Power Up With Cereals

After your morning workout, it is recommended to have a healthy breakfast of whole grain, low sugar and with skim milk. Thus, cereal is the best bet for this. Most of cereal eaters, usually add slices of bananas or raisins or nuts to make it more flavorful and powerful. But of course if day after day, we just eat the same thing, it gets a little frustrating and annoying.

There are many brands of cereals in the market today but what you need to consider is how you can jazz up your cereal meal each day.

Mix it up. If you think that your cereal lacks aroma or taste, mix it with equal parts of honey and cherries. Remember, we don’t want to add sugar to make it more flavorful.

Upgrade to cereal and milk 2.0. Aside from milk, we can also use low-fat yoghurt. Yoghurt is a great calcium-rich substitute for milk. Since yoghurt has other flavors, you may try other yoghurt variants.

You can also try this:

Mix a 6 oz container of vanilla yogurt with 1 cup raw oats, ½ cup steel cut oats, ½ cup orange juice and a small chopped apple, then stir together and let sit overnight. In the morning, dish out a serving, and top with two tablespoons of dried fruits and nuts.

Have it your way. Nowadays, we can buy cereal bars in the grocery. So instead of the traditional cereal, you can opt for this one. This is also good as a snack bar.

Fill'er up with fruit. Aside from sliced bananas, you can always try different fruits like mango or papaya. You can also consider blackberry, kiwi, peaches, and plums, among others. Of course, any fruit, especially those fresh and in season, make perfect cereal toppers. Dried fruits or canned fruits can be an alternative as well if you don’t have fresh fruits in sight.

Add a little heat. Cereals are best when they are cooked. I know it would be easy to just tow in instant oatmeal but nothing takes the chill off better than a steaming bowl of oatmeal. So while heating up, stir some real strawberries and cream or chunks of fresh berries and during the last few minutes of cooking. Very delicious.