Fab and Delicious Food

Hey guys!  Hope your day is off to a fabulous start!

I made the best snack ever the other day – a fruit, yogurt and cereal parfait!  Now, you can make it the regular way – just throw it all together and eat it right away so the cereal is still crunchy – but I make it with a twist – I actually let the cereal sit for a bit so that it gets nice and soft!  I think it makes it taste even better!  But, you have to get the proportions of yogurt to cereal just right – because if you don’t, it tastes disgusting!  I’ll explain how to make the parfait just right at the end of the post! 

I make the parfait with Banilla yogurt, blueberries, and Post Grape-Nuts cereal: 

There are also strawberries in the parfait, but you can’t really see it in the picture. 

The picture doesn’t do it justice – it looked so much prettier in person!  I was actually really pleased with how the parfait turned out since the layers came out so nicely and more distinct than usual. 

The top of the parfait:

It looks nice but would have looked better with either an extra dollop of yogurt or some more blueberries or strawberries added to it, for extra height and dimension! 

I made the above parfait for breakfast using a parfait glass, but also made it the day before in a yogurt container as a snack since I was taking it on the go.  Now, you would think that the breakfast parfait would taste better than the one I made for a snack, right?!  Wrong!  The one I made for a snack tasted so much better!  Why? 

Because…

Breakfast Parfait

• The layers of yogurt, fruit and cereal were all of similar size, which made for a nice presentation but not a very good taste
• I let it sit for a bit so that the crunchy Grape-Nuts cereal would get all soft – bad idea
• Too much cereal and too little yogurt meant that when I ate it, the soft cereal and yogurt kind of formed a paste – yuck! 

Snack Parfait

• I just threw everything into a yogurt container that came with a lid for easy transport
• Now, I had actually made this parfait the day before I made the breakfast parfait – it actually worked out better that I was using a yogurt container rather than a parfait glass because I didn’t bother making the layers all even since I wouldn’t be able to see the different layers of yogurt, fruit, and cereal anyway
• Therefore, added much more yogurt than cereal – only a thin layer of cereal
• I let the parfait sit for about 1/2 hour so the cereal could soften (actually, this wasn’t on purpose, it just worked out that way – funny how things can work out like that!) 
• Success!  The parfait tasted delicious because of the correct proportions of yogurt to cereal! 
• The softened cereal was delicious!  It was almost as if I had sprinkled Wheat Germ on the yogurt.  Awesome! 

Oh, how I love these fruit, yogurt and cereal parfaits!  They are so healthy, filling, and just taste so delicious!  They are definitely my favorite snack at the moment!

Hope you all have a great day!

April 16th, 2010 | Tags: cereal, fruit, parfait, Post Grape-Nuts Cereal, yogurt | Category: parfait, Snack | Subscribe to comments | Leave a comment | Trackback URL