What Cereals Do You Offer?

[Abigail]

Does anyone have cereal on their breakfast menu once or twice a week or more? What are the main cereals you offer?

Do you offer a choice the morning you serve it or do you only offer this cereal this day and this cereal this day, that's it?

[SilverSabre25]

Lately we've been stuck on cheerios, honey nut cheerios, kix, corn chex, cinnamon chex, or raisin bran. We usually only have 1 or 2 of those at a time (and I guard the cinnamon chex with my life! so they're rarely on the menu, ) and I don't really offer a choice.

[Zoe]

I'm on the WIC program and so I've always got a LOT of stored up and healthy cereal on hand for my kiddos. I give them Cheerios, Kix, Crispex, Grape Nuts (depending on age of course), Frosted Mini Wheats, Special K, Rice Krispies, Honey Bunches of Oats, etc.

If I could afford other cereal, I might get Raisin Bran, but that's just because I love it so much!

Because I'm on the food program, and because I want everyone to eat the same thing, I don't offer a choice. I try to keep it varied so that everyone gets their favorites as well as trying new things.

[DBug]

I have cold cereal available every morning along with the hot menu item for the day. I always have Cheerios and Rice Krispies in the cereal dispenser (which the kids love, btw ), and then I'll have Frosted Mini Wheats or Shreddies if they're on sale because my own kids love them and they're the only thing my second son will eat.

I'm in Canada so no food program to abide by. I did start out offering "treat" cereals as I call them -- the ones that are more sugar than anything else. But then I realized that there was no need to, it's healthier not to, and hey, it's cheaper to buy the healthy cereals anyway!

[Pammie]

I have cereal on my breakfast menu once/week. The kids get their choice of Cheerios, Rice Krispies, Corn Chex or Kix - those are the only cold cereals that I ever offer.

[Cat Herder]

Our favorite snack cereals are Honey Nut Cheerios, Multigrain Cheerios and Kellogg's Crackling Oat Bran...

Now, I know the Oat Bran sounds.... and looks like catfood...But it tastes like lightly sweetened cinnamon oatmeal cookies. Yum!!! I love to munch on it while watching movies, too.. I am not fond of it in milk, though...turns to paste

[SunflowerMama]

I use this brand called Mom's Best Naturals and get the versions similar to Honey Nut Cheerios, Honey and Oats and Frosted Mini Wheats.

They sell large boxes at out local Sprouts store 2 for $5 so the price is great for the amount I get. I also get whatever bulk granola is on sale each week. They get to choose which cereal or combination they want.

We do cereal usually twice a week.

http://momsbestnaturals.com/

[countrymom]

well it depends what is on sale. But I always have cheerios, mulitgrain cheerios, rice krispies and fruit loops. Now, my favorite cereal is apple jacks and NO ONE is allowed to eat them (they do not sell them in canada, if I'm lucky I will see it once in a while) my ds will sneek and eat them cause he knows that its my favorite.

[lil angels]

we have cereal 2 or 3 times a week and I will pick up whatever is on sale.

[heyhun77]

In the fall/winter we don't have cold cereals on the menu but use them as backup in case hot breakfast doesn't happen. In the summer we typically have cereal choice at least 3 days a week. I have a couple different dispensers so depending on the kids we have anywhere from 2 to 6 choices but usually only 2. I have the turn the knob dispensers and they love doing that on their own. The other dispensers are just bins with lids and scoops which they love but it's usually a mess.

I only offer low sugar cereals so it's usually cheerios, kix, rice krispies. There are others but these are the steady ones.

[SilverSabre25]

Our favorite snack cereals are Honey Nut Cheerios, Multigrain Cheerios and Kellogg's Crackling Oat Bran...

Now, I know the Oat Bran sounds.... and looks like catfood...But it tastes like lightly sweetened cinnamon oatmeal cookies. Yum!!! I love to munch on it while watching movies, too.. I am not fond of it in milk, though...turns to paste

oooohhhh, not fair! I absolutely LOVE Cracklin' Oat Bran but I can't have it and there's no gluten free clone of it, nuch to my chagrin . Now I'm craving some though...mmmm...

[Lianne]

well it depends what is on sale. But I always have cheerios, mulitgrain cheerios, rice krispies and fruit loops. Now, my favorite cereal is apple jacks and NO ONE is allowed to eat them (they do not sell them in canada, if I'm lucky I will see it once in a while) my ds will sneek and eat them cause he knows that its my favorite.

Our local Zehrs sells Apple Jacks regularly

[SimpleMom]

Cheerios, Rice Krispies, Cream of Wheat, Oatmeal. Very Rarely I offer a more sugary cereal like Lucky Charms or Fruit loops.

[daycare]

I dont really offer them as a choice, I have them on my weekly menu.

cheerios, rasin bran, rice chex and oatmeal

[Symphony]

Cheerios, Oat Bran, and sometimes Kix. I used to offer raisin bran, but one day we were in the store and one of my boys asked for cinnamon toast crunch...I said no and tried to explain how much sugar it has. We then noticed that the raisin bran actual had MORE sugar than the cinnamon toast crunch. Crazy!

I bought fruit loops at Christmas one year and I was excited to see the kid's faces. One little girl said, "ahhh, it doesn't even have marshmallows!" At that point I decided these kids eat enough crap at home, I'll stick to healthy here. Sure we have treats sometimes, but they are for snack, not a meal.