The question is: is ceral a cost-effective breakfast? KIX costs about $0.60 for a breakfast portion-am I better off eating one egg (0.25) and a piece of cheese (.20) for breakfast?
Well let’s take Lucky Charms: one serving with 1/2 cup non-fat milk is 150 Kcal. 6gm of protein. No fat. Various levels of various vitamins and minerals but mainly in the 25 to 50% of RDA range. Your egg and cheese have lots more protein, about 14gm. But let’s face it, few of us will fall short of our daily protein needs. Do you really need a third of your daily protein in a light breakfast? In return you get a 200 Kcal meal (presuming a boiled or poached egg), 10 -15 gm of fat (depending on the cheese), and no where near the vitamin and mineral count (B vitamins being the main exception).
A serving of cereal also tends to satisfy me more than one boiled egg and a slice of cheese. And that’s Lucky Charms! Those Frosted Mini Wheats have lots more protein and lots of iron too.
In point of fact ready-to-eat cereal is associated with many positive nutritional outcomes. Better calcium intake. Heck better nutritional values across the board. In multiple studies. Even improving the risk profile for heart disease. Even a lower risk for obesity.
I’d go with the cereal.
Doesn’t what you do all day have a bearing on what you should eat for breakfast?
A healthy breakfast is a good idea for all of us, but won’t those burning more calories need some place to get them? The telephone pole climber ‘endures’ the high calorie ‘trail mix’ cereals better than the dedicated desk jockey.
Myself is a Kashi Crunch devotee. Good fiber at least, but I don’t presently have a box to check the other nutrients.
It’s cheaper at Trader Joe’s than Lucky/Safeway; $2.50 vs $4.00-4.50, respectively.
It certainly stays with me until lunch also, which many of the ‘snack-food’ cereals don’t. Any ‘supplements’ consumed before lunch have to count in the morning calorie count, eh?
Of course not. Use Budweiser instead.
Conspicuous in its absence is any mention of Total.
Have I been hoodwinked by the folks at General Mills into thinking this is a healthy cereal? Or just on oversight?
Since they came out with Total Raisin Bran and Total Cranberry, I haven’t eaten any other cereal.
Can be. The store brand, Malt-o-Meal, or Aldi versions of Frosted Mini-Wheats cost very little, and are nutritionally identical to Kellogg’s.
Once in awhile I buy a box of off-brand Frosted Mini-Wheats. They end up by my computer, where I eat them like potato chips. They’re awesome, and I’m delighted both that they’re healthful and that I’m eating gelatin again (i.e., not vegetarian).
Daniel
[slight hijack] How come, every time a cereal commercial shows the cereal as “part of this complete breakfast,” the complete breakfast consists of cereal, toast, a piece of fruit and a tall glass of juice? Hel-LO, carbs! :eek: 
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Budweiser makes me sleepy in the mornings. Breakfast should bring “get up and go” not “get back to bed and nap.”
That’s why before noon, people on the go drink Jägerbombs.
I just tried your recipe here and I puked all over the breakfast table. Thanks for that.
Good choice:
only 3gr of fat, 13gr of sugars, with *8grams of fiber *and 9 grams of protein. 
Total is Ok, not enough fiber IMHO.
Yeah, the only thing Total seems to have going for it compared to other healthy cereals are lots of vitamins. I’d imagine the bio-availability of these vitamins aren’t great, probably not even as good as a multi-vitamin.
I’d rather eat Special K Protein plus or Kashi and eat a multi-vitamin. (or just eat a balanced healthy, non processed diet through the rest of the day as well)
It means viewing sugar as = to sucrose, which is what a LOT of people do. I have no idea if you were doing that or not, but you were using terms like “high in sugar” and “high in fat” and being extremely non-specific. To avoid others making generalizations about what you say you do have to be more specific, because the language you’re using in your above post is identical to what someone who has no idea that not all sugars/fats are the same would use.
Definitely–but I don’t eat breakfast cereal so I can’t really give any good recommendations.
Oatmeal seems to be optimal. I just pour milk on and eat cold. Very good for you, and cheaper than the conventional boxed cereals by a factor of 5.
I hate overly sweet cereal. Which basically includes everything made by Kellogg’s.
Apart from DIY muesli and porridge, the only cereal I’ve ever found with a zero added-sugar rating is Grape Nuts. Bloody lovely.
I’d like to add FiberOne Heart Healthy to the list of good-for-you cereals. It tends to be relatively low in fat, quite low in sugar and very, very high in fiber. It’s quite tasty for such a high-fiber breakfast cereal. Strangely enough, my toddler really likes it. I try to limit how much he eats, though, because I can’t imagine that 9 grams of fiber at one time is a good thing for an 18-month-old kid.
But the soggy cornflakes make them so hard to shoot!