do you avoid buying breakfast cereals because they are too salty?

[pointydog]

Just wondered how many people do.

no

I love cereal and so does DS

I only buy ones which are low in salt, so I wouldn't buy Rice Krispies or cornflakes

We have Weetabix, shredded wheat, Oatiflakes, Weetos

Yes, I do. And too sugary too, I find.

Actually, correction: I occasionally buy Waitrose own all bran type cereal, which is much less salty than Kellogg's.

I only buy ones which are low in salt, so I wouldn't buy Rice Krispies or cornflakes

We have Weetabix, shredded wheat, Oatiflakes, Weetos

and it pissed me off when they reduced the salt in cornflakes. Now they taste like nothing and I have to either add a little salt or add honey or sugar.

and when I make porridge, I add salt in mine (but not DS's) as ell as sweetening it.

Life is too short. There is no conclusive evidence that high salt diets increases any risk to health in adults.

so what cereals are too salty? And how salty is too salty, as a general rule?

LOL @ Overmydeadbody! I love the way you're swimming against the tide here!

I like salt

what is it salt does to the body?

No
I avoid buying them because charging a couple of quid for a handful of dust is a crime.

Porridge all the way chez Moondog.

I also make porridge with salt and then add golden syrup.

overpriced, yes. Another example of Bad Food Britain, then? The shite we eat?

slat doesn't do anything permenant to the body, but it is essential for all cells to function.

I avoid salty cereals. I don't mind eating salty food, but I dislike "hidden salt" in things like biscuits, cereals etc. They don't need them IMO, it just buggers up your palate.

I either eat no salt cereals (like muesli, ready brek etc) or else get lower salt varieties of the old favourites. Sainsburys own brand tend to be much lower in salt than the big names, for some reason.

Pent that is the right way to make porridge!

Some people leave out the salt. Wierdos

I dunno. There are probably worse things than breakfast cereal. I think the problem with it is that the recommended portion is so small - people can easily eat many more calories & consume more salt/sugar than they realise. If you measure out a 40g portion, it's tiny.

LOL @ Bad Food Britain! Are you on the warpath?

I now have a terrible urge to eat porridge.

Porridge and museli mix - I do this to make it go further but it reduces the salt at the same time.

Get salt free butter, it taste lovely.

Salt helps to build cholestral, but not the good ones.

It also helps to preserve the body and in 2000 years time you will be dug up and still be in one piece if you have too much salt in your diet

youngvisitor I am proud of my buggered up palate and will continue to add salt to my biscuits and cakes too

The worst thing is going to someone's house for dinner and tey haven't even added salt to the cooking water for the pasta or rice, and then there's no salt on the table either. Everything just tastes of nothing then.

Sweet porridge is just wrong. A pinch of salt is all that's required.

I don't think salt buggers up you r palate. Salt is quite a nice taste in biscuits and cereal. I'm just not sure if it's a bad thing. I can see it's not nutritionally great.

(I am reading Bad Food Britain, joanna blyhtman)

bollox Ivy. Or was that a joke?

(apart from the mixing muisli with oats, I do this too)

I like salted butter. Don;t like unsalted at all.

I've got BFB by my bed but can't bring myself to open it.It will depress me beyond beleif, that i know,