One of the traps that we can fall into is buying garbage food. What I mean by that is food that is full of garbage, tastes really good, but does more harm to our bodies than good. But what’s the alternative? Healthy food is expensive! Then I have the issue of preference. My family doesn’t particularly care for stone ground wheat biscuits. They have more refined tastes. You know, refined flour, refined sugar…. Despite these little conflicts, we have reached a compromise, at least in our breakfast cereals. We have a couple of plastic tea pitchers ( Here in the deep south all pitchers are tea pitchers.) that we use to hold our mixed cereal. Here is my latest example. On my last trip to the grocery store clearance section, I found a couple of boxes of cereal that had been crushed on the corner of the box. The bag was still in tact. The quality had not been compromised. They were marked down to about 79 cents per box. Yes, I picked up both of them! They were apple cinnamon flavored O’s. These mix perfectly with the healthier Cheerios that I had in my pantry. Now in my case, I was at the right place at the right time. A friend gave me 3 boxes of Cheerios because she needed the box tops off of them. She couldn’t eat that much cereal before it went bad. But that’s just a side point.
The real point is this. The children get a cereal that is somewhat sweet and tastes good. It is also full of whole grains and is lower in sugar than the alternative. This mixture is also frugal because we were able to cut the expensive healthy cereal with a less expensive one.
Another mixture that we really enjoy is corn flakes, bran flakes, and Honey Bunches of Oats. That over-sweetened cereal is toned down by the bland corn and bran flakes that no one with any taste at all would eat by themselves. But together…..YUM!
Liz Price - Apple Cinnamon Cheerios $.40 per pitcher
I do that with honey bunches of oats too!
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