Having been brought up on ‘sensible’ cereal like Weetabix, Cornflakes and Rice Krispies I can only agree! You’re just missing Frosties (because they’re Grrrrreat)
Hey Alana! I am in South Africa and most of our cereals are the same as the British cereals. The reason behind either low or no sugar content in the cereals is because every person's taste differs. You can always add sugar to the cereal, but you cannot remove sugar if it is too sweet. So you can add more sugar to the cereal if you want. With the Weetabix, you have to heat up the milk to soften the bar and then add honey or sugar to taste. My kids love it!! And it is very healthy.
This explanation only makes sense, if you've never seen an American cereal aisle. America does, of course, have cereal with no sugar. It's not especially popular, but it's there if you want it. And there's traditional cereal with low amounts of sugar comparable to British cereal, as well. Corn flakes. Bran flakes. Cheerios. There's even cereal that will break your teeth (it's called "Grape Nuts" for some reason; it's not grape flavored or nut-flavored or anything, just strangely named). We have all that... but we *also* have cereal that's actually good -- a couple hundred different kinds of it. So different people, with different tastes, can buy different cereal.
Hello Alanna, firstly why not buy the variety pack ,small boxes less waste .secondly use blue milk not green or pink.thirdly try them with sugar sprinkled on it ,stops it from being bland.love your dedication to surveys of everything we Brits get up to .
US cereal contains more salt and more sugar so I can understand that they appeal more, but are bad for your health. When you also factor in that US cereals contain colouring substances that are banned in the UK due to cancer concerns, it does mean the UK cereals may not taste as good, but they are better for your health. For me, I quite like Shreddies, Cornflakes and Special K and I don't add sugar. Maybe my tastebuds haven't been destroyed by junk food. And, by the way, proper chocolate is not sweet and does not have a high sugar content - look at Lindt Excellence range.
Weetabix was a winter cereal in our home, like Ready Brek. Weetabix, with hot milk, stirred into a liquidy paste and sprinkled with sugar was just supreme. So moreish and you felt full until dinner time, even as a hyper kid. :)
I’m going through some health issues right now, your videos are helping me through it, I thank you from the bottom of my heart, I will forever be in your debt.
Yes, many British cereals used to be sweeter but sometime in the eighties we grew up! I developed Diabetes about thirty years ago so I couldn't eat any American cereals but I can eat a lot of the British ones. The idea is that you add your own sugar, fruit, honey to them yourself. I actually eat Shreddies most days now with maybe a sweetener tablet in the milk but you don't really need that once you're used to it. I also find that poring hot milk over them brings out the malt and I sometimes sprinkle them with cinnamon (which lowers your blood sugar). I think Wheatabix is improved with hot milk too but I'm not keen. I can't imagine that you would like porridge much especially as the Scots eat it with a generous sprinkling of salt!
I've tried a few American cereals and they're just bowls of sugar with artificial flavours and they honestly make me sad. And sick, very, very sick. Favourite cereal has to be Crunchy Nut Clusters with the curls of chocolate in it, but only a small bowl, because it's really not good for you!
That Honey Monster cereal used to be called 'Sugar Puffs.' They were made by Quaker Oats, but I think Quakers sold the rights to someone else a few years ago. The Honey Monster the cereal is now named after was used to advertise them from the mid 1970s onwards. I'm old enough and sad enough to remember Jeremy Bear, Honey Monster's predecessor. From what I can recall the marketing people have always sought to emphasise honey as an ingredient in their advertising, which makes the original name 'Sugar Puffs' a bit of an odd choice in hindsight. Sugar Puffs were always horrible despite being remarkably popular. Quakers also did an unsweetened version called Puffed Wheat, which tasted about as exciting as something you might use to insulate cavity walls. I can't claim to be a big fan of any breakfast cereal, especially excessively sweet kinds. I must admit I even prefer my porridge to be made with just water and salt. However if you do like sweet cereals, try Alpen, which is a kind of sweetened muesli.
Sugar Puffs came in just after WW2, when sugar came off rationing, and the best thing a parent could do then was fill their skinny kid up with sugar to make it grow big and healthy! In the seventies, people were becoming aware of the health concerns surrounding sugar and obesity. Honey became the "healthy" way for the manufacturers to get sweetness into the product to sustain the addiction.
I can completely understand your point of view, for us American Cereals are too sugary but we've never had overly Sugary Cereal here so it's the normal for us, so depending on what you grew up on your taste buds will differ 😊 I am just glad you liked at least a couple of them 😂 was getting worried after the Coco Pops that you wouldn't like any!
You should have tried Frosties, they’re nice and sweet. Weetabix is one of my favs though. I’ve always eaten it with warm milk..then it breaks down into a thick porridge like texture, then I add lots of sugar sprinkled on top.
I'm in the "cereals should taste like the cereal crop that they're made from" camp. As a kid I used to add a spoonful of sugar but now I buy fruit 'n' fibre (bran flakes, nuts, raisins and banana)
Nansi Richards, the internationally acclaimed Welsh harpist, visited the home of Will Kellogg in 1922, who was looking for a marketing idea for his cornflakes. It is said that Nansi suggested a pun on the name Kellogg and the Welsh word "ceiliog", meaning "cockerel".
As a schoolkid (and a very thin one, at that) I had 8 Weetabix with full cream milk at the start of every day. Mind you, in those days, there was just one decision to make regarding milk.....gold-top Jersey milk or normal full cream milk. Skimmed and semi-skimmed didn't exist . Still eat Weetabix, but mixed with 4 or 5 other cereals, such as granola or muesli....with nuts and fruit liberally sprinkled
You're supposed to leave the Weetabix whole, chopping off a spoonful at a time Alanna. That way, you get a crunchy inside, and soft outside, if you don't eat it too slow. Weetabix, Cornflakes and Rice Krispies were my childhood favourites. They are still my cereal of choice, but I'd probably add a red berry flake or crunch to the list today. You can always add a sprinkle of sugar to sweeten any of them. You could also use a tinned condensed/ evaporated sweetened milk, such as Carnation brand.
Hi Alanna, Both Sheddies and Weetabix are normally served with warm/hot milk, it makes a difference, I think Weetabix would leap from -3 to maybe -1 or even 0 using hot milk.
Yeah Weetabix has to be with hot milk and a little bit of sugar if required. I've never heard of having shreddies with hot milk now I'm going to have to give that a try!
@@AdventuresAndNaps my childhood in the late 60s Weetabix with boiled water, one pint of milk a day delivered by milkman and parents needed some of that for the tea. you had cream on top of the milk and mum used to Spoon it out and give it to dad before he went to work.
Weetabix you need to pour hot water over it to soften it. When it's all mushy add a dash of milk some sugar or honey. Also if you fancy add chocolate chips or some sort of fruit. Mix and enjoy. It's great for winter if you get tired of having oats for brekfast.
