Cereals

[TooNice]

Recently, I have started eating cereals. I used to eat them during my early teens (Frosties, Coco pops and the likes) but stopped for many years. Last year I got a free sample of Dorset Cereal and found them quite nice, and in the last week I've been eating 'some' of those everyday.

I am starting this thread to ask two things. First, what is your favourite cereal. Those Dorset Cereals appear healthy enough, but if other tasty and healthy cereals, I would like to hear about it.

Second question is, how much do you have every morning? I added quotes to 'some' because I find myself finishing the boxes rather quickly. I am almost through my third box, and it's been only a week since I started eating those. This mean that I must have eating just over 150g per day (topped with semi-skimmed milk). I thought it was a 'normal sized bowl' (especially given that I still have the appetite to eat fruits afterwards), but I just looked at the box, and it talked about '45g servings'. Is that what I am supposed to eat

[shaithis]

The Dorset Cereals muesli is really nice, I tend to eat a lot of it, normally with some fresh chopped strawberries, raspberries, blueberries and blackberries thrown in......in fact over half the bowl is fresh fruit when I eat it.....totally awesome taste

As for serving sizes, I don't know, I just tend to eat it when I can't be bothered to make a meal......especially as it's fairly high in fibre with the added berries.

[mikemikemi]

Favourites in no particular order: Crunchy nut, Jordans, Coco Pop.

I tend to have ~40g with soya milk.

The 45g is just a suggestion probably based on what they consider to be part of a balanced diet.

Not tried Dorset, might have to check them out at some point

[trance_ga]

Be careful with cereal...the advertising companies would have you believe that this is a healthy start to the day, but make sure you read the small print...even the "healthy" ones tend to be made of sugary processed carbohydrates!

[trance_ga]

The trick with cereal;

If it tastes nice / sweet..then its probably got tonnes of sugar in it!!

[eshrules]

The trick with cereal;

If it tastes nice / sweet..then its probably got tonnes of sugar in it!!

not really, a lot of the 'sleeper' cereals can contain just as much sugar as an apparently sweet one, example :

Kelloggs frosties would contain around 37g per 100g serving
muesli, not what I'd call a sweet cereal, contains around 31g per 100g serving.

I try to eat wholesome cereals with plenty of bran, weetabix, shredded wheat etc, plenty of carbs early in the day, seems to do the trick for me.


Edit - sorry, I see what you're doing... 2 posts 1 minute apart

[Terbinator]

Cheerios are bad ass.

[Knoxville]

Every time

[jim]

I eat tons of the stuff - and yeah it's not particularly healthy, but then neither is buttered toast so I'm not that fussed.

Mainly eat a budget version of Special K avec berries and Fruit and Fibre... don't get a lot of fibre from my normal diet so cereals are the main way I get any, if at all. I don't eat the really sugary famous ones like Frosties, Coco-Pops etc, but I'm not keen on the muesli ones either so I'm usually somewhere inbetween.

For a bit of variety I quite like having the honey-flavoured ones occasionally, especially the clusters, or some of the weetabix minis with something in. My favourite thing to do is mix them though, I much prefer having a combination of two different cereals and I'm not really that fussy about how they combine. Honey-nut clusters with fruit and fibre is a personal favourite though

[Salazaar]

Two (organic, sainsbury's brand) Weetabix with a handful of nuts and another of raisins and enough semi-skimmed milk to get the cereal soggy works for me.

[Haiku32]

Either plain porridge with a little dash of maple syrup, or soggy weetabix with various fruit - strawberries or bananas work well.

[samcross]

I eat silly amounts of Shreddies. I'll eat them dry, but when I have them in the morning I normally have a massive bowl (with semi-skimmed milk), microwave it for a minute and a half and then mush it up. Well nice

[Haiku32]

I eat silly amounts of Shreddies. I'll eat them dry, but when I have them in the morning I normally have a massive bowl (with semi-skimmed milk), microwave it for a minute and a half and then mush it up. Well nice

I may have to try that ...

[Terbinator]

Warm Cornflakes are nice also.

[scaryjim]

Eat? In the mornings? ARE YOU MAD??!?!?!?!

That said, I've just bought a big box of cheapy weetbisk things and a big box of Dorset's Very Nutty Muesli tonight. But mostly I only eat breakfast at the weekends, and then it tends to be either cold cereals followed by toast, a big bowl of porridge, or pancakes. Which of these gets eaten tends to depend on whether the kids are around or not

In my teens I used to eat a big bowl of muesli followed by 4 slices of toast with marg & jam. I now have no idea how I kept all of that down on the bike ride to school...

[eshrules]

Eat? In the mornings? ARE YOU MAD??!?!?!?!

That said, I've just bought a big box of cheapy weetbisk things and a big box of Dorset's Very Nutty Muesli tonight. But mostly I only eat breakfast at the weekends, and then it tends to be either cold cereals followed by toast, a big bowl of porridge, or pancakes. Which of these gets eaten tends to depend on whether the kids are around or not

In my teens I used to eat a big bowl of muesli followed by 4 slices of toast with marg & jam. I now have no idea how I kept all of that down on the bike ride to school...

I used to do similar in my younger work days, cycling ~30/40 miles a week to and from work. I'd have a banana and...of all things, a cold muller rice. That'd be followed by a bacon muffin at breakfast and something of similar fatty content at lunch, with a good hearty meal for dinner.... the irony is, that's the slimmest I've ever been and probably the worst diet!

what's this Dorset's stuff that keeps being mentioned? A tastier version of Alpen?