Breakfast Biscuits
t4tomo
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What are they all about?
They were handing some out at Euston this morning "McVities porridge oats Breakfast biscuits with Red berries". See also "Belvita"
You teach your kids that breakfast is a cereal or porridge or toast etc, Biscuits are treat, not a staple and now they are being promoted as a healthy breakfast FFS
These things have pretty much identical nutritional value as a digestive biscuit, nearly 25% of it is sugar and it has pretty high levels of fat too.
Compared to actual porridge it has:
Its all marketing bullsh!t and they should be banned.
Robert Millar didn't win the KOM by eating rich tea's for frigiing breakfast.
RANT OVER
They were handing some out at Euston this morning "McVities porridge oats Breakfast biscuits with Red berries". See also "Belvita"
You teach your kids that breakfast is a cereal or porridge or toast etc, Biscuits are treat, not a staple and now they are being promoted as a healthy breakfast FFS
These things have pretty much identical nutritional value as a digestive biscuit, nearly 25% of it is sugar and it has pretty high levels of fat too.
Compared to actual porridge it has:
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nearly 3 times the saturated fat
24 times as much sugar
half the fibre
a bit less protein
Its all marketing bullsh!t and they should be banned.
Robert Millar didn't win the KOM by eating rich tea's for frigiing breakfast.
RANT OVER
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Have you tried them?
Also compared to a bowl of "insert cereal here" they are comparable."If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got."
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vermin wrote:rubertoe wrote:Have you tried them?
Also compared to a bowl of "porridge with no toppings/additives" they are comparable.
Really?
Clearly not a bowl of wattery porridge, no. I meant, something like Cornflakes and the like."If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got."
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Wash down with some SunnyD.
I think cereal generally is a massive marketing success. I only have some before a big ride.
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but it says " Porridge oats with red berries" on it and has another highlighted circle with "made with porridge oat" in it - Why would I compare it cornflakes?
You've missd the pooint - this thing is being marketed as healthy "like porridge" and in reality is is just a diegestive biscuit in a posh frock.Bianchi Infinito CV
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Either way, they are tasty."If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got."
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Yeah it's all marketing bumpf. As you point out it's basically an unhealthy Digestive biscuits with the word "oats" and "berries" jammed into the name to make you think it's good for you. Basically it'll be mainly processed, refined sugars, fat and flavourings - all you need for an (un)healthy breakfast, just like many other highly calorific, processed breakfast cereals, pop tart-y type stuff...t4tomo wrote:but it says " Porridge oats with red berries" on it and has another highlighted circle with "made with porridge oat" in it - Why would I compare it cornflakes?
You've missd the pooint - this thing is being marketed as healthy "like porridge" and in reality is is just a diegestive biscuit in a posh frock.Do not write below this line. Office use only.0 -
marketing :evil: Did they make arsenic into a baby food yet?*
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How are they comparable to cereal, surely they have naff all protein? At least a bowl of whatever with milk has some protein. I'll be sticking to porridge + banana I think.
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Il Principe wrote:How are they comparable to cereal, surely they have naff all protein? At least a bowl of whatever with milk has some protein. I'll be sticking to porridge + banana I think.
I don't think the presence of protein necessarily rescues Coco Pops/Frosties/Crunch Nut Cornflakes et al from dietary disaster! They're all fatty, sugary, highly calorific processed sugar heavy rubbish... Adding a glass of milk doesn't really help matters...Do not write below this line. Office use only.0 -
Headhuunter wrote:Il Principe wrote:How are they comparable to cereal, surely they have naff all protein? At least a bowl of whatever with milk has some protein. I'll be sticking to porridge + banana I think.
I don't think the presence of protein necessarily rescues Coco Pops/Frosties/Crunch Nut Cornflakes et al from dietary disaster! They're all fatty, sugary, highly calorific processed sugar heavy rubbish... Adding a glass of milk doesn't really help matters...
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rubertoe wrote:Either way, they are tasty.
You need re-educating. A biscuit isn't a biscuit if it isn't a chocolate* one.
*and this, ladies and gentlemen, is why I still struggle to get up hills....Commute: Chadderton - Sportcity0 -
msmancunia wrote:rubertoe wrote:Either way, they are tasty.
You need re-educating. A biscuit isn't a biscuit if it isn't a chocolate* one.
*and this, ladies and gentlemen, is why I still struggle to get up hills....
All biscuits are good but can only ever be improved by the addition of chocolate. Take the humble moo-cow biscuit, tasty as it is there is an infinite improvement once chocolate is added. (I am now considering the merits of pink wafers dipped in dark chocolate...)
As for these "breakfast" biscuit, they are just another thing for the fat blobs stuck behind computers to eat on their "health" kicks!
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menthel wrote:msmancunia wrote:rubertoe wrote:Either way, they are tasty.
You need re-educating. A biscuit isn't a biscuit if it isn't a chocolate* one.
*and this, ladies and gentlemen, is why I still struggle to get up hills....
All biscuits are good but can only ever be improved by the addition of chocolate. Take the humble moo-cow biscuit, tasty as it is there is an infinite improvement once chocolate is added. (I am now considering the merits of pink wafers dipped in dark chocolate...)
As for these "breakfast" biscuit, they are just another thing for the fat blobs stuck behind computers to eat on their "health" kicks!
Are you spying on me?"If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got."
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Got given a big handful of them at work. They taste OK but only as snacks. Who'd want one as an actual breakfast is a mystery to me. And if you want a snack you'd get a proper biscuit. Maybe they'll be extinct soon.
Thought they might be useful on long rides but all that fibre etc counts against them. Might be useful at the start of a longer ride though, especially if I didn't pay anything for them!0 -
rubertoe wrote:menthel wrote:msmancunia wrote:rubertoe wrote:Either way, they are tasty.
You need re-educating. A biscuit isn't a biscuit if it isn't a chocolate* one.
*and this, ladies and gentlemen, is why I still struggle to get up hills....
All biscuits are good but can only ever be improved by the addition of chocolate. Take the humble moo-cow biscuit, tasty as it is there is an infinite improvement once chocolate is added. (I am now considering the merits of pink wafers dipped in dark chocolate...)
As for these "breakfast" biscuit, they are just another thing for the fat blobs stuck behind computers to eat on their "health" kicks!
Are you spying on me?
Err... No...
(Runs off and hides behind bin)RIP commute...
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menthel wrote:
As for these "breakfast" biscuit, they are just another thing for the fat blobs stuck behind computers to eat on their "health" kicks!
Hmm, for me they are more practical than a bowl of cereal in the car if I have a 5.30 am start for a drive to work, and there is no way I can eat anything before I leave the house. (Even getting out of bed before I leave the house is a struggle. )0 -
slowsider wrote:menthel wrote:
As for these "breakfast" biscuit, they are just another thing for the fat blobs stuck behind computers to eat on their "health" kicks!
Hmm, for me they are more practical than a bowl of cereal in the car if I have a 5.30 am start for a drive to work, and there is no way I can eat anything before I leave the house. (Even getting out of bed before I leave the house is a struggle. )
The cereal would be no good for you either!
I never have breakfast until I get to work but then again have the facility to do this, so count myself lucky. I wouldn't be filled up by some biscuits for my brekkie though.RIP commute...
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No one else thought the thread title was some sort of euphemism?
Ok
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