Most people add a little sugar to breakfast cereals in Britain. Weetabix can be eaten in 4 ways. 1) The way you did 2)With a little sugar/honey sprinkled on top 3)With warm milk with/without sugar/honey and lastly Dry & buttered (Note Quite messy that way but absolutely delicious buttered (Not margerine, but proper butter slightly salted)) You'll be pleasantly surprised at the difference it makes. Also the type of suger you use also makes a vast difference too.
Hiya Alanna, my favourite cereal is Kelloggs Rice Krispies or Cheerios with sliced Banana and full cream milk, but most mornings I have soft boiled eggs and soldiers (there strips of toast cut the same length) if you do make boiled eggs and soldiers put your eggs into boiling water (carefully) and boil them for 3 minutes 30 seconds at the same time you could be toasting your bread that takes about 3 minutes also, I was really CHUFFED when you didn't say the phrase "BAD BOYS" that really made my day, this is Choppy in Whitehaven, Cumbria, United Kingdom
I remember them having small plastic action figures. One in each box, but occasionally, you might find two or even three ! Cereals as often as possible, meant you had a good chance to collect the full set before your classmates.
@Shlibber Macshlibber It was always more fun for the kids, trying to randomly get the whole set. I remember back in those days, you could buy any you were missing from your sets, but I think you had to do that after the promotional packs had ended.
You put sugar on things like shreddies, thats why they now do the frosted ones. I would never have most classic cereals without sugar. Shreddies, Corn flakes, Rice crispies, Shredded wheat, Weatabix etc etc. pretty much all require added sugar. Also, Weatabix and Shredded Wheat both are better with warm milk. And you can say Rice Crispies because they are made by the same company. They are Rice Crispies with choc flavouring.
Try Weetabix with a load of Butter & Jam on top (not in a bowl with milk) Plus Weetabix (equivilent) was issued to American soldiers during WW2 ... eaten dry with butter to keep the calorie intake up in the field of combat
When l was in lraq one of the best things l was sent was a box of Fruity Pebbles, We had corn flake , frosted flakes but this was my favorite, it lasted one day. Thank you for this post it was fun to watch , l give you 9 out of 10 , crunchy, Sweet morning , bowls of joy. Thank you.
I love the Choc and Nut Granola from Morrisons £2 for 750g. Hazelnuts and chunks of white, milk and dark chocolate mixed with granola. You will love it.
Weetabix is 'almost' bearable in Winter, if you pour hot milk over it, add a little sugar then mash it up and mix it up until it's unrecognisable - at which point it has a nice 'malty' flavour, though it turns to sludge once it's gone cold!
As a child it was mainly porridge oats served almost solid in a bowl with a splash of milk and teaspoon of sugar on top. My children used to like weetabix with strawberry jam and warm milk. My grandchildren liked hot toast and marmalade - something they ate on the go Great grandchildren don't bother with breakfast, believing it is unhealthy to eat sweet stuff in the mornings, they much prefer a salad roll or just a healthy milk type drink which they get at college and uni.
Not sure if it's a thing in north America but I think almost everyone over here adds sugar to the basic cereals like shreddies, corn flakes and weetabix. Weetabix is usually served with warm milk so you end of with more a porridge type thing. One thing is to try weetabix with thick butter on (without milk), it's ace, I have it with marmite too ( maybe I should not have mentioned that bit, lol :-) )
This should have been another nostalgia trip for me, as I used to have most of these when I was little, but I have to say that I don't miss them at all. I should declare firstly that I eat organic food nowadays, and with the exception of Weetabix (of which there is an organic variant) all of the cereals featured here fail to meet that criterion. The growing quest to reduce sugar and salt from the British diet certainly accounts for the lack of such flavour experiences that left you disappointed by most of these cereals. It's interesting to note that the Honey Monster Wheat Puffs used to be sold as "Sugar Puffs" back in the 80s and 90s, and the Honey Monster was just the character used to promote them. That change of name tells you a lot about the reductions made in the last couple of decades. However, even the blander tasting cereals such as Coco Pops (which are, as you suspected, essentially Rice Krispies with added cocoa powder) hide a surprisingly high salt and sugar content. I have to say that, having learned some years ago just how high (one serving of Rice Krispies can provide as much salt as a packet of Walkers' Crisps, taking you very close to the recommended daily allowance) and knowing also that they are refined and that the cereals themselves have been harvested from fields sprayed so excessively with pesticides, I avoid such brands like the plague. Frankly, having the plague wouldn't be as bad as having to consume one or more of these every day for a week, in my view. Perhaps you might even agree, having tasted them?! You're not alone in your disappointment, incidentally: Bill Bryson once wrote about returning to the US after many years of living in the UK, "wading through a symphony of American junk food" on his return, and finding it "awful, every bit of it." He paid special attention to one offering from the cereal aisle named "Cookie Crisp," which "pretended to be a nutritious breakfast cereal but was actually just chocolate chip cookies that you put in a bowl and ate with milk." Breakfast is such an important meal, yet on both sides of the Atlantic it seems to be regarded as a race to the bottom in terms of quality and nutritional value, and that makes me feel sad. To end on a more positive note, I'll say that my favourite cereals are porridge - made with Flahavans' organic oats, to which I might add grated apple, blueberries, dried berries, cinnamon, honey or maple syrup - and amongst branded cereals in supermarkets I am fond of one called "Mesa Sunrise," which is an export of the USA but really delicious (well, to me anyway!) made with 'ancient grains' such as maize and quinoa. You should give that one a try if you don't know it, Alanna. You can even get a Maple Syrup variant of it, which I suspect would be right up your street!
Weetabix is suppose to be soggy made with warm(not boiling) milk and a dollop of honey. You can eat them individually buttered with jam, peanut butter, marmite..whatever.
Well done Allana for trying this selection, to be fair some are better suger and warm milk. My favourite is shredded wheat best with a little suger and hot milk, yum. Another entertaining interlude your fascial contortions are brilliant keep them coming.
Hello from Australia. Two things. I've never seen anyone pour cereal out like that before and my favourites here are 4 to 6 Weet-Bix bricks or a big bowl of Sultana Bran, Cheers.
There's a company that makes healthy versions of the American cereals, for those that never grew up but want to think they're improving themselves. The was the Cereal Killer Cafe in London, but I think it's now an online business. We have Wheetabix in the US, it's pretty awful, a hashbrown that immediately turns soggy in milk.
Luuuuuurv Cereal! My previous fav was Nesquik... but have you tried Nesquik Banana Pillows? Possibly my new favourite. But they do go soggy bit too fast. Loving your brave underarm box pouring skills. Never seen that b4 and I'd likely end up dumping the full box in one go. Skills. Great vid as always.
Speaking as that one weirdo who never has milk and prefers his cereal dry I can tell watching this will be a whole new experience. Also - Coco Pops! Yes, my childhood favourite! It's such a shame they seem to be a lot less tasty than they used to be though...
