Low cost breakfast

A reader has asked what is the cheapest breakfast cereal, so we got our calculators out and come up with some answers. We took six of the most common breakfast cereals and worked out the cost per 100 grams. We used Woolworths as our “sample store” and took their house brand product (called Home Brand) because this was the cheapest way to buy.

Brand: Home Brand         Weight (g)           Cost       $ per 100g

Rolled oats                           750                $2.25          $0.30

Cornflakes                            500                $2.35          $0.47

Muesli traditional                  900                $4.49          $0.50

Wheat biscuits                     750                 $3.98          $0.53

Rice bubbles                       600                  $3.79         $0.63

Bran & sultana                    500                  $4.24         $0.85

 

Rolled oats was by far the cheapest!