Comments on: Aisle by Aisle: Choosing Healthy Cereals

By: Maria

Maria — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 23:13:55 +0000

Steel cut oats with almonds and unsalted sunflower seeds with some fresh fruit and vanilla soy milk-It is also good with old fashion rolled oats and cream of wheat

By: Heathie

Heathie — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:29:44 +0000

Kashi cereals are great, unfortunately the Puffed Cereal has a "Medium" GI value. Watch the BHT preservative in commercial cereals

By: ofox

ofox — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:45:06 +0000

Hey! I have a great rendition on those "boring" cereals. I like to mix Fiber One Original and Wheat Puffs with chocolate almond breeze unsweetened milk. That way, you get all the nutritional values of the cereal with the subtle sweetness of chocolate milk. The milk has only 45 calories for a cup & it makes me feel like a kid again! Plus the milk is really low on the GI scale so it keeps your insulin levels on track.

By: kay

kay — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:51:00 +0000

i loooooove any kashi cereal. for a while i always bought strawberry fields. now i get the new kashi honey kind. its low in calories. i also am a big multigrain cherrios person. my only problem with cereal is i eat tooo much of it.

By: Rutledge

Rutledge — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 02:28:09 +0000

Wise up people, the producers of cereal need a lesson. Stop adding all the junk to natural grains as the labels indicate. Cereal does not need all the mislabeled sweeteners, such as High Fructose Corn Syrup and other ingredients that your system cannot absorb, but act as fillers.

I buy my cereal from Whole Foods in bulk, together with other ingredients that are completely healthy, all natural and whole grain without all the sweetners and trans fats, gums etc.

By: Rutledge

Rutledge — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 02:22:18 +0000

My breakfast is groats, to which I add fresh fruit, cinnamon, flaxseeds cocoa and nuts, with skim milk.

By: ynpgal

ynpgal — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:34:37 +0000

Seriously, Nichole. HFCS is some really yucky stuff to ingest. All those commercials that laugh about those who won't eat it because it's made from corn (a natural ingredient!). What they don't say is that chemists have changed the corn at a molecular/cellular level to increase the natural sugar content of the corn and make it sweeter. It's cheaper for "food" manufacturers to use. Problem is that it does not metabolize like pure sugar and tends to convert to fat more easily. No wise person I know would knowingly digest any food that has been altered like that.

By: ynpgal

ynpgal — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:30:20 +0000

Bummer, Meredith, but from all the labels I've read on granola boxes, it seems that "healthy" and "granola" seem to be at odds. So much fat and sugar, even when it occurs naturally. I haven't yet found one that I can live with…and I pick up every box I see in the quest!

By: ynpgal

ynpgal — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:30:20 +0000

By: ynpgal

ynpgal — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:26:30 +0000

Tilly, I am always so mad at the Special K folks! I love that stuff and would eat it every day, but it has High Fructose Corn Syrup in it and I'll be darned if I'm going to eat something so cruddy in a cereal that they advertise as being so healthy.

I emailed them about it and got a complete run around, where not one person was able to refer to my topic or question….at all! Nothing but side-steppin. They refused to even explain why they use it instead of plain sugar. I finally email back and told them I thought they were being irresponsible.