What is the cheapest kind of cereal?
By Trenton C from Danville, IL
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Get the really big value bags (not box) of the store brand cereal. It is cheap and it lasts for a much longer time. Saves you money. And they taste good too. They have all the good flavors that you would get if you were to buy lucky charms, coco puffs...etc. They are usually found right under the brand named box cereals.
I don't know about the cheapest, but almost every store has a generic brand as well as the popular brand. with the generic being cheaper. But if you want healthy as well as cheap, this is my recommendation.
Compare the nutrition label of the brand name with the generic. Usually they will be the same. I have become a label reader, and I look for two main things in a cereal. grams of sugar, and grams of fiber. If it has more than 6 grams of sugar or less than 3 grams of fiber, I choose another.
The one I buy most is generic Cheerios. The sugar is 1 gram, and the fiber is 4 grams in one serving.and the generic price is about $2.00 for 18 oz box.
My husband's choice is Shredded Wheat with less than 1G of sugar and 7G of fiber. It is a little more expensive, but still cheap in comparison. 16.4 oz. box of Kroger Brand is $2.49, but it does come on sale often for $1.98. Our other choice is Bran flakes. 5G of fiber and 3G sugar. Kroger Brand is less than $2 and sometimes on sale for $1.79.
The extra added bonus is that high fiber cereal for breakfast will help you in losing weight. I lost 30 pounds when I started eating high fiber, low sugar cereals Walmart also has generic brands of cereals. I had been buying the large bag of generic Cheerios, but the other day I discovered they have reduced the bag to half the size, and not reduced a penny on the price, so I found a box for $1.98.With cereal, it pays to shop around.
Harlean from Arkansas
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Harlean from Arkansas
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