Peanut Butter and Chocolate cereal....

A week or more ago I was looking for healthy ideas for breakfast...well ok in general. I happen to go to vegweb.com and they have so much great stuff there. I happen to come across a recipe for cereal that tasts just like Recess Peanut Butter and Chocolate Puffs. I thought it had to be wrong but thought we would try it since my children would LOVE to have something like that for breakfast.


The first time we made it we did it the way they said on the website. We used coco powder (dark), peanut butter and puffed rice cereal (ok they suggested different cereal and regular coco powder); the boys said it was too bitter and wouldn't eat it. The next day or so we were at the store and they asked for chocolate syrup...normally I say no but this day the cereal thing comes to mind and I say yes.

The next morning we try 1 tbs to 2 tbs chocolate and they love it! It is such a big hit that I now make it up before time. I mix about 5 tbs to about 10-15 tbs of chocolate syrup and leave it in the frig. Now when they want the "special cereal" I just take about 1 tbs (yes, that is a lot less than I originally used) of the mixture, warm it so it mixes into milk easier (I microwave for about 30 secs), add the cereal (puffed rice or corn flakes...we use puffed rice but the original recipe called for corn flake like cereal) and mix all together.

The boys LOVE this as you can see!