Anyone know what the healthiest breakfast cereal is?
Sugar is the greatest enemy in breakfast cereals. Even plain bran flakes have sugar ( albeit lower than most ). Plain stuff weetabix , oats , are probably the best. You don't have to make porridge from the oats you can just pour skimmed milk on the and add a dash of cinnammon . Boring ...yes ! However you do eventually get used to it
Waitrose do an excellent Museli Base, which for the 60g serving I have each morning contains just 0.9g of sugars (to which I add by having 60g of blueberries with it).
Porridge !
Quote from: bill taylors apprentice on May 23, 2016, 09:44:35 PM
Porridge !
Put some blueberries and seeds into it, eg pumpkin and/or chia seeds, are you are onto a real healthy winner.
I have never 'got' cereal. Does ANYONE actually enjoy eating it? It's a punishment to eat. Complete waste of calories. it's NOT healthy.
Average bowl of cereal with milk is about 250 - 300 cals
Bacon sandwich - 2 slices bread - 170 cals, 2 rashers bacon - 100 cals, smear of butter/spread - 50 cals = 320 cals
Poached eggs on toast - 2 x eggs - 160 cals, toast with butter - 150 cals = 310 cals
But If pushed then I would choose porridge or weetabix
In Winter I have porridge & fruit
In Summer I have cornflakes & fruit
I'm looking for a new Summer cereal....sounds like Wheatabix it is
Many thanks
I eat a lot of porridge - I usually have soya milk with it. It's one thing that fills me, and keeps me going after a run or cycle.
Most cereals have added sugar as said, but I think Shredded Wheat is about the only one that doesn't, and is filling - but it's hard to eat unless you put sugar on it.
Weetabix, Bran and Shreddies are good for 'roughage.'
No cholesterol in oatmeal. At the health food store, they differentiate between regular oatmeal flakes and 1. organic oatmeal and 2. steel cut oatmeal. I have no idea why all oatmeal can't be labeled "organic". And I don't know what's so special about "steel cut", whatever that is. It does look a little different in the barrels. Heard a statistic the other day about how there's more saturated fat in whole milk than in four strips of bacon. But they didn't quantify the amount of whole milk they were using for comparison purposes. A glass? or just enough for tea/coffee? "They" didn't say. Skim milk or 1% milkfat milk neutralizes the tanic acid in tea as well as whole milk, so that's what I go with. I don't care for the taste of skim milk with cereal, so I use 1% for that. Add some blueberries, or strawberries/almonds/ or walnut pieces in your oatmeal, plus a little milk, and it tastes a whole lot better. Restaurants cheat by adding a little dollop of butter. Tastes better that but sort of defeats the purpose... I add a little brown sugar and life is good. Every now and then, cream of wheat, but Mrs. FF says that's no good for me. Tomorrow's post: "Easy side up or Over hard? It's up to you!" I also eat regular cereal, and have since childhood, but I'm getting enlightened about the nutrition stripping effect of all the processing of the flakes. And it's hard to find box cereal that isn't loaded with sugar.
Shredded Wheat, that sounds good......I always have the Red milk.....I think that's called skimmed
Quote from: One James stannard on May 23, 2016, 10:03:31 PM
I have never 'got' cereal. Does ANYONE actually enjoy eating it? It's a punishment to eat. Complete waste of calories. it's NOT healthy.
