I bought a box of Kashi Heart to Heart with oat clusters and blueberries, even though I've never really liked Kashi. It's not that I'm doing a "I SHOULD eat this" thing. It's that I'm looking for cereal that tastes like Fortified Oat Flakes.
Many years ago, when I was about 12, I ate Fortified Oat Flakes every morning for a couple of years. I don't know why Mom bought it, maybe she was having a "I should eat this" thing. I think I was the only one who ate it... in the whole world. I loved it.
It was sort of nutty and chewy, although it was only flakes. No clusters, no dried fruit. If you left it in the milk, it would get nice and soggy. Just to prove it wasn't for babies, if you saved up box tops and mailed it in, you didn't get toys. I got a silver plated (looking?) pie cutter/server for my mom. Someone still has it. You'd never guess it came from box tops.
Then it just disappeared. This was before oat meal became a magic food, and I don't remember anyone talking about cholesterol. I suppose they might have, but I was 12. All I knew is that, like the Monkees, the Monster Squad, and all my favorite TV shows that got canceled, my cereal was popular only with me.
So now I am searching for the cereal. You'd think that now that oat is a magic bullet someone would pull out the old recipe. Without the clusters or dried fruit. I'll add my own.
The Kashi is pretty good, by the way, but it doesn't get soggy. SIGH.
