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All-Bran Choco! This cereal can only be purchased in Belgium. Imagine spoonful sized shredded wheat. Now make the shredded wheat bittersweet chocolate - inside the shredded wheat - a nugget of dark chocolate. Perfect. Doesn't turn the milk brown so I feel good about eating it. And besides the fiber content helps.

Here at home - a bowl of All-Bran Buds mixed with the honey flavored Kashi Go Lean puffs.

sweet and smoky bison sausage removed from casings, cooked in skillet with broccoli florets then tossed with whole-wheat pasta. very tasty. also a salad to start made with spinach, carrots, yellow pepper, green onion and radish.

I'm a Canadian. First generation Canadian. I agree that Canadian food is very regional. But I also think that every person's definition of Canadian food is quite personal. My parents are British so I grew up basically eating British food in Canada. I also grew up in Saskatchewan - so along with the British food, I got my share of cabbage rolls, perogies, saskatoon berries, etc. My husband's family is Acadian. So he grew up eating Acadian food. Two very different Canadian food experiences. I get a kick out of restaurants that advertise cuisine such as: Chinese and Canadian food, Italian and Canadian food. We don't visit such restaurants - the Canadian food component kind of scares us. Anyway, my two cents on the Canadian food thing.

We were eating at our favorite Lebanese restaurant and a family of four sat down beside us. They had falafel on the table amongst other things. This is what I heard "I don't know I think they are called matzo balls". I grinned and then told the family that they were called falafel and were made of chick peas. Makes me smile when I order falafel now.

I just ate my first can of sardines. These were packed in water. Quite tasty. I ate them plain right out of the can with a little pepper on top. Thanks for the sardine tips. They are an excellent source of protein.

I've been reading your posts and I'm quite impressed. Though I do have one concern - the foods you listed in this article as breakfast foods - are not breakfast foods. Rather they are treats and indulgences. I think that if you were to cut out the refined sugar, you would see some great gains/losses. I know it is challenging considering your career...
I do not have a lot of weight to lose - 15 lbs (primarily for athletic reasons) - I started a clean eating program on Jan. 31 and have since lost 8.8 lbs without really trying.
Keep up the efforts and movement towards a healthy lifestyle.