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I have to admit, I love Special K but I wasn't a large fan of this cereal. For one, I didn't like the taste of the dried strawberries. I found they tasted bitter and that isn't a taste I wanted in the morning. The cereal itself was delicious but I would pick around the strawberries.
I did not like this product, it would be better to buy, the Special K and and fresh strawberrys, the dehidrated ones are so gross.
Can you still give it a good rating if you have to pick the red berries out? The actual flakes are delicious! I couldnt stand the sourness and texture of the actuall dehydrated berry though so I think that kind of takes away the point of the product. I have purchased this when it goes on sale a few times and find that the store does usually have this brand on sale so its affordable! I would buy it for the flakes, not for the berries!
I was in love with cereal for a while. It supposedly didn't have that many calories and it tastes amazing! But after doing some research, and well, actually reading the ingredients and nutritional values on the box I realized how deceiving the Special K line of products are.
A normal person would probably not eat just 3/4 of a cup of cereal, so I decided to fill up my bowl like I usually would, and measure how much I was actually eating. Surprisingly enough, it was definitely closer to almost 2 cups than 3/4. This would make my calorie intake to almost 400, total carbs to about 60g, and sugar to almost, if not more than 30g.This is just the cereal alone, not including how much you get from milk, whether it's 2%, skim or soy. Either way, you're basically getting a lot more than what you're paying for, and not in a good way. At the end of the meal, this would easily turn out to be almost a 600 calorie breakfast. Not how I wanna start my day!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but how many people actually measure their cereal intake in the mornings? If you're looking for a balanced breakfast, I would go for other things like oatmeal with fresh fruits or even eggs instead of these Special K products.
Forgot to mention that carbs and sugar will eventually turn to fat, so technically this cereal isn't really low fat either >
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