Sugar-free cereal?

[kittyfish]

My 10mo dd has decided that she wants to feed herself and I am not allowed to spoon feed her anything. This is fine (no more purees - hurrah) except for breakfast when I have been giving her Ready Brek. I need an alternative sugar-free cereal that she can eat herself. Annabel Karmel reccommends Cheerios and Shreddies, but I am pretty sure these both have lots of sugar. Any ideas on alternatives most welcome.

[MrsMuddle]

Sainsbury's do a cereal called Puffed Wheat - it's like sugar puffs without the sugar. IMO it tastes and looks like polystyrene, but my DSs (10 & 11) love it.

[Hazellnut]

there's also raisin wheat which has no sugar and hardly any salt in it. Sweetened by the raisins. They're quite big though but dd has been having them since 11 months ish. Just let them soak up a bit of milk first !! DD does also manage rice crispies by hand but you have to be prepared for a bit of mess !!

[CountessDracula]

grape nuts
mini shredded wheat
weetabix mushed up with milk

[Socci]

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[lunarx]

puffed rice (usually in a bag) has no sugar
(can be found in the organic sections)

[uwila]

sugar free alpen
Weetaflakes
bran flakes
all bran (like little sticks)

[mszebra]

bran flakes?? Are you serious? They've got the highest added sugar of any I've seen except the obviously sugary stuff (eg CocoPops). Which brand is that, Uwila?

Porridge. Can't beat porridge. You can make up your own sugar-free muesli, too, using ingredients from health food shops.
Healthfood shops usually sell puffed rice or millet (and similar) which is nothing added. Have a good browse in a health food shop at their range of cereals, most of the Nature's Path cereals are sweetened only with fruit juice (which can include naturally occuring sucrose, but won't be much).

[nailpolish]

shredded wheat

[moondog]

shredded loofah you mean np (and this is a die hard yoghurt knitter talking...)

[nailpolish]

tutt

i like it! but it has to be with freezing cold gold top

[uwila]

nooooo... Bran flakes have lots of sugar? I must read my box when I get home.

[Feistybird]

I don't think Alpen is sugar-free - it's 'no added sugar'

[Feistybird]

yep Bran Flakes hi in sugar and salt

[kittyfish]

Thanks for all the suggestions - I don't mind mess too much and my little terrier is an excellent hoover!! One more thing, my HV told me no 'uncooked' milk before 1 year even though cheese, greek yohgurt etc are all fine. Should I heat the milk first or just give the cereal dry? Thanks again.

[Gloworm]

from a health shop:
Kallo rice puffs
Natures path and Envirokidz, various breakfast cereals
Evernat cornflakes

and loads and loads of others depending on what your health shop stock!

[Gloworm]

why not use formula milk or expressed milk in her cereal?

although at 10mths I think we were using ordinary cows milk for cereal?

[Seona1973]

full fat cows milk is fine with cereal from 6 months.

[kittyfish]

DD is bf and I am crap at expressing so no go there. What harm is milk likely to do that cheese won't? Like your style Tipex