Cheeky Nibbles (healthy cereals that taste like dessert)
Cheeky Nibble is a wonderful brand of vegan granolas, a bit expensive but that’s because they are artisan-made, allergen-friendly, free from palm oil and sold in sustainable packaging. They also taste like dessert, so it’s like eating healthy cake for breakfast, and are absolutely delicious.
Recycle packaging at supermarket bag bins, if your council does not recycle. Keep these cereals away from young children and pets due to nuts, dried fruits, chocolate etc. Read more on food safety for people and pets.
The founder created the brand as she has autism and Tourettes Syndrome and found that baking helped her anxiety. She also finds exercise helpful, so she combined her two passions to bake granolas that were chunky enough to take with her to the gym, yet had nostalgic flavours.
The granola is sold in boxes that are carbon-balanced with World Land’s Trust, so you can eat your breakfast with a clear conscience. The flavours include:
- Cherry Bakewell
- Victoria sponge
- Banoffee Pie
- Vanilla latte
Why Choose Artisan Cereals?
Supermarket cereals and big brands often boast of having lots of added vitamins and minerals. Well for a start if you eat properly, you shouldn’t need them. And if you do, many of the ‘vegan cereals’ then ruin it all by adding lanolin (from sheep) as their source of vitamin D.
Again food campaigner Michael Pollan: He writes that if supermarkets really cared about our health, they would have aisles and aisles of fresh organic produce, with a few processed foods on top. Instead, all are designed the same.
A couple of aisles of fresh produce, then everything else is high-processed junk food.
Take a look, he’s right. He says that milk and bread (daily staples) are always put right at the far corner, so you have to go by ‘all the bargains’ to get them, hopefully coming out with more.
There are bright lights and no clocks (to make you go a bit mad). And low-profit products (like porridge oats) are never at eye level, unlike the special-offer junk foods. There are never special offers on broccoli!
The best-selling brand of cornflakes only has 3g of fibre. No ‘healthy cereal’ should have as little fibre as this.
You’d be better off eating an apple. The same brand’s cocoa pops up the sugar to 17g and their most sugary cereal (advertised by a tiger) is a whopping 37g sugar. No wonder children’s teeth are rotting.
