What do y'all buy?

I'm looking for something like Cheerios, but the price of those has kept going up and up and up and it's at like 400THB for a box. It seems highly excessive, considering it's basically just plain grains.

Surely there's a local copying them, without adding a ton of unnecessary stuff to them?

Any recommendations?

Healthy, few ingredients (little sugar is OK, but should indeed by very little), no additives.

Thanks!!

We buy these, (from LAZ) and don't believe any sugar added. Stay crispier in milk than other brands. They even sell a 'thinker' version, if needing more crispness. Add frozen blueberries to them, along with unsweetened Aro rolled oats. Tasty enough. Kids can add as much blueberries or other berries they want, to sweeten it up, and still be fairly healthy.

https://www.sungrainsinternational.com/en/product/31482-32364/corn-flakes

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49 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

We buy these, (from LAZ) and don't believe any sugar added. Stay crispier in milk than other brands. They even sell a 'thinker' version, if needing more crispness. Add frozen blueberries to them, along with unsweetened Aro rolled oats. Tasty enough. Kids can add as much blueberries or other berries they want, to sweeten it up, and still be fairly healthy.

https://www.sungrainsinternational.com/en/product/31482-32364/corn-flakes

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Thanks for the tip! I found the product on Laz, and also on their homepage. But neither place shows the ingredients....

Is there a label on the back of the packaging?

Makro has a full range of kids cereals and even in the multipack little boxes.

34 minutes ago, Na Fan said:

Thanks for the tip! I found the product on Laz, and also on their homepage. But neither place shows the ingredients....

Is there a label on the back of the packaging?

Sit corrected ... sugar - 5.38%

And 30g (w/sugar 1 g per serving of 26g of carbs) looks like a fairly normal serving size, especially if adding some fruit.

For a healthier breakfast we have McGarrett Instant Oats (just add hot water or milk and available Lotus Makro Lazada) and add fruit yoghurt honey etc.
Corn flakes are dessert pretending to be breakfast.
Oats are actual food.
Around about 100baht/Kg.

35 minutes ago, CharlieH said:

Makro has a full range of kids cereals and even in the multipack little boxes.

Yeah pretty much everything I've seen advertised as "kids cereal" is among the worst in terms of how healthy it is.

That's why I'm here, asking :)

I used to do a mix of Cheerios, Shredded Wheat and Swiss Chocolate Cereal ( like 45/45/10% of the chocolate ones, in a bowl).

But that stuff is just getting increasingly pricy to the point I'm looking for something that's somewhat healthy too, and doesn't cost me an arm and a leg :)

6 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

Sit corrected ... sugar - 5.38%

And 30g (w/sugar 1 g per serving of 26g of carbs) looks like a fairly normal serving size, especially if adding some fruit.

That looks very reasonable - thank you for sharing!

I wish the same thing, as I've looked for quite awhile, trying to find cereal like I had at home in the US. You can find some, but they are high priced. I recently came back from Texas and brought back about a dozen boxes of healthy cereals I bought at the HEB (like Big C or Lotus), and various health food stores.

I eat cereal daily, either in these forms or oatmeal (oats and nothing else). You can get Shredded Wheat, Grape Nuts, a few granolas (look for low or no sugar), Corn Flakes, Rice Krispies and a few others but will pay a lot.

I tried to have some shipped from overseas by the case but the shipping cost was huge. I brought Cheerios back here, but just one box, which won't last long, along with the rest.

I've raised my daughter here on healthy foods, as her mother doesn't care or understand what's best for her. I use Splenda as a sweetener but Equal and Monkfruit are the only ones I've found here besides using that sugar.

The oatmeal mixed with Equal and no sugar jelly you can get here (Dalfours has a few that are real good), plus a banana is something she always eats.

A couple of good bargains for cereal on Lazada .

Both with free shipping and down another 10 baht if you have coins.

Note: short expiry date on both.

Tops has Frosties, Coco Pops and all the regular sugary cereals - what's not to like?

8 hours ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Tops has Frosties, Coco Pops and all the regular sugary cereals - what's not to like?

Diabetes, for starters 😂

9 hours ago, KhunLA said:

Sit corrected ... sugar - 5.38%

And 30g (w/sugar 1 g per serving of 26g of carbs) looks like a fairly normal serving size, especially if adding some fruit.

Do people not realize that everything except the Iodized Salt will convert to sugar once in the body?
They only add 5% sugar to make it sweeter in the mouth, so we keep eating it.

27 minutes ago, FolkGuitar said:

Do people not realize that everything except the Iodized Salt will convert to sugar once in the body?
They only add 5% sugar to make it sweeter in the mouth, so we keep eating it.

Well, SOME of the corn will break down to glucose (which we need as food energy), but also some of it will break down into protein molecules, fibre, and fat, and a healthy body needs all of those.....

2 hours ago, FolkGuitar said:

Do people not realize that everything except the Iodized Salt will convert to sugar once in the body?
They only add 5% sugar to make it sweeter in the mouth, so we keep eating it.OP asked for a breakfast cereal with low sugar (assuming simple sugar), so 1gr of, in a normal 30g serving is pretty low to me. He didn't ask for healthy eating advice.

And as @simon43 pointed out, the rest of the carbs, if digested, will give the wee ones energy, which surely they will need & burn off, unlike us mature folks.

Why I add blueberries & oats to my bowl of, adds a bit more nutritious, and tasty way to get that fiber.

