Who needs to eat Special K for breakfast every day for 2 weeks to lose weight? You certainly don’t have to. You can find any low sugar, low fat cereal of your choice, top it with some fruit and a little almond or soy milk and use that as a low calorie breakfast to start your day. Fresh fruit is always preferable, but you can add things like dried raisins, goji berries, sliced up apricots, prunes, figs etc. as well.
Sugary cereals were never healthy, they were just an excuse to get children and those concerned with fibre intake to eat some grains and get their servings of dairy in. If you’re vegan and still want to eat some cereal from time to time, make up a healthy one of your own. I have some organic corn flakes here (because they were low fat, low sugar and low salt) and dressed them up wish fresh sliced strawberries and served it with some original sugar free almond milk. I also like using sliced bananas, but I didn’t have any that were ripe. Raspberries or other berries work great too. This recipe is gluten free and soy free as well.
Homemade Special K – Corn Flakes With Fresh Strawberries and Almond Milk
Serves 1
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups organic corn flakes (low fat, low sugar, low salt)
1/2 cup fresh sliced strawberries
2/3-3/4 cup almond milk (I used Blue Diamond Almond Breeze Unsweetened Original)
Directions:
Add cereal to a bowl. Top with strawberries, add almond milk and any additional fruits or sweeteners if desired.
If you want to add a sprinkle or brown sugar you can, or you could try the sweetened original version of almond milk if that’s more to your taste.
Enjoy!
Almond milk is high in fat, even though it is not saturated fat. What do you suggest as alternative? Thanks.
I wouldn’t say almond milk is high in fat. It’s only 3.5 g of fat per 1 cup and 40 calories. This is Blue Diamond Almond Breeze Unsweetened Original.
You can try rice or oat milk, as they are a grain and not a nut and should be lower in fat, but I don’t have any so I can’t check the nutritional labelling on that.
You can also try Hemp milk. Like Veronica said, Almond milk is not high in fat. \
Is there an alternative to the Almond Milk, I have a nut allergy and cannot have the “Tree Nuts” Cashews, Almonds, Pecans, etc.
look good.
Very important to eat organic corn; there is so much on the market i suspect its all poor genetically modified, ‘infected’ corn;
i do oatmeal here as i have a teenager who has some issues with oily skin. Doesn’t work for me as i’m gluten intolerant so maybe i’ll try this option.
I know there are companies that make gluten free oatmeal now. Oats get cross contaminated with wheat in the factories so that’s why it’s not gluten free. But certified gluten free oats should be fine.