Special K Gets Colourful

My girls and I have always loved cereals and porridges. I love putting granola over yoghurt and mixing porridge with yummy fruit and nuts and to be honest I don't eat them just at breakfast either. Special K have recently launched a new range of porridges, cereals and snack bars as part of their 'Live in Colour' campaign in an aim to encourage people to live a life which is filled with variety and choices and what better way to start this than with the most important meal of the day.

I was kindly sent some of their new range to try and I was disappointed. Each box packed a punch in their own way …

Creepy Crawly Crafting Fun

Nestle recently carried out some interesting research, revealing the kind of challenges that parents like myself face when trying to make sure that their children are receiving the vitamins and minerals that they need. There were some weird and wonderful findings :

71 % of kids refuse to eat a plate of greens (you know the good stuff!)

47% of children have had a chew on some sort of bug from the garden. Some of the creepy crawlies included were worms, caterpillars and snails.

This gave nestle the idea to build a caterpillar of their own made from cereal. So they worked alongside food artist Prudence Staite to create a huge 10ft one to showcase just how nutritious cereal can be…..

Kelloggs Frozen Cereal

There are two things my children are definitely into right now, one of them is Frozen (will the hype ever die down?) and food. So when we were recently asked by Kelloggs to choose our favourite Frozen character, the kids got rather excited about what could possibly be coming our way.

A surprise package revealed some lovely Frozen goodies including an Elsa wig and a fabulous tiara which I may have placed on my head as well as a box of Frozen themed cereal.

We Heart Cheerios

It is no secret that we love Nestle cereal in this house, especially those cheery little o's. Did you know that Cheerios recently released a new low sugar oat version that has just 1.4g of sugar per serving, great news for all those families who are trying to follow a balanced and nutritional diet.

Anyway, to show the love, my girls and I were asked if we'd like to first try the cereal and then get creative. I've made cakes with cheerios before but never any art so I thought this could be a fun task.

I can firstly confirm that these O's are certainly just as tasty as normal cheerios, the pack that we were sent has already been devoured.

We were sent a pretty impressive crafting pack along with our Cheerios which contained all the materials we would need to get creative including ribbon, wire, pipe cleaners paper, scissors and glue.

Shaking Up My Wake Up #BreakfastWeek

Did you know it's national breakfast week? Well if you didn't you do now!! To celebrate Nestle Cereals challenged some bloggers to 'Shake Up Their Wake Up'. How you ask? The idea is that the kids and I needed to mix up our favourite Nestle cereals and give the tasty concotion a new name.

Getting Creative With Nestle

A couple of months ago I was set a challenge by Nestle Cereals, I had to write a breakfast diary for a week to show what my families breakfast habits were like and whether they needed improving.

Now Nestle Cereals made choosing what to have for breakfast easy because the green banners on the top of each of their boxes let us know that they contain wholegrain as well as at least six other vitamins and minerals.

Well this month Nestle cereals have set some bloggers a new task, this time we need to get creative, you know Blue Peter style i.e. here's one I made earlier.

All Bran Chocolate Wheats Review and Giveaway

I don't know about any of you but I suffer from bloating. On a bad day, I can end up looking 6 months pregnant and have a seriously sore belly. I think it stems from eating the wrong foods such as white bread, pasta, you know all those carbs that you just can't resist!!

People say breakfast is the most important meal of the day so surely starting the day with the right foods  will help ease the discomfort in my tummy??

All Bran has introduced a new chocolate cereal, Chocolate Wheats. It contains lots of natural wheat bran fibre which has been scientifically proven to ease the symptoms of digestive discomfort (bloating). This in turn will help to improve your overall well being.

This all sounded good to me so I was happy to try them and see whether it made a difference to how I feel/look.

Special K Granola Review and Giveaway

You may have gathered from some of my previous posts that I am always on the quest to get fit and be healthier and one of the things to help with this a good balanced diet. One of the things I do believe to help is always having breakfast but it is nice to change what I eat every once in a while, so when I was asked if I would like to try and review the new granola from Special K, well I couldn't resist.

I was surprosed when the package arrived because not only did I receive a pack of each flavour, I also received a lovely reusable bag and a huge tea towel!!