What are the healthiest, junkiest cereals?

[emsumm]

Like which are passably nutritious?

[emsumm]

cereal K maybe?

[dirtyred]

Frosted Mini Wheats

[kaybee85]

I hear that Kix is both kid tested AND mother approved.

[sparkythelawyer]

My mom was the cereal nazi growing up we could only get cheerios or rice krispies, but if we had committed like, saintly acts of heroism we could sweet talk her in to Froot Loops, so maybe those :-)

[emsumm]

They love basic 4. Kix are a good idea. Frosted mini wheats, too.
My h bought lucky charms. They pick out the marshmallows and leave the "cheerios."

[zitiqueen]

Peanut Butter Cheerios?

[emsumm]

Jul 27, 2014 10:57:32 GMT -5 zitiqueen said:

Peanut Butter Cheerios?

Those would all be for me :-)

[Dorothy Zbornak]

Life?

[UMaineTeach]

they make a reduced sugar Frosted Flake - there is also a multi-grain/whole grain Frosted Flake, but I've only seen them in our school breakfast, not in a big box.

[pantsparty]

Jul 27, 2014 10:56:42 GMT -5 sparkythelawyer said:

My mom was the cereal nazi growing up we could only get cheerios or rice krispies, but if we had committed like, saintly acts of heroism we could sweet talk her in to Froot Loops, so maybe those :-)

My mom used to MIX sugar cereal and regular cereal. Like Froot Loops and Cheerios. Not too long ago, she told me she got the idea reading a magazine. Thanks, Good Housekeeping.

[trixiedicksnatch]

Jul 27, 2014 11:09:41 GMT -5 pantsparty said:

Jul 27, 2014 10:56:42 GMT -5 sparkythelawyer said:

My mom was the cereal nazi growing up we could only get cheerios or rice krispies, but if we had committed like, saintly acts of heroism we could sweet talk her in to Froot Loops, so maybe those :-)

My mom used to MIX sugar cereal and regular cereal. Like Froot Loops and Cheerios. Not too long ago, she told me she got the idea reading a magazine. Thanks, Good Housekeeping.

This is how my grandma would make us cereal as kids. She's always have like ten kinds to choose from then she'd put sugar on top. As a kid I was like yeah fuck yeah sugar wheeeeee! As an adult I'm super grossed out by it

[4speedy]

I mix honey nut Cheerios with regular Cheerios for DS. DD likes Basic 4, which has lots of sweetened dried fruit and yogurt in it to make it sweet.

[KKD]

Our healthy sweet cereals are Barbara's Multigrain Spoonfuls and Nature's Path Gorilla Munch.

[sparkythelawyer]

Jul 27, 2014 11:09:41 GMT -5 pantsparty said:

Jul 27, 2014 10:56:42 GMT -5 sparkythelawyer said:

My mom was the cereal nazi growing up we could only get cheerios or rice krispies, but if we had committed like, saintly acts of heroism we could sweet talk her in to Froot Loops, so maybe those :-)

My mom used to MIX sugar cereal and regular cereal. Like Froot Loops and Cheerios. Not too long ago, she told me she got the idea reading a magazine. Thanks, Good Housekeeping.

That's so awesome :-)

[tantek]

How about Krave?

[pantsparty]

Jul 27, 2014 11:22:00 GMT -5 sparkythelawyer said:

Jul 27, 2014 11:09:41 GMT -5 pantsparty said:

My mom used to MIX sugar cereal and regular cereal. Like Froot Loops and Cheerios. Not too long ago, she told me she got the idea reading a magazine. Thanks, Good Housekeeping.

That's so awesome :-)

Um, NO it is NOT awesome. It's a horrible thing to do to your children.

[sparkythelawyer]

Jul 27, 2014 11:25:46 GMT -5 pantsparty said:

Jul 27, 2014 11:22:00 GMT -5 sparkythelawyer said:

That's so awesome :-)

Um, NO it is NOT awesome. It's a horrible thing to do to your children.

True.

Horrible to me as a kid was my aunt who only had the REGULAR cheerios and not the sweetened honey-nut ones.  blech.

[kaybee85]

Jul 27, 2014 11:25:46 GMT -5 pantsparty said:

Jul 27, 2014 11:22:00 GMT -5 sparkythelawyer said:

That's so awesome :-)

Um, NO it is NOT awesome. It's a horrible thing to do to your children.

My aunt was worse. She used to sprinkle like 3 fruit loops on top for her kids and call them "croutons." You should probably go home and hug your mom now.

[pantsparty]

Jul 27, 2014 11:28:24 GMT -5 kaybee85 said:

Jul 27, 2014 11:25:46 GMT -5 pantsparty said:

Um, NO it is NOT awesome. It's a horrible thing to do to your children.

My aunt was worse. She used to sprinkle like 3 fruit loops on top for her kids and call them "croutons." You should probably go home and hug your mom now.

Pretty sure the kids had a case for emancipation in that scenario.

[zarapipe]

Cheerios have a new honey nut version with chrunchy things in it that has like 11 g of fiber. It is so good and actually fills me up.

[imhischeeseburger]

I like moms best cereal. Amelia loves their cinnamon toast crunch version that tastes just the same as the named brand one, but is healthier (at least that's what I tell myself anyways.) Also natures path has some knock off chocolate rice crispies cereal that is pretty good.

[TC]

Barbara's peanut butter puffin cereal
EnviroKidz
and, I would eat the crap out of a bowl of life cereal right now.

[Deleted]

Peanut butter puffins.

[cereal K]

Jul 27, 2014 10:48:27 GMT -5 emsumm said:

cereal K maybe?

i mean, they're all fortified! so if you're eating them with milk, you're getting calcium with vitamins and minerals!! it's all about your threshold for sugar.

honestly, any of the cheerios family is always a good bet - whole grain, minimal sugars, oats have other positive properties. 

life, oat squares, any of the chex...

but, i won't lie - i've been buying cinnamon toast crunch almost weekly! 

[cereal K]

Jul 27, 2014 11:40:44 GMT -5 imhischeeseburger said:

I like moms best cereal. Amelia loves their cinnamon toast crunch version that tastes just the same as the named brand one, but is healthier (at least that's what I tell myself anyways.) Also natures path has some knock off chocolate rice crispies cereal that is pretty good.

nope. they're all emulations - which means nutritionally, MaltOMeal is targeting the brand and will be within a small tolerance of difference from the brands. the only difference is price, really.

[pixelpassion]

Peanut butter puffins all day err day

[woodiedog]

Hot old fashioned quaker oatmeal with cinnamon and raisins

[speckledfrog]

Cracklin Oat Bran

[bab]

Fruity Cheerios