Quick!  Go check your cereal stash.  Run...you are looking for B12.  How much does your cereal pack?  25%?  None?

The reason I ask is because....

I joined Dr. Oz's Transformation Nation last night.  I did it because I wanted a free cookbook- still working on that going against the grain mentality!!  Sorry fact is the deal closed 8:59 p.m. eastern time; I'm central time and I'm not sure I pushed the right buttons to get that dang cookbook, so long story short I joined for the cookbook but I'm gleaning great advice. Sidebar:  I apologize to you now if you are one of the grainiacs I sent a join request to....it's just that I really wanted THAT cookbook (she whines).  You know me?  I can't keep such great info to myself; I wanted to share this new info with you because I love you.

So here's the news....today's topic is B12.  Feeling sluggish?  Bump up that B12.  Losing your memory?  Remember (HA) to bump up that B12.  Now here's a yucky looking one....tongue getting inflamed and red and cracked (please be a friend and tell me if this is happening to me-- my memory is shot and I'm too sluggish to look in a mirror)?  Pop in that B12!!!!

This morning's recipe is a yogurt parfait.  Remember (HA) I posted my fruit yogurt parfait picture (I love those parfaits)?  In my parfaits I use Post Just Bunches for the granola so I read the label and found out it packs 25% daily value of B12.  Dr. Oz recommends finding a whole grain cereal that provides 25%-100% of the DV of B12.  Always the over-achiever....hey, don't laugh....I searched high and low in my grain silo and over the refrigerator reading ALL the cereal labels.

Strawberry's grain stash

Most of my cereals don't provide B12 (B6 is listed but not B12) or it lists 25%.  I thought I'd pop over to the grocery store and check out all cereals listing 100% B12-- I need all the help I can get.  I really didn't need to do that.  Hidden in the back of the grain silo was All Bran Extra Fiber and All Bran Bran Buds.  I bought these two jewels when I purchased my Hungry Girl cookbook (there I go with the cookbooks again).  Lisa Lillian is the face and brain behind Hungry Girl.  She is so popular now that she hosts a Sunday morning TV cooking show.  I'm usually rushing to church when her show is aired but I can catch the reruns on the computer.  She is a hoot and comes up with great low-fat yummy tasting recipes.

And the winner is....Bran Buds!

Today I will substitute my Just Bunches (a mere 25%)  for Bran Buds (a whopping 100%) and get the recommended B12 I need to fortify my health with B12.  In not so great news, we think Boy is lactose-intolerant so he'll have to forgo (that's the right spelling- I looked it up- I thought it had an "e" in it) those yummy parfaits.  I guess he'll have to eat 100% grass-fed buffalo for breakfast!