Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Kids' Cereal: 41% Sugar?!

OK, I know Froot Loops aren't healthy, but I admit I didn't know that they are 41% sugar. Like many parents, I started my kids off on low-sugar, healthy cereals. At some point, however, that pretty much fell by the wayside, and I was just glad to get the accompanying milk into them.

Cereal is so expensive and so sugary, and so cleverly marketed to kids. Bright colors! Cartoon characters! Catchy jingles! Eye level in stores!

Now that I've read Divine Caroline's piece on 10 Sugary Cereals to Avoid, I'm determined to make some changes. And to think that I'd been fooled by the reduced-sugar Frosted Flakes - only 26% sugar compared to the regular version's 37%.

Can anyone recommend healthier cereals that will pass the kid-approval test? Any tricks to help make the switch less traumatic?

Collected from- http://www.epicurious.com/articlesguides/blogs/editor/2010/11/kids-cereal-41-sugar.html

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