{"id":218,"date":"2017-09-21T09:34:35","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T15:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wandertruenorth.com\/?p=218"},"modified":"2017-09-08T06:36:20","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T12:36:20","slug":"in-the-quest-for-eating-healthy-love-grown-cereal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wandertruenorth.com\/?p=218","title":{"rendered":"Love it or Leave it?  LOVE GROWN Cereal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-223\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wandertruenorth.comwp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/LOVE-GROWN-CEREAL-300x300.png?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wandertruenorth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/LOVE-GROWN-CEREAL.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wandertruenorth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/LOVE-GROWN-CEREAL.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wandertruenorth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/LOVE-GROWN-CEREAL.png?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wandertruenorth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/LOVE-GROWN-CEREAL.png?resize=370%2C370&amp;ssl=1 370w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wandertruenorth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/LOVE-GROWN-CEREAL.png?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the quest to eat healthy, I found these gems. It&#8217;s only been a few weeks, but I want to keep from getting bored with our food. I want to try new things. This wheat-free adventure is ridiculously hard for my foodie brain to comprehend.<\/p>\n<p>And breakfast is the most important meal of the day, right? We need to not mess this up!<\/p>\n<p>So imagine my excitement when I found this at our local grocery store &#8212; LOVE GROWN Foods Power O&#8217;s &#8211; <em>made with beans!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Seriously? Beans in cereal?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-221\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wandertruenorth.comwp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_7315-2-e1504872757549-225x300.jpg?resize=225%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wandertruenorth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_7315-2-e1504872757549.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wandertruenorth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_7315-2-e1504872757549.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wandertruenorth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_7315-2-e1504872757549.jpg?resize=370%2C493&amp;ssl=1 370w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wandertruenorth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_7315-2-e1504872757549.jpg?resize=1040%2C1387&amp;ssl=1 1040w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wandertruenorth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_7315-2-e1504872757549.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lots of progressive restaurants are doing great things with unlikely ingredients, so I thought we&#8217;d give these a try.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, they are grown with LOVE! There&#8217;s love literally added to the ground where the beans are grown!<span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-224\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wandertruenorth.comwp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_7320-3-e1504873907761-225x300.jpg?resize=225%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wandertruenorth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_7320-3-e1504873907761.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wandertruenorth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_7320-3-e1504873907761.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wandertruenorth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_7320-3-e1504873907761.jpg?resize=370%2C493&amp;ssl=1 370w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wandertruenorth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_7320-3-e1504873907761.jpg?resize=1040%2C1387&amp;ssl=1 1040w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wandertruenorth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_7320-3-e1504873907761.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">I&#8217;m committed to this experiment to lower my sugar intake and eat gluten-free, I&#8217;m willing to take some risks. \u00a0What&#8217;s odd is, there\u00a0is no gluten in this cereal, but it&#8217;s made in a facility that uses wheat. So if you&#8217;re super gluten-intolerant, that&#8217;s something you need to know. But it&#8217;s kosher, so there&#8217;s that.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-220\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wandertruenorth.comwp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_7316-2-e1504872495278-225x300.jpg?resize=225%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wandertruenorth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_7316-2-e1504872495278.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wandertruenorth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_7316-2-e1504872495278.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wandertruenorth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_7316-2-e1504872495278.jpg?resize=370%2C493&amp;ssl=1 370w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wandertruenorth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_7316-2-e1504872495278.jpg?resize=1040%2C1387&amp;ssl=1 1040w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wandertruenorth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_7316-2-e1504872495278.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">This &#8220;delicious toasted cereal&#8221; looked innocent enough&#8230;but how would it taste?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Was there any possible way that I could pass these off as just regular, boring breakfast cereal?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-219\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wandertruenorth.comwp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_7317-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wandertruenorth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_7317.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wandertruenorth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_7317.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wandertruenorth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_7317.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wandertruenorth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_7317.jpg?resize=370%2C278&amp;ssl=1 370w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wandertruenorth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_7317.jpg?resize=1040%2C780&amp;ssl=1 1040w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wandertruenorth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_7317.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wandertruenorth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_7317.jpg?w=3000&amp;ssl=1 3000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The short answer is no. No. Power O&#8217;s taste nothing like regular cereal.\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">They taste exactly like you would think they would. \u00a0They taste like dried beans. And cardboard.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">Now I&#8217;m crabby. \u00a0Pass me a Larabar&#8230;and my toothpaste. Blech. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the quest to eat healthy, I found these gems. It&#8217;s only been a few weeks, but I want to keep from getting bored with our food. I want to try new things. This wheat-free adventure is ridiculously hard for my foodie brain to comprehend. 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