Kids Cereal and Sugar

[lesliepear]

Some kids' cereals have as much sugar as a doughnut and have about the same nutritional value, an investigation by Consumer Reports shows.

(Naturally, Alan likes some of the worst 5 cereals and my husband likes some of the best 5).

Comments

[goodjoan]

My kids get by on frosted mini wheats (because they need the fiber and they actually eat them) honey nut cheerios (because they spoon gods of sugar on the plan ones) and Life, which I like but the kids tend to eat the whole box in a day!

Riddle me this though, at the store, nearly every type of cereal has a generic know off. Apple jacks and appley-Ohs, fruit loops and fruity rings, Rice checks and Rice squares, heck, even frosted mini wheats have a cheaper store brand alternative. Why no LIFE knock off? I would buy 3 boxes of life if it came in a store brand price bracket! As it is, it's like $4 a box for the 'big' box that still only lasts a matter of HOURS in my house!

[lesliepear.livejournal.com]

I actually like frosted mini-wheats and also eat them for fiber.

I never noticed there was no generic life cereal. I've at least gotten Alan to eat whatever is on sale when we go shopping and not to care about the brand names.

We did have a good sale at a local supermarket last week where you got 7 boxes of quaker cereals (life, oatmeal squares, captain crunch) for 7.77. I noticed they had the least amount of the life cereal left when we stopped by during the week!

[mayna.livejournal.com]

I LOVE oatmeal squares!! It's like $4 a box though. :-(

[mayna.livejournal.com]

I like Life too but it's so freaking expensive. Bill is a weirdo and will ONLY eat Life. But if we let anybody but him eat life, we'd be buying who knows how many $3 boxes of cereal every week. So I find deals on other cereals for the rest of us. :-P