To feel cheated by chocolate cereal

[WantANewHome]

My name is New home and I am a chocoholic. It's been three hours since my last treat.

Anyway, over to cereal. The psychology draws me in. A chance to have an entire meal (breakfast) tasting of chocolate. (In my defence I'm pregnant and constantly starving)

So i buy chocolate cereal.

And it never tastes like chocolate.

Coco pops - the Kellogg ones- taste a bit chocolateY, but just about nothing else has any vague resemblance to chocolate. Apart from being brown.

I put up with this for years and then this week bought some Sainsbury's chocolate toffee breakfast bat cereal. Mmmmm!

It doesn't taste of chocolate. Or toffee.

I won't say it tastes of cardboard because that would be hyperbole and this is a serious matter.

But it tastes of nothing.

We had been going through a chocolate pillow phase. Bite them open and out oozes what we presume is nutella (ok, technically a hazelnut spread but it tastes more like bloody chocolate than chocolate pillows do!). In reality, I think the factory just injects them with ink.

In desperation I ate a multipack of double deckers today. I hang my head in shame.

Have any of you found a cereal that actually tastes of chocolate to some degree?

Should I just give up and eat a bagel?

What is the reason for this gap between expectation and reality?

Anyone work for a cereal factory and can enlighten me?

Yabu - I disagree, chocolate cereals do taste like chocolate.

Yanbu - too true, it's all a fraud.

I agree with @Treaclepie19 The Kelloggs Crunchy Nut clusters have actual chocolate bits in. Or just add chocolate drops to your cereal

Waitrose own cocopops are far superior to actual cocopops now.

Give up on the cereal.

Just have a chocolate bar for breakfast. That’s what I do... everyday.

For all those thinking I must be massive, I’m a size 8-10😂 it’s my one treat of the day and I have to have it in the morning 😂

A whole lifetime ago I loved the French chocolate pillow type things.

There's probably a weeks carbs for me in a single one 😢.

Diabetes is a fucker.

www.dorsetcereals.co.uk/things-we-make/product/chocolate-granola/

^^ this. I only let myself clear it when it’s on offer. When it is I clear the shelf

Clear it? Buy it

Asda do a triple chocolate granola which is chocolatey

@Couchbettato

The cocopops cereal bars are better IMO, though when I was pregnant I would definitely have eaten chocolate chips from a bowl and called it "cereal" with no shame.

Your honesty is inspirational. You are bestowed with a courtly rosette.

Try Jordans Country Crisp Chocolate or Dorset Cereals Choc Cherry granola. They both have curls of chocolate in them and they don't skimp on it either!

Maybe wouldn't work for a milk-chocoholic, but I've developed a little habit of adding Waitrose dark chocolate baking chips (pleasingly BIG) to a bowl of granola. I only do this when my children aren't there. Start with a handful and usually go back before the end of the bowl for a second.

Have you ever made chocolate cornflake cluster? I wonder if you could try making your own cereal along the same lines? Obviously without the cluster bit.

https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/products/cooks'-ingredients-dark-chocolate-chips/792748-672945-672946

@RhodaDendron

I cannot help with your worthy and noble search. But this reminds me so much of the first time I went to America and I kept ordering chocolate things that were not in the least bit chocolatey. It almost ruined my holiday. Oozing chocolate brownies, giant muffins, chocolate bars - their rich black-brown hues promised a flavour of deepest cocoa, yet each item yielded nothing but empty disappointment, a taste so bland it wasn’t even bitter.

Never mind chlorinated chicken, I’m worried about what brexit will do to our chocolate things.

I had refrained from criticizing the cocoa choices of our beloved cousins. They've suffered so much already...

But we British can surely agree that the purity of our foods, cocoa related or not, is sacrosanct. May glory rain down on the heads of the ministers who continue to protect us from the assault of corn syrup cheese, non Cornish pasties, and chocolate that genuinely does taste like cardboard.

I did begin typing an OP the other day querying why the USA (of which I am very fond) thinks we in Europe want to import their food. I accidentally refreshed the page and CBA to type it again, but as you mention chlorinated chicken, I may as well raise it. Hormones, antibiotics etc etc etc. Pro or contra the EU we may individually be, alongside them our continent has made good progress in animal welfare to mention only one issue. There is no appetite here for lowering welfare standards so I'm not sure why the (lobbyists, not the general populace) don't follow that no means no.

OP buy a box of cereal you like. Buy a bag of chocolate chips. Mix together!

Forget cereal you need toast with Nutella!! If you get wholemeal or seeded bread probably better nutritionally anyway

Porridge made with alpro chocolate milk, sounds boring and basic but absolutely delicious! If calories and sugar arent an issue, some conniesures like to add some chocolate or biscoff spread, and a chunk of chocolate on top so it melts in the microwave.

@Alternista

Asda Chocolate porridge is quite chocolatey...

Or a pain au chocolat, eaten out of a bowl 😁

This shows creativity. I like it!

@Hamm87

Just put chocolate milkshake on your cereal

I tried making a chocolate milkshake this week. A proper one. With ice cream.

I blended chocolate ice cream with milk. I thought that was how you do it.

It tasted of ice. 😭😭😭😭😭😭

@Bettyboop82

There’s a chocolate granola by a brand called ‘fuel’ I think. It’s in a purple box and I’ve banned myself from buying it as it’s insanely moreish. I’ve ate the full box in one day before now (I am breastfeeding that’s my excuse!)

This is another issue.

I'm going to say it very simply so the manufacturers can hear.

A box of cereal should be labelled as having three servings. Not 12.

Has anyone ever weighed out a 30g "portion" of cereal?
I HAVE 😭😭😭😭

Chuck some chocolate chips in?

Rude health chocolate granola tastes lovely.

It all sounds like gestational diabetes to me.

My 12 year old son's favourite chocolate granola is Lidl Deluxe with swirls of chocolate in it but our Lidl rarely ever has it in. I stock up when there is some. Otherwise he likes Lizi's Granola chocolate version too, although he prefers their Pecan&Treacle granola.

Love this thread. I’m currently on a bone broth fast so I’m far away from a chcoclate breakfast. But just wanted to say yy to Dutch chocolate sprinkles (on thick white bread with butter you can leave tooth marks in so not cereal but a worthy competitor)

And a mention for the Cereal Killer cafe. Now lost to COVID I believe. But we went there for my cereal obsessed DS’s birthday. All the chocolate cereals you can ever imagine with chocolate milk and chocolate ice cream. Now chocolate ice cream on cereal is out there as a concept, why wouldn’t you try it ?

And thanks for the M&S recommendation. That is of interest

Id suggest toast with cadburys chocolate spread on it instead of cereal

Ohhhh yeah I've had that in youth hostels. I thought slag and slaag meant cream 🤔
I do admit to stuffing a few boxes into my backpack 😉