I've loved dry cereal since I was a child, and it seems to me to be the easiest way of controlling calories and fat at breakfast. Since I've started watching sodium content, though, I found out most cereal is loaded. A serving of Cheerios has more sodium than a serving of potato chips, for instance. Dang it, I love Cheerios.
There are two breakfast cereals that are almost sodium-free: Shredded wheat, and puffed wheat, either sugar-frosted and plain. Cliff was never a big consumer of breakfast cereal, but he will eat spoon-sized shredded wheat. However, I couldn't really picture him having it every single morning when we started this new way of eating.
Then I began keeping frozen fruit around. Sam's Club has big bags of frozen strawberries, and also blueberries, for around $8. Suddenly a plain old bowl of cereal is a gourmet treat! I asked Cliff if he thought he'd tire of shredded-wheat-with-fruit for breakfast, and he said he couldn't imagine doing so.
So the only sodium in our breakfast comes from the skim milk...130 mg.
2 comments:
I've been eating light yogurt with grape nuts flakes (or sometimes the regular grape nuts) for a long time now.... I just dump the cereal in the yogurt container :) Good stuff....and I just checked the sodium/calories....not too bad....
~Amy
I have not looked at the cheerios box they advertise it as good for your heart? My FIL has high blood presure too. he eats alot of cheerios for breakfast.
Terrie
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