Green milk & Lucky Charms

All cereal with “too much” sugar is Fun Food – there I’ve typed this. Perhaps not great for everyday eating and not a “healthy” breakfast but who says cereal is only a morning food.

Similar to snacks, this Time of Corona has brought capacity and supply constraints to the Cereal World so says Bloomberg. This article has in-depth cereal spending details and even asks the question whether Sugar Cereals are Breakfast or Dessert – I say both. But, I really don’t understand the run on Grape-Nuts… And for the record original Cheerios has less sugar than G-N which was a surprise!

Now St. Patrick’s Day is always March 17th which is a Wednesday in 2021. I’ve been on the lookout for the special edition Lucky Charms to celebrate – thanks Thrillist for the heads up! So far no joy BUT Cap’n Crunch has been calling my name as I pace the cereal aisle – maybe he was an Irish Pirate! This hilarious Uncyclopedia article indicates otherwise…

PS – March 7th is National Cereal Day – happy accident for this post!

Fun News in Fun Food – KitKat V!

A new vegan KitKat is coming – KitKat V – because chocolate bars are Fun Food!

KitKat is going vegan. And the news was leaked so Nestle had to catch up with the rumours – and also confirmed that their cocoa is sustainable too. Details of when and where are in this One Green Planet article!

2021 Year of the Ox and Purdys

Friday February 12th is the 2021 Lunar New Year & Purdys Chocolates can help you celebrate Year of the Ox! For over 100 years Purdys has been made in Vancouver and now their chocolate is made with sustainable cocoa.

Celebrate with my fave chocolate covered Fortune Cookies (!), gold chocolate coins = Lucky Money, Mandarin chocolates AND Oxen Medallions. There are Lai See packages PLUS special tins and boxes – full size or miniatures. And there are some bulk purchases only possible on line – as Purdys suggests “send wishes of luck and fortune” to yourself for 2021!

AND Valentine’s Day is just 2 days later on Sunday the 14th, perhaps order a “holiday collab”…

Hot Chocolate – a liquid Fun Food!

To be clear, you can drink OR eat Fun Foods!

Inline image — ** **The best hot chocolate I’ve EVER had was so thick it was almost like drinking pudding! You can find it at Anna Cafe in Budapest and I’d return just to have it again – and pastries**. **

With winter here, this timely PureWow article shares a hot chocolate taste test to help you find the best mix to make at home – and you can make it as thick as you like…!

Limited Life Span Fun Food

Why ooooooh why are the best only here for a short time…?

Do you often find that your favourite Fun Foods have a limited life span? Why is it that my favourites are usually specials or new. Take these great new Raspberry Lemonade sugar cookies at Subway, REALLLLLY good but bound to be here only as a summer time cookie.

The price is right at $1.00 per cookie OR as an introductory special $2 for 3 cookies! And this will make them even harder to find once people discover them… I don’t usually source my cookies from Subway but I will grab these Raspberry Lemonade ones for as long as they have them!

Purdies has Vegan!

Dark chocolate but not tooooooo dark, 60% and not too healthy tasting. Sweet enough to make a milk chocolate purist think twice about her position on dark chocolate.

ALL chocolate is Fun Food!

The Wheel of Karma and Fun Food

Fun Food can be veggie or vegan which reduces the guilt and improves the karma for many Fun Foods. Here is a list of my top “not so healthy” Vegan Fun Foods (okay the Palm Oil debate has to sit in the background ) and it will get updated as new info sources are discovered:

Oreos – Twizzlers – Swedish Fish – Doritos (not all flavours…) There is a LOOONG list of accidentally vegan snacks that PETA has compiled.

And here is another list of 41 Snack Foods that are surprisingly vegan! Snack = Fun.

This GREAT Insta account for Vegan Fun Food is inspirational for food & perspective – Junk Food Vegans are in it for the animals!!