Is there a more bland cereal than Shredded Wheat?

Is there a cereal with less complex, highly processed, unhealthy crap in it than Shredded Wheat?

No, there's your answer.

Add a bit of sugar to it and it's great. Or 1/3 of one of the myriad nut/grain/ honey/sugar granola muesli things and it's a bloody marvellous combination of pleasant to eat & reasonably healthy.

If you're used to a diet of overprocessed, oversweetened 'mercan style food then yes it may seem bland

You just need delicious full fat milk from your local milkman.....

Rice crispies are far worse!

Weetabix is just as bad

NEVER go the generalists for tea

Should be bland but I love them. When did they start wrapping them in twos though? A portion is three.

All grown up cereal is bland and boring.

Kellogg all-bran. It serves a purpose but it’s like doing the cream-cracker challenge.

NEVER go the generalists for tea

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Right, you've asked for it. I'm going to take a photo of my tea tonight and post it on here. NOBODY disses the culinary delights of ChezGeneralist.

Copious quantities of good food is taken exceedingly surrussly in this house 😄

Though number one son has just come into the room swearing that the oven doesn't work, which doesn't bode well.

Bitesize shredded Wheat, tesco special flakes red Berries, chopped banana, skimmed milk. Keeps hunger locked up til lunch.

My favourite combo currently: 66% Fruit & Fibre + 34% Sugar Honey Puffs

I don't believe it, the ****ing oven has indeed broken.

Looks like it's Shredded Wheat for tea, with a teaspoon of sugar. 🙁

Thursday was roasting day at the Shredded Wheat factory when I was at school, and if the wind was in the right direction, we spent school breaks in the smell of roasting wheat. Got to say, I’m with thegeneralist in that it’s good because it’s simple - but I eat plain muesli (with hazelnut milk) for breakfast, and a plate of raw veg for lunch, so clearly I like a lot of unprocessed food. I’m tempted to buy a pack for old time's sake, but as it’s no longer made in Welwyn Garden City, it seems almost a betrayal.

I remember eating Golden Oaties when I was a kid, they were delicious.

The crispiest fleet you can eat 🙂

There indeed a more bland cereal than shredded wheat - Ready Brek. Other than food that has gone off, it's the only food I've ever binned as inedible.

Special K

grown ups eat protein for breakfast.
cereals are for children.
pass me the crunchy nut cornflakes anyday.

All breakfast cereals are the spawn of Satan. Every single one of them.

Why in the name of all that is holy would anyone eat it when breakfast offers such delicious alternatives

Add plenty of fruit and nuts.

A breakfast cereal shaped like a brillo pad, what did you expect.

Weetabix for the win - it is bland in taste and texture. At least Shredded Wheat has that straw structure for distraction, whereas Wheetabix is plain paper mâché.

I was discussing the absolute bizarreness of shredded wheat with my Lad today, you couldnt get a more British food item if you tried, however it is actually American invented by Henry Perky

Oh, I'd forgotten how good it is, warm milk (30 secs in the microwave) to soften it and honey poured over. Delicious. Must buy a box when shopping tomorrow.

I'd go Greek yoghurt with it plus banana and some sort of dried fruit, perhaps cranberries.

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Gnomm, sirloin.

I also give you All-Bran, colonic irrigation for the brave. Wood shavings are tastier.

Muesli ?

Apparently it was once used as animal feed.

There indeed a more bland cereal than shredded wheat – Ready Brek. Other than food that has gone off, it’s the only food I’ve ever binned as inedible.

My favourite breakfast when I was a kid, lots of milk and brown sugar!
Now it’s Crunchy Nut. Occasionally I’ll buy a box of the clusters and mix it in with the regular version, for added crunchyness.

Shredded wheat is easily made tasty. 2 simple steps.

