new to TF

I would pick one or two things to start adding to your diet, and maybe a new thing to avoid. When you get that to the point where it feels easy, add a few more new foods and a few more things to avoid. Go slow. You'll feel better and better, and will be naturally motivated toward your next step. If you try it all at once, it could be overwhelming (depending on what your diet is now, of course).

For me, the first foods I added were grass-fed ground beef (I hadn't eaten or cooked beef for many many years before that), raw milk, and coconut oil. I then added organ meats and fermented vegetables. I then started soaking beans, grains and making soaked-grain bread. Then started making kefir. There were many months of adjustment between each addition.

We ate pretty well to begin with, but I still had to cut out some of our previous emergency "convenience" foods -- frozen pizza, Annie's mac and cheese, cereal. I think in the beginning, though, when you're getting adjusted, you should just add the new foods, and only start cutting out your convenience foods when you are adjusted to the new foods and meals. Adjust, learn how to cook some really good TF meals, feel the difference in your health, and then you'll find it easier to cut out the previous convenience foods. Be gentle with yourself, so that you'll be successful in the long run.

To specifically answer your question about cereal, I don't think there's a good one out there. Read an article about extruded or puffed grains and you'll be convinced. But if you can't cut it out yet without being stressed, don't! Maybe just make it a goal, and at the same time learn how to make granola at home out of soaked oats -- it's pretty easy. When you've got that down and it fits into your cooking routine, it might be easier to give up cereal.

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Slow and steady wins the race, or something. I think I cut out corn syrup first. That meant I had to either find and buy alternative products that didn't have corn syrup, or make them myself. Once that was second nature, I moved on to eliminating all trans fats. (This was before trans fats became widely unpopular, so it was a bit more challenging.) As I ate better, by adding in good things like the PP said, my taste buds changed, and I needed/wanted a lot less of the junk. Now I almost never even want chocolate! That is exceedingly weird.

As for cereals, I do not remember where I read it, but it... I remember reading that Grape Nuts (and other brands that are similar) are not extruded, and therefore not horribly awful. Kashi's Harvest Wheat and Cinnamon Harvest (look like shredded wheat) are also not extruded, apparently. And Ezekiel sells sprouted, almost granola-like cereal.