I'm a weirdo who likes the cereal to get soggy. I don't understand putting milk on the cereal and still expecting it to be dry. If I want it dry, I'll eat it straight out of the box.
As a treat I used to beg for Ready Brek - I usually just got given Weetabix. The only ceral I HATED as a kid was Shreaded Wheat (luckily so did my parents).
North American cereal is mostly sugar, while in the UK is has been taken most sugar out. On Weetabix i have 3 before a gym session as it is slow releasing, plus a bit of sugar helps on top too. Crunchy nut is my morning cereal.
Weetabix - more milk, let it go soggy and drizzle with honey or jam to taste. My favourite? Plain old Kelloggs cornflakes with chilled full cream milk. Cheers!
Grew up on weetabix and a like, you have to add sugar, if you did not want to add sugar, you paid extra for the frosted version, and that is why you'll see plain and frosted of the same thing. Nowadays I have cruchy nut cornflakes add banana or raspberries with fruit granola over the top.
Sugars and starches have pretty much the same calorific value (both are carbohydrates), so it's not surprising that sweetened cereals have approximately the same calorific value as unsweetened. It's oils and fats that have seriously high calorific values.
Kelloggs Crunchy Nut Chocolate and Hazelnut granola is fantastic! Not too sweet - the little chocolate chips have great flavour. (I think Crunchy Nut is called Nut 'n' Honey in the US.)
Alanna, you are meant to have sugar or sweetener on Weetabix. I’m not surprised you didn’t like it. When I was a kid, we used to put butter and raspberry jam on the weetabix and eat it like a biscuit. Very nice. I’m quite traditional (boring) and my fav is original Kellogg cornflakes or Rice Crispies. Got to have sugar or sweetener on them though. Cheers 😃
As with a lot of other people in the comments, I whole heartedly agree with you and them that Curiously Cinnamon is the absolute winner. Literally had some this morning before watching this video. They are indeed perfect dry too as a little nibble snack.
Cereals like Shreddies, original Corn Flakes and Rice Krispies are better if you use a fruit yoghurt instead of milk & sugar. My cereal of choice as a child was Weetabix (with milk and sugar) and will keep you regular
Grew up on coco pops, the point where they started to go downhill was when the slogan changed from "I'd rather have a bowl of coco pops" to "coco pops and milk make a bowl full of fun". It was a long time ago and i'm still not over it.
I used to love Golden Nuggets (and their then-mascot "Klondike Pete"), so I'm glad to see they're still around. On the whole, though, I gravitate towards the "boring" cereals, like Weetabix and Shredded Wheat.
I knew we wouldn’t see eye to eye on this since my favourite breakfast is marmite and marmalade on toast (not on the same slice, I’m not a barbarian) 🤤
Love marmite on toast also brovil on toast as well. Marmite sandwich one slice marmite the other slice peanut butter. Also marmite and slice of cheese.
Good video, I love when you taste test things. As a kid we used to put sugar on the boring cerials, I dunno if my parents thought half a tablespoon of sugar was better than the sugar the nice cerials came with, but thats what we did. Today I usually go for toast, not cerial for breakfast, so not eaten cerial in a while.
Weetabix, pour over milk, wait 30 seconds and smother with sugar!! Kinda the same deal with shreddies/ shredded wheat. I’m Scottish tho, we add sugar and butter to everything!! Maybe preview your next eating taste test and ask how we do it so you can experience how it should be eaten.
Of the ones that you tried today, I used to love crunchy nut cornflakes and curiously cinnamon (Grahams) but sadly these days I have either porridge or Special K both of which need additions. The porridge gets sweetener and vanilla and the Special K gets sweetener and sweet cinnamon powder. I have found that most of the cereals that I grew up with do not taste anyway near as good as they used to but I guess that's down to less sugar and trying to be more healthy. By the way, I think that it's OK mentioning Rice Krispies when talking about Cocoa Pops as they are both made by Kellogg. Great tasting video as usual Alanna. 👍🥣😁
I'll give you crunchynut and cocopops! but my favourite is weetabix with a teaspoonfull of sugar! let the weetabix sit for 10 minutes to soak up most of the milk then it's just baby food but i love them! lol
crunchy nut clusters with chocolate curls is one of our best if your looking for the sugary kind, jordans also have an equivalent which is less sugary but also really good
I find Weetabix alright provided you add sugar, but the bitesize fruit and nut Weetabix would be my cereal of choice. However, I much prefer granola - it's crunchier, even after being soaked in milk for a while, sweeter and, imo, tastier.
If you want your stomach to be really confused, finish off the test with an After Eight mint! Also Weetabix can be eaten spread with butter and jam instead of adding milk.
Fun video, and I think it is linked to nostalgia and what you are used to. In Britain , cereal is marketed as a health food, and although you certainly get children's cereals, most of the marketing is aimed at adults who want a sensible breakfast. I always have cereal for breakfast, yes it's bland but that is all I can stomach early in the morning. The curiously cinnamon is revolting I bought myself a box a few months ago and struggling to finish it, I have to mix it with cheerios to disguise the taste! I got given some American cerals for Christmas, ( Reeces puffs and some awful flintstones thing which I put out for he birds!) way too sweet for me. On the other hand, I have recently rediscovered coco pops as an adult and fell in love all over again! I think they are really chocolaty, but not too sweet, which I like.
I'm with you on soggy cereal, and Wheatabix is instant sog. Yet.... with sugar added, it is actually good! And, available here in Canada. For Shreddies - add maple syrup! It tastes really good then. With that special Canadian flavour.
Kid of the 70s here the chemicals I've eaten in stuff made you hi for a week how they got away with filling food with that. Is amazing so I'm glad that it's being removed
Shreddies are lovely! Malty and delicious. As you said, all down to what you are brought up on which is why I could not imagine life without marmite while the sticky goo that is peanut butter I can take or leave, preferring to leave, but on the North America continent peanut butter is considered a food group. :-)
Who eats Weetabix or Shreddies without adding sugar? Also, of all the things, weetabix is best soggy. Cornflakes etc... no, but weetabix is best when it's soaked up plenty of milk and is has half its weight in sugar added. or honey. My favourite as a kid hasn't existed for decades. Kellogs Start. I'm pretty sure it was more or less sugar with honey added.
You can always add sugar to taste, plus most people add fruit to their Weetabix. I for one microwave mine with soya milk, I then create a cavity in the Weetabix and add chocolate drops burying the chocolate. The heat melts the chocolate and sweetens the cereal. Also I usually have a sweet cereal first to sweeten the milk and then use up the remainder milk to have a whole bran cereal
The trademarks on Rice Krispies and Cocoa Krispies are owned, at least in the United States, by Kellog. Though I suppose it's possible that some long-standing international deal gives some company the rights in Britain to only some of the company's trademarks. In America, shredded wheat used to come in huge pieces that you had to break up; but the last time I saw it like that was in the seventies. One artifact of this, is that the smaller, more bit-sized ones are called "Mini-Wheats", and the popular ones with a whole ton of added sugar are "Frosted Mini-Wheats". Why "mini"? Because they're small, compared to the original huge shredded wheat that you never see any more.
