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Best and worst breakfast cereal

  • 22-10-2021 11:22am
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 256 ✭✭buzzinfly83


    So what's yours. Not just focusing on the healthiest options.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,072 ✭✭✭RoryMurphyJnr


    Sugar Puffs, but you can't get them anymore so Coco Pops or Cornflakes with ice-cold milk and a little sugar



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,316 ✭✭✭✭Loafing Oaf


    Thank God for that. Here's my two current favourites

    My all-time favourite is Tesco caramel & popcorn granola but you can't get it any more


    Least favourite? Well there's any amount of them I wouldn't touch. Anything with raisins would probably be at the very bottom of the list.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,000 ✭✭✭Stone Deaf 4evr


    Best - Kelloggs 'Start', lovely wheaty honey taste, but I rarely see it much these days.

    Worst - ready brek, tis like porridge for Noobs.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,685 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Can't beat the old classic Kelloggs Cornflakes.

    Worst that I have tried, probably CoCo Pops.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,138 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    Favourite: No Added Sugar Alpen. Eat it every morning. A medley of textures. Never get tired of it.

    I do like Cornflakes with a little sugar and cold milk, but as an occasional evening snack. Weetabix would be my preference in lieu of the Alpen for breakfast.

    Least Favourite: Special K. Anemic Cornflakes.

    I’ve never eaten them, but the very concept of Lucky Charms repulses me.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 837 ✭✭✭crossmolinalad


    Hate them all Only thing i eat is bread with fried eggs or bread with dutch cheese



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,430 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    ‘Start’ was great. Was it discontinued?

    I guess ‘Crunchy Nut Cornflakes’ or ‘Honey Nut Cheerios’ would be the best now.

    ‘Weetabix’ would be the worst, not sure how anyone eats that muck.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,000 ✭✭✭Stone Deaf 4evr


    I don't really eat cereal much, but I havent seen it on the shelves (been shopping in Aldi for years too, which may account for why i'm not seeing it).

    Crunchy nut cornflakes have changed as well though, they're excessively sweet - almost like frosties, and the nuts are tiny particles, not far removed from dust.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,396 ✭✭✭raclle


    Anyone mix their cereal? My go to is cornflakes and mini choc weetabix



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,446 ✭✭✭One Who Waits...


    I absolutely would kill for a box of Sugar Puffs. Jesus I loved them.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,878 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Oh not had either.

    But related I do love all bran golden crunch would recommend (as long as you haven't got any fillings)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,039 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Bloody hell, that escalated quickly 😳

    Weetabix or no sugar Alpen are my current go-to's.

    Crunchy nut cornflakes were my crack cocaine - but have avoided them for years due to my ability to put away half a box in one sitting! V disappointed to hear they've gone down in quality, but most things have these days

    I'm fairly sure I saw Kellogs Start in Tesco the other day that was another nice one.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,209 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Cornflakes, sugar, cold milk....

    worst... any Museli... like eating crap off the ground in a forest.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,138 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    Used to when I was a kid. Cornflakes and Rice Krispies mixed was a favourite. Or muesli on Cornflakes or Weetabix. Don’t do it any more, but my kids do it now.



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    Branflakes, or anything with that extra bit of fibre for, y'know making the world turn. (top tip, fibre is a great way of absorbing and expelling excess toxins from your body) I got addicted to the Tesco fruit and fibre version, I think it's about 79c a box but it's my go to. I also found Tesco's version of breakfast cereals have certain, qualities, that you don't find in other brands.


    I like to wash that down with a cup of freshly brewed coffee.









    It's like my food is trying to tell me something.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,376 ✭✭✭Indestructable


    Frosted Wheats. I couldn't find them for ages and ended up ordering from Amazon. They're that good. They're everywhere again now, which is great.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,467 ✭✭✭✭salmocab


    I like the plain stuff, corn flakes, rice crispies, weetabix or on a cold morning if I have time flahavans porridge. Sometimes the cornflakes hot but none of them with sugar.

    cant abide anything chocolatey and for the rest of the day I’d be a fiend for chocolate.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,503 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    Gluten intolerant here so porridge



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,279 ✭✭✭TheRiverman


    I know I will come across as a ranting spoilsport here, but almost all the posts so far are naming cereals that are loaded with refined sugar. Those cereals are unhealthy low nutrition products which I never touch. I eat porridge with fruit ( raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, chopped apple) every morning which means I am getting nutritious food and I am not hungry an hour later as what I eat releases natural sugar slowly into my system.

    I know it's everyone to their taste and choice, but all those cereals are bad for a healthy lifestyle.



  • Posts: 13,688 ✭✭✭✭ Mack Stale Speech


    Used to love bowl of Nesquik but I'm boycotting Nestlé so those haven't been in the press in a while.

    Sugar Puffs are absolutely manky.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,467 ✭✭✭✭salmocab




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,039 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Forgot about "worst" in the excitement of thinking of Crunchy nut cornflakes!!

    Worst for me has to be porridge - I've tried, God knows - slow cooked, quick oats, milk, water, fresh berries, honey..... and it still tastes like day old glue and makes me gag 😩



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,718 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    Are Sugar Puffs gone??

    Best for me are Crunchy Nut Cornflakes.

    Worst is Special K.

    But what I actually eat is Weetabix or Porridge with fruit.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,876 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    All cereals are shite, and convincing people that they were healthy was a giant con. That Kellogg's fella also convinced American parents to cut their sons' foreskins off because he didn't want them ****.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,638 ✭✭✭Homelander


    I love most cereals, favorites probably cornflakes with a bit of sugar.

