Doves farm organic breakfast cereals

Doves Farm is a company (from the North Wessex Downs) better known for making organic and gluten-free flours and baking powders.

But it also offers a tidy line of organic breakfast cereals, many of them the ideal alternatives to English favourites (like cornflakes, bran flakes and cocoa pops), but this time from a local ethical company that isn’t owned by a corporate giant.

Keep away from pets due to chocolate, chia seeds etc. You can recycle packaging at supermarket bag bins, if your kerbside doesn’t recycle.

Doves Farm offers a balanced alternative. The range includes:

• Ancient Grain Breakfast Flakes are made with buckwheat (a seed related to rhubarb), quinoa (an Andean superfood packed with protein and calcium) and teff (the world’s smallest grain, and packed with protein).
• Ancient Grain Fruit & Fibre Flakes are a crunchy mix of buckwheat and wholegrain rice, with banana, coconut, sultanas and apple pieces.
• Organic cornflakes – the ultimate alternative to England’s favourite breakfast cereal. But these ones are a little more expensive, but that’s because they’re organic.
• Wholegrain Cocoa Rice Pops are the alternatives if you have to have chocolate for your breakfast. These are made with premium organic cocoa, to boot.
• smoothies

Turtle cereals 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. 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!