I used to have Coco Pops (or Coco Krispies as they were known in the 80s) EVERY morning before I went to school. The way the milk went all chocolatey was fantastic! I progressed to Crunchy Nut Cornflakes (a bit more adult), but now I find all of these types of cereals way too sweet. The Honey Monster cereal was called Sugar Puffs for YEARS but I guess they think that sends out bad vibes now, but I agree with you that the texture is really mushy and off-putting. Nesquik cereal is just feral and nasty. The Shreddies' motto used to be 'keep hunger locked up til lunch!' You genuinely couldn't get any cinnamon-infused cereal in the UK until about 15 or so years ago. Before that, it just didn't exist. Golden Grahams was the first one to arrive here.
We only had sweetened cereal as a treat growing up. Chex, Rice Krispies, Wheat Puffs, Team Flakes...were the norm. My kids were allowed lightly sweetened cereal...Honey Nut Cheerios, Life etc...As an adult I don't eat cold cereal at all. It's not satisfying. I'd much rather have almost anything else.
When I have shreddies, I sometimes add raisins just to add more flavour. I also have combinations of cereals, like shreddies with coco pops or shreddies with crunch nut. Yes, my taste buds can be a little weird!
Oh I do love a bowl of Weetabix for breakfast made with hot milk and sprinkled with a bit of sugar ( Naughty I know), great on a cold winters morning. As a kid I used to love getting a Kellogs Variety pack & mixing two of the packets together, Frosties and Coco Pops was a particular favourite. Another guilty pleasure was eating Golden Nuggets straight from the box while sitting watching tv. Oh the simple joys in life. 😁
Lifelong Weetabix eater, progressed to Oatibix (the oat-based version) in later years. Ice-cold milk required and sprinkling of sugar/sweetner. Eat fast - don't let it get soggy!
I tend to go with granola, crunchy nut/ clusters or Quakers flavoured porridge. Also prefer weetabix minis to large ones, also sometimes snack on them dry.
I tend to go for shreddies (supermarkets' own brand version) but add some sultanas and cinnamon powder (and occasionally a little honey or cream as a treat).
Weetabix is all about what you add to it, as a kid, I loved it with a couple of spoonful's of golden syrup on them. How can you not like Shreddies, Alana, I liked you! Seriously, add sugar to them, it transforms them. Never try shredded wheat, it's like eating rope, not good stuff.
I rarely eat cereal, but I totally agree with your choices. I also used to like things like Alpen and Jordan's, which are museli and granola type cereals.
Back in the 70s When "Golden Nuggets", first came out in the UK, the individual pieces of cereal was larger round balls. Back then they were called "Klondike Pete Golden Nuggets". They had a little old bearded Gold Miner cartoon character with a Donkey sidekick.
Hiya Alana. My name is Phil and I like Weetabix! There I said it. I do like mushy cereal and my own sugar though, so it sort of makes up for it? ... Anyway I have a challenge for you. Try some Shredded Wheat. (Sorry to put you through this because you seem such a nice person).
Definitely agree with Crunchy nut as the winner. I love Shreddies too but you’ve got to put sugar on them. I grew up being forced to eat Weetabix as a kid with jam on them, it’s mildly palatable with something sweet added to it but otherwise it’s 🤢
Weetabix is the UK's best selling cereal by far, outselling Cornflakes by 3 to 1. Curiously Cinnamon has one of the highest sugar content in the Nestle range but is nowhere near in sales volume to the none sugar Shreddies or Cheerios, Nestle's too 2 selling brands. Due to UK legislation Kellogg's have had to reformulate many of their brands to reduce the sugar content.
Another brilliant taste test. Best part of my day. Out of those my fave would be the Honey Monster puffed wheat so I guess there's no accounting for taste. Weetabix is all about the topping. For me it has to be milk and loads of sugar but other people put on yoghurt and/or fruit, honey, syrup and even jam. You're only limited by your imagination. Go on. Try it. You know you want to...😵💫
Try the Weetabix again when you've not just eaten a load of super sweet cereal. I prefer to let it soak up some milk first, but I know you said you hate that. Anyway, I like the mild malty sorta taste of Weetabix. Try it again 😀
I'm a bit puzzled: you don't seem to know Shreddies, but they've been here in Canada for-ever. Agree with you, though, the plain ones are just too plain, need a bit of brown sugar or something.
Having been brought up on ‘sensible’ cereal like Weetabix, Cornflakes and Rice Krispies I can only agree! You’re just missing Frosties (because they’re Grrrrreat)
Hey Alana! I am in South Africa and most of our cereals are the same as the British cereals. The reason behind either low or no sugar content in the cereals is because every person's taste differs. You can always add sugar to the cereal, but you cannot remove sugar if it is too sweet. So you can add more sugar to the cereal if you want. With the Weetabix, you have to heat up the milk to soften the bar and then add honey or sugar to taste. My kids love it!! And it is very healthy.
Yes warm milk on weetabix is what I do here in england plus the government is trying to make you healthy they even have a,sugar tax in uk
This explanation only makes sense, if you've never seen an American cereal aisle. America does, of course, have cereal with no sugar. It's not especially popular, but it's there if you want it. And there's traditional cereal with low amounts of sugar comparable to British cereal, as well. Corn flakes. Bran flakes. Cheerios. There's even cereal that will break your teeth (it's called "Grape Nuts" for some reason; it's not grape flavored or nut-flavored or anything, just strangely named). We have all that... but we *also* have cereal that's actually good -- a couple hundred different kinds of it. So different people, with different tastes, can buy different cereal.
Weetabix is all about the timing. You need to eat it when it has soaked up just enough milk to become al dente.
Just eat them as a biscuit dry, it's pretty much the only way I used to eat them.
I'm someone who doesn't like sugary cereal as they always make me feel sick, so I prefer the blander ones.
Hello Alanna, firstly why not buy the variety pack ,small boxes less waste .secondly use blue milk not green or pink.thirdly try them with sugar sprinkled on it ,stops it from being bland.love your dedication to surveys of everything we Brits get up to .
US cereal contains more salt and more sugar so I can understand that they appeal more, but are bad for your health. When you also factor in that US cereals contain colouring substances that are banned in the UK due to cancer concerns, it does mean the UK cereals may not taste as good, but they are better for your health.
For me, I quite like Shreddies, Cornflakes and Special K and I don't add sugar. Maybe my tastebuds haven't been destroyed by junk food.
And, by the way, proper chocolate is not sweet and does not have a high sugar content - look at Lindt Excellence range.
