Breaking away from storebought cereal--breakfast ideas needed.

[TanksHill]

I like to keep cooked wheat berries in the fridge. My ds will mix them into yogurt and add whatever kind of fruit is available. We try to rotate, eggs, cereal, pancakes, etc... I save the waffles for special occasions. Takes forever to make.

It sounds like you have more types of breakfast than days in the week. I would just accidentally forget to buy the cold cereal. The kids will eat what you have.

 

[Wifezilla]

THIS is a great recipe. I pour it in to muffin tins and freeze them after cooking. They heat up quickly and taste good.

http://www.lowcarbfriends.com/bbs/l...ns/485749-better-then-quiche-ricotta-pie.html

My variation and notes in this recipe are on page 2 of the thread.

 

[miss_thenorth]

It sounds like you have more types of breakfast than days in the week. I would just accidentally forget to buy the cold cereal. The kids will eat what you have.

LOL, I agree they are not ever gonna starve, but ds reaaalllyy misses his cereal. I told him I would see if there was anything I could find. We have successfully weaned crackers (for snacks) out of our pantry (yay!), I think it will just just a matter of time--(withdrawal from addiction, lol) before he accepts the fact that there are other , better things for him to eat. DD is happy with smoothies, and pancakes--blueberry preferably.

 

[me&thegals]

I agree. Time heals all wounds My family freaked when I stopped buying syrup from the store and would not eat the maple syrup. Until they realized that was pretty much it, unless they wanted applesauce or other fruit sauce. I betcha your kiddos will just adapt with some time. These days in our house, storebought cereal is just a great treat once in a while.

 

[miss_thenorth]

I agree. Time heals all wounds My family freaked when I stopped buying syrup from the store and would not eat the maple syrup. Until they realized that was pretty much it, unless they wanted applesauce or other fruit sauce. I betcha your kiddos will just adapt with some time. These days in our house, storebought cereal is just a great treat once in a while.

Syrup's next but we have to get them over the cereal thing first. and I am perfecting some fruit "syrups" right now so that I can spring them on the kids later. But since french toast and pancakes are an option (with syrup) just to be nice--I'll have to wait on the total "forgetting to buy syrup" thing.

 

[me&thegals]

The kids might start wondering about dementia if you "forget" too much at once

ETA: By the way, I'm not trying to be virtuous or anything by not having much cereal. I just think breakfast has SO MANY awesome foods to eat that cereal is way too boring!

 

[Wifezilla]

Not only is cereal boring, it is unhealthy.

"Dry breakfast cereals are produced by a process called extrusion. Cereal makers first create a slurry of the grains and then put them in a machine called an extruder. The grains are forced out of a little hole at high temperature and pressure. Depending on the shape of the hole, the grains are made into little o's, flakes, animal shapes, or shreds (as in Shredded Wheat or Triscuits), or they are puffed (as in puffed rice). A blade slices off each little flake or shape, which is then carried past a nozzle and sprayed with a coating of oil and sugar to seal off the cereal from the ravages of milk and to give it crunch.

In his book Fighting the Food Giants, Paul Stitt has tells us that the extrusion process used for these cereals destroys most of the nutrients in the grains. It destroys the fatty acids; it even destroys the chemical vitamins that are added at the end. The amino acids are rendered very toxic by this process. The amino acid lysine, a crucial nutrient, is especially denatured by extrusion. This is how all the boxed cereals are made, even the ones sold in the health food stores. They are all made in the same way and mostly in the same factories. All dry cereals that come in boxes are extruded cereals.

The only advances made in the extrusion process are those that will cut cost regardless of how these will alter the nutrient content of the product. Cereals are a multi-billion dollar business, one that has created huge fortunes."
http://www.westonaprice.org/modernfood/dirty-secrets.html

 

[miss_thenorth]

Wife--exactly why I'm getting out of the storebought cereal. there is not much in our house that is unhealthy, but storebought cereal is a battle I've been fighting for a awhile. Time to break free. Ds fought the crackers, but he is fine now. So he will be fine w/o cereal eventually too. I'm just trying to make the transition easy for him. Syrup will be difficult for both kids, but that is going too. The great thing is they are old enough so I can explain to them why I want to stop buying these things and they understand. It will all be good, and Me&, I totally agree! I haven't eaten storebought cereal for probably 20 years. One of the main reasons I wanted chickens! The kids will eventually come around.

 

[Wifezilla]

Wish I would have given up cereal 20 years ago. I didn't know the real deal until 2 years ago. I thought I was being healthy by eating "whole grain" cereal with skim milk.

 

[FarmerChick]

Cereal is a great fast food for breakfast if you are in the mood for it and Tony eats the "better" cereals...like Fiber One and such when in a fast paced morning.

Sometimes I buy some type of chocolate cereal like Coco Puffs or such and he mixes a little into his good cereal....makes a combo.

My kid doesn't eat cereal. She tried Fruit Loops and all that but doesn't like them mainly.....so I stopped buying it....she is like me, skips breakfast mostly and we eat something about 11 am.

I know, I know everyone that we should eat breakfast but it just isn't in us to eat in the morning. Just the way we do things. We eat "breakfast" for dinner alot of times though and it is good!


So maybe you could find DS some of the better cereals to let him have his "fix"---lol---and slowly wean them into a new eating pattern.

Alot of good ideas on the thread for replacement foods. Nothing wrong with some cereal every now and then at all.....but yea, there is other great foods out there for replacements.