More Healthy Cereal

The following review comes to us from Elizabeth, who also tested the Leki Trekking Poles for us last week. She wrote a great review with tons of detail, so we’re going to have her back often to test gear. Today though she’s reviewing a cereal. And here’s what she thought:

General Mills Fiber One Raisin Bran Clusters

If you’re on this website, you’re interested in getting and staying healthy—right? Most of us have decided to make exercise fun by doing what we love outdoors, but what about our diets? Several years ago, I decided to try and eat better so one dietary change I made was to buy healthier cereal. I realized that if I didn’t make better choices for breakfast, I just put straight salt and sugar in my bowl with some milk; mmmm–yummy–huh!
I am not a Wheaties or Total type of girl; I have to have some taste, and since I am a BIG fan of the Fiber One granola bar already, I thought I’d test out the New Fiber One Raisin Bran Clusters. I’m always striving to put more fiber in my diet without knowing I’m doing it and that is one good thing about the Fiber One Raisin Bran Clusters.
So here are the stats I think are important:

• 40% of daily fiber (11 g per serving -1 cup)

• 1 g of fat (10 from calories)

• 260 mg of salt

• 13 g of sugar

• 220 calories (1/2 cup skim milk)

I was impressed with that line up, but what about the taste?
Taste

One of the biggest problems in healthy raisin bran is that either the raisins are tough and chewy or the flakes are very brittle and taste like cardboard. Fiber One Raisin Bran Clusters passed both these tests with flying colors. The flakes are very crunchy and have a slight honey coating so they are very good. The raisins are not soft and plump as well.
My only suggestion would be to make the clusters (made of a rice crispy consistency) bigger. There is twice the number of flakes as clusters right now and I think more clusters would be nice:)
To cluster or not to cluster more—either way I think this cereal fits my desire to stay healthy and eat well. Definitely worth the buy if you are a raisin bran breakfast eater.

3 comments July 5th, 2007

New Speed Record for Seven Summits

Ian McKeever has set the new record for climbing all seven on the continent’s highest peaks. The Seven Summits as they are affectionately referred to, range in difficulty. But climbing all of them is considered to be a massive feat. And climbing them in 156 days, well that’s just nuts.

Here is the order in which he bagged the summits:

1. January 25- Vinson, Antarctica
2. February 11 - Aconcagua, South America
3. March 3 - Mt. Kilimanjaro, Africa
4. March 16 - Carstensz Pyramid - Australian Continent
5. May 16 - Mt. Everest, Asia
6. May 31 - Mt. Elbrus, Europe
7. June 30 - Denali, North America

2 comments July 5th, 2007