Kellogg’s All Bran Cereal Bars

Recently I was in a local grocery store and they were offering samples of Kellogg’s All-Bran Bars – these were small 30g samples in various flavours, I had picked Honey Nut Flavour.  If you’re like most adults you know you’re probably not getting enough fibre in your diet – but have you tried cereals that are high in fibre?  It’s like eating cardboard!  Yeeeech – but in trying to maintain a healthy diet, fibre is a must.  On the cereal side, two of my favourites are Kellogg’s brands and these are either the All-Bran Buds or the All-Bran Original Cereal.  I also like All-Bran Bran Flakes but now I can add another item to the list, also by Kellogg’s and that’s the All-Bran Breakfast (or Cereal) Bars.

One 30g pouch is 130 calories, of which there is 5g of fat, 4g of fibre and 9g of sugar.  Not bad considering you’d get about the same from some adult cereals.  The sample bar I had also contained 1.5g of saturated fats, 5mg of cholesterol and 120mg of sodium.  The 4g of sugar was part of the 21g of carbohydrates in the bar with 8g coming from starch and 2g from protein.

As you may, or may not know when you read the ingredients on a package they are typically listed in order from most of that item to least – this product is no different.  The first ingredient is wheat flour, followed by sugar, cereal and salt.

The taste of the bars is great, and there was no after-taste either.  The one thing that I’ve found with may similar products is the after-taste, and that normally turns me off of them.  But these cereal bars are really tasty – so good that you won’t even realize that you’re eating fibre.

I’m sure these bars are nothing new, but this is the first time I had tried something like this.  I normally stay away from cereal bars because they’re typically high in fat and sugar – something that I don’t need and I’m sure you don’t if you’re trying to loose weight.

From Kellogg’s website: A great tasting, easy way to get fibre on the go, All-Bran Honey Nut flavour bars are high in fibre and provide 16% of the recommended daily fibre.

These also make a great mid-morning, or afternoon snack and may be a good alternative to the same-old, same-old everyday.

If you want something filling – you will not find it here or with most cereal bars.  The idea is to give you enough to keep your body going until a snack later in the morning or lunch in the afternoon.  What you may want to do is add some yogurt to the mix to help you feel full.  I tend to have something like this when I’m in a rush, but will follow it with a cup or three of tea (decaf with skim milk and no sugar).

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Progress Report for April 24, 2008

Weighed myself this morning, and I’m at 306lbs.  I was at 308lbs yesterday.  Yes, I understand that 2lbs per day is not sustainable and I suspect that most of the loss will be attributed water loss.

I’ve been exercising in the mornings, getting in at least 1 mile of brisk walking.

Breakfast was a bowl of Bran cereal (well, two bowls) with 2% milk and a cup of tea.  I snuck a couple of almond cookies as well – they cost me dearly in terms of calories, but they were good!

I eat a very light lunch as I sit most of the day.  Lunch was one large orange and LOTSA grapes and water.  I’m feeling drenched I’m drinking so much water.

Dinner was a bit of a cheat though… more than I should have.  It was fried chicken and fries.    But I did get in just over 2 miles of walking!

I’ve also been digging through some of my archives and found some of my original journals where I tracked what I’d been eating and my exercises when I lost my initial 100lbs.  I’ll be posting them on the site, but not all of them!  I’ll be posting breakfast/lunch/dinner but some will be protected posts while others will be public.  Only those individuals that have registered for the blog alerts will get the protected posts.  The rest…sorry!

I’ll be reactivating the subscriber box shortly so that you can subscribe for the blog alerts.  Everyone will get ADVANCED notice before I start placing the protected posts online.  Once a post is made available, a password will be sent out.  Each post will have a different password.  If you subscribe after 5 posts, you don’t get the password for the previous ones — only the password for the newest ones.

Take care,

Mohamed

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