Cereal Offenders

Karen AKA Kajikit said:

How come the more 'healthy' a cereal is supposed to be, the more it
tastes like you're eating the box? I just tried the Post 'organics'
apple and cinnamon and it wasn't nearly as nice as it sounded...

What cereal do you eat for brekky?

I used to buy Shredded Wheat. It is pretty basic stuff, but tastes great
with a little honey or some dark brown sugar and fruit. I stopped getting
it recently because they employed a marketing gimmick recently to screw
their customers. They box large format appears to be the same height but it
is skinner and holds only 18 biscuits instead of the 24 they used to sell
for the same price. Now I buy Muffets, which taste almost the same but are
a lot cheaper.

BTW.... I found a good way to have a steady supply of good fruit on cereal.
I have been buying frozen blueberries. They are a a lot cheaper than fresh
berries and thaw quickly. I also have been using frozen raspberries. They
just have to be taken out a little earlier because they take longer to
thaw.

Most mornings I have oatmeal porridge for breakfast. A lot of people seem
not to like it, but I think it is delicious, and it is cheap. A 2.5 lb. bag
costs me only about $2.50 and lasts close to a month, making it about 1/8th
the cost of cold cereal.

Karen AKA Kajikit said:

What cereal do you eat for brekky?

If I could, I'd eat Froot Loops every day, but they don't sell them here
in the UK, except on specialist US food import websites at $10/box!
I love them :-)

Deb.
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Quoted message said:

How come the more 'healthy' a cereal is supposed to be, the more it
tastes like you're eating the box? I just tried the Post 'organics'
apple and cinnamon and it wasn't nearly as nice as it sounded...

What cereal do you eat for brekky?

All Bran Bar with either a spoonful of peanut butter or a piece of cheese.

Gabby

Karen AKA Kajikit said...

Quoted message said:

How come the more 'healthy' a cereal is supposed to be, the more it
tastes like you're eating the box? I just tried the Post 'organics'
apple and cinnamon and it wasn't nearly as nice as it sounded...

What cereal do you eat for brekky?

Trader Joe's mini shredded wheats with evaporated non-fat milk.

Andy

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How come the more 'healthy' a cereal is supposed to be, the more it
tastes like you're eating the box? I just tried the Post 'organics'
apple and cinnamon and it wasn't nearly as nice as it sounded...

And it never will be - Tasty!

It is important to remember the basic intent of the invention of cold Cereal;

Dimitri

What would breakfast be without Kellogg's corn flakes? The inventor of this
classic cold cereal, eaten around the world every day for nearly a century, was
Will Keith Kellogg, born on April 7, 1860, in Battle Creek, Michigan.

Kellogg was educated as far as the sixth grade. He was a hard worker who, as a
youth, held jobs as a stockboy and then as a traveling salesman of household
brooms for his father's broom-making business. His older brother John Harvey
Kellogg was a doctor, rising to the rank of physician-in-chief at a world-famous
local hospital and health spa called the Battle Creek Sanitarium. Will Kellogg
eventually went to work at the sanitarium alongside his brother. He began as a
clerk and later became a bookkeeper and file manager.

At the sanitarium, Will became acutely interested in the world of medicine and
learned a great deal from his brother, a vegetarian, about good nutrition and
wholegrain foods. He began helping John conduct research and develop healthy
diets for patients. He was in the process of boiling wheat in 1894 in an attempt
to create an easily digestible bread substitute when he came across a discovery
that would lead to Kellogg's Corn Flakes.

He had boiled some wheat with the intention of making dough with it and
accidentally let it stand for several hours. The wheat became softened,
tempered. He decided to put it through the regular rolling process anyway for
baking. When he rolled it out, however, he noticed that the individual wheat
berries in the mash would roll out into flat, wide flakes. He figured he'd bake
them and see what happened. The result was a crisp, tasty, easy-to-eat cereal
product. He and his brother decided to serve the flakes to patients to see what
they thought.

The patients loved them - so much, in fact, that they began asking the brothers
to ship packages of the flakes, which the Kelloggs called "Granose," to them
after they left the sanitarium. They did so on a small scale, but meanwhile the
younger Kellogg had tried the technique with corn and refined what he believed
to be a superior tasting, crunchy product. In 1898 he and John started the
Sanitas Food Company as a mail-order operation to develop and sell corn flakes
cereal. But Will had bigger plans - to turn his corn flake business into a
large-scale, international, packaged food enterprise.

In 1906, he established the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flakes Company -- the
world's first ready-to-eat cereal company. He was a gifted marketer and
promoter, and in his first year, he shipped 175,000 cases of corn flakes. Within
just a few years, Kellogg's Corn Flakes were a household name and could be found
in nearly every kitchen in the United States.

