Trade-Up Tuesday: Groundhog Day GiveAway
Happy Ground Hog Day! And welcome to Trade Up Tuesday, a weekly feature here on A Better Bag of Groceries, where I tell you about a Trade-Up I’ve made and give away free stuff. Today, in honor of Punxsutawney Phil, I’m giving away a Hot Cereal Round-Up. It’s a collection of hot cereals I’ve been meaning to try before the winter is out.
It seems like Punxsutawney Phil ‘most always sees his shadow. And that means six more weeks of winter. Here in New England, it’s six more weeks of winter, no matter what. However, by February, it stays light a little later, you can hear a few more birds and there’s a glimmer of illumination at the end of the tunnel. I brave the winter, embrace it at times, but like most New Englanders, I am oh-so-happy to see it go. I even have a Spring Happy Dance that I like to do on the vernal equinox. Still, at this point in the season, I begin to realize that there are only so many more weeks to squeeze in some of our favorite winter activities: we still need to go sledding, we haven’t been downhill skiing yet, and my husband and I need a good snow and a babysitter for a couple of hours so that we can break out our cross-country skis. And – I haven’t yet sampled all the hot cereal that I’d like to try. I’ve got a lot to do these next few weeks!
So this week’s winner can help me out:
John McCann’s Steel Cut Irish Oatmeal: NuVal score of 91
Cream of Wheat: NuVal score of 25
Quaker Grits: NuVal score of 70
These are the last of the remaining hot cereals I’ve been meaning to try this winter.
Now, my dear husband and I did get around to cooking up the McCann’s this past weekend.
We’ve had a can of McCann’s in our cupboard for quite some time, but I’ve been too intimidated to try making it. Must be something about that Certificate of Uniformity of Granulation. Wow! Impressive. So, Saturday, when I had enough time for the thirty-plus minute cooking instructions, we tried it out.
We topped it with some walnuts, raisins and a sprinkle of brown sugar. Yum!
But I still need help in trying out the Cream of Wheat (which scored lower than I expected!) and grits (that one is at the insistence of my Southern co-worker, Laura).
Today’s GiveAway
One lucky winner will win all three hot cereals. All you need to do is leave me a comment telling me one of the following:
- what hot cereal you’d like to try
- what you most like to put on your hot cereal
- what you still want to do before the winter is out
You can tell me more than one, if you in the sharing mood! The contest closes by midnight tonight Eastern time. Good luck!
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Posted in: Hot Cereal, Trade-Up Tuesday
Tags: Cream of Wheat, grits, Hot Cereal
