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Chocolate for Breakfast, Part 3

May

5

2016

My earlier post had been about some new chocolate (or chocolatey) cereals. We found another chocolate cereal that has joined the breakfast game: Love Crunch

Since it needs a longer name to make a good acronym, I’ll go with its full title of Love Crunch Dark Chocolate and Red Berries : LCDCaRB

image of Love Crunch granola with dark chocolate and red berries

It has a good taste but that comes at a price of nutrition. Or serving size. Take your pick. If you look at the nutrition information, it doesn’t look that bad compared to other cereals. It has more fat but less sodium. And since it’s granola, it should be the good kind of fat.

But…

the nutrition information is for a serving size of 1/4 cup. Go ahead and measure the amount of cereal you normally pour for yourself. Chances are good that it’s nowhere near 1/4 cup. A quarter cup is 4 tablespoons.

Anyway, this cereal is made with normal ingredients, so it tastes good. Especially the dark chocolate chunks.

Here is the nutrition information, normalized to the 3/4 serving size that other cereals use:

  • 18g of fat
  • 3g sat. fat
  • 165 mg sodium
  • 6g of fiber
  • 18g of sugar
  • 420 calories

I used to rank the cereals, with good taste and good nutrition at the top and bad taste and bad nutrition at the bottom. I couldn’t fit LCDCaRB anywhere in that list, so I gave up. Just enjoy the taste and ignore the calories.

Oh, and buy it on sale.

Throughout his life he also eats in darkness with great vexation, sickness and anger.

Ecclesiastes 5:17

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Good Orange Juice

May

3

2016

This post might not be very exciting, but maybe it will help someone.

Our kids were drinking a fair bit of orange juice, due to the fact that we got a bunch of it from Costco. That was the orange juice that was ready to drink. But it ran out, and we didn’t have a Costco run planned anytime soon, so we got a can of orange juice concentrate from the normal grocery store.

The kids could tell the difference. It was name-brand orange juice even, but anything from the grocery store that was concentrated just didn’t have the same taste as the unconcentrated stuff. In fact, they wouldn’t even finish the pitcher of orange juice. So that fell to my dad duties of finishing food that the kids don’t in order not to waste any. I eventually, over the course of a few days, finished the orange juice. And I had to agree with them – the stuff from concentrate just doesn’t taste right.

Then my wife found this:

image of Garden Acres orange juice

Doesn’t look like much, but it is OJ concentrate that actually tastes like the normal stuff. No bitterness or whatever. We can find this only at GFS, so good luck if you’re not near one of those.

Hmm… reading over my post, I see that it sounds like an advertisement. Oh well. It’s good stuff; I don’t mind giving them free publicity.

A sated man loathes honey, But to a famished man any bitter thing is sweet.

Proverbs 27:7

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