Healthy breakfast cereal choices

For many years, there have only been two ready-to-eat breakfast cereals on store shelves that contain no added sugar: Post Grape Nuts and plain old shredded wheat. However, be careful of the shredded wheat offerings out there, because some contain BHA in the package lining as a preservative.

These cereals offer fine nutritional choices:

• Barbara's shredded wheat (single ingredient: 100% wheat)
• Post Grape Nuts (no added sugar - a wheat & malted barley cereal - get it at Amazon at a great price!)
• Northern Gold Honey Almond Granola (lightly sweetened with brown sugar, very basic ingredients. Not suitable for vegans because it contains skim milk powder).

Did you know that you can eat rolled oats raw, as is, out of the box? Sounds weird, but it's possible. Just mix some in with one of the above cereals, include some fruit & nut trail mix, add milk or juice, and you have a very nutritious morning meal!