, right? (they're meant to be eaten with milk, look at the picture on the box!) so if you like it with a little milk, then stick with it ... that's the way you should be eating it!

gladestrekker · 03-17-2006, 04:19 PM

Breakfast cereals are truly my favorite foods! As a kid, I could sit and eat an entire box of Capn Crunch (I don't do that anymore!). Now-a-days, I stick with the more healthful types and my 3 golden rules for a healthful ready-to-eat breakfast cereal are: 1) 6 grams or less of sugar per serving; 2) whole grain as primary ingredient; and 3) fortified with at least 5 or 6 vitamins and minerals (must include iron and B12) and at least 25-30% RDA for each. My top picks are: Cheerios, Wheaties, Total and the new *****-brand cereals, like Heart to Heart.

Read the nutrition label and disregard all the marketing ploys of the front of the box. For instance, "Low fat" is worthless information because all breakfast cereals are low fat! As a matter of fact, a brand of granola cereal has "LOW FAT" boldly printed in the front and lo and behold, it contained 3 times as much fat as the usual cereals, like Cheerios.

Doggy4 · 03-17-2006, 06:21 PM

I eat rolled oats topped with berries and skim milk