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Have I been eating cereal wrong?
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Do a lot of people actually add fruit to their cereal? I only started eating more fruit once I'd replaced cereal.
It's how the pretend it's a nutritious breakfast.
There are plenty of great cereals. Fiber one is basically 75% of your daily fiber in 200 calories, You can find plenty of examples. I feel like nobody on the Internet understands the availability of trash does not exclude quality from being in a product space.
Not a bad point to make! I eat grape nuts, which I am at least pretty sure is very decent.
I also eat trash cereals, but typically those are replacements for candy or dessert.
Getting 75% of my daily fiber at breakfast and then another 75% of my daily fiber just from eating normally the rest of the day sounds like a lot. I can only see this being a good thing in like a food desert or medical situation where vegetables aren't an option.
Eat less. What an absolutely worthless statement. Get your macros whatever way you want.
Assuming you mean eat less of the cereal and not less vegetables, that is what I'm suggesting would be preferable to me, yes.
The listed serving size is 2/3 of a cup for 65% of your daily fiber, but I think in reality most people are pouring much larger cereal bowls. I can understand why many people who try to eat healthy for the first time end up feeling sick if it's this easy to hit 40 grams of fiber just in the first meal of the day.
I'm not saying no one should ever eat it, just that it seems impractical to me as a meal and more useful as a supplement.
Cool paragraph about your preference. Like, just fantastic.
I did for a few years when I ate cereal regularly. Now I add it to yogurt with homemade granola.
Bananas in corn flakes are one of my favorites. Strawberries are great too. I've never tried blueberries in life cinnamon but honestly I bet it'd slap
Oranges and lemons are underrated. Also watermelon. 🤌
I’ll do fresh bananas or frozen berries, but it’s a waste of fresh berries and too much of a hassle for other fruit, imo.
I add bananas to corn flakes. I used to add extra raisins to Raisin Bran.
Two scoops not enough for you? Are you perpetually unsatisfied??
I do occasionally. It makes bland cereal (grape-nuts and corn flakes) palatable without just dumping a bunch of sugar on it.
sliced bananas into Cheerios or Oat Circles is actually REALLY good.
I never do. I'll add it to oatmeal, but not cereal.
Pro-tip: oatmeal is cereal.
In my experience most people have forgotten about hot cereals. My mom used to make Cream of Wheat all the time when I was growing up.
Cream of wheat with lots of sugar and butter is soooo good and comforting.
Instant hot cereal has completely ruined hot cereal. It's just shit compared to the regular stuff.
Still have Malt-O-Meal every so often. It's good! Glad both are still around.