Krave cereal ingredients

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Originally Posted by redhdlois

Anything processed is not very good for you (not to say I'm a saint...but just sayin')

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Im one of those people that likes to know what I'm eating and I can choose according to my mood. Nothing like a pizza pop at midnight :D
However GMO is and will never be good for any form of life, be it human and especially plant life :(

I bought the cereal awhile back, not to give for breakfast but for a small snack. It's OK, but DS isn't all the fond of it.

You really do need to read the labels. Froot Loops don't have as much sugar as Raisin Bran.

But I'm no saint either. We eat a lot of fresh fruit and veggies, but also buy some prepackaged granola bars, Nutrigrain bars, etc. It just doesn't make up the majority of our diets.

I got 56 mini boxes for free so I let my kids eat them... They had all had 75c coupons in them too!!

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Originally Posted by SFARAZ

which cereal are considered as good (not sugar coted) for kids, as my DD jk teacher has strict snack rules , no granola bar , jam , jelly cake etc but he allow cereal (no sugar coted)

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Kashi cereal is pretty good! All whole grains and less processed junk. Totally free of BHT too.

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Originally Posted by couponclipper12

Kashi cereal is pretty good! All whole grains and less processed junk. Totally free of BHT too.

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I love Kashi products.

I liked it too . It has alot of startch in it . But i dont eat it as it fills me up too much. I think its prob good for someone losing weight. I am not even on cereal now its oatmeal mmmm and i add husk fibre to it makes it yummier lol

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Originally Posted by Lunamoth

I love Kashi products.

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Originally Posted by Abby5

I buy puffed cereals. They are cheap and have one ingredient in them eg.puffed rice cereal is made of rice and nothing else--shocker !
I send my kids fruit and veggies for snack sometimes a homemade muffin:)
Try to look for snacks with less then 5 ingredients.
I know that does not always work ..in the case of chips:(

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I am also sending veg and fruits , as she has half day kindergarten this year

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Originally Posted by Natalka

That ingredient is in a lot of chocolate things - it just means liquid chocolate.
Is the cereal good? Which one did you get?

I give my son his chocolate in bar form, lol!

Chocolate liquor (cocoa liquor) is pure chocolate in its liquid form. Like the cocoa beans (nibs) from which it is produced, it contains both cocoa solids and cocoa butter in roughly equal proportion.^[1]
It is produced from cocoa beans that have been fermented, dried, roasted, and separated from their skins. The beans are ground into cocoa mass (cocoa paste). The mass is melted to become the liquor, and the liquor is cooled and molded into blocks known as unsweetened baking chocolate (bitter chocolate).
Chocolate liquor contains roughly 53 percent cocoa butter (fat), about 17 percent carbohydrates, 11 percent protein, 6 percent tannins, and 1.5 percent theobromine.^[2]

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I got both cereals, my DS loves them.
I get my chocolate liquor in bar form as well! LOL!

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Originally Posted by tubby

I am a beekeeper and I feed my bees a granulated sugar and water mixture during times when necar is not abundant. Just so you know Honey is not better than sugar, however Honey has not been processed to death when it comes from 100% natural sources :)

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Thus...... WAY better for you. Anything that is pure or natural is MUCH better for you than Anything that has been processed, especially when its been processed to "death" like white sugar and white flour.

mmmmm... gotta loved processed esp those cheese slices mmmm lol

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Originally Posted by JennyFromTheRock

Thus...... WAY better for you. Anything that is pure or natural is MUCH better for you than Anything that has been processed, especially when its been processed to "death" like white sugar and white flour.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1456748.html

If we keep buying ....they keep making:(
You vote 3 times a day with your wallet:)

When my kids were in school I sent fruits, veggies, cheese cubes, etc. for snacks. A chunk of watermelon, even in the dead of winter, is not very expensive when you add a couple of small slices to a snack to make it special. Same with other fruits we consider expensive. A couple of strawberries, some grapes, a small piece of pineapple...you can stretch out a small quantity of these over a few days. If they are added in to dress up a snack and make it interesting, they are no more expensive than a lot of the processed food out there....and kids like them. A small Tupperware container with a couple of compartments is a great investment (think thrift store). I never bought juice boxes either. I used the Rubbermaid re-usables if I was sending juice.

P.S. I know I must seem as 'old as dirt' to some of you but it doesn't seem that long ago to me!

I have to say that I question some of the honey used in some of the products after reading stories like this one.

http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/questi...us-stor/nFmK8/


http://www.seattlepi.com/local/artic...ps-1298413.php

Also some of these cereals have alot of nutrients added to them and I am not sure that it is a good thing.

http://www.pioneerthinking.com/cerealstudy.html

http://www.raisehealthyeaters.com/20...r-todays-kids/

Some of the cereals used to have well over 50% of the daily allowance of some things and if you had a larger portion that is cup or so listed as a serving you would not need any more for the day from other foods you eat. I am all for adequate nutrition but I think too much of a good thing is still too much.

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Originally Posted by couponclipper12

Kashi cereal is pretty good! All whole grains and less processed junk. Totally free of BHT too.

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Just don't be thinking their use of the word 'natural' means they are wonderful. (Not just with Kashi, with other companies and their products as well) They aren't organic.

They use GMO soy, which is currently causing a lot of kerfuffle in the food community.
Their rebuttal is that the word 'natural' isn't defined clearly (which is true, both here and in the US).
Kashi has said that in several years they hope to increase their use of organic ingredients.