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[–] LadyButterfly@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

I fucking love fruit and fibre but try not to eat it cos it's so sugary. I eat porridge and occasionally shredded wheat bitesize

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Muesli. πŸ˜‹

It's just granola. I would wear a horse's oat bag and eat this stuff if I had an oat bag.

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't buy cereal. I cannot be trusted to have "just one bowl". That milk is gone. That entire box is gone.

When I do give in and prepare my bowels for a bumpy 24 hours, I am very partial to Special K and Bran Flakes.

[–] LadyButterfly@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

They're healthy! So it's allowed

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 2 points 3 weeks ago

So I keep telling myself
*stares tearfully at the poor abused toilet*

[–] br3d@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Bran flakes have a lot of sugar in them. I'm sure Special K does too, but I love it too much to risk checking

[–] LadyButterfly@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

If you don't check it doesn't exist! I'm doing that with a huge bar of chocolate in my fridge. If I don't look the calories don't count

[–] DrSleepless@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] MrTolkinghoen@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

This. So much this.

Best in chex mix too, and it's also super great mixed with other cereals. My favorite is crispix and lucky charms and crispix and cocoa krispies. (NOT cocoa pebbles)

[–] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

oatmeal with oat milk

my username is pure coincidence i assure you

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 1 points 3 weeks ago

Controversial opinion, maybe, but IMHO oat milk is better than dairy for everything except cooking. Also, even more controversial opinion: I encourage people to call it "oak milk" but I absolutely do not think companies should be allowed to call it "oat milk".

[–] alchemy88@feddit.uk 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It’s got to be crunchy nut corn flakes!

[–] LadyButterfly@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh they are niiiiice so much sugar though

[–] alchemy88@feddit.uk 1 points 3 weeks ago

That’s why they’re so nice πŸ˜†

Wheat, it is really useful and fairly hardy

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Weetabix or weetos (though that's a rare treat)

I'm just now realising the Weetabix company has my number

I don't usually have cereal for breakfast though, usually just black coffee and maybe toast on a weekday and something a bit more extravagant like a fry up or salmon and cream cheese at the weekend

[–] sprite0@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

mm those are so good

[–] LadyButterfly@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Is toast enough? I'd be ravenous by mid morning

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Honestly for me yeah I prefer a bigger lunch and dinner weekdays usually.

I also skew kinda late with my meals, ideally breakfast about 10am, lunch between 1 & 2 and dinner I'm completely fine eating at 9pm and in summer actually prefer even later (heat just seems to kill my appetite for food)

[–] sprite0@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

Frosted Mini Wheats!!

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I never found one I enjoyed! I think trying to figure out milk to cereal ratio drove me mad and I really don't like eating them dry at all.

[–] GoldenFigApple@feddit.uk 1 points 3 weeks ago

Chocolate squares. I don't have them though. Too much sugar. It's a dessert treat.

[–] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

(UK) The original Alpen. Doesn't bear any relation to that I had in my youth, though. And it makes me fart without ending - I literally walk faster.

Not close fourths:

  • curiously cinnamon
  • crunchy nut cornflakes
  • fruit and fibre

None of them are like they were twenty years ago. They've changed in a variety of ways.

[–] sicjoke@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago
[–] Codpiece@feddit.uk 1 points 3 weeks ago