Have You Found a Sugar-Free Cereal at the Grocery Store?
Breakfast Cereals
I don’t t know if you have the same issue. I decided to decrease the amount of sugar I eat throughout the day, especially the foods that are not desserts. Once I decided to pursue this goal, I set out to find a sugar-free breakfast cereal. I had no idea it would be a challenge. Have you looked for a sugar-free cereal at your favorite grocery store?
The amount of sugar in a ready-to-eat breakfast cereal varies between brands and the kind of product. However, many contain an astounding amount of it.
I went about searching for a brand that contained whole multi-grains and no sugar. My plan was, I would use a small portion of fresh fruit to sweeten it if necessary.
It took me a while. Out of all the long isles at multiple grocery stores, I could not find what I was looking for within them.
Eventually, I found one brand online that I ended up ordering. I was pleasantly surprised. It turned out to be a good quality product that I have adopted as my breakfast cereal.
I once suggested my local grocer consider carrying the product, and it did for a while, but I can no longer find it on the shelves. I have had to go back to ordering it online.
Recently I came across another cereal brand, also online, that carries a whole multi-grain sugar-free version. I have not yet tried it, but soon will. It will allow me to change things up from time to time.
Sugar-Free Cereal Brands
The first brand is Earnest Eats. The brand carries protein bars, single-serve cereal cups, 12 oz or so standard cereal packages, and enhanced cereals with protein and probiotics. They probably offer other products, but these are the main categories of which I am aware.
The packaging indicates that the products are non-GMO, vegan, and gluten-free.
From what I can tell, they have four standard cereal flavors. All contain a different variation of multi-whole grains and nuts. Three out of the four include dried fruit. The 4th kind is the sugar-free cereal I had been trying to find. It contains cocoa powder, pumpkin seeds, cashews, oats, amaranth, and quinoa.
After a bowl of this cereal for breakfast, you don’t have to worry about needing a snack before lunch. It fills the “I am nourishing my body” checkbox for me.
I have the Earnest East sugar-free cereal with 1/2 a banana most of the time. Because I have eaten it enough times, I can enjoy it without the added fruit if I happen to not have fruit on hand.
The second brand of multi-grain sugarless cereal I found is Plantstrong. I don’t know as much about it, as I have not yet tried it. It appears to also be a great product. The company recently re-branded and recently started to place the products back on the shelves at whole foods.
Wellness Tip
Do you wish to make changes to your eating habits?
Here’s are a few tips that I believe could be helpful to have success in this area.
Let’s assume you want to stop eating something that you want to replace with a healthier choice.
First, select the one food item that you want to start eating. It will help that you have tried it, and you find it somewhat acceptable. However, I don’t think this is a requirement. I believe that it is possible to learn to love foods that are not currently your favorites. You can at least learn tolerate them enough to incorporate them more regularly in your meal plans.
Ok, so you decided on healthy food you want to start eating. What you do next is the following. Identify specific qualities of this new food that make it a better choice. If you don’t know, look at two or three internet sources to identify the primary benefits. Remember a few main points. Although you will not take a test on this material, you want to retain some basic knowledge.
Your goal is to look at the food item and mentally retrieve the basic knowledge every time.
But don’t stop there. Try to articulate how or why these food qualities are better for you. Also, think about how good it will make you feel when you can successfully incorporate this food into your diet without reservations.
For now, call this that I am suggesting Extra Work. Why do you need to do this?
You need to do this extra work because you need to establish a new habit of talking with yourself about these food benefits when you select, prepare and or eat the food.
Simplify this conversation. If it will help you, write a few notes. Refer to them as part of this process.
Compare this mental process to the process of selecting, purchasing, and using lotions, perfumes, or makeup. We do research and ask questions about the qualities and the value of these products.
We have internal conversations. These revolve around how they affect our appearance, our confidence, and maybe even our mood. We look in the mirror to approve or not approve, and we tweak until we are satisfied.
This evaluative process appears to be on autopilot. However, this process did not start to occur automatically in the beginning. It is the result of intuitions and habits that we have developed and improved with practice over time.
In the same way, you can develop good habits around your conversations about better food choices and meal planning. It takes practice.
Be mindful. That is what this extra work is. It is you deciding to be more intentional. Practice being more focused when making food choices. Do not it to be just another task in a multi-tasking cycle. The more you have these conversations with yourself, the less friction there will exist that gets in the way of your goals. Be consistent and you can establishing a permanent more desirable habit around food.