Frosted Shreddies
 

Already ate the 2 boxes I brought back with me from my trip to Blighty last month. :(

Anybody seen frosted shreddies in the stores over here?

Also the "organic" version of Weetabix ain't bad ($3.95 per box at super Tarchay) makes one shite thru an eye of a needle within 2 hours of consumption though.

Bloody fed up with the choice of breakfast stuff over here, half the shelf is 100 different types of cheerios or oatmeal!

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Not seen frosted shreddies but a great substitute for regular shreddies is "Toasted Wheat" from Walmart. They taste exactly the same as normal shreddies only they are a bit smaller in size. All breakfast cereals over here are 99% sugar so I try and avoid at all costs. However I am partial to the occasional bowl of fruit loops :)

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and all varieties are laden with added sugar and salt

EVEN SPECIAL K HAS ADDED SUGAR!!!! WTF!

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I can get Frosted Sheddies here, they are called Mini Wheats also Sugar Puffs which are called Honey Smacks. If you add carnation milk to Cream of Wheat (oringal flavour) it's a good substitute for Ready Brek.

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You sure you are not confusing shreddies with shredded wheat? The only things around here called mini wheats are the bite size version of shredded wheat. I found some stuff that's exactly the same as shreddies called organic wheat squares, made by full circle. I think I saw a frosted version a few times but I can't say for sure.

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Breakfast cereal over here is jsut sugar filled rubbish imo

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Our local supermarket has something that looks like frosted shreddies but I've never tried them but I'll look when I pop in later. Also not sure if you have Trader Joes where you are but 'organic' Weetabix are only $2 a box in there, cheaper than they are in England.. :confused:

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Yep, that what I was thinking, on the front of the box the picture has just mini shredded wheat (ghastly stuff)...with the frosting just layered on top.

The Brit frosted shreddies are way different.

I'll try and find a picture....

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here we are...

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FFS bloody whining about breakfast cereals ... This really takes the biscuit .....I mean cookie....

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I take it you've never eaten a bowl of fruit loops then, I mean how can they even be legal with all those food colourings in them..disgraceful :mad: and whilst I'm on the subject, coco pops or rather coco crispies as they are called her taste nothing like the ones at home, they're all rubbish, I'd have toast but even the bread here is shit..

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Don't eat cereals ..and bake your own bread ..........STOP WHINING...

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I do make my own bread in the machine thingy (out of a packet of course, but no doubt you will give me a recipe)

And it still taste like "tasteless crap"

The shop bought bread here lasts forever, and never goes stale (so that in itself isnt a good thing)

I have been here for 8 years, and my complaint from day one was the bread, the other stuff I can tolerate..

Fiesta bread here is the best as far as I can see (and I dont mean the porn mag) LOL

PD1

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As for the cereals, No wonder all these kids are on Ritalin

PD1

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Add corn syrup :D

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Agreed, last time I went back home my 10 year old cousin pleaded with me to take her a box of fruit loops home the next time I visited the UK, as she is mental anyway LOL, I agreed but she only ate one bowl and hated them, whilst we were back home this time my 2 y/o was round at their house and was given a bowl of the left over fruit loops, I swear he was up 'til 1 in the morning running round the house like a pyscho.. :scared:

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Try www.google.com bread recipe....

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EEEwwwwwwwwwww

Sweet enough...

Dont you find everything here, overly sugared??

PD1

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Yes, but then I avoid processed foods.

Corn syrup is no worse than honey - apparently.

For breakfast try chocolate whey protein + low/non fat milk + two teaspoons of natural peanut butter + two heaped tablespoons of natural rolled oats, all liquidised together.

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My fav is muesli but I cant find any nice stuff here and the stuff I have bought is so sweet is ridiculous.

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Our local grocery store has been selling Weetabix for several years. About two months ago they disappeared off the shelves. I scoured the cereal aisle thoroughly. Could not find them. (Still can't understand why anyone would want to eat peanut butter cereal first thing in the morning YUCK). Anyway, as we were checking out the girl at the register said "did you find everything?". I told her that we had not, and that after a few years buying Weetabix they were suddenly gone. She called over the manager and asked him and he informed us they had been moved to where the organic products are. ORGANIC??? I just laughed and told him that the Brits were eating Weetabix before anyone knew what organic farming was. Sure enough, we found them and noticed that they now have plastered in big letters across the corner "ORGANIC". Does this mean the price will go up??

