Calling all cinnamon-lovers....there is a new cinnamon cereal you'll want to know about.  It's Cinnamon Chex® and has a terrific cinnamon taste, the best of any product I've tasted.  (I'm very picky when it comes to my favorite flavor, cinnamon) And, the crunch that only Chex can provide is perfect with the cinnamon. The cereal is great with skim milk for breakfast first thing in the morning or anytime of day.  (eating it straight from the box as a snack is my son Christian's favorite way to consume it).  In the Betty Crocker Kitchens, we recently had the pleasure of developing recipes with new Cinnamon Chex.  Cinna...

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Consumers have a hard time getting Quick & Easy, (let alone Healthy) dinners on the table that their kids will eat these days.  (Heck, it's hard for me to do and I know about food and where to find the recipes.) That's why I wasn't surprised when our latest cooking class, "Quick Fix Healthy Meals" filled up within minutes.  I teamed up with my dietitian friend, Maureen Doran, to teach the class.  We work well together, I talk about the food and she talks about the nutrition, although at times we interject themes from each others' world, as we've been doing this for a while.  The General Mills Wellness Committee sponsored the class--I'm an active comm...

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Kids, Go Bananas! Grown-ups, Go Nuts! If you usually top your bowl of morning cereal with a sliced banana, you're not alone.  According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the average American consumes 30 pounds of the yellow, potassium-packed fruit annually.  Now you don't need to, as the newest Cheerios® box to grace the ready-to...

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New health products, including cookbooks, usually roll out in January, when everyone has the best intentions of eating healthy, losing weight or exercising more.  In reality, we tend to do more about it in March and April, according to product sales and fitness center numbers, when the warmer weather and swim suit season is closer. (In MN, we don't know if spring will arrive at all this year.)   The Betty Crocker Win at Weight Loss Cookbook is a great guide, written as a game plan to help you and your family maintain or lose weight.  Co-authored by Jim Hill, Professor of Pediatrics at University of Col...

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