You are the worst kind of person.
Weetabix was a winter cereal in our home, like Ready Brek. Weetabix, with hot milk, stirred into a liquidy paste and sprinkled with sugar was just supreme. So moreish and you felt full until dinner time, even as a hyper kid. :)
I’m going through some health issues right now, your videos are helping me through it, I thank you from the bottom of my heart, I will forever be in your debt.
I hope you're doing OK!!
Yes, many British cereals used to be sweeter but sometime in the eighties we grew up! I developed Diabetes about thirty years ago so I couldn't eat any American cereals but I can eat a lot of the British ones. The idea is that you add your own sugar, fruit, honey to them yourself. I actually eat Shreddies most days now with maybe a sweetener tablet in the milk but you don't really need that once you're used to it. I also find that poring hot milk over them brings out the malt and I sometimes sprinkle them with cinnamon (which lowers your blood sugar). I think Wheatabix is improved with hot milk too but I'm not keen. I can't imagine that you would like porridge much especially as the Scots eat it with a generous sprinkling of salt!
"Change my mind"
American cereal: sugar and cardboard.
British cereal: actual food.
Easy.
Try Weetabix the correct way, two on the bottom and a third on top, with HOT milk, bit of sugar if you must. 🙂
I've tried a few American cereals and they're just bowls of sugar with artificial flavours and they honestly make me sad. And sick, very, very sick. Favourite cereal has to be Crunchy Nut Clusters with the curls of chocolate in it, but only a small bowl, because it's really not good for you!
That Honey Monster cereal used to be called 'Sugar Puffs.' They were made by Quaker Oats, but I think Quakers sold the rights to someone else a few years ago. The Honey Monster the cereal is now named after was used to advertise them from the mid 1970s onwards. I'm old enough and sad enough to remember Jeremy Bear, Honey Monster's predecessor. From what I can recall the marketing people have always sought to emphasise honey as an ingredient in their advertising, which makes the original name 'Sugar Puffs' a bit of an odd choice in hindsight. Sugar Puffs were always horrible despite being remarkably popular. Quakers also did an unsweetened version called Puffed Wheat, which tasted about as exciting as something you might use to insulate cavity walls.
I can't claim to be a big fan of any breakfast cereal, especially excessively sweet kinds. I must admit I even prefer my porridge to be made with just water and salt. However if you do like sweet cereals, try Alpen, which is a kind of sweetened muesli.
Sugar Puffs came in just after WW2, when sugar came off rationing, and the best thing a parent could do then was fill their skinny kid up with sugar to make it grow big and healthy!
In the seventies, people were becoming aware of the health concerns surrounding sugar and obesity. Honey became the "healthy" way for the manufacturers to get sweetness into the product to sustain the addiction.
Tellum about the hunny mummy.
The golden nuggets used to be puffed balls with a veeeery noticeable sugary coating. Sadly the nanny state has ruined kids's cereal
A lot of UK cereals used to have lots of sugar and salt and have been cutting down over the years
Good.
I can completely understand your point of view, for us American Cereals are too sugary but we've never had overly Sugary Cereal here so it's the normal for us, so depending on what you grew up on your taste buds will differ 😊 I am just glad you liked at least a couple of them 😂 was getting worried after the Coco Pops that you wouldn't like any!
You should have tried Frosties, they’re nice and sweet. Weetabix is one of my favs though. I’ve always eaten it with warm milk..then it breaks down into a thick porridge like texture, then I add lots of sugar sprinkled on top.
I'm in the "cereals should taste like the cereal crop that they're made from" camp.
As a kid I used to add a spoonful of sugar but now I buy fruit 'n' fibre (bran flakes, nuts, raisins and banana)
Nansi Richards, the internationally acclaimed Welsh harpist, visited the home of Will Kellogg in 1922, who was looking for a marketing idea for his cornflakes. It is said that Nansi suggested a pun on the name Kellogg and the Welsh word "ceiliog", meaning "cockerel".
As a schoolkid (and a very thin one, at that) I had 8 Weetabix with full cream milk at the start of every day. Mind you, in those days, there was just one decision to make regarding milk.....gold-top Jersey milk or normal full cream milk. Skimmed and semi-skimmed didn't exist . Still eat Weetabix, but mixed with 4 or 5 other cereals, such as granola or muesli....with nuts and fruit liberally sprinkled
Ah gold top. The memories. How good was that on your cereal in the morning!
The magic ingredients in American breakfast cereals seem to be High Fructose Corn Syrup and Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). Yum!
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You're supposed to leave the Weetabix whole, chopping off a spoonful at a time Alanna. That way, you get a crunchy inside, and soft outside, if you don't eat it too slow. Weetabix, Cornflakes and Rice Krispies were my childhood favourites. They are still my cereal of choice, but I'd probably add a red berry flake or crunch to the list today. You can always add a sprinkle of sugar to sweeten any of them. You could also use a tinned condensed/ evaporated sweetened milk, such as Carnation brand.
Hiya Brian, Carnation Milk is horrible
Hi Alanna, Both Sheddies and Weetabix are normally served with warm/hot milk, it makes a difference, I think Weetabix would leap from -3 to maybe -1 or even 0 using hot milk.
Interesting! I've never heard of Shreddies with hot milk before
Yeah Weetabix has to be with hot milk and a little bit of sugar if required. I've never heard of having shreddies with hot milk now I'm going to have to give that a try!
@@AdventuresAndNaps my childhood in the late 60s Weetabix with boiled water, one pint of milk a day delivered by milkman and parents needed some of that for the tea. you had cream on top of the milk and mum used to Spoon it out and give it to dad before he went to work.
Weetabix you need to pour hot water over it to soften it. When it's all mushy add a dash of milk some sugar or honey. Also if you fancy add chocolate chips or some sort of fruit. Mix and enjoy. It's great for winter if you get tired of having oats for brekfast.
Most people add a little sugar to breakfast cereals in Britain. Weetabix can be eaten in 4 ways. 1) The way you did 2)With a little sugar/honey sprinkled on top 3)With warm milk with/without sugar/honey and lastly Dry & buttered (Note Quite messy that way but absolutely delicious buttered (Not margerine, but proper butter slightly salted)) You'll be pleasantly surprised at the difference it makes. Also the type of suger you use also makes a vast difference too.
Hiya Alanna, my favourite cereal is Kelloggs Rice Krispies or Cheerios with sliced Banana and full cream milk, but most mornings I have soft boiled eggs and soldiers (there strips of toast cut the same length) if you do make boiled eggs and soldiers put your eggs into boiling water (carefully) and boil them for 3 minutes 30 seconds at the same time you could be toasting your bread that takes about 3 minutes also, I was really CHUFFED when you didn't say the phrase "BAD BOYS" that really made my day, this is Choppy in Whitehaven, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Cereal has never been the same for me since they stopped putting prizes in the boxes. All because of a few *tiny* child choking incidents. Pffft.
