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Cereals

Corn Flakes

Corn Flakes © Denzil Green Corn Flakes is a flaked breakfast cereal based on corn, flavoured with sugar, malt, salt, etc, and usually fortified with vitamins. You serve it in a bowl, with cold milk on it. Corn Flakes is a generic name. Various companies brand theirs by adding their company name, such as “Kellogg’s…

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Granola Bar Day

Granola bar

The 21st of January is Granola Bar Day. You can buy some, or make your own, which puts you in control of the sugar and salt that goes into them.

Ieiunium Cereris

Roman grain fields

The 4th of October was “Ieiunium Cereris” a Roman holiday in honour of Ceres, the goddess of cereal grains. Unlike other Roman holidays, this one was a fast.

Instant Oats

Instant Oats © Denzil Green These oats have been pressed very thinly and fully-precooked so that they take literally only a minute to cook — you can basically cook them by letting them stand in hot water for a minute. The main reason for Instant Oats’ existence is as a quick, hot breakfast cereal. The…

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Kellogg’s Cereal Company Founded

Original 1906 Kellogg's Corn Flakes box

On the 19th of February, 1906, William Keith Kellogg founded the Kellogg Cereal Company. Sadly, the story begins with a battle between two brothers.

Oats

Oats © Denzil Green Oats are an annual cereal plant, like wheat. They are very cold-tolerant, and so can be sown each spring as soon as the plough can cut into the soil. Oats are such energetic plants that they will even choke out most weeds that try to take hold amongst them. The plants…

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Quick Oats

Oats that have been pressed a bit more thinly than regular Rolled Oats so that they will cook in 3 or 4 minutes — saving you about 1 minute of time on the cooking. Not everyone sees a need for them in the kitchen. Regular Rolled Oats are a far more versatile and cheaper item…

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William Keith Kellogg’s Birthday

Kellogg's Corn Flakes box

The 7th of April is the birthday of William Keith Kellogg, the inventor of Corn Flakes, Rice Krispies and other famous breakfast cereals.

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