To mentally sort cereals into three categories

[CerealPonderer]

A slip of the tongue over breakfast this morning led me to unintentionally divulge my internal cereal category system to dh. He questioned it and thinks I'm mental and that cereal is cereal and it's all shit so there's no difference in any of them (except porridge...he gave me that).

AIBU to consider cereals as one of three categories?

Category 1
An exclusive category consisting only of porridge, weetabix and shredded wheat. This is the aim for most of the dc's cereal-based breakfasts.

Category 2
The mids. Not particularly great, they don't measure up to the Cat 1's which I steer dc towards - but they eat them and I don't really mind too much. Life's too short, they chuck a banana on top and I still sleep well.
Cheerios, cornflakes, crunchy nut cornflakes, multigrain hoops (lidl), flavoured/dry fruit muesli's, rice crispies.

Category 3
The crap. Equivalent of eating haribo for breakfast and they're bought very occasionally only.
Coco pops, frosties, cereal cookies (lidl) and plenty of others that are usually aimed at kids.

I have done no research FYI and (believe it or not given the length of this post) have never given it that much thought...my mental categories have formed organically after random cereal box perusing over the years. I'm prepared to be corrected!

Crunchy Nuts are definitely in category 3!

This

Apart from that, sounds reasonable

I might give muesli its own category

I have a similar system!

1 Porridge and Weetabix - everyday cereals
2 - similar to you but not crunchy nut cornflakes! They definitely go in the haribo list. Buy these sometimes.
3- only have as those mini cereal boxes as a treat

I understand your categories. Where do you stand with bran flakes and special k? Category one or two?

Also where do you stand with a honey nut Cheerios? I think they’re probably a category 3 but my son has them most days so I convince myself there more of a middling cereal and not as bad as Frosties or coco pops. Even though the sugar content is probably not great

Bran flakes category 2 as so sweet. Special K probably 2 but never had it, tbf.

Prepare yourself for the posters telling you Cheerios and some of your categorie 2 are SUGAR BOMBS, OP 🤣

Weetabix should be relegated to category 2 due to the sugar content

Similar system in my head but musli is in with porrige

Bran flakes 1 - it's aim is to make you poo
Special K - 2

I like your style but your categories are off I reckon. I would say

Category 1
Porridge, weetabix and shredded wheat. No sugar.

Category 2
Shreddies, bran flakes, muesli

Category 3
Pretty much everything else definitely including cheerios and crunchy nut cornflakes. Although I feel like the Oreo cereal my dad helpfully bought for his grandchildren on holiday might need an extra super crap category.

If you buy certain own brand cheap ones they have less sugar that the branded one. As this is significantly lower than Cat 2 cereals I put it in Cat 1. To be honest, though I actually put porridge in a lower category so maybe:

Cat 0 - Porridge
Cat 1 - Cheap Weetabix
Cat 2 - rice Krispies, Cheerios, shreddies, bran flakes
Cat 3 - Coco pops, frosties etc, etc

Aren’t shreddies just shredded wheat in a different shape?

What about Ready Brek?

Hmm now you've said that I think a 4 category system might be better.

No Shreddies are a lot sweeter.

I wouldn't put Ready brek in the same category as porridge because it's got all the fibre taken out I think? Does it have sugar in?

I don't have kids but I still have a cereal categorisation system. Mine is:

1. Porridge, which lives in its own category
2. Shredded wheat, bran flakes, Weetabix - this is the 'just fuel, really' category
3. Muesli, Fruit & Fibre, raisin wheats, Special K, Shreddies - this is the 'fuel, but made nicer and less healthy' category
4. Granola, Crunchy Nut Cornflakes, anything chocolate/frosted/sugar-coated - indulgent treat category, probably only really eat these at hotel breakfast buffets as if we bought them, I would simply eat the entire box in one go
5. Cornflakes, rice krispies - utterly pointless flavourless category of nothingness

I think Category 4 could be for American cereal?

Anyone tried the kit kat cereal - it's lovely I'd put that in cat 4 though. With that krave stuff

Another one that agrees with crunchy nut being category 3 at very best!!

Ooh yes Lucky Charms

There are plenty of shite nestle ones that need a cat 4. I saw a kitkat cereal a few weeks ago 😱

Cat 1. What I think they should eat

Cat 2. What DH thinks they should eat

Cat 3. What DC think they should eat

X post 😆

I'd put weetabix in category 2 (added sugar, salt and preservatives) and muesli in category 1 as long as it's the non-UPF health food type stuff where all the sugar comes from dried fruit.

Your thread has prompted me to look up the ingredients of shredded wheat and discover that it's actually one-ingredient though, which I never realized, so I may add that to DCs' current breakfast choices.

All Bran needs it's own category. Vile stuff. Category minus 2?

But I agree with you.
Category 1 - healthy but boring, difficult to get children to eat eg bran flakes, porridge, granola type cereals.
Category 2 - cornflakes, special k, weetabix. Basically still adult cereals.
Category 3 - anything aimed at children rather than adults.

I have choc weetos only when on holiday as it gives me an extra energy boost 😂