I’m definitely a cereal girl and sometimes my cereal cupboard looks a bit like Jerry Seinfeld’s, with row after row of mostly healthy choices (I still love Captain Crunch, Count Chocula, and Lucky Charms, but never eat them!). For a few years now, one of my favourite breakfast cereals has been Nature’s Path Organic Optimum Power Cereal. I buy it in a huge box at Costco, but most grocery stores with a health-food section carry it.
Many cereals are just carbs, carbs, and more carbs, but I like that Optimum cereal has 8 g protein and 10 g fibre per serving. It even has these cute little deyhrated blueberries to add flavour and interest. It’s also really crunchy, one of the most important traits in a breakfast cereal for me, which probably stems back to the days of eating bowl after bowl of soggy Corn Flakes as a child. The only negative in my books is that the cereal contains a bit more sugar than I’d like at 16 g per serving, but they list the sugar as “organic sugar cane juice” which just sounds so much better than “granulated sugar” or “high fructose corn syrup,” doesn’t it?
Nature’s Path is a Canadian company (but the cereal is made the US) and they also sell an outstanding Pumpkin Flax Granola that I sprinkle over fruit and yogurt. I just picked up a huge box of the granola at Costco, too (along with a bunch of other stuff I didn’t need in quantities way too large for a single girl to use!).
Well, gotta run. It’s time for breakfast!
2 responses so far ↓
1 Miriam // Aug 14, 2006 at 3:56 pm
I’m a big fan of Fibre1 cereal.
Tastes much better than All Bran (I think), and it’s loaded with Fibre and low in sugar.
I don’t like milk in my cereal though, so I mix it with vanilla flavoured low-fat yoghurt and some fruit.
Usually for convenience, I use a frozen mix of berries, put that in my tupperware at the botton, top with the yoghurt, then the cereal - then off to work.
The cereal stays crunchy, the berries defrost, then when I get to work, I mix and enjoy my breakfast.
I would love any other suggestions you may have for good breakfast fare, especially something I could bring to eat at work.
2 Margo // Aug 14, 2006 at 5:07 pm
Greta,
One possible way to cut the sugar content in your favorite cereal might be to mix it with another (healthy) cereal which by itself would be too bland. I do this when I’m buying fresh bulk nuts like almonds, to cut the salt: I buy a scoop of salted nuts and mix it with a scoop of unsalted nuts. I also mix flavored yogurts with plain yogurt, even for my kids. Some yogurts are extremely high in sugar. Anyway, it might be worth experimenting with for the cereal, even just adding some toasted oats or something plain to it. Let me know if it works!
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