As you know, I eat protein & fat for breakfast (eggs), but also don't need energy in the morning, (aside from 425ml of black coffee), at sunrise, along with eating that 'break fast' at noon.

A non simple sugar cereal in the morning is quick, easy, convenient alternative to 'sugar' filled cereals, that kids may actually eat, and they will surely burn that sugar off, as we all did as youngins.

Actually my kid wasn't a cereal eater, as we rarely had it in the house, and would eat pork (moo ping) & pork dumplings/dim sum in the morning on the way to school. Tasty stuff.

But, not what the OP asked for.

As I'm always telling my primary grade science students 'We all need fibre to give us healthy poop!'

12 hours ago, Andrew Dwyer said:

A couple of good bargains for cereal on Lazada .

Both with free shipping and down another 10 baht if you have coins.

Note: short expiry date on both.

Wheetabix is great but you would probably need to dazzle it up for the kids.

Eat Thai food .

5 hours ago, blaze master said:

Wheetabix is great but you would probably need to dazzle it up for the kids.

Yeah definitely, I eat with a sliced banana but the kid’s fruit of choice would be preferable.

My kid's favourite breakfast. Also happens to be my favourite breakfast. Really good if I happen to be somewhat hungover but needs to be spicy.

9 hours ago, simon43 said:

Well, SOME of the corn will break down to glucose (which we need as food energy), but also some of it will break down into protein molecules, fibre, and fat, and a healthy body needs all of those.....

Very true, Simon. Thanks for the correction.

With 66 grams of carbohydrates, but only 14 grams of protein, wise people don't eat corn as a way of getting more protein. Perhaps if I had said 'the majority of the corn will turn into sugar' we could have avoided your pedantic response. My bad.

6 hours ago, blaze master said:

Wheetabix is great but you would probably need to dazzle it up for the kids.

1. Fat: 2g (0.6g saturated)

2. Protein: 12g

3. Carbohydrates: 69g (4.2g sugars, 10g fiber)

4. Sodium: 110mg

   You can get 'almost' as much nutrition eating a bale of hay... (I added 'almost' for the people who don't recognize sarcasm.)

   And people wonder why Type 2 Diabetes is on the rise... That's 69 grams of sugar.

   That's roughly 14-18 sugar cubes in every bowl you eat.

3 minutes ago, FolkGuitar said:

1. Fat: 2g (0.6g saturated)

2. Protein: 12g

3. Carbohydrates: 69g (4.2g sugars, 10g fiber)

4. Sodium: 110mg

   You can get 'almost' as much nutrition eating a bale of hay... (I added 'almost' for the people who don't recognize sarcasm.)

   And people wonder why Type 2 Diabetes is on the rise... That's 69 grams of sugar.

   That's roughly 14-18 sugar cubes in every bowl you eat.

Those are fiber carbs right ?

6 hours ago, KhunLA said:

And as @simon43 pointed out, the rest of the carbs, if digested, will give the wee ones energy, which surely they will need & burn off, unlike us mature folks.

... unless they eat a bit too much, in which case, the remainder not burned gets stored in the body as FAT.

100 grams of plain, unsweetened cereal converts into 14-18 cubes of sugar. And if it's a sugar-added cereal, that number only increases.

Perhaps one of the reasons for the huge rise in Childhood Obesity being seen in most 1st World countries.

9 minutes ago, FolkGuitar said:

1. Fat: 2g (0.6g saturated)

2. Protein: 12g

3. Carbohydrates: 69g (4.2g sugars, 10g fiber)

4. Sodium: 110mg

   You can get 'almost' as much nutrition eating a bale of hay... (I added 'almost' for the people who don't recognize sarcasm.)

   And people wonder why Type 2 Diabetes is on the rise... That's 69 grams of sugar.

   That's roughly 14-18 sugar cubes in every bowl you eat.

4 minutes ago, blaze master said:

Those are fiber carbs right ?

10 grams worth. The rest convert to glucose. That's sugar.

1 minute ago, FolkGuitar said:

10 grams worth. The rest convert to glucose. That's sugar.

They still taste great.

17 minutes ago, FolkGuitar said:

... unless they eat a bit too much, in which case, the remainder not burned gets stored in the body as FAT.

100 grams of plain, unsweetened cereal converts into 14-18 cubes of sugar. And if it's a sugar-added cereal, that number only increases.

Perhaps one of the reasons for the huge rise in Childhood Obesity being seen in most 1st World countries.

100g of corn flakes is a lot of cereal. 30g is a fairly normal looking bowl, especially for a youngin, in the early morning go to school schedule rush. I usually eat less, than 30g, but add some oats & berries.

When I was using the CGM, I had a slight glucose spike, 27, and prefer < 20mg, but, also had oats & blueberries with the corn flakes, and both adding more sugar than the flakes. Along with using Kellogg's info for sugar content, which I assume add sugar to theirs.

1130       Cereal (15-15-50-80) 6.7-8.2=1.5=27 (15g CF, 15g Oats, 50g blueberries & milk)

Kellogg's have 4X sugar per serving ... "Sugars: Around 4g.' ...

For reference, 100g of CF is a huge bowl of cereal. 30g has 1 gram of sugar.

... "One teaspoon (tsp) of granulated sugar is approximately 4 to 4.2grams"

12 hours ago, Na Fan said:

Diabetes, for starters 😂

Sure. But we live in Thailand and therefor have to eat tons of sugar in most Thai dishes. A bowl of Frosties won't make much difference.

.. and the real winner would be Bacon and Eggs

why pollute a childs body with Non heart healthy "Grains"