Tesco Everyday Value Cornflakes

PudseyDB

cleggy. wrote: »

What a great product. Only 4 grams of added sugar per 100 grams and 31p for a 500 gram box, yes thirty one pence.

You'll not find them in the express shops, metro or bigger only.

They do taste bland, as cereals with almost no sugar do, like shredded wheat for example which has no sugar at all and tastes like an old blackbirds nest.

I like shredded wheat....its one of the few cereals that dont go soggy in milk!

BlondeHeadOn

PudseyDB wrote: »

I like shredded wheat....its one of the few cereals that dont go soggy in milk!

Shredded Wheat always remind me of loofahs.

In fact, I have never been able to get an image of 'Cleopatra's bathwater' out of my mind after seeing two Shredded Wheat 'loofahs' billowing around in a large bowl full of milk - put me right off!

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Careful - Tesco Value....might have horse meat in it

HBS x

reborndoll

Have you tried organic weetabix? with 1.7gms of sugar they are a good bet. I love the flavour of them as they seem to be darker coloured and nicer tasting, the wheat is less tampered with not allowed to add anything to them( ie vitamins all which get destroyed by the process of making a cereal shape out of the wheatgerm/grains)

organic cane sugar is used to flavour them. Apparently weetabix (even ordinary ones not necessarily organic ,my preferred ones) are one of the healthiest cereals cos of the fibre and zero fat and carbs that release slowly and you can "customise" your cereal by adding blueberries, yogurt, nut flakes etc...

cleggy.

murphydog999 wrote: »

You have somehow missed out the one measurement that is important here, the carbs. There is nothing else to this product, and the 3 main ingredients in order are maize, sugar and salt.

A serving is 30g, which is !!!!!! all, it's like eating fresh air. A bucketful wouldn't fill you up .

I love maize (a form of carbohydrate), it's a fantastic energy source. As long as it's not coated in sugar and fat I'm happy. I guess I have about 75g at a time with skimmed milk and a cup of decaf coffee for breakfast. That'll do me nicely, then off to the gym for an hour then a walk along the seafront.
Marvellous.

murphydog999 wrote: »

you will want to eat again 5 minutes later.


what was it you said last week? Come on, move along now, nothing to see here......

I eat something about 3 hours later, I don't want to before then or feel the need to.

The 4 aisles I mentioned to avoid were cake, biscuits, crisps, sweets. Not cereal.

The cereal aisle contains some very good stuff amongst the very bad. You have to be wary of bright coloured boxes and read the labels before purchase.

cleggy.

reborndoll wrote: »

Have you tried organic weetabix? with 1.7gms of sugar they are a good bet. I love the flavour of them as they seem to be darker coloured and nicer tasting, the wheat is less tampered with not allowed to add anything to them( ie vitamins all which get destroyed by the process of making a cereal shape out of the wheatgerm/grains)

organic cane sugar is used to flavour them. Apparently weetabix (even ordinary ones not necessarily organic ,my preferred ones) are one of the healthiest cereals cos of the fibre and zero fat and carbs that release slowly and you can "customise" your cereal by adding blueberries, yogurt, nut flakes etc...

Sounds good, I will check them out next time I'm in town.

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I avoid the cereal aisle...and the sweets aisle, the crisps aisle, the biscuits aisle, the pasta aisle and the bakery aisle.

No grains or sugar for me, thanks

HBS x

cleggy.

heartbreak_star wrote: »

I avoid the cereal aisle...and the sweets aisle, the crisps aisle, the biscuits aisle, the pasta aisle and the bakery aisle.

No grains or sugar for me, thanks

HBS x

Just a bottle of bleach then straight out...?

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That's the one

Shopping for me usually consists of a lot of meat, tuna, eggs, dark salad, frozen peppers, corn, onions, peas and broccoli, plus herbs, spices and stock

HBS x

murphydog999

cleggy. wrote: »

I love maize (a form of carbohydrate), it's a [STRIKE]fantastic[/STRIKE] energy source. Yes, but that's all it is. There are better sources. It is nutritionally poor, hence why they have to supplement it - artificially - with vitamins.

As long as it's not coated in sugar and fat I'm happy. I guess I have about 75g at a time - that's over 60g of carbs in one sitting :eek: of a high G.I. (82 on the scale, not far off sugar. Maize/corn has natural sugars, hence the high G.I. rating and quick absorption) G.M. crop, see below

The cereal aisle contains some very good stuff amongst the very bad - yes porridge. You have to be wary of bright coloured boxes and read the labels before purchase.

"We knew high glycemic foods were bad for the heart. Now we have a mechanism that shows how," says Dr. Shechter. "Enormous peaks indicating arterial stress were found in the high-glycemic index groups: The cornflakes, and sugar group. We've explained for the first time how high glycemic carbs can affect the progression of heart disease."

It might be cheap, but there isn't much to convince anyone that this is a healthy, nutritious food source.

If you want carbs. A med. banana (as an example) has an average G.I. of 52, average calories 95, 23g carbs. Apart from all the natural vitamins and minerals, if it is taken with some natural full-fat yogurt, and some chopped nuts (for additional vits, mins and fibre) the G.I. value comes down, the release is slower, and your gym workout will be all the better for it.