Celebrate National Cereal Day Every March 7

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Do you start your day with a bowl of cereal? If so, you’re like 49% of Americans who do the same.

And March 7 is the perfect excuse to eat even more cereal: It’s National Cereal Day.

So whether your cereal of choice is bran flakes, Cap’n Crunch, granola or Trix, you have something to celebrate.

We’re not sure who started this day, but we suspect it was someone who loves cereal.

 

Some Bites of Cereal Trivia

Looking at the cereal aisle today it’s hard to image a time when cereal didn’t exist. But as recently as the 1860s it didn’t.

Breakfast was bacon & eggs, sausage & eggs, etc. Basically lots of protein; not much grain.

Then came bran nuggets.

A man named Dr. James Caleb Jackson invented this cereal and called it Granula. It wasn’t sugar-sweetened or even very tasty. It was just dense nuggets of bran, so hard they had to be soaked overnight.

Another doctor, John Kellogg, was also looking for healthier foods for his patients. He and his brother Will eventually invented Corn Flakes. But it was an accident. They made a mistake with one of their experiments and discovered how to turn grains into flakes.

Cheeriotes arrived in 1941. The name was changed to Cheerios in 1945.

Dr. Kellogg once hand signed the Corn Flakes boxes to prove they were authentic.

Horatio Magellan Crunch–Cap’n Crunch’s “real” name–was born on Crunch Island in the Sea of Milk.

The Kellogg Company is headquartered in Battle Creek, Michigan. So the city got the nicknames “Cereal City” and “cereal capital of the world.”

Scroll down for some ideas on celebrating this deliciously unofficial holiday.

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Celebrating National Cereal Day

Clearly the only right way to celebrate today is to eat cereal.

So have your favorite cereal for breakfast. Or try something new.

You might even try making your own cereal:

• Cinnamon Stove Top Granola: A very quick and simple recipe.
• Aloha Hawaiian Granola: A tropical take on granola, with dried pineapple, coconut, macadamia nuts and more.
• Apricot-Cranberry-Almond Granola: Apparently a failed attempt at granola bars turned into a phenomenal granola cereal.

 

If you prefer hot cereal, try one of these:

• Pumpkin Oatmeal: A very simple recipe with pumpkin puree and walnuts.
• Banana Nut Cereal: Uses three different grains, walnuts, bananas and lots more goodness.
• Amish Baked Oatmeal: Makes 6 servings, so it’s perfect for a bigger family.

 

And you can use cereal in other recipes throughout the day too:

• Banana-Nana Pecan Bread: Uses quick or old-fashioned oats.
• Cappuccino Caramel Oat Bars: Coffee, pecans and oats all rolled into one fantastic bar.
• Cajun Chicken: Use corn flakes with a kick (Cajun seasoning) to bread your chicken.

 

So … how will you be enjoying cereal in honor of National Cereal Day?

 

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