A Good and Healthy Breakfast!

In my pre-teen years my mother decided to return to college and several previous “Mom-jobs” fell to my shoulders including selecting and preparing my own breakfast. Being the unorthodox John that I am, I wandered the aisles of the grocery store selecting cans of chilli and Spaghettios©. My mother was appalled but I ate and ate happily. Now, I’ve got a wife who is insistent on the importance of breakfast (which we all know isn’t that important.) I’ve changed my eating habits, but I’m still unorthodox.

God bless America, Kellog’s and Disney for the cereal called Mud and Bugs which is a “naturally sweetened cereal with bug-shaped marshmallows”. Just as many people would be appalled if I were eating actual mud and bugs, but compared to other cereals this stuff isn’t that bad.

Cereal: 
  Mud & Bugs, Frosted Mini-wheats, Special K
Calories (from fat):  
    110 (10),            180 (10),   110 (0)
Carbohydrates (sugars):  
     25 (15),             41 (10),    22 (4)
Dietary Fiber:  
          <1,                   5,        <1

It always surprises me how similar cereals are to each other. (Unless you are eating Becky’s “Twigs and Leaves©” — made from twigs and leaves.)

Posted by etrigan at December 2, 2003 8:26 AM