I like the hard baked blueberry cookies, eat two every morning with my coffee. They keep you going as they have a nice balance of protein etc.

I bought the blueberry ones that are kind of like a hard cookie. I like them but would never consider them a breakfast food. More like a light dessert item for after my main meal. Thanks for the review on the Oats&Choc ones. Will try them, again for a dessert though.

Shirley

Yaya, are there two cookies in each packet of the blueberry? I'm trying to get a feel for how many carbs that would be. I try to limit to 30 per meal. The chocolate one had 32 per packet, one cookie.

Yes, Gadgets, they would satisfy as a dessert. 5g fiber too, and that's pretty good.

I eat them as a snack if it's mealtime and I'm out shopping or can't eat right away. I try to eat every 2-3 hours. I usually get the hard cookies and just eat two - to reduce the calories. They will keep you from feeling starved. The only ones I don't eat are the hard chocolate ones. I like them, but the crumbs stick in my teeth! We keep them in both cars for unexpected hunger pains.

I tried them. Didn't like them at all. Passed them on to my SIL. I don't know if he liked them or not.

no,way too much sugar!!

Yep. And sugar is becoming recognized as the main health threat in the diet, over fat and cholesterol etc. - if you read one thing on the label of a food package, read the sugar content. These days LOTS of prepared food products are advertised and labeled as healthful or nutritious yet have high sugar contents.

Socks, are you looking for a breakfast alternative? Are you wanting something healthy or convenient or filling?

Breakfasts can be tough.

All of the above, but mostly breakfast. I've never been a fan of breakfast foods, definitely not eggs, which is too bad, I know. I do make crustless quiches which work great, though. Mostly breakfast is peanut butter and low sugar jelly on toast. It doesn't stick with me long.

We sell them where I work. Well, we try to sell them. I don't know why we carry them. They expire before they're sold. Which reminds me: I better check the dates on the ones on the shelf tomorrow when I go into work.... :)

I've been making this recipe fairly often since October and keep them in the freezer individually-wrapped in plastic wrap. They defrost quickly, or you can nuke it for 20-seconds for a warm cookie. Maybe something like this would be another choice, and probably less expensive. Like Glenda, we have a big breakfast, but occasionally we use these breakfast cookies as the "grain" serving in the meal. We also use them when we travel, or occasionally for a snack. When I send them to work with hubby for the office crew, they are gone within moments.

PUMPKIN BREAKFAST COOKIES

http://leelalicious.com/pumpkin-breakfast-cookies/

The recipe comes with nutrition information. I substitute a homemade version of palm syrup for honey and use a 50/50 milled mixture of flax/chia instead of flax alone. I would add a glass of milk, kefir or yogurt and a piece of high-fiber fruit.

Funny, my SIL gave me a package. I thought they tasted artificial, but they are not. So by taste alone, I'm not a fan.

I taste tested them at Costco and bought a package of the blueberry ones. My crew didn't like them very much. I know we didn't finish the box.

grainlady, those breakfast cookies look good. What does "ground" flaxseed mean? Just regular flaxseed, or like flour? You said "milled"--not sure what that is either.

Socks, I grind my own flax seed. I put whole seeds in my coffee grinder to get the ground version. Ground seed doesn't last as long, so I usually only grind what I will use in a short amount of time, and I keep it in the fridge or freezer.

I've bought them for DH to take with him working, the cran orange or golden oat but not lately. I've picked up the Erin Baker's Breakfast Cookie as a snack for him and our tech too, usually the oatmeal raisin but like the Belvita, you have to watch that the best by dates don't get away from you.

Really, DH and his tech are fine with only an occasional sweet type treat. Both of them prefer peanut butter! They drive to their work site having coffee on their way, and eat a peanut butter sandwich each as they prepare to leave the truck for the day. They take water with them. When they get back to the truck hours later and are taking off boots, vests, raingear, they have another peanut butter sandwich, fruit, and more water. Peanut butter, day after day, month after month. I cannot remember the last time I had a peanut butter sandwich myself, probably decades ;-)

socks -

Ground/milled - flaxseed made into a flour. I do my own using my coffee/spice *mill (hence the term "milled") like Bluebell66, while other appliances are called "grinders", but they essentially do the same thing - take the whole seed and break it apart into fine particles. I have other mills I can use to mill seeds - Porkert Seed Mill and Wonder Mill Deluxe, Jr., out of my bevy of mills. I teach classes about home milling - grains/seeds/beans/nuts.

I would suggest milling/grinding any seeds fresh to get the optimal nutrients out of them. I use about 2-cups of ground/milled flax/chia seed each week and store it in the freezer. If I had to purchase commercially milled/ground seeds like flax or chia - I wouldn't use it at all because once the hard seed "coat" is broken, the natural oils are quickly oxidized (exposed to oxygen), which quickly turns those oils into a body-damaging free radical and the nutrients quickly degrade. The oil goes rancid - and rancid oils don't have to smell rancid to BE rancid. If they smell rancid, they have been so for quite some time. As always when it comes to milling - FRESH IS BEST!

If you want to know how many teaspoons of sugar are in an item, take the carbohydrate mg. and divide by 4 and that will give you teaspoons of sugar. For example, 24 gms of carbs = 6 tsp. of sugar. So for the blueberry belvita a serving of 4 biscuits is 230 calories and 36 gms of carbs, which = 9 tsp of sugar.

Picture eating 9 teaspoons of sugar right out of the sugar package.

Blech -- they sound like an overly sweet hardtack -- and I haven't even tasted 'em.

Just finished my usual 16 Mini-Wheats, half a banana, 1% milk. The cereal is 2.5 teaspoons of sugar. DH likes multigrain Cheerios, which I think are useless -- but 2 tsp. sugar. Oatmeal is still my favorite cereal. Favorite breakfast is two soft boiled eggs on toast -- same thing my grandmother ate every morning up to age 93.

Chisue aren't you hungry in a couple hours?

yes 9 spoons of sugar is bad. Too much.

One of our favorite breakfast treats is Egg "muffins". I make them without a recipe, and with many different combinations of egg, meat, cheese, and veggies.

Once cooled, they freeze beautifully to be saved for another day. They are great, on-the-go low carb mini meals. Highly recommend, with or without bacon!

Not really.