Cereal night

One of my work colleagues had the newly re-released Monster cereals-- Frute Brute and Yummy Mummy-- that she said she got at the Giant near my husband's office.

They didn't have any. :( 

But I grabbed a container of low-fat blueberry muffins, unsweetened soy milk and two $1 boxes of guaranteed value generic cereal. 

I needed paper bags for school book covers and when the young man at the counter heard by request for paper and why I wanted one, he offered me five more.

I'm sure his supervisor loved that.

So the generic box of raisin bran, according to the serving size on the box, had four bowls. That's what it had when we poured it out. The honey golden crisp had seven. We didn't finish that one, so I can't verify that.

Of course, cereal and muffins for dinner is like serving cake fortified with vitamins but this is a one time deal. I'm always shocked at how much more sugar raisin bran has compared to golden crisp. I shouldn't be because I know better.

We add extra raisins to our raisin bran.

Peanut Butter Evaluation

We have no food in the house but vegetables, noodles, rice and dried beans. I was hoping to make it to payday before grocery shopping, but after having snow peas for lunch and dinner, it became apparent that wasn't going to work.

I don't have much in the checkbook, and I worked 12:30 to 5 yesterday. So at noon, I went to Target to try and find non-perishables for dinner. Because I knew at 5, I'd simply want to go home.

So... I got breakfast for dinner.

- Archer Farm Apple Fritter breakfast bread, $3.99
- Peanut Butter and Company Natural No-Stir White Chocolate Wonderful peanut butter, $3.74
- Market Pantry blueberry crunch cold cereal (it's supposed to taste like blueberry muffins), $2.54
- Market Pantry cinnamon toast cereal, $2.54

We had unsweetened soy milk at home for extra protein.

And that was dinner.

The child loved it because we rarely eat cold cereal.

While in the store, I noticed we had Better Oats oatmeal on sale. That's the instant oatmeal I prefer based on nutrition and ingredients. It was on sale for $1 a box. That's 20 cents a serving before my employee and REDcard discounts! I bought six boxes.

A note on the peanut butter:
The ingredients are peanuts, evaporated cane juice, vanilla, cocoa butter, palm fruit oil, lecithin from sunflowers, and salt.

Nutritionally, it matches JIF, but has less salt and 11 grams of carbs per serving versus 7 for JIF.