Breakfast
Hardee’s Country Breakfast Burrito: A True Food Horror
Hardee’s, the “fat-food” joint famous for its excessively high-calorie fare (with lovely names like “Monster Thickburger” and “Loaded Omelet Biscuit”) is back with a vengeance.
Since a picture speaks a thousand calories, I’ll leave you with this gem (image derived, tearfully, from Hardee’s Nutrition page):
This food horror sails triumphantly into the FitnessMantra Hall Of Shame. A [...]
Kellogg’s SmartStart: The Dumbest Start You Could Make Each Day?
The TV ads look simply amazing: a woman sitting on the floor and eating her cereal and explaining how easy it is for her to stay healthy. The secret, you ask? Why, she simply stuffs herself with Kellogg’s so-called “SmartStart” cereal every morning and she is sure to stop heart-disease right on its tracks.
Well, not [...]
Nature Valley Oats ‘N Honey 100 Percent Natural Cereal: FitnessMantra Review
While I strive to eat foods that are made from natural ingredients, I am finding it increasingly difficult to find them on store shelves. Most sweetened yogurts, cereals and breakfast-bars are unnaturally flavored and for the discerning consumer it’s frustrating to read words like “Natural” and “Light” on the cover only to find that either [...]
Eating Breakfast: Fact or Hype?
Do you remember the very first post on Fitness Mantra? (Probably not, because this blog was just 1 day old and I was the only reader!) It was posted on May 4th, 2006 and was called “Break That Fast” . In that post I extolled the virtues of a good, healthful, well-rounded breakfast so one [...]
Oatmeal: A FitMan Food
When one thinks of whole grain, one tends to automatically think of whole wheat. This is not so surprising though, considering that Americans consume so much of it in products such as bread, bagels and almost all products made with the infamous “all-purpose” flour (cakes, muffins, pastries).
But there is more to whole grain than wheat [...]
