Catherine’s Review Blog

Of late, I have been in a “what to have for breakfast?” quandry. I need something that can be prepared fast and eaten on the run, as its usually mayhem here in the mornings as no matter how early I am woken, its the last minute before the 5 kids and myself are ready for the school run. 

Toast- boring and hardly too healthy when loaded with melted butter and marmalade, cereal- never have been a fan, porridge- gives me heartburn. I’ve been relying on the wolf down a yoghurt and a banana alternative, which leaves me starving an hour or so later and therefore picking at food mid-morning.

Then I read fatmammycat’s recent post. The stable diet toasted breakfast cereal sounded tasty and the perfect ingredient needed to add a bit of oompf to my usual glenisk raspberry yoghurt. Off I set to my local Supervalu, as, alas, the nearest Superquinn is in Kilkenny, to purchase.

It costs €4.45, comes in a clear plastic tube, containing 460g, so its not the cheapest cereal. It’s basically a granola, ingredients: oat flakes, oat bran, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, coconut, almonds, walnuts and sugar. Sounds good. Tastes yummy added to aforementioned yoghurt. The only quibble I have is that it’s a bit sweet, brown cane sugar is the second ingredient listed on it so I guess its present in relatively high amounts.  I should perhaps use a natural yoghurt instead of a flavoured one.

I had a gander on the Stable Diet website, its a Wexford based company. Their serving suggestion of the cereal accompanied by ice-cream is just pure evil....yuuuuummmmm.