Had some for breakfast this morning – god it’s bland & boring!
A bit like eating straw……
Is there anything blander?
How can you make it taste better?
What else can you do with 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
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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”
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 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…
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.