Such a rich topic: the Quest, the Scare, the nutritional analysis, the major and minor variations.
Here it is. We eat muesli. Not just any muesli, however. Eating Right Muesli Cereal distributed by Lucerne Foods, Inc. Here's a photo of where we keep it. I can cram 10 boxes in there, and often do. I hate to run out (plus, it's one of those permanently-"on sale" products, for some reason--even though I would gladly pay full price!).
There isn't enough room on this page (or, perhaps, in the whole blog) to give a proper historical context. So picking up the story from a point about 5 or 6 years ago (or longer), I was on a Quest for breakfast cereal. We had been eating perfectly good products, like Raisin Bran, or Shredded Wheat, but we would tire of them after awhile. I searched the supermarkets and healthy-food stores. We tried dozens of boxes. I must say, while I totally support and patronize (in a good way) stores that stock the healthier sort of foods, it's not because of the tasty cereals. How can it be so difficult?
Finally, in the good ol' local Von's, we tried their house brand ("Select") muesli (cue angelic choral "a-a-ahs" with sunbeams streaming from the box). Who would guess? It was a revelation! I mean it! We love this stuff!
Here are the ingredients (in order): raisins, whole barley, whole wheat and wheat bran, corn oats, dates, sugar, almonds, rice, corn syrup, salt, malt flavoring. Yeah, I see that it has sugar and some corn syrup. But, just in the right amounts.
About a year ago, the whole line of "Select" cereals disappeared from the shelves of our local Safeway. Scary! A store employee told me that it was gone forever. Yikes! But a few weeks later, "Eating Right" cereals appeared, and Muesli was one of them. I bought one. Yippee! The very same! Whew!
So, yes, we eat it every day. Even weekends (I used to bake on weekends). Tom eats it with milk and maybe sliced fruit (see how happy he is?), I use milk, soy milk or yogurt.
There. At last, now you know. You're welcome!
