Cereal

Shopping the cereal aisle used to be a fun activity for me. I would stand in the middle of the aisle and just look at all the boxes, all the options, all the colors!, and try to decide what I wanted to eat that week.
Lately, the cereal aisle has not brought me that same type of joy. It was a little over a year ago that I decided to try my best to not consume any high fructose corn syrup. I'm sure there have been times where I've eaten something that still has that ingredient, but I really do try to read labels and avoid it whenever possible.

This has drastically affected my cereal shopping.

Have you ever looked at the ingredient lists on cereal boxes? I haven't even looked at the sugar cereals like Cap't Crunch or Trix; I'm talking about the "healthy" cereals like Special K or Raisin Bran. They are LOADED with sugar and most have high fructose corn syrup. It's quite disheartening.

For awhile I was buying Kashi's Summer Field, which is very delicious but you don't really get that much cereal in that small, expensive box, so it's not very logical to buy this cereal on a weekly basis.


This past weekend I went to the store and just looked at cereal boxes and their ingredients lists. Here's a couple of cereals I found that are low in sugar and have no high fructose corn syrup. I hope you find my research helpful. :)

Cheerios (especially the original kind but the multi-grain are yummy)
Rice and Corn Chex
Crunchy Corn Bran