Granola is healthier than most other cereals

Just use a normal bread recipe , flour, yeast and salt, but use the whey instead of water. Just warm it a tad in the microwave to room temp. You can use it in pancakes and scones as well. TBH I dont like using it cos I dont like "thick liquid" but when I can get past that, the results are really good

( I aslo cant cope with liquid egg whites or sour milk )

You know you can make granola yourself pretty easily? Nicer, too (just like home-made porridge is nicer than Readybrek). You don’t need to put a load of sugar in it.

Which granola and which cereal?

Bran flakes are probably healthier than commercial sugary granola. Also fortified with vitamins. Granola which is just oats, coconut and oil is pretty healthy, certainly better than a bowl of Frosties, but not necessarily better than a bowl of porridge.

I don't think a giant bowl of granola is that good, too much sugar and usually high in calories.
It is tasty though! I use it as a topping for fruit and yoghurt.

Eggs are great and I eat them a lot for breakfast but sometimes I want a change. Sometimes I fancy granola and fruit even if it might be less filling and more processed.

Just like sometimes I fancy a chocolate bar even though it has absolutely no benefit to me what so ever so at least granola and fruit is better than a mars bar for breakfast.

Sugar trumps processing.

Your H is correct.

I agree but could never eat the same breakfast each morning. So we alternative between some kind of eggs and a low sugar nutty/seeded granola with yoghurt and fresh fruit or porridge.

My favourite is Dorset Cereals nutty granola, which has low sugar content and no dried fruit

I don't eat it daily but I look at my diet over a week

I have 400g of milk chocolate over a week too!

It’s all processed garbage and made for profit not your health. Eat eggs for breakfast, they are natures multivitamin.

I think what @Movinghouseatlast meant was not how did they not get fat on their diet of bread and jam, but how did they survive at all, given there probably wasn't that much provided and it wasn't so poor in nutritional terms - minimal vitamins, minerals, fibre, not much protein, not enough fat (so not enough essential fatty acids). I am not a scientist or an HCP but I assume the answer to that is that humans are extremely good at surviving on abysmal diets. They might not survive in good health, but they will survive. If you look at the range of diets humans live on across the globe, we're very adaptable. I always felt the Inuit drew the short straw. Not just living in that cold. cold climate with no daylight at all in the winter months and no darkness in the summer months, but next to nothing in the way of fruit or vegetables, and lots and lots of seal meat and blubber. Would not appeal to me.

Our homemade stuff is just jumbo oats, dried coconut flakes, sunflower oil, honey, vanilla extract and an egg white to make it clump together when it’s baked. Seeds, nuts and fruit are added to your bowl when you’re ready to eat. I started making it a few years ago because I didn’t like the amount of sugar in the shop bought stuff.

I’m not averse to sugar - I avoid most things with artificial sweeteners - I just don’t get why anyone thinks you need that level of sweetness in your breakfast cereal. The sugar tax has done nothing to reduce the nation’s sweet tooth.

often wonder how some of the 'old' people (in their 90's now) survived.

They walked or cycled, and there were fewer labour saving devices both in the home and at work.
So they'd have been able to used up sugar and carbs as fuel.

Always have jam with porridge!

Really depends on the type of granola. I make granola with honey.

Nah, they pretty much all trash apart from porridge

Cornflakes is just pureed popcorn with added vitamins and preservatives. I’d argue it’s healthier than 30/40g of sugar

Absolutely this. There was an excellent programme 'Back in time for dinner' on BBC 2 and the 70's saw the introduction of so much unhealthy food.

I often wonder how some of the 'old' people (in their 90's now) survived. My grandmother would have been 98 this year and she was born into a very poor family with 11 children living in a 2 up 2 down slum. She told me they lived on jam sandwiches with maybe pig head soup on a Sunday if they were lucky. I don't know how they didn't all end up with scurvy! She started work in a cotton mill at age 14 and took jam sandwiches for lunch. When the water started she worked in munitions and for the first time had money to buy vegetables.

Granola is less healthy than other cereals because it tastes so much nicer and is in dense chunks rather than flakes or puffs so you're bound to eat way more of it than you should.
The only exception is if you have a mere spoonful as topping for fresh fruit and Greek yogurt, but even then you'd be better off with nuts and/or seeds.

I don't know how old you are, but in my experience of growing up at that time there was a huge amount of processed food eaten back then, and it was being heavily pushed in supermarkets and in adverts. Spaghetti hoops, Findus crispy pancakes, Angel Delight, Instant Whip, frozen pizzas, Nimble bread, Vesta curries - I could go on. I have no idea what the food labelling regulations were, but even if the ingredients were listed most people didn't look at them, or not in the circles where I grew up.

As women started to work more outside the home and electrical equipment like freezers and microwaves became affordable and widely used it was a huge boon to have convenience foods. It was also considered the modern, scientific way.

When a few lone voices started trying to point out back then that there were all sorts of problems with eating this highly-processed, not very nutritious food, they were pooh poohed as killjoys, not living in the real world, old-fashioned, doom-mongers, and so on and so forth. And here we are now, with huge multinational conglomerates keen to protect their extremely profitable business models, rising obesity problems across all the rich countries, and abysmal knowledge about food, cooking and nutrition embedded across the UK.

We didn't get here just in the last few years.

That's what we do!

Rotate through;
Dippy eggs and sourdough soldiers - sometimes cheese in toast soldiers.
Scrambled or poached eggs on sourdough toast
Cheese tomato and spinach omelette

I mean in the group I see, neighbours, friends, colleagues
Most are just grabbing a bowl of whatever cereal they like and getting on with their day
I don't hear anyone talking about processed food. I know people that don't eat any fruit or veg, some that are fitness fanatics and usually eating a protein bar...

Mine is fairly healthy, but I make it myself and so I control the amount of sugar.

Granola is to cereals as filter cigarettes are to roll ups.

@suki1964

Will I really be annoying and say I use the strained whey to make a protein loaf? lol A loaf of bread that tastes like sour dough, really high protein, absolutely delicious and only takes the time of a normal loaf to make :)

Could you post the recipe please? I have been looking at ways to use up whey and that sounds delicious.

I'm wary about low sugar and no added sugar foods.
"No added sugar" = but lots in the raisins and honey. Expect a blood sugar spike shortly.
"Low sugar" = but contains artificial sweeteners.

At the risk of breaking mumsnet, I have been known to eat porridge with JAM. 1tsp of jam = half a t spoon of sugar. It's quick and cheap alternative to commercial cereals and still has less sugar.