I used to love the CD ROMs that some boxes had!
This episode is giving me flashbacks man🤢
I remember them having small plastic action figures. One in each box, but occasionally, you might find two or even three ! Cereals as often as possible, meant you had a good chance to collect the full set before your classmates.
@@brianwhittington5086 they'll never tell you this but you can just buy the whole set direct from the cereal company, always could
@Shlibber Macshlibber It was always more fun for the kids, trying to randomly get the whole set. I remember back in those days, you could buy any you were missing from your sets, but I think you had to do that after the promotional packs had ended.
When I had Weetabix as a kid we boiled water and put some in before the milk and then added sugar. Not sure if kids still do that but I liked it.
Used to be just boiled water when I was a kid, late 60s. Milk was a luxury. Lucky to have Weetabix in the first place.
You put sugar on things like shreddies, thats why they now do the frosted ones. I would never have most classic cereals without sugar. Shreddies, Corn flakes, Rice crispies, Shredded wheat, Weatabix etc etc. pretty much all require added sugar. Also, Weatabix and Shredded Wheat both are better with warm milk.
And you can say Rice Crispies because they are made by the same company. They are Rice Crispies with choc flavouring.
Try Weetabix with a load of Butter & Jam on top (not in a bowl with milk)
Plus Weetabix (equivilent) was issued to American soldiers during WW2 ... eaten dry with butter to keep the calorie intake up in the field of combat
When l was in lraq one of the best things l was sent was a box of Fruity Pebbles,
We had corn flake , frosted flakes but this was my favorite, it lasted one day.
Thank you for this post it was fun to watch , l give you 9 out of 10 , crunchy,
Sweet morning , bowls of joy. Thank you.
I love the Choc and Nut Granola from Morrisons £2 for 750g. Hazelnuts and chunks of white, milk and dark chocolate mixed with granola. You will love it.
Weetabix is 'almost' bearable in Winter, if you pour hot milk over it, add a little sugar then mash it up and mix it up until it's unrecognisable - at which point it has a nice 'malty' flavour, though it turns to sludge once it's gone cold!
You’ve lived in the uk for 6 years and you’re only trying these out now?! What have you been having for breakfast all this time?
As a child it was mainly porridge oats served almost solid in a bowl with a splash of milk and teaspoon of sugar on top.
My children used to like weetabix with strawberry jam and warm milk.
My grandchildren liked hot toast and marmalade - something they ate on the go
Great grandchildren don't bother with breakfast, believing it is unhealthy to eat sweet stuff in the mornings, they much prefer a salad roll or just a healthy milk type drink which they get at college and uni.
Not sure if it's a thing in north America but I think almost everyone over here adds sugar to the basic cereals like shreddies, corn flakes and weetabix. Weetabix is usually served with warm milk so you end of with more a porridge type thing. One thing is to try weetabix with thick butter on (without milk), it's ace, I have it with marmite too ( maybe I should not have mentioned that bit, lol :-) )
This should have been another nostalgia trip for me, as I used to have most of these when I was little, but I have to say that I don't miss them at all. I should declare firstly that I eat organic food nowadays, and with the exception of Weetabix (of which there is an organic variant) all of the cereals featured here fail to meet that criterion.
The growing quest to reduce sugar and salt from the British diet certainly accounts for the lack of such flavour experiences that left you disappointed by most of these cereals. It's interesting to note that the Honey Monster Wheat Puffs used to be sold as "Sugar Puffs" back in the 80s and 90s, and the Honey Monster was just the character used to promote them.
That change of name tells you a lot about the reductions made in the last couple of decades. However, even the blander tasting cereals such as Coco Pops (which are, as you suspected, essentially Rice Krispies with added cocoa powder) hide a surprisingly high salt and sugar content. I have to say that, having learned some years ago just how high (one serving of Rice Krispies can provide as much salt as a packet of Walkers' Crisps, taking you very close to the recommended daily allowance) and knowing also that they are refined and that the cereals themselves have been harvested from fields sprayed so excessively with pesticides, I avoid such brands like the plague. Frankly, having the plague wouldn't be as bad as having to consume one or more of these every day for a week, in my view. Perhaps you might even agree, having tasted them?!
You're not alone in your disappointment, incidentally: Bill Bryson once wrote about returning to the US after many years of living in the UK, "wading through a symphony of American junk food" on his return, and finding it "awful, every bit of it." He paid special attention to one offering from the cereal aisle named "Cookie Crisp," which "pretended to be a nutritious breakfast cereal but was actually just chocolate chip cookies that you put in a bowl and ate with milk." Breakfast is such an important meal, yet on both sides of the Atlantic it seems to be regarded as a race to the bottom in terms of quality and nutritional value, and that makes me feel sad.
To end on a more positive note, I'll say that my favourite cereals are porridge - made with Flahavans' organic oats, to which I might add grated apple, blueberries, dried berries, cinnamon, honey or maple syrup - and amongst branded cereals in supermarkets I am fond of one called "Mesa Sunrise," which is an export of the USA but really delicious (well, to me anyway!) made with 'ancient grains' such as maize and quinoa. You should give that one a try if you don't know it, Alanna. You can even get a Maple Syrup variant of it, which I suspect would be right up your street!
Weetabix is suppose to be soggy made with warm(not boiling) milk and a dollop of honey. You can eat them individually buttered with jam, peanut butter, marmite..whatever.
Ironically Weetabix is the best choice you have there. Cover it with milk,let it soak in and sprinkle a little sugar. They’re delicious
Well done Allana for trying this selection, to be fair some are better suger and warm milk. My favourite is shredded wheat best with a little suger and hot milk, yum. Another entertaining interlude your fascial contortions are brilliant keep them coming.
Hello from Australia.
Two things. I've never seen anyone pour cereal out like that before and my favourites here are 4 to 6 Weet-Bix bricks or a big bowl of Sultana Bran, Cheers.
A lot of these cerials, you would usually add sugar and Weetabix is mainly eaten with hot or warm mild, oh and sugar.
There's a company that makes healthy versions of the American cereals, for those that never grew up but want to think they're improving themselves. The was the Cereal Killer Cafe in London, but I think it's now an online business. We have Wheetabix in the US, it's pretty awful, a hashbrown that immediately turns soggy in milk.
Luuuuuurv Cereal! My previous fav was Nesquik... but have you tried Nesquik Banana Pillows? Possibly my new favourite. But they do go soggy bit too fast. Loving your brave underarm box pouring skills. Never seen that b4 and I'd likely end up dumping the full box in one go. Skills. Great vid as always.
Speaking as that one weirdo who never has milk and prefers his cereal dry I can tell watching this will be a whole new experience.
Also - Coco Pops! Yes, my childhood favourite! It's such a shame they seem to be a lot less tasty than they used to be though...