He quickly began adding to his product line, with Kellogg's Bran Flakes in 1915,
Kellogg's All-Bran in 1916 and Kellogg's Rice Krispies in 1928. He renamed his
business the W.K. Kellogg Company in 1922 and expanded operations to Canada and
Australia in 1924, followed by Europe and Asia.
Today the company operates under two divisions, Kellogg USA and Kellogg
International, with manufacturing operations in 20 countries and distribution in
160. In addition to its broad cereal line, today Kellogg's also sells Pop-[censored],
Eggo waffles and pancakes, the Nutri-Grain cereal bar line, and a variety of
other snacks.

Kellogg retired as the company's president in 1929 but stayed on as chairman of
the board until 1946. At this stage in his life, he turned his focus to
philanthropic activities, establishing one of the nation's most renowned
charitable institutions, the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, in 1934 with an initial
donation of $66 million. He was a true believer in empowering individuals to
help themselves, and had begun his charity work in 1925 with the formation of
the Fellowship Corporation, which helped to build an agricultural school,
experimental farm and reforestation project. In 1930, he was named a delegate to
the White House Conference on Child Health and Protection by President Herbert
Hoover, and established later that year the W.K. Kellogg Child Welfare
Foundation. He died in Battle Creek on Oct. 6, 1951.

Karen AKA Kajikit said:

How come the more 'healthy' a cereal is supposed to be, the more it
tastes like you're eating the box? I just tried the Post 'organics'
apple and cinnamon and it wasn't nearly as nice as it sounded...

What cereal do you eat for brekky?

Shredded wheat
Grape-nuts
Corn flakes
Wheat checks
Hot cereal (oatmeal, farina, etc.)

Serene

Karen AKA Kajikit said:

How come the more 'healthy' a cereal is supposed to be, the more it
tastes like you're eating the box? I just tried the Post 'organics'
apple and cinnamon and it wasn't nearly as nice as it sounded...

What cereal do you eat for brekky?

Oh, and Wheetabix!

Serene

Karen AKA Kajikit said:

How come the more 'healthy' a cereal is supposed to be, the more it
tastes like you're eating the box? I just tried the Post 'organics'
apple and cinnamon and it wasn't nearly as nice as it sounded...

What cereal do you eat for brekky?

Rarely, oatmeal or cream of wheat.

Cereal seems to be like a heart-healthy diet: if it tastes good, it's
not good for you.
:-(

gloria p

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Karen AKA Kajikit said:

How come the more 'healthy' a cereal is supposed to be, the more it
tastes like you're eating the box? I just tried the Post 'organics'
apple and cinnamon and it wasn't nearly as nice as it sounded...

What cereal do you eat for brekky?

I used to buy Shredded Wheat. It is pretty basic stuff, but tastes great
with a little honey or some dark brown sugar and fruit. I stopped getting
it recently because they employed a marketing gimmick recently to screw
their customers. They box large format appears to be the same height but
it
is skinner and holds only 18 biscuits instead of the 24 they used to sell
for the same price.

If a product gets cheaper, what are your initial thoughts about it?

Karen AKA Kajikit said:

What cereal do you eat for brekky?

None 😉

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Chatty Cathy

Chatty Cathy said:

Karen AKA Kajikit said:

What cereal do you eat for brekky?

None 😉

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Cheers
Chatty Cathy

Ditto!

Sky, who's snapping her fingers <G>

kilikini said:

Chatty Cathy said:

Karen AKA Kajikit said:

What cereal do you eat for brekky?

None 😉

I'm with you, Cathy. When I was a kid, my mom gave us Cheerios, Wheaties,
Bran Flakes or Rice Crispies *every* morning. When I left the house I vowed
to never eat cereal again. I've kept that vow. If I eat breakfast, it's
leftovers from the night before and if there aren't any leftovers, I don't
eat.

kili

Ditto Ditto! I've always disliked cereal because it becomes "used" too
quickly in milk. Nothing worse than soggy (used) cereal (BLECH)!
Although, "raw" Crispex and some other cereals are pretty good as a dry
snack (but not for breakfast!) <G>.

Sky

Karen AKA Kajikit said:

How come the more 'healthy' a cereal is supposed to be, the more it
tastes like you're eating the box? I just tried the Post 'organics'
apple and cinnamon and it wasn't nearly as nice as it sounded...

What cereal do you eat for brekky?