1. Add several slices of bacon.
2. Remove the shredded wheat.

Breakfast is a Dangerous Meal by Terence Kealey

"Prologue
I was contracted to submit the first draft of this manuscript to my publishers on 31 January 2016. The day before, on 30January, The Times trailed on its front page an article by Angela Epstein, a health journalist, entitled 'Eight great weight-loss myths'. Skipping breakfast was myth number four.
A recent study by Louisiana State University found that a 250-calorie serving of oatmeal [porridge] for breakfast resulted in reducing calorie intake at lunch.
Some people like to do crossword, but my morning hobby is to find the catch in claims that breakfast is good for me, so where was this article's catch? I had twenty-four hours in which to uncover it.
It wasn't hard to locate the study, which had just been published in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition, where I discovered that it had actually come jointly from Louisiana State University and PepsiCo (which owns the Quaker Oats Company). That is obviously a different provenance than from Louisiana State University alone.
The study showed, moreover, that, compared with a breakfast of Honey Nut Cheerios, a bowl of Quaker Instant Oatmeal slightly reduced the amount eaten subsequently at lunch; but the study did not compare subjects who ate a bowl of Quaker Instant Oatmeal with those who'd actually skipped breakfast, because no subjects were asked to skip it. Why not?
Well, it so happens that, contrary to what most people believe, eating breakfast significantly increases your total intake of calories: though eating breakfast may reduce your calorie intake at lunch, the calories you consume at breakfast will greatly exceed the ones they displace at lunch. So a fuller Times report of the study in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition might have read:

A recent study by Louisiana State University that was funded by - and performed jointly with-PepsiCo (which owns the Quaker Oats Company) found that a 250-calorie serving of oatmeal for breakfast resulted in a significantly reduced calorie intake at lunch compared with an equivalent serving of Honey Nut Cheerios. Eating any cereal, however, greatly increases the total daily calorie intake, and only if breakfast were actually skipped would the total daily calorie intake have fallen.

That little story summarises this book."

https://www.****/health/article-10758869/How-Kelloggs-cereals-REALLY-fare-nutritionally-food-giant-takes-ministers-court.html

Ronnie Barker classic from years ago -
"And in tonight's news. A man is in hospital after mistaking a Brillo Pad for Shredded Wheat. doctors are expecting him to scrape through"

Always makes me wince when I think about it.

For people like me who can't hack any sugar they do the job.

I have little bran shredded wheats with choccy in the middle, not sure if they do them in your land which are pleasent.

I think you should have the fibre to ease the morning movements 🙂

But as said above most of the breakfast cereals are just bad news nutritionally, especially for sedentary style lifestyles unlike the honed athletes we are.

A pile of sugars not going to be a prob when we’re off on our 60 mile ride before work.

A terrible way of injecting sugar under the guise of ‘healthy’.

I’d go Greek yoghurt with it plus banana and some sort of dried fruit, perhaps cranberries.

I like Greek yog with crunchy muesli and choc bits,but never fat free 🙂

I get the Spanish Spar choc muesli (upper)and a tub of Hacendado grieco (mercaddona) so none of your posh stuff and the taste sensation is stellar.

Not sure that my nutritional make up is better but dried fruit aren’t sin free 🙂

I can't do sugar for breakfast, bleagh! But it seems I'm in the minority

I distinctly remember one year we stayed at my Uncle and Aunt's on Christmas and none of them could fathom that I wanted cornflakes (yes I know hardly sugar free, but that's what was on offer) with milk and no extra added sugar...

Dunno, lashings of sugar for breakfast feels like a very 70s/80s kind of thing now. I'd probably be fine with the shreddies the OP turned their nose up at TBH...

I’m going to take a photo of my tea tonight and post it on here. NOBODY disses the culinary delights of ChezGeneralist.

You're boasting about meat and potatoes? 😁

I also give you All-Bran, colonic irrigation for the brave.

Mate of mine used to eat that stuff. I tried a handful once, I was on the Shit Yourself Thin diet for two days straight.

