A bowl of cereal takes about 30 seconds to put together and can be eaten quite quickly. Cleanup is also super quick. So this is prefect in a hurry to get your kids and you out the door fast.
To add a little more "health" to it, throw some fruit in there. Blueberries only need a quick rinse. Bananas are good, but require being cut up, which adds time to cut them and another utensil to clean. Strawberries are good too, but the same problem exists with these as with bananas unless you had already cut them up in advance on a different day, as I suggest in my "Fruit in Advance" blog.
If you're trying to feed your kids the least amount of sugar in cereal, you have to be really careful when you read the labels on the cereal boxes. They all have different "serving sizes" so the amount of sugar "per serving" can be deceiving from one box to the next. I've even noticed that a national brand and store brand of the same type of cereal will have two different "serving sizes" so if you only look at the amount of sugar "per serving" on the two boxes you may think one has less sugar than the other. For example, the national brand may say "9 grams of sugar per serving" while the store brand says "6 grams of sugar per serving". Yet, you'll find that the national brand serving size is .75 cups while the store brand serving size is .5 cups. When you do the math, the sugar content is the same, but if you're not paying attention one looks better than the other. I've created a chart that does the math for you and puts the cereals listed on an equal playing field of 1 cup amounts.
As you can see, the label servings sizes vary wildly. So the 2nd column "Sugar per cup (g)" is the calculated amount of sugar for a cup of each cereal. This is the one you want to compare when deciding which you want to purchase, if you're interested most about sugar content. For reference, I have given you the serving size which is on the label, and also the amount of sugar per label serving size, along with other values both as found on the label and per cup.
Note the worst offender on the list is "Honey Smacks" with 20g of sugar per cup of cereal! That's almost 7 packets of sugar in one cup of cereal! Most people eat more than 1 cup of cereal in a bowl. No wonder "Honey Smacks" was originally called "Sugar Smacks"!Cereal Recipe
Prep time: 30 secondsCreate time: 30 seconds
Number of Servings: One
Ingredients
- Cereal of your choice
- Milk
- Optionally: Fruit of your choice
How to create
- Get cereal from pantry
- Get milk from fridge
- Get bowl and spoon from cabinet/drawer
- Pour cereal in bowl
- Add milk to bowl
- Optionally add fruit
- Place spoon in bowl
- Serve quickly before cereal gets soggy (unless your kids like it that way)
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