What Are You Eating for Breakfast?

I am hooked on a new cereal discovery!

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This is an organic, granola cereal with slightly sweet pumpkin seeds and flax seeds, and it is soooo good! My husband and I especially like the pumpkin seeds (and I'm not a big "seed" person).

Quick nutritional run down:

1/2 cup will give you:

  • 140 calories (not bad for granola!)
  • 5 gm fat
  • 3 gm fiber
  • 5 gm sugar
  • 3 gm protein

The down side: This cereal is expensive, just as many of the "healthy" cereals seem to be.

So I try to wait and buy it on sale. I also mix this cereal with old fashioned oats or muesli to make it last longer. I add a spoonful of plain protein powder as I'm trying to increase my protein intake at breakfast to ward off the munchies later in the day.

Well, I think my next mission will be to figure out how to make healthy, inexpensive (and tasty) granola/cereal myself! And when I do, you can bet I'll share the recipe with you! Or, if you have a great recipe, please feel free to share! :)

Do you have a favorite breakfast cereal?

 

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4 comments ↓
#1 Erin on 01.29.08 at 9:21 am

Golden Grahams! I loved that cereal as a kid and still do! :)

#2 Susan on 01.29.08 at 7:03 pm

Oh, yes! Golden Grahams are quite the tasty cereal! I remember making S’mores as a child, using Golden Grahams, mini marshmallows, and melted chocolate. It was a sticky, gooey, delicious concoction! :)

#3 deepali on 02.01.08 at 2:57 pm

I stick with oatmeal. Cheap. :) But I do like oranges in the morning too… the citrus is a quick wake-up!

I’ve made my own granola, but I tend to end up just going back to the oatmeal. :)

#4 Susan on 02.01.08 at 7:45 pm

deepali,
I like oatmeal too, especially steel cut oats with cinnamon. Steel cut oats need time to cook, and sometimes I just don’t have that time in the mornings. I could make it the night before… but the pumpkin flax seed cereal has just been my preferred breakfast as of late! :)
Maybe I should try to get myself back into the oatmeal groove; it’s definitely less expensive! :)

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