Make my own granola and it's seriously delicious. Full of maple syrup and honey so probably not healthy and the seeds getting stuck in my teeth are a pita. Won't stop me eating it though.

I throw a very bland packet of oats and a packet of bran together in a container topped up with mixed seeds and dried fruit with chopped fresh fruit on the day, keeps me going (as it were).

Ms Slow is just putting together breakfasts for next week's self catering in the Lakes. There will be Shredded Wheat, Weetabix, All Bran and Bran Flakes, plus fruit and nuts.

I like shredded wheat with hot milk and half a teaspoon if demerara sugar. That's loads less sugar than other cereals add.
Overnight oats with frozen berries for the quick breakfast win.
But eggs win whenever I have time.

Grape nuts

I cant eat cereal or porridge in the morning, it ruins my coffee. Afternoon or bedtime, yes please!

M&S sultana bran flakes, Just Right or CNCF

I Googled the healthiest breakfast cereal, in an article I found, top was (surprise) porridge, then muesli, and then Shredded Wheat. Last'ish was granola I think

then muesli

Got to be careful there as lots of these are super sugary.

scrambled eggs. Fewer calories, less sugar, more protein which fills you up. Not full of processed crap.

Fun fact, Corn Flakes (and most of the legacy bland cereals that emerged at the same time) were first developed by weird religious nutters like Dr Kellog to stop you from masturbating. He though that bland food was the key to less "dangerous" (ie normal) thoughts about sex. It was only later that they started being promoted on health basis of their ingredients.

Corn Flakes (and most of the legacy bland cereals that emerged at the same time) were first developed by weird religious nutters like Dr Kellog to stop you from masturbating.

That explains the big cock on the cereal box.

All plain cereal is dull tasting rabbit food. Needs fruit/chocolate/syrup/yoghurt/sugar etc to make it edible (see Cornflakes vs Frosties).

I’d go Greek yoghurt with it plus banana and some sort of dried fruit, perhaps cranberries.

Same here. But with no Shredded Wheat in the bowl. 😀

I cant eat cereal or porridge in the morning, it ruins my coffee. Afternoon or bedtime, yes please!

Cereal in the evening otherwise known as "nightfast"

I think Weetabix is quite tastey.

Puffed wheat is pretty plain.

Funny how your body can crave 'bland'. Maybe it's this thread subliminising me but had porridge for lunch.

Surely the worst cereals are to be found in those dispensers at a B&B - they're probably filled with the cheapest approximation to corn flakes/all bran or whatever but then left to slowly go stale and lose what little flavour they had. At least the weetabix are normally wrapped separately.

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All breakfast cereals are the spawn of Satan. Every single one of them.

Why in the name of all that is holy would anyone eat it when breakfast offers such delicious alternatives

Even as a vegetarian I'd concur that breakfast cereal is a triumph of marketing over anything else, it's the last resort option, I'd rather (and fairly regularly do) drink a protein shake (usually either pre or post commute by bike if I've had some real food at the other end).

Is there a cereal with less complex, highly processed, unhealthy crap in it than Shredded Wheat?

I object to the pejorative use of the word "processed" as a synonym for cooked, if I take some ingredients, cook them, put them through a blender/press/roller etc, does that make them processed? High sugar would be a valid criticism. But who on earth eats raw cereals?

Shredded Wheat is great for diluting tasty cereals, keeping the taste, but reducing the sugar and ****. See also… puffed wheat and kallo puffed rice.

Cereal is for people like me who can’t function of a morning. Porridge is great in this regard. Shredded wheat is okay if doused in honey and chopped banana. All Bran is some sort of punishment for sinners

I have porridge most days with just whole organic milk (actually delivered by a milkman 😳).

I sometimes have some Cheerios or crunchy nut cornflakes but I treat like a treat. Same way as I'd treat a pan chocolate or croissant. Lifes about mixing it up, I reckon.