Average bowl of cereal with milk is about 250 - 300 cals
Bacon sandwich - 2 slices bread - 170 cals, 2 rashers bacon - 100 cals, smear of butter/spread - 50 cals = 320 cals
Poached eggs on toast - 2 x eggs - 160 cals, toast with butter - 150 cals = 310 cals
But If pushed then I would choose porridge or weetabix
How can you not like cereal? It's the greatest food ever invented
Don't do cereal ,I generally wait till opening time :beer:
Guinness :beer:
Quote from: Forever Fulham on May 23, 2016, 10:38:53 PM
No cholesterol in oatmeal. At the health food store, they differentiate between regular oatmeal flakes and 1. organic oatmeal and 2. steel cut oatmeal. I have no idea why all oatmeal can't be labeled "organic". And I don't know what's so special about "steel cut", whatever that is. It does look a little different in the barrels. Heard a statistic the other day about how there's more saturated fat in whole milk than in four strips of bacon. But they didn't quantify the amount of whole milk they were using for comparison purposes. A glass? or just enough for tea/coffee? "They" didn't say. Skim milk or 1% milkfat milk neutralizes the tanic acid in tea as well as whole milk, so that's what I go with. I don't care for the taste of skim milk with cereal, so I use 1% for that. Add some blueberries, or strawberries/almonds/ or walnut pieces in your oatmeal, plus a little milk, and it tastes a whole lot better. Restaurants cheat by adding a little dollop of butter. Tastes better that but sort of defeats the purpose... I add a little brown sugar and life is good. Every now and then, cream of wheat, but Mrs. FF says that's no good for me. Tomorrow's post: "Easy side up or Over hard? It's up to you!" I also eat regular cereal, and have since childhood, but I'm getting enlightened about the nutrition stripping effect of all the processing of the flakes. And it's hard to find box cereal that isn't loaded with sugar.
Steel cut takes longer to cook, but is healthier.
Cant have cereal myself, Corn Flakes I used to like, but as I have an allergy to dairy products rules out all cereals.
Shredded Wheat.
porridge soaked in trim milk overnight, blueberries, sunflower seeds, threaded coconut, unsweetened yoghurt, yummy and filling
With porridge, use water not milk.
And a pinch of salt.
Soya milk tastes better anyway.
Porridge, porridge and porridge. We eat it winter and summer with local honey and a tea-spoon of flax seed and raisins.
'er outdoors tells me steel cut is better as it's just the chopped whole grain. The regular Scott's porridge oats type stuff is steamed and rolled which loses some of the nutritional value.
Nogood "have to get your oats somewhere, isit" Boyo
"With porridge, use water not milk. And a pinch of salt." Agree
"Soya milk tastes better anyway." Agree.
I always have PUFFED WHEAT available if I feel I need to 'dilute' a cereal which may be a little rich or sweet. It has absolutely nothing added to it.
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A football forum is dicussing the pro's and con's of cereal.
Shahid Khan, if you're reading this, for the love of god give us something to talk about. A transfer, putting the club up for sale, heck even get one of your goons to whack Luis Boa Morte if you have to.
WE WANT FOOTBALL BACK!!!
Quote from: Rhys Lightning 63 on May 24, 2016, 01:20:41 PM
A football forum is dicussing the pro's and con's of cereal.
Shahid Khan, if you're reading this, for the love of god give us something to talk about. A transfer, putting the club up for sale, heck even get one of your goons to whack Luis Boa Morte if you have to.
WE WANT FOOTBALL BACK!!!
I don't know; I quite like the summer doldrums. I'm waiting for the "best shoe polish" thread as well as the "best portrayal of Richard III's missing horse" thread.
I dont trust anything that comes in a box (or manufactured by kellogs). Remove the cereal, bowl of fruit does just fine.
Perhaps renaiming a few would work, like Kellogs Cameron cereal, one you can really TRUST :005:
4 cups of filter coffee. No milk. No sugar. That's it. Works for me.
Porridge all year round, 50:50 water to milk. Let it sit for five minutes with a lid on. Dob of jam - gooseberry is best. No point getting too hair shirt about a bit of sugar.
The reason porridge is healthy is what it stops me eating for hours afterwards. Just not hungry.
Last night's cold doner kebab.
Or last night's cold curry.
Porridge with water all year round for me!
Well my husband eats porridge and blueberries, or banana in it. This made with skimmed milk. Apparently that is supposed to be healthy.
I eat a piece of granary bread toasted, with flora light and honey, I don't know if that is healthy but I like it.
I was once told Weetabix is healthy by a doctor but it affects my inner workings too much
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Quote from: Rhys Lightning 63 on May 24, 2016, 01:20:41 PM
A football forum is dicussing the pro's and con's of cereal.
Shahid Khan, if you're reading this, for the love of god give us something to talk about. A transfer, putting the club up for sale, heck even get one of your goons to whack Luis Boa Morte if you have to.
WE WANT FOOTBALL BACK!!!
Agreed
Can you imagine the Rupert Jokes from the likes of Newcastle when they read this thread????
