She-Fit’s Healthiest Cereals
The snooze button goes of a few times, stumble out of bed and the race to get out the door in the morning for work begins. It can be tough to sneak in a moment for breakfast and as we all know, breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Which is why it’s not only important to make the extra 15 minutes in the morning dedicated to breakfast, but to choose a breakfast that will give you the most energy and fuel for your day.
Cereal has been a staple breakfast food since the 1860’s as a ready-to-eat meal. Now and days you get lost in the cereal aisle with the array of cereals to choose from. The cereal industry includes over 30 companies with combined revenue of $12 billion dollars. Choosing a healthy cereal can be hard to choose from the endless varieties that are packed on the grocery shelf. Even the most proclaimed “healthy” cereals are be loaded with sugar, leading those to believe they are eating healthy. Only to find they are starving an hour later due to a drop in blood sugar. Just look at Raisin Bran or Raisin Bran Crunch. Yes, the cereal is loaded with fiber and the nutritional value from raisins but the sugar content exceeds 20g of sugar in 1 cup or less… Talk about sugar overload! Healthy cereal can be hard to come by when you are just going by advertisement. Unfortunately cereal companies spend millions of dollars on sugar-loaded cereals to advertise towards children. When was the last time you found a toy at the bottom of a corn flakes box? And lets face it, when I went shopping with my mom as a kid, I always looked for the cereal with the best toy… and ironically all these cereals were at my eye level. Grocery stores have found too that putting those sugar coated cereal at 3-4 feet on the self brought in more revenue… sneaky sneaky! Never bring your kid cereal shopping J
So, what makes cereal healthy? While everyone looks for something different in the terms “ healthy,” I look for 5 different things. 1.) Whole Grains 2.) High Fiber 3.) Sugar content of less than 5g per serving 4.) Little to no High Fructose Corn Syrup 5.) Less than 1g of fat To make it a little easy in searching through the cereal aisle for several hours, I have made a list of the top 10 She-Fit approved, “healthy cereals” with most or all of the 5 healthy cereal requirements.
1.) Kashi Go Lean Cereal
2.) Special K Cereal… Or my favorite, Special K with Blueberries
3.) Kix Cereal
4.) Rice Chex Cereal
5.) Crispix Cereal
6.) Cherrios Cereal
7.) Total Cereal
8.) Corn Flakes Cereal
9.) Fiber One Cereal
10.) Rice Krispies Cereal
While most people think that these cereals are boring, there are plenty of ways to spice up bland cereal. But that post will have to wait for tomorrow! What’s your favorite way to spice up bland cereal?
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My favorite cereal is Kashi Go Lean. Any reason it didn’t make the list?
I love Total and Raisin Bran, but it’s been a while since I’ve had either. I spice up my cereals by adding fruit (bananas, blueberries, strawberries, melons, etc.) to it. Sometimes, I even add cinnamon or nutmeg.
I must admit, Kashi Go Lean should be the top cereal. It has a great source of protein! Modifying right now!
I love fresh fruit or a little drizzled honey on my cereal. Or even fried fruit like cranberries, cherries, raisens or blueberries. I only buy the ones that dont add sugar tjough, its crazy how many of the.dried fruit has added sugar. Its fruit people why do we need.to add sugar, its already sweet on its own.:)
I love Kashi golean & Fiber one..mmm!!
I used to keep the 2 higher protein Kashi cereals in the house but I like them & cereal in general too much so no more…
Eating too much of anything, healthy or not, puts on weight. 
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