breakfast blogger

I apologize - if anyone has even noticed - that I have been negligent in regards to my Breakfast Blogging commitment. You don’t have to tell me: Breakfast is THE MOST IMPORTANT MEAL OF THE DAY!

Shall I rattle off some petty excuses? For one thing, my parents confiscated my camera (okay, it’s actually their camera) to take their grandchildren (my neice and nephew) to Disney World. Also, I have started writing for another blog whose subject matter is important to me. It is called the Ethicurean and you can read it here. I write about food that is “good”. I almost typed “healthy, but then decided to type “local” or “sustainable” or “clean”, but all those words will soon be trademarks owned by McDonald’s and Wal-Mart. I think you get the point . . .

Just so you’ll know, I haven’t been skipping breakfast. In fact, I’ve eaten quite a few very good breakfasts that I should have written about but felt I could not do them justice without a photo or two. Many have been things that I have already blogged about, like the bagelettes we made last week and the Tropicanas we also enjoyed, plus the multitude of scrambles and over-easy’s and smoothies and sometimes just a small bowl of cottage cheese with banana slices in it. I even went for Dim Sum on the south shore, which I will post about very soon . . . once I download the photos taken by a friend who has his own camera.

A few days ago we had cereal, with blackberries that were leftover from a dinner party we had the night before. I usually only buy berries in the summer, and then I freeze a lot of them, but this week they looked so good and we were having friends over and I just grabbed them and threw them into my little basket, wishing at the same time that my Eastern European great granparents immigrated to a warmer climate where berries are grown locally all year round. This is what we Jews do: complain.

The cereal was blend of 2 Kashi cereals. Kashi is a company that makes organic breakfast products that seem to be healthy as well. I have been scouring the shelves of grocery stores for the lasy few years for cereals where sugars are not listed in the first 3 ingredients, and especially where there are not too many types of sugars in my cereal. If there are sugars in my cereal, they should be natutral sugars and not derived from genetically-modified corn.

Then we found Kashi.

These cereals are amazing! The ingredient list isn’t full of words from a level-3 university chemistry class - they are actually foods. The only weird thing with Kashi cereals are their names. What marketing genius came up with “GO LEAN Crunch!”? It sounds like it was named by the same group of people who translate Japanese snack food names into English.

Then we found “Good Friends” cereal, aslo by Kashi, but not as easy to find. The name isn’t so bad, but the photos on the box and the “Good Friends” story is so horribly sacharine that it actually makes up for the lack of sugar in the product.

As a note, I am almost sure that Kashi has since changed the name of “Good friends” to something like “trio of Flakes, Twigs and Granola”. I am not certain, because their website still calls it “Good Friends” but the boxes we saw in the grocery store have changed. Either way, we love these cereals.

We’ll be in Florida for the next week or so and I will definitely report on my sun-baked breakfast from down south. I may even have brunch with a fellow food-blogger…

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