    Worst - All-Bran. I'd rather go hungry.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,059 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Weetabix and Oatibix together with cold milk no sugar. I'd have it day or night.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,039 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Cornflakes and All Bran together, with cold milk is a current favourite.

    When we were kids, Cornflakes and Weetabix together, with hot milk was the schoolday standard breakfast



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,138 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


     @The J Stands for Jay : That Kellogg's fella also convinced American parents to cut their sons' foreskins off because he didn't want them ****.

    Actually, he made Special K out of them.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,277 ✭✭✭happyoutscan


    Golden Grahams but alas, no more.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,106 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    Flahavans Organic Oats with a fist of seasonal fruit or sultanas in winter.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,778 ✭✭✭Dakota Dan


    Porridge can’t beat it the rest are shite, they say that eating any cereal other than porridge that you’d get more nourishment from eating the box.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,058 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Apart from porridge the rest have no food value.

    It’s either porridge for me or two soft boiled eggs and wheaten bread with a mug of hot tea. It sustains you until lunch or even later no bother.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭Sgt Hartman


    Lidl do a really good mixed nuts granola which is heaven in a bowl when combined with cold milk and chocolate chips.

    My least favorite cereal is All Bran. It looks and tastes like plywood shavings with added milk



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 485 ✭✭ax530


    Top porridge with honey

    Most frequent weetabix but now prefer super valu one to original.

    Really like Crunchy nuts & cornflakes.

    Least fav Bran Flakes but my children like them !

    Would try start again if I see them



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,693 ✭✭✭✭siblers


    I've porridge most mornings with jam or honey. Doesn't fill me that much though, be hungry again soon after



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,119 ✭✭✭Tails142


    Yes, Start was a great one.

    Most of the cereals are crazy high in sugar, like 20-30% by weight. Partial to them all really, currently tend to munch on cheerios, cornflakes, weetabix, ready brek - will have them all in the morning and often in the evening too before bed. Don't really go for the chocolate flavour ones anymore.

    When it comes to bad ones, my mother used to get special k, and I liked special k with a bit of sugar, no problems. I was at home recently and she had one with dried bits of what it said were strawberries, my god it was vile, like soggy sour bits of snot in your mouth.

    We have been tightening the budget lately and have been getting tesco range of cornflakes, weetabix etc. I have to say I think they're grand, no problem. We got the Lidl version of cheerios recently though to try as the name brand are stupid expensive and the kids mill through a box in no time, and oh my god no they were atrocious, at 20 odd percent sugar the kids wouldn't even eat them, I tried to finish the box so they wouldn't go to waste and I just couldn't do it, absolutely horrendous.


    Sorry to hear that sugar puffs are gone, they were an old favourite, RIP to the honey monster.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,900 ✭✭✭passatman86


    Corn flakes and do about 6 laps of the bowl with the squeeze bottle honey.


    Worst, probably shredded wheat



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,608 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    Loved microwaveable Flahavans Quick oats. Also a big fan of Weetabix.

    Worst are those of the Lucky Charms/Fruit Loops variety (which don't really exist in Ireland iirc, maybe you could get them in some places). Some of them have over 40% sugar by volume.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,698 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    i have weetabix most mornings with milk and it’s served my well. I have kind of limited my options though as I’ve limited my sugar intact for nearly ten years and haven’t eaten chocolate or anything like that in 15 years.

    I assume others did this when they were younger, which was if you had a bit of two cereals you’d mix them to make one full bowl. I’d mix cornflakes with lots of things. I was never a fan of porridge because it took time.



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  • Posts: 864 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    What was Sugar Puffs is still available as Honey Monster Puffs. Less sugar though



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,039 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    We mixed our cereals by choice as kids - and I still do these days , cornflakes and all bran being my current favourite hybrid.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,698 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    Less sugar ? That’s not hard seeing as my memory of sugar puffs is they were laced with sugar and whatever else.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 513 ✭✭✭The DayDream


    The thread literally says 'not just focusing on healthy options' which means piss off with your porridge ye dry shites. You must be the types that hand out fruit to kids at Halloween!

    Cookie Crisp is absolute crack cocaine. Same with Lucky Charms. But like all the really sugary ones you only really find it in the candy shops now that sell the yank cereals for like 20 quid a box.

    If you ever see Count Chocula in one of those shops, buy it. You won't need a coffee.

    My favorite one ever though: Cap'n Crunch with Crunchberries.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,039 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Anyone remember Bran Buds? I used to love them - they had a great crunch to them that soggy All Bran just doesn't have (and probably 10x the sugar content, which would account for the tastiness! )



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,698 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    Lucky you. It didn’t happen often but there were times when we’d have a drain in a box of cornflakes and some weetabix left and you’d the two. Those multipacks they used to sell(maybe they still do) were great to mix. they had rice crispys in them.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,698 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    bran buds ? Name doesn’t ring a bell @HeidiHeidi. I remember many cereals with bran in the name but not buds.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,039 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    There were six of us, so the basics (ie cornflakes and weetabix) were always in plentiful supply.

    Variety packs , on the other hand, were a serious and rarely seen luxury!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,039 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Oh that was gorgeous stuff, little hard nuggets - a bit like dry cat food, now I think of it, but sooooo tasty 🤣



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,698 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    Ah well that’s were the difference is there was only three of us. Variety packs!!!! that’s what they were called. I had friends who’s parents who would by the massive box of cornflakes(was it 1kg?) and then take the cereal out the box and use a clothes peg to keep the bag closed.



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