Weirdo 😂
I eat weetbix spread with either Vegemite or peanut butter and jam as a snack
@@andrewsmith478 yeah nah , weirdo. 😂
I'm a weirdo who likes the cereal to get soggy. I don't understand putting milk on the cereal and still expecting it to be dry. If I want it dry, I'll eat it straight out of the box.
As a treat I used to beg for Ready Brek - I usually just got given Weetabix. The only ceral I HATED as a kid was Shreaded Wheat (luckily so did my parents).
North American cereal is mostly sugar, while in the UK is has been taken most sugar out. On Weetabix i have 3 before a gym session as it is slow releasing, plus a bit of sugar helps on top too. Crunchy nut is my morning cereal.
Weetabix - more milk, let it go soggy and drizzle with honey or jam to taste.
My favourite? Plain old Kelloggs cornflakes with chilled full cream milk. Cheers!
Grew up on weetabix and a like, you have to add sugar, if you did not want to add sugar, you paid extra for the frosted version, and that is why you'll see plain and frosted of the same thing.
Nowadays I have cruchy nut cornflakes add banana or raspberries with fruit granola over the top.
Too much sugar in US cereals for my taste. But hey, horses for courses. :-)
If you don't like Weetabix, DO NOT go near Shredded Wheat!
We need to see Shredded Wheat. Just for the hilarity
I used to eat shredded wheat. It made me feel like a cow.
Sugars and starches have pretty much the same calorific value (both are carbohydrates), so it's not surprising that sweetened cereals have approximately the same calorific value as unsweetened.
It's oils and fats that have seriously high calorific values.
Kelloggs Crunchy Nut Chocolate and Hazelnut granola is fantastic! Not too sweet - the little chocolate chips have great flavour. (I think Crunchy Nut is called Nut 'n' Honey in the US.)
Alanna, you are meant to have sugar or sweetener on Weetabix. I’m not surprised you didn’t like it. When I was a kid, we used to put butter and raspberry jam on the weetabix and eat it like a biscuit. Very nice. I’m quite traditional (boring) and my fav is original Kellogg cornflakes or Rice Crispies. Got to have sugar or sweetener on them though. Cheers 😃
As with a lot of other people in the comments, I whole heartedly agree with you and them that Curiously Cinnamon is the absolute winner. Literally had some this morning before watching this video. They are indeed perfect dry too as a little nibble snack.
Cereals like Shreddies, original Corn Flakes and Rice Krispies are better if you use a fruit yoghurt instead of milk & sugar. My cereal of choice as a child was Weetabix (with milk and sugar) and will keep you regular
Grew up on coco pops, the point where they started to go downhill was when the slogan changed from "I'd rather have a bowl of coco pops" to "coco pops and milk make a bowl full of fun". It was a long time ago and i'm still not over it.
I used to love Golden Nuggets (and their then-mascot "Klondike Pete"), so I'm glad to see they're still around. On the whole, though, I gravitate towards the "boring" cereals, like Weetabix and Shredded Wheat.
Thanks for watching!
I knew we wouldn’t see eye to eye on this since my favourite breakfast is marmite and marmalade on toast (not on the same slice, I’m not a barbarian) 🤤
😂 Shane no!!!
Yep Marmite on toast for breakfast, I never eat marmalade or jam, if I am away from home I take Marmite with me for my breakfast.
Love marmite on toast also brovil on toast as well. Marmite sandwich one slice marmite the other slice peanut butter. Also marmite and slice of cheese.
Marmalade and Marmite on toast (not together, obviously) are my go-to breakfast as well - got to have lots of butter too!
@@alancrane4693 I am so sorry to hear that your Brov, gets ill on toast, is it an allergy thing?😂😂
Good video, I love when you taste test things.
As a kid we used to put sugar on the boring cerials, I dunno if my parents thought half a tablespoon of sugar was better than the sugar the nice cerials came with, but thats what we did.
Today I usually go for toast, not cerial for breakfast, so not eaten cerial in a while.
Weetabix, pour over milk, wait 30 seconds and smother with sugar!! Kinda the same deal with shreddies/ shredded wheat. I’m Scottish tho, we add sugar and butter to everything!!
Maybe preview your next eating taste test and ask how we do it so you can experience how it should be eaten.
Of the ones that you tried today, I used to love crunchy nut cornflakes and curiously cinnamon (Grahams) but sadly these days I have either porridge or Special K both of which need additions. The porridge gets sweetener and vanilla and the Special K gets sweetener and sweet cinnamon powder. I have found that most of the cereals that I grew up with do not taste anyway near as good as they used to but I guess that's down to less sugar and trying to be more healthy. By the way, I think that it's OK mentioning Rice Krispies when talking about Cocoa Pops as they are both made by Kellogg. Great tasting video as usual Alanna. 👍🥣😁
I'll give you crunchynut and cocopops! but my favourite is weetabix with a teaspoonfull of sugar! let the weetabix sit for 10 minutes to soak up most of the milk then it's just baby food but i love them! lol
Wheetabix for the win!, hot or cold?
crunchy nut clusters with chocolate curls is one of our best if your looking for the sugary kind, jordans also have an equivalent which is less sugary but also really good
I find Weetabix alright provided you add sugar, but the bitesize fruit and nut Weetabix would be my cereal of choice. However, I much prefer granola - it's crunchier, even after being soaked in milk for a while, sweeter and, imo, tastier.
If you want your stomach to be really confused, finish off the test with an After Eight mint! Also Weetabix can be eaten spread with butter and jam instead of adding milk.
Try it with marmite yummy yummy yum yum!
Fun video, and I think it is linked to nostalgia and what you are used to. In Britain , cereal is marketed as a health food, and although you certainly get children's cereals, most of the marketing is aimed at adults who want a sensible breakfast. I always have cereal for breakfast, yes it's bland but that is all I can stomach early in the morning. The curiously cinnamon is revolting I bought myself a box a few months ago and struggling to finish it, I have to mix it with cheerios to disguise the taste! I got given some American cerals for Christmas, ( Reeces puffs and some awful flintstones thing which I put out for he birds!) way too sweet for me. On the other hand, I have recently rediscovered coco pops as an adult and fell in love all over again! I think they are really chocolaty, but not too sweet, which I like.
I'm with you on soggy cereal, and Wheatabix is instant sog. Yet.... with sugar added, it is actually good! And, available here in Canada. For Shreddies - add maple syrup! It tastes really good then. With that special Canadian flavour.
Kid of the 70s here the chemicals I've eaten in stuff made you hi for a week how they got away with filling food with that. Is amazing so I'm glad that it's being removed
Cereal should be eaten with full cream Jersey milk. Not sure what that green-topped stuff is!
