Do you eat cereal for health reasons or taste?

All these adverts claim their cereal is healthy. I wondered whether people actually have cereal for health reasons because many that I have heard of who do end up stuffing their face with plastic looking food at McDonalds at lunch time. :rolleyes:

So does anyone here have cereal for health reasons (whole or in part) or is it just for the taste? If so what do you have?

I used to have Shredded Wheat but now am on Kellogg's All-Bran (as I need a high fibre diet). Years ago I used to have musli as it was filling but that was seen as uncool as I found out in a foreign languages class once, yet half of those who advocated this view ate kiddy's stuff like Coco Pops (which looks like Rabbit's excretement) and Snap, Crackle and Pop. :rolleyes:

Reply 1

Inverurie Jones

1

Taste. Raisin Wheats. Yum. :smile:

Reply 2

Cellardore

11

i don't eat cereal in the mornings, i don't like it, it makes me feel ill :redface:

Although i do feel guilty as it's suppsed to be good for heart and stuff :confused:

I can only stmach fruit in the morning.

Reply 3

jpowell

15

I eat fruit and fibre. It's tasty. I eat it because I enjoy it, heck I like just plain bran flakes. Who cares what other people eat anyway? Half the kids cereals are so packed full of sugar it's no wonder kids are so hyperactive these days.

Reply 4

twiga

15

I eat muisly (however you spell it) It tastes nice :smile:

Reply 5

Inverurie Jones

1

AMM

I eat fruit and fibre. It's tasty. I eat it because I enjoy it, heck I like just plain bran flakes. Who cares what other people eat anyway? Half the kids cereals are so packed full of sugar it's no wonder kids are so hyperactive these days.

I hear that the US version of cheerios are all different colours, like green and blue...I wonder if they have a similar effect to the dreaded Blue Smarties?

Reply 6

LennonMcCartney

I love cereal so much. So tasty, and healthy. I eat it for both. Of course I can get tired of it, so sometimes I have toast with spread on with some coffee, but generally cereal. And it's soooo easy to prepare too!

Reply 7

NDGAARONDI

OP

16

AMM

I eat fruit and fibre. It's tasty. I eat it because I enjoy it, heck I like just plain bran flakes. Who cares what other people eat anyway? Half the kids cereals are so packed full of sugar it's no wonder kids are so hyperactive these days.

Exactly. And some of those people I've seen about 7 years on from eating those cereals aren't exactly thin. Guess too many people do what is trendy at 14 years of age.

Reply 8

AngelofnoColour

14

i hate cereal

Reply 9

NDGAARONDI

OP

16

tiger_babe

I eat muisly (however you spell it) It tastes nice :smile:

The thing is with some musli they can be great and some not so great. Get musli with some decent amount of fruit in it and/or add some of your own from health shops etc. I did used to add pitted dates to my cereal, must do that again.

Reply 10

rmyl

13

i eat weetabix cos it tastes nice, is healthy and most other cereals are just far too sweet to eat at that time in the morning. i've always eaten it, its got nothing to do with advertising (unless i've been brainwashed completely)

must eat weetabix....

Reply 11

Sooz

1

I love breakfast cereal. I often eat it in the evening too, but I do eat the really unhealthy breakfast cereals most of the time.

Reply 12

jessicarabbit

8

I eat All bran...i like it...

but i go COO COO FOR COCO POPS!

ahem....

ooo and Lucky Charms!!!...hearts and gold and rainbows, and the red balloon!!!

Reply 13

rmyl

13

i'm trying to remember how the cheerios song used to go...
cheeri corn, cheeri oats, cheeri rice and wheeeeaat, lalalala

wow, i'm so bored!!!!

Reply 14

covered farm wagon

11

cheery whole grain cheerios, cheery oh so good to eat!

I eat cereal for the taste, but I'm greedy so I don't buy it too often. Although I have been eating weetabix recently and it's very nice, and sounds healthy too.

Reply 15

Apricot Fairy

16

I don't eat cereal at all because I think it's horrible! :frown:

Reply 16

Barny

17

I eat fruit and fibre, weetabix and shredded weat depending on what I fancy, fruit and fibre is amazingly tasty!

Reply 17

NDGAARONDI

OP

16

I must give fruit and fibre a try, there's already quite a few good comments about it. I usually have a high fibre cereal during the week and weekends I usually have something different like Jordans' cereal. Anybody else do this?

Reply 18

Random.Girl

14

At the moment if I have cereal then it's Special K with apricot and peach - it's lovely! But then I don't always eat breakfast cause I'm naughty :p:

Reply 19

sumlangis

because i know i should but deep down i hates it... nasty trixie raisin wheats
:p:

seriously it does taste rough in the morning, if i can be bothered to get it when im out i get croissants or pain au chocolat. Toast is good also, i think it must be a psychological thing because if ive been up for a few hours i like ceral.

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