[justindz]

Hijacking for personal benefit. I'm a long time cold cereal breakfast addict. I eat the store brand equivalent of Life cereal (has actual sugar!) mostly, along with other things like apple cinnamon cheerios. I don't eat anything with a strange color that dies the milk, contains hardtack marshmallow or has a cartoon character on the box.

In an effort to substitute something more nutritious and dense, I was considering trying the Greek yogurt breakfast approach for a few weeks based on some Cleveland Clinic advice I read about better breakfast habits--I don't have time to make omelettes in the morning.

I'm going to be buying this stuff at the grocery store. What am I looking for? I don't like overly sweetened stuff and usually don't like fruit/yogurt. I'm also looking for the real thing. Not any non-fat crap. May add my own granola if I find it too boring over time. I've seen some that comes with honey. Are there any good "common" brands I should look for beyond reading labels? Sounds like you've looked into this and I would appreciate your and anyone else's advice before I hit the store this weekend.

[Crake]

I've been getting the Mountain's High brand, mostly because it's cheapest ($2.50ish for a decent size container). It may be seen in this (somewhat bewildering) piece of fine art: https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/p480x480/551892_...

I just get the normal kind, I don't like low-fat or non-fat versions of pretty much anything. I get store brand granola for $2-3 a box to put on it, and will occasionally add a tiny bit of honey if I feel like something faintly sweetened.

[woobar]

My typical breakfast is:

- 1.1 cup of plain greek yogurt (brand doesn't matter for me, I just make sure that it has only milk and bacteria),

- 1 oz of granola (currently it's Pumpkin Flax Granola from Costco),

- 5 oz of fresh berries.

- 1 cup of milk or juice.

Get's me about 500 Cal with 30 g of protein. And I actually like this stuff. But I am big on yogurts, had it for breakfast every day for last 20 years.

Also, I don't really care about fat levels. 0% fat is Ok for me as long as they don't substitute it with some crap.

[paulyg]

If your local supermarket has Fage get the "Total Classic". Basically stay away from anything that says 0% or 2%. If you have a Trader Joes nearby their Greek yougurt is good as well. I like granola in mine. I have also put craisins in it. Or add your own fruit at home. My faves are raspberries and strawberries.

[ebiester]

At that point, aren't you just adding the sugar back in?

(I'm only justifying my own habits, mind you -- when I'm not eating it with dinner, I have a giant dollop of sour cherry jam that's going in.)

[Crake]

There's way less sugar in fruit than there is in HFCS and/or table sugar laden jam. (ex: 1 tbsp of smuckers has 12g sugar, vs approximately 0.08g of sugar per every 1 actual raspberry.)

If you were to put a small dollop of jam on 1 cup of yogurt, then that'd be comparable to putting 150 actual raspberries in, at which point you'd definitely have more raspberries than yogurt to the point of hilarity/incredulity.