Cold Cereal:
- Uncle Sam's Original
- Grape Nuts (or storebrand equivalent)
- Cheerios (or storebrand equivalent)
- very rarely, when my inner child is throwing a tantrum and I am weak,
Cap'n Crunch

Hot cereal:
- old fashioned oats (brand agnostic)
- Silver Palate Thick and Rough Oatmeal
- rolled barley (barley flakes) made into porridge, in the manner of old
fashioned oats
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Quoted message said:

How come the more 'healthy' a cereal is supposed to be, the more it
tastes like you're eating the box? I just tried the Post 'organics'
apple and cinnamon and it wasn't nearly as nice as it sounded...

What cereal do you eat for brekky?

Cheerios in the summer, industrial-strength oatmeal in the winter.

Felice

On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:12:24 -0700, "Dimitri" <[email hidden]>

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How come the more 'healthy' a cereal is supposed to be, the more it
tastes like you're eating the box? I just tried the Post 'organics'
apple and cinnamon and it wasn't nearly as nice as it sounded...

And it never will be - Tasty!

It is important to remember the basic intent of the invention of cold Cereal;

I know... the better it tastes, the worse it is for you, and
vice-versa. I had a big box of the cinnamon 'life' cereal and I
thought it was okay - it's a bit sweet for my tastes but it's
supposedly high-fibre and healthy - until I got to the bottom of the
box and the bowl of dregs came out as almost pure sugar crystals! the
stuff is shredded wheat on the outside, and pure sugar inside :P

kilikini said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

What cereal do you eat for brekky?

None 😉

I'm with you, Cathy. When I was a kid, my mom gave us Cheerios, Wheaties,
Bran Flakes or Rice Crispies *every* morning. When I left the house I vowed
to never eat cereal again. I've kept that vow. If I eat breakfast, it's
leftovers from the night before and if there aren't any leftovers, I don't
eat.

When I was a kid we had porridge in the morning if it was cold out. It was
usually oatmeal, but we sometimes had Vita B, Cream of Wheat or Red River.
There was always some cold cereal, usually Shredded Wheat, Muffets, puffed
wheat , Shreddies, but very rarely sugared cereals. Sometimes we had eggs,
either poached , boiled, fried or scrambled.

Karen AKA Kajikit said:

How come the more 'healthy' a cereal is supposed to be, the more it
tastes like you're eating the box? I just tried the Post 'organics'
apple and cinnamon and it wasn't nearly as nice as it sounded...

Quoted message said:

What cereal do you eat for brekky?

Well, I like the old standby Raisin Bran, and shredded wheet
in the bite size with frosting, but recently I found this:
http://www.kashi.com/ourfood/OrganicPromise/CinnamonHarvest/Default.aspx
at Sam's Club of all places. It's not as sweet as the regular
frosted shredded wheat but just sweet enough and doesn't taste
like wood shavings, which a lot of the "healthy" cereals do.

I like oatmeal also. I'm trying different preparation methods
on pinhead oats, and found cooking it for 20 minutes gives me
better results than the overnight in a crockpot method.

Bill Ranck
Blacksburg, Va.

Chatty Cathy said:

Karen AKA Kajikit said:

What cereal do you eat for brekky?

None 😉

I'm with you, Cathy. When I was a kid, my mom gave us Cheerios, Wheaties,
Bran Flakes or Rice Crispies *every* morning. When I left the house I vowed
to never eat cereal again. I've kept that vow. If I eat breakfast, it's
leftovers from the night before and if there aren't any leftovers, I don't
eat.

kili

Karen AKA Kajikit said:

How come the more 'healthy' a cereal is supposed to be, the more it
tastes like you're eating the box? I just tried the Post 'organics'
apple and cinnamon and it wasn't nearly as nice as it sounded...

What cereal do you eat for brekky?

I rarely eat cold cereal, or even hot cereal, for that matter,
for breakfast (or any other meal). When I do I eat Kellogg's
Corn Flakes with sliced banana, brown sugar, and milk.

When I was a kid I ate corn flakes, rice krispies, and
cheerios mostly. I still like rice krispies in the form
of rice krispie treats but no other way. Cheerios, blecch!

I recently tried Honey Bunches of Oats and I will sometimes
buy a box of it to eat like a snack right out of the box.
I like the peach flavor.

As for hot cereals, my favorite it cream of wheat or rolled
wheat (very hard to find!). I do eat oatmeal (rolled oats)
on occasion but as I get older I'm less tolerant of the
sliminess.

And friend recently gave me quick-cooking steel cut (Irish)
oatmeal. I tried the microwave method on the box but ended
up with oatmeal all over my microwave. I sure wish I could
find a mess-less way to do them in the microwave. I hate
to stand over a pot on the stove. They're pretty good once
you scrape them from the walls, ceiling, and floor of the
microwave and put them back in the bowl and top with butter,
brown sugar, and milk. All my hot cereals are eaten with
butter, brown sugar, and milk or with butter and maple syrup.
Yum.

Kate
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Until you bite their heads off.”
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