Shreddies are lovely! Malty and delicious. As you said, all down to what you are brought up on which is why I could not imagine life without marmite while the sticky goo that is peanut butter I can take or leave, preferring to leave, but on the North America continent peanut butter is considered a food group. :-)
I could eat them for every meal for the rest of time
Who eats Weetabix or Shreddies without adding sugar? Also, of all the things, weetabix is best soggy. Cornflakes etc... no, but weetabix is best when it's soaked up plenty of milk and is has half its weight in sugar added. or honey.
My favourite as a kid hasn't existed for decades. Kellogs Start. I'm pretty sure it was more or less sugar with honey added.
You can always add sugar to taste, plus most people add fruit to their Weetabix. I for one microwave mine with soya milk, I then create a cavity in the Weetabix and add chocolate drops burying the chocolate. The heat melts the chocolate and sweetens the cereal. Also I usually have a sweet cereal first to sweeten the milk and then use up the remainder milk to have a whole bran cereal
The trademarks on Rice Krispies and Cocoa Krispies are owned, at least in the United States, by Kellog. Though I suppose it's possible that some long-standing international deal gives some company the rights in Britain to only some of the company's trademarks.
In America, shredded wheat used to come in huge pieces that you had to break up; but the last time I saw it like that was in the seventies. One artifact of this, is that the smaller, more bit-sized ones are called "Mini-Wheats", and the popular ones with a whole ton of added sugar are "Frosted Mini-Wheats". Why "mini"? Because they're small, compared to the original huge shredded wheat that you never see any more.
Weetabix is supposed to be eaten with other things, sugar to be basic or another common companion is banana and strawberry with honey
I used to have Coco Pops (or Coco Krispies as they were known in the 80s) EVERY morning before I went to school. The way the milk went all chocolatey was fantastic!
I progressed to Crunchy Nut Cornflakes (a bit more adult), but now I find all of these types of cereals way too sweet.
The Honey Monster cereal was called Sugar Puffs for YEARS but I guess they think that sends out bad vibes now, but I agree with you that the texture is really mushy and off-putting.
Nesquik cereal is just feral and nasty.
The Shreddies' motto used to be 'keep hunger locked up til lunch!'
You genuinely couldn't get any cinnamon-infused cereal in the UK until about 15 or so years ago. Before that, it just didn't exist. Golden Grahams was the first one to arrive here.
We only had sweetened cereal as a treat growing up. Chex, Rice Krispies, Wheat Puffs, Team Flakes...were the norm. My kids were allowed lightly sweetened cereal...Honey Nut Cheerios, Life etc...As an adult I don't eat cold cereal at all. It's not satisfying. I'd much rather have almost anything else.
When I have shreddies, I sometimes add raisins just to add more flavour. I also have combinations of cereals, like shreddies with coco pops or shreddies with crunch nut. Yes, my taste buds can be a little weird!
Oh I do love a bowl of Weetabix for breakfast made with hot milk and sprinkled with a bit of sugar ( Naughty I know), great on a cold winters morning. As a kid I used to love getting a Kellogs Variety pack & mixing two of the packets together, Frosties and Coco Pops was a particular favourite. Another guilty pleasure was eating Golden Nuggets straight from the box while sitting watching tv. Oh the simple joys in life. 😁
Great video as always Alanna. I find Cereals don’t taste the same as they used to when I was younger either. Crunchy Nut is my favourite. 🙂
Great choice!
I think they had to reduce sugar in must cereals which is why Sugar Puffs is now Wheat Puffs and Coco Pops aren’t as chocolatey.
Lifelong Weetabix eater, progressed to Oatibix (the oat-based version) in later years. Ice-cold milk required and sprinkling of sugar/sweetner.
Eat fast - don't let it get soggy!
Cheers Stuart!
I'm old school, porridge with honey is my fave.
I tend to go with granola, crunchy nut/ clusters or Quakers flavoured porridge. Also prefer weetabix minis to large ones, also sometimes snack on them dry.
Golden Nuggets used to be really big, but over time they have reduced in size, but they are still great along with Crunchy nutters.
I tend to go for shreddies (supermarkets' own brand version) but add some sultanas and cinnamon powder (and occasionally a little honey or cream as a treat).
The fact that I got an ad for ‘Dorset Cereal’ before this video started amused me greatly. 😂😂😂
I hope you didn't leave the Weetabix in the bowl for too long. It sets harder than concrete and is used in some countries to mend potholes.
Can't go wrong with good old regular Weetabix.
Two best ones there: Weetabix and Shreddies. Having said that I eat muesli every day - I love it.
Weetabix is all about what you add to it, as a kid, I loved it with a couple of spoonful's of golden syrup on them. How can you not like Shreddies, Alana, I liked you! Seriously, add sugar to them, it transforms them. Never try shredded wheat, it's like eating rope, not good stuff.
I rarely eat cereal, but I totally agree with your choices.
I also used to like things like Alpen and Jordan's, which are museli and granola type cereals.
Back in the 70s When "Golden Nuggets", first came out in the UK, the individual pieces of cereal was larger round balls. Back then they were called "Klondike Pete Golden Nuggets". They had a little old bearded Gold Miner cartoon character with a Donkey sidekick.
Yes I remember then, so sweet as well 🤣
Hiya Alana. My name is Phil and I like Weetabix! There I said it. I do like mushy cereal and my own sugar though, so it sort of makes up for it? ... Anyway I have a challenge for you. Try some Shredded Wheat. (Sorry to put you through this because you seem such a nice person).
A lot of british cereals do not add sugar so that you can add it according to your own taste which I prefer. I grew up on porridge and cornflakes.😊
Definitely agree with Crunchy nut as the winner. I love Shreddies too but you’ve got to put sugar on them. I grew up being forced to eat Weetabix as a kid with jam on them, it’s mildly palatable with something sweet added to it but otherwise it’s 🤢
Weetabix is the UK's best selling cereal by far, outselling Cornflakes by 3 to 1. Curiously Cinnamon has one of the highest sugar content in the Nestle range but is nowhere near in sales volume to the none sugar Shreddies or Cheerios, Nestle's too 2 selling brands.
Due to UK legislation Kellogg's have had to reformulate many of their brands to reduce the sugar content.
"Mmm, plain!" is the greatest line Ned Flanders never got to say.
Another brilliant taste test. Best part of my day. Out of those my fave would be the Honey Monster puffed wheat so I guess there's no accounting for taste. Weetabix is all about the topping. For me it has to be milk and loads of sugar but other people put on yoghurt and/or fruit, honey, syrup and even jam. You're only limited by your imagination. Go on. Try it. You know you want to...😵💫
Try the Weetabix again when you've not just eaten a load of super sweet cereal. I prefer to let it soak up some milk first, but I know you said you hate that. Anyway, I like the mild malty sorta taste of Weetabix. Try it again 😀
One of the best and most accurate rating systems I've seen.
I'm a bit puzzled: you don't seem to know Shreddies, but they've been here in Canada for-ever. Agree with you, though, the plain ones are just too plain, need a bit of brown sugar or something.