# Oats and wheat germ - Healthy breakfast? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 9, 2020, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oats-and-wheat-germ-healthy-breakfast/846176 "2020-01-09T16:03:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oats-and-wheat-germ-healthy-breakfast/846176/21 "2020-01-13T18:21:39Z")
“Healthy” is a low-meaning term, so it’s hard to answer the OP. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2020, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oats-and-wheat-germ-healthy-breakfast/846176/22 "2020-01-16T11:37:59Z")
OK, so I finally actually measured out the cereal and this is a very calorically dense breakfast! I put in the standard servings, or whatever portion of a serving that I would actually use (fewer raisins, more oatmeal) and I’m getting 500-700 calories at breakfast. This is much higher than I would get from Cheerios, even Honey-Nut Cheerios (about 150 calories/cup, plus the milk). So, I guess I’ll finish off my stock and go back to Cheerios. I’ll try and get used to just plain Cheerios with milk. Here’s what I measured: 3/4 cup oatmeal: 200 2 tbsp wheat germ: 40 1/4 cup walnuts: 200 raisins: about 40 (don’t use nearly the 1/4 cup serving size at 120) 3/4 cup 2% milk: 100 In practice, I would use about half the walnuts, but more oatmeal and more milk. So, that’s 580 from the above, and somewhere north of that if I don’t carefully measure, no doubt. Lots of fiber, though! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oats-and-wheat-germ-healthy-breakfast/846176.md?page=1)