As for making you shit through the eye of a needle, there is always Peptobismol, makes you go if you are bunged up, makes you stop if you are loose and cures all, but keep it away from your furniture. It says on the bottle "may darken your stools". :D

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Shall do

Thanks for the tip

I have two growing boys, 16 and 13, footballer and basketball player..

So.. all recipes and yummy suggestions for 2 Brit boys would be nice, because they really dont like sweet things, thank God (even after 8 years)

Better get me blender out, and make sure the remenants of the Marguerittas are well gone LOL

PD1 :)

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Tried to send u Karma, but this thingy is not working ;)

Maybe I have just had toooooooooo much wine tonight

Who knows

I shall try again shortly, hiccup hiccup. God I am amazed I can spell that ;)

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corn syrup isn't processed by the body as well as other sugars like honey, goes straight to your arse it does...

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Ye gods! You'll be taking part in the next Mr.olympia after downing that lot, move over ronnie coleman. ;)

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I haven't got the size for that! I'd have to eat at least a couple of whole chickens a day!:D

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Nice way of explaining that one! :D

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'Wheat pockets' not sure if they do the frosted variety but they taste exactly the same as shreddies, forgotten I'd actually got some in my cupboard, doh!, but then again I do have 400 different kinds of cereal at any one time.. :o

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Don't flame me but I like the cereals here :o If I moved back to the UK I would have Raisan Nut Bran imported as well as Cracklin Oat Bran... I really like Honey Bunches of Oats too.

This morning for breakfast I had toast smothered with Hartley's Strawberry Jam... lovely.

Ash

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Sounds like my pantry

The kids have one bowl full of a cereal they just have to have and will love it forever, and then they dont like it.., so now we are on variety no. 401
and those chocolate pop tarts make me want to vomit, major yuk, thank God the kids now HATE them, but not until I bought them in MAJOR and I mean MAJOR bulk from Sams, and even the homeless people under the fly-overs turn their noses up at them.

Bratttsssss, even the dog wont eat them

Bloody kids :)

Hey ho

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Are there any "artisan" bakers/bakeries near you? What about food co-ops or health food shops nearby? You might be surprised but there's half decent bread to be found in freezer cabinets in healthfood stores and the "natural food" sections in some grocery stores.

Not cheap of course but if one misses more authentic bread and less sugar/corn syrup/high fructuse corn syrup in one's breakfast, it's worth it.



NC Penguin

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you asked for it!!!

I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU LIKE THAT CRAP YOU SUGAR LOVING SON OF A GUN!

seriously dude - cereals here are sugary shite

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A have a genuine question for y'all (see, these quaint Texan modes of speech do have their uses!):

How in hell's name do you find time to eat breakfast?

Seriously, in between trying to down a pint of black coffee, shower, shave, brush my teeth and still get to work on time...

Is that why all these Yanks are eating in their cars on the way to work?

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the way that works best for me is by not having to go to work.. :D

surely you missed out having a shit as well. :eek:

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Nah, I can multitask the shit with most of the required morning steps... except the shower! :D

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I work from home

I make sure I get breakfast because I don't have time for lunch....

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Oh believe me, 2 "organic" weetabix mixed up with warm milk in the mornings would make anybody multi-tasking taking a dump....if not you'll be wiping down the back of your legs!

Good news by the way, the old dear is coming over in October, so she will be bringing plenty of me "shreddies" over......god bless mums eh!

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I thought it tasted a bit sweet. :rolleyes:

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Yes, it's amazing how even the 'healthy' stuff has sugar- or even worse- high fructose corn syrup in it... that stuff will be the downfall of this country! (although obviuosly, I sincerely hope not ;) )

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Its very very hard to stay away from the corn syrup stuff, literally everything has it in it. :eek: :eek: :mad: