Kashi Ingenuity: Seven Whole Grains for Healthier Eating

Sometimes a brand comes along that does the healthy thinking for you. Don't you just love that! Just as I found that I adored Whole Foods for doing the label reading for me, I've discovered Kashi as a brand who makes all their food with a mixture of protein and complex carbohydrates to keep me healthily energized during my work day. Founded in 1983 by a group of health food enthusiasts, Kashi embraces a mission to provide nutritious food to help their consumers maintain a balanced lifestyle. The team unveiled their classic blend of Seven Whole Grains and Sesame in with the release of their Breakfast Pilaf cereal and over the years have grown to expand their product base to over 100 items ranging from cold cereal to frozen entrees to cookies.   

Cold Cereals and Breakfast Bars
Although doctors and nutritionists have cited breakfast as the most important meal of the day for years, many of us (that's me with my hand in the air on more mornings than I care to recount) don’t start thinking about breakfast until our stomachs begin rumbling around mid-morning.

Thanks to Kashi’s cereal options, preparing a filling and healthy breakfast doesn’t have to be time consuming. The lightly sweetened, low-fat cereals in the GOLEAN line range fromToasted Berry Crumble to their latest featuringsa blend of dried blueberries and cranberries for a fruity twist on the granola-like cereal and with double the amount of protein(9 grams) and fiber (8 grams) than the average of other cereals.

For those struggling with high cholesterol or heart health issues, Kashi came up with a Heart to Heart Cereal with soluble fiber from oats to help reduce cholesterol, six natural antioxidants and B3 vitamins to supports artery health. This comes in Honey Toasted Oat, Oat Flakes & Wild Blueberry Clusters, and Warm Cinnamon Oat.

For those of you who love vanilla as much as I do, Kashi’s Island Vanilla cereal offers 48 grains of wheat, providing a full day’s serving of grains.
 
If you’re too busy scrambling to get your kids out the door or just happened to hit the snooze button one too many times yourself Kashi’s all-natural, protein and fiber-filled bars make a smart and tasty on-the-go option kids favorites: the savory Chocolate Peanut or Chocolate Pretzel while mine is the Cinnamon Coffee Cake flavor with hazelnut chunks for a sweet and spicy alternative.

Snack bars

Looking for a pick-me-up in the middle of your day?  Kashi has

TLC Fruit and Grain bars including Pumpkin Pie, Apple Spice, Cherry Dark Chocolate (that's the one I like most), and Roasted Almond Crunch.

So no more excuses for this on go Mom, along with my teens who generally leave themselves only about seven minutes for breakfast before dashing out the door to school. 

Disclosure: Kashi sent me a sampling selection of these products to facilitate this review.

Comments

[Kathleen]

We love Kashi foods here, especially their cereals.