EnviroKidz Organic Cereal

Healthy isn't so hard these days, especially when there are companies like Nature's Path out there. My boys absolutely LOVE EnviroKidz cereal. Connor and I were literally cut from the same cloth because he could eat 3 bowls of cereal for breakfast and then again for lunch and dinner. I remember my dad telling me that I was going to turn into a box of cereal. I even remember my college and graduate school days when I would have a nice bowl of cereal for dinner quite often, following my tuna sandwich and tomato soup lunch. I tend to get hooked on foods and eat them over and over and over again. Oh, and over again!!!

We have tried the Peanut Butter Panda Puffs, the house favorite, Koala Crisp, Gorilla Munch and Amazon Frosted Flake (Griffin's new favorite although he seems to need more variety as you never know what he will pick that day). The great thing about these cereals is that they are all gluten free, so I can eat them without guilt and I can keep down the amount of gluten the kids eat each day, they are vegetarian, contain no trans-fats and tend to only have about 7 or 8 grams of sugar. Not bad compared to the other sugar cereals out there masquerading as healthy. Healthy sugar cereals? This is why I worry about the American Heart Association giving their seal of approval of some cereals? What are t to be he requirements considered Heart Healthy? Obviously their standards are not very high, but I digress.

Another great thing about the EnviroKidz cereal is that every year 1% of EnviroKidz sales is donated to Endangered Species, Habitat Conservation adn Environmental Education for kids.

When reading Dr Sears 12 Tips on Choosing and Preparing Healthy Cereals for Your Family I realized that the Peanut Butter Panda Puffs are just under the recommended 4:1 ratio of Carbohydrates to Sugar, but it is only 1 gram of sugar over. Not too bad when you consider the high percentage of horrible kid cereals that are out there. Dr Sears goes on to say:

WHY CEREALS ARE GREAT FOR KIDS

Children love cereal and willingly eat a lot of it. Add to this the nutrition found in cereals and you'll agree that grains are great kid food. One cup of a nutritious cereal can supply as much as half the daily nutritional requirements for fifteen of the top vitamins and minerals. Add milk or yogurt to the cereal, and it boosts the nutritional content even higher. Plain and simple, cereal is a great way to get a lot of nutrition into a child at one sitting. In fact, a nutritious cereal is like a multi-vitamin/multi-mineral supplement in a tasty, attractive package.

In order to add a little extra to our cereal we use Silk Plain Soy Milk instead of regular cow's milk. Sometimes Connor wants cow's milk, but Griffin always goes for the Soy

For more information on the cereal controversary, check out the book Cereal Killer by Alan Watson, very interesting. As reviewed by Healthy Low-Carb Living Blog"

"So! How are the children doing? End of summer, 2008. A record number of American children are being diagnosed with asthma, obesity, diabetes, and bipolar disorder. Along with surging food and medical costs, Americans must come to grips with declining life expectancy – now 37th in the world.

In this explosive book, Alan Watson sheds new light on how corporate greed, government delusion, and slippery science are making our children sick and causing what the late Dr. Robert Atkins called “diabesity.”

Cereal Killer is a stinging indictment of the big cereal companies and drug industries who enjoy huge profits as Americans of all ages suffer from failed “low fat” federal nutrition guidelines and record levels of chronic disease.

After you read Cereal Killer, you will know:

Why obesity is epidemic.

Why diabetes is soaring.

Why cholesterol and saturated fat are not the cause of heart disease."