Award Winning Cereal

I realize that I mentioned cereal in one of my earlier posts about the egg sandwich, and I apologize for not expanding on that thought right away.  I understand you have probably stayed up at night wondering what kinds of cereal I eat, and what kinds of cereal to avoid. Well, worry not my friend.  Today I am going to be discussing my take on cereal. Just to be clear, I only eat my cereal with skim milk--mostly because I have slight allergies to milk. I do think that makes a difference. My brother just bought vitamin D milk, he might as well be using half and half. Another thing--if you like your cereal extremely crunchy, my bowl is not the place to look.

So without further delay, here are my top favorite cereals:

1) Apple Cinnamon Cheerios: of all of the Cheerios in the world (and there are plenty) this kind is my favorite.  It has the perfect amount of sweetness and it makes your milk taste so good too.

2) Fruity Pebbles: obviously I was brought up on sugar cereal.  When I was young, my brother, my sister and I all had our own box of FPs because it was gone in a day if we didn't.

3) Honey Smacks: Not too soft, not too crunchy.  A hint of sweetness makes it delicious. Plus, it is small enough where it isn't going to hurt the top of your mouth like fruit loops.

4) Cinnamon Toast Crunch: The taste you can see. Enough said.

5) Raisin Bran: Not a sugar cereal, but it still is good.

6) Honey Bunches of Oats: Tastes good, and healthy!

Everyone has their own cereal preferences, and you by no means are constrained to mine.  Feel free to let me know what your favorite is!

Sunday Morning French Toast

Since it was daylight savings time last night, I felt rather motivated to wake up and get going before I needed to rush to get to church on time. Since I had this free time where I did not need to be showering or doing my hair yet, I decided to make breakfast for Elliott and my dad. Since waffles are such an early morning cliche, I decided to go the french toast route. It was way easier than I thought.

This is what I did, and you can do it too:

Break a 3-4 eggs in a medium sized mixing bowl

Pour a little bit (half cup) of milk in with the eggs, and stir it all up

Add some cinnamon and brown sugar in the milky-egg mixture

Take a piece of bread, dunk it in the egg stuff and immediately put it on a greased griddle.

Let the toast cook on each side for about a minute, depending on how hot your griddle is.

Once it's done, there is nothing left to do but eat it! (With syrup of course)

Something I have been wanting to do with this is create an egg sandwich--using two pieces of french toast for the bread. More on that later...hopefully.

 Other french toast recipes :)

A salty and sweet Halloween treat

 When it comes to deciding between salty snacks or sweet snacks, I will almost always choose salty. But, it is possible to have the best of both worlds here.

With chocolate-covered pretzel rods you have your salty pretzel coated in a rich layer of delicious chocolate. It is also really easy to make! Just get some pretzel rods, dip them in melted chocolate and let them harden on wax paper.

Want to make your treat a bit more festive? Add sprinkles. Honestly, who doesn't love sprinkles? The right color combination can turn your ordinary pretzel into the life of the party. Throw some orange and black sprinkles on there for halloween, tie a pretty little ribbon on the pretzel end of the treat, and you're all set.

Go the extra mile: Dip your pretzel in caramel, and let it dry.  Then proceed to dip it in chocolate. This gives it the double layered snickers bar effect that will give people a delightful surprise.

Happy Halloween! Try these other Halloween treats!

A frozen yogurt treat

Ever get a craving for frozen yogurt? I do. It is so delicious. Well this year I started doing this thing, and it allows me to have a little bit of frozen yogurt, without adding up the calories.

Take a Yoplait yogurt cup...and freeze it!
When you feel like eating it, take it out of the freezer and let it thaw for maybe ten minutes.  It will be easier to eat when it is not an ice block.

There are so many flavors to choose from. There are also different kinds of textures--there are the whips, the thick and creamy, and the jello kind.  I have only tried the regular, but I am looking forward to trying them all.

This is really the perfect snack.

Another benefit is your yogurt will stay good for months in the freezer, rather than going bad after a week in the fridge.