Turtle Cereals (healthy breakfasts from Belgium)
Turtle Cereals is a great breakfast cereal company just over the border in Belgium. One wonders why no-one can come up with something more interesting here, instead of the same-old, same-old flavours and unhealthy cereals that we’ve had for years on supermarket shelves. Not only these cereals organic and Fair Trade, but the boxes are also recycled.
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.
This company was founded by a husband-and-wife team. He grew up in Belgium where he loved long forest walks, and she grew up in Spain and Denmark.
Both moved to Belgium, and named the company after the creature that goes slow, focusing on slow-release healthy breakfast options, rather than fast sugar cereals, as sold so much today.
The unique range includes:
- Carrot Cake Porridge (cake for breakfast?)
- Cocoa Pillows with Hazelnut (tastes like Nutella)
- Colour Loops (more nutritious than Cheerios)
- Granola Nuts & Seeds
- Date, Fig & Apricot Porridge
- Chocolate & Banana Porridge
- 6-Seed Porridge
- Multi-Grain Flakes with Chocolate
- Dark Chocolate Cornflakes
- Oat Crunchy Dark Chocolate
You can shop in bulk online. But it’s better really to ask your local stores to stock this brand, as they will get cheaper rates. A good reason to shop at community shops and co-operatives, as they will be more likely to order in what you want!
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.
