Healthy travel snack and breakfast food. Honey-Nut is kid approved.
Travelingmom.com
7/1/08
Contributed by Kara Mayer Robinson
My kids are cereal fiends. I, for one, consider that a good thing. Not only will I do almost anything to shave off a few minutes off my morning routine, but their willingness to eat the healthy stuff (no Fruity Pebbles in this house) makes it a no-brainer. It also makes a terrific travel snack. My staples: All Bran (with yogurt bites), Fiber One (honey clusters), Kashi Heart to Heart and good old-fashioned oatmeal (but not the instant variety or you lose many of the nutrients). But my old standbys have some new competition in Mom’s Best Naturals. I’m not exactly sure who this mom is, but I can tell you that she scores big on three counts: taste, nutrition, and (bonus!) price. Each variety is nutritionally sound, save the sugar-laden Mallow-Oats, and most come in family-size boxes yet cost less than other natural and organic cereals. I recently spent a few weeks pouring bowl after bowl of each variety for my little guys and myself and here’s what I found: