Telma’s Kosher for Pesach Cornflakes

תלמה קורנפלקס כשר לפסח

Since I've reviewed many Kosher for Pesach products in past years (link to last years roundup here) I thought I had already written about Telma’s Kosher for Pesach Cornflakes, but when I looked back I realized I never did review this cereal. I only blogged about Nougat Filled Cereals for Pesach. I did mention the Telma Cornflakes when I reviewed Klik’s Chocolate Covered Cereal -Kosher For Pesach . Maybe that’s what I was remembering. I’m guessing that since I found those chocolate covered cornflakes to be kind of “stale” I didn’t think I would enjoy the Telma Kosher for Pesach Cornflakes to start with, so I must have skipped them in past years.

Nestlé's Fitness White-Chocolate Coated Cereal

דגני בוקר פיטנס עם שוקולד לבן

In November I wrote about Nestlé's Fitness Dark-Chocolate Coated Cereal now they added a White-Chocolate Coated Cereal to this line. Not being a huge fan of white-chocolate I wasn’t going to try it but it I was looking for a cereal to buy the other day and it was on sale for 17.00NIS at Mega so I decided to try it.

White chocolate is not my first choice of chocolate, as I mentioned way too many times I’m a self proclaimed dark-chocoholic, but when I tasted this Fitness White-Chocolate Coated Cereal dry; without milk, I actually liked it better than Fitness’s dark-chocolate and milk-chocolate version. I don’t know why, maybe it was because I was really hungry that morning, not sure, but for some reason dry I liked it better than both of the other chocolate coated ones in this line.

Telma’s Mocha flavored Cariot Cereal

תלמה כריות מוקה

I’m not sure how new Telma’s Mocha flavored Cariot Cereal is because I have not read any press release about it. I know Telma doesn’t always put out press releases about their products but from time to time they do. In any event, I saw this Mocha flavored Cariot Cereal on sale at Rami Levi last week. Since I had never tasted it and it says “Limited Edition” on it I thought I would give it a try and write a review about it. If it’s not really all that new and you’ve seen it on the shelf for a long time I guess this will just have to fall into the “new to me category”.

Jordans Country Crisp Dark-Chocolate Curls Cereal

ג'ורדנס דגני הבוקר קנטרי קריספ

Given that Jordans Country Crisp cereals have been around since 1855 I wasn’t going to do a full review on them. I was only going to inform you that they are now available here in Israel. Since I am not from the UK I had never tasted Jordans cereals but I assumed many of you may be familiar with them.


Of all the flavors I saw on the shelf the one that (naturally) caught my eye was the dark-chocolate flavored cereal. (I've mentioned numerous times on this blog that I LOVE bittersweet chocolate and almost anything made with good quality dark-chocolate). So when I saw that the dark-chocolate curls cereal had a green balloon on the corner that says "NEW" I thought maybe its new to my British readers too so I decided to write a full review.

Nestlé's Fitness Dark-Chocolate Coated Cereal

נסטלה דגני בוקר פיטנס שוקולד מריר

Nestlé has added a new cereal to Fitness; one of their "healthier lines" of cereals. It’s called Fitness Dark-Chocolate. In a way I was sort of waiting for them to come up with this idea. Being the dark-chocoholic that I am I was really interested in tasting this cereal.

This new cereal is the dark-chocolate version of Fitness's milk-chocolate coated whole grain cereal flakes. As with their milk-chocolate version not all the flakes are coated in chocolate but enough of them are.

For some reason I first tasted this cereal with milk. That’s kind of out of the ordinary for me because I much prefer cereals dry; without milk, but this day I was in the mood of cereal with milk for breakfast so I thought it would be the perfect time to try this new cereal.

WTF? Cariot Cereal

And now for something you don’t normally see on a cereal box

 and just another sign that abbreviations,

made popular by texting and tweeting,

have completely invaded every aspect of our life…

take a look at the name Telma gave to its latest Cariot cereal…

WTF?

 

WTF?  תלמה כריות

Kellogg's Coco Pops Choc 'n' Roll

Kellogg's Coco Pops Choc 'n' Roll that have been available in other parts of the world for a few years already are now on our local store shelves.

קלוגס קוקו פופס – שוקו גלגלים

Telma's Mixflakes Plus Cereal

תלמה מיקספלקס פלוס

Telma who recently gave us Vanilla Flavored Cornflakes now has a new line of cereals based on their popular Mixflakes cereal. There are three flavors in this new Mixflakes Plus line.

1. Whole Wheat & Rice Flakes with Granola Clusters & Nut Mix
2. Whole Wheat & Rice Flakes with Granola Clusters & Tropical Fruit
3. Whole Wheat & Rice Flakes with Granola Clusters Nuts & Raisins

I tasted the Whole Wheat & Rice Flakes with Granola Clusters & Nut Mix.

Omri Casspi Telma Cereal "presenter"

It seemed to me that it was more of a granola and nuts with a touch of Telma's Mixflakes added in. I guess this is a good example of "truth in advertising" because the "tag-line" in the commercials (staring Israel's NBA player Omri Casspi) that are running on TV for these cereals basically says "we exaggerated with the add ins"! Yeah, they sort of did :). There is a tremendous amount of granola (67% to be exact), and a nice amount of nuts. As a whole I'd say there were way more granola and nuts than flakes.

I liked the clusters of granola and I like that there was a lot of them, but there was a lot more granola aside from just the clusters. The small little bits of granola made eating the cereal dry, without a spoon, a little messy. Still, I thought it was tasty when I ate the cereal dry, as a snack.

The granola held up fairly well when I added milk, similar to how most granolas I have tasted with milk. The whole wheat flakes did go soggy quite quickly but there were so few of them that I didn’t really mind.    

The nut mix is a combination of thinly sliced almonds, halved hazelnuts and roughly chopped pecans. I thought they added a nice crunchy texture and I enjoyed having the nuts in the mix, both when I tasted it dry and when I added milk.

This cereal, like all the Mixflakes cereals, is geared toward adults. It was sweet but not overly so. I enjoyed the sweetness and didn’t think they overdid it.

Bottom Line: I thought Telma's Mixflakes Plus with Granola Clusters & Nut Mix Cereal was tasty, very satisfying and filling, but to me it seemed to be more of a granola and nuts mix than a classic flakes based cereal. Their suggestion on the box to shake it before pouring into a bowl was actually a good idea this way you get a nice amount of all the nuts and granola bits in your portion.

400 gram box 21.99

(I thought that's a bit expensive for a Telma cereal they were on sale at Rami Levi and Mega Bul two for 30.00 NIS)

Kosher Dairy Beth Din London approved by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel

אבקת חלב נוכרי

Disclaimer: All items were purchased by me. No one is paying me for this review. All opinions are my own.

Post's Mini Cinnamon Churros Cereal

צ'ורוס דגני בוקר של פוסט

Because of the price of most imported cereals, I hesitated buying this new Post cereal that I found on the store shelf called Mini Cinnamon Churros. When I saw it "on sale" for 17.00 NIS instead of about 24.00 NIS I decided to give it a try.

I never had the opportunity to taste an authentic freshly fried Churro so I can't compare this cereal to "the real thing" but as with say Post's Waffle Crisp Cereal I'm assuming it's more that they took "inspiration" from the Churro to make this cereal and not that they tried to "box up" the Churro itself.

Dry without milk, I thought Post's Churros cereal was exactly what the box described it to be "Crunchy sweetened wheat cereal with real cinnamon".

They compare it to Cinnamon Toast Crunch Cereal, but given that the Churros cereal is made up of fairly large, round, 3D shaped cereal pieces, I find it hard to compare it to a thin flat cereal like Cinnamon Toast Crunch. I personally much prefer the shape and size of this Churros cereal to that of Cinnamon Toast Crunch, but I do understand the comparison given that they are both a sweetened cinnamon cereals.

Since the Churros cereal was very crunchy to start with, it remained fairly crunchy even when I added milk. I enjoyed that the center of the pieces got softer yet the cereal didn't go completely soggy. The change in texture made it closer to what I imagine a real "doughnut like" Churro would taste like, but like I said, I don’t know for sure.

The cereal pieces have quite a bit of cinnamon on them, so much so, that the longer they sat in the milk the more the milk became completely sprinkled with cinnamon.   

As with most sugary cereals I thought it was more of a snack than a meal.

Even though, as I said, the added milk somewhat changed the texture and therefore the "eating experience" for me, I enjoyed this cereal both with and without milk.

Post Mini Cinnamon Churros Cereal has 9 added vitamins and minerals including iron, B vitamins, 10% of the suggested daily value of vitamin D and 15% of the suggested daily value of vitamin A. On the negative side it has 10 grams sugar per serving which makes it quite sweet but the added milk did seem to curb the sweetness to some extent.

Bottom Line: I highly doubt that Post's Mini Cinnamon Churros Cereal tastes anything close to the freshly fried Spanish doughnut treat it's named after but I thought it was a fun sweet cinnamon cereal and I enjoyed it. 

Box of 411 grams - 17.00 NIS on sale - normally 24.00 NIS   

Kosher Parve OK approved by Chief Rabbinate of Israel

Disclaimer: All items were purchased by me. No one is paying me for this review. All opinions are my own.

Telma's Vanilla Flavored Cornflakes

תלמה קורנפלקס וניל

In the supermarket this week I noticed two new Telma Cornflakes on the shelf. They have a Vanilla Flavored Cornflakes and an Almonds & Honey Cornflakes. Of the two I thought the Vanilla Flavored Cornflakes seemed more interesting. I don’t remember ever trying vanilla flavored cornflakes before and seeing as I really do enjoy vanilla flavor that's the new Telma Cornflakes I decided to try.

 When I opened the package I didn't really notice a vanilla aroma but the cornflakes looked like they were "frosted". I assumed the vanilla flavor was added to the "sugar type" frosting on the flakes.

As I mentioned in past cereal reviews I much prefer cereal dry,without milk, so naturally I tasted these cornflakes dry. 

I think I'd put them somewhere between Telma's original cornflakes and their fairly new Finer Cornflakes. The sugar coating did give them a similar crunchiness to that of the Finer Telma Cornflake.

Snacking on them dry, I absolutely tasted the added vanilla flavor, but it wasn't overpowering, it sort of seemed like they just added a touch of vanilla flavoring to a frosted Telma cornflake. They were ok dry, but I usually prefer a slightly less "sugary" sweet cereal, so I don’t think I will buy these again to eat as a dry snack.

 With milk the cereal did not stay all that crunchy for very long, but that’s usually the case with Telma's cornflakes. I just thought the "frosting" may help them not go soggy so fast, but no, the "coating" didn’t seem to prevent them from losing their crunchiness fairly quickly.

With the milk I did taste the vanilla to some degree but way less than when I ate the cereal dry. I often buy a vanilla flavored rice milk and I kind of anticipated that these Vanilla Cornflakes would taste like a bowl of Telma Cornflakes with vanilla flavored milk, but that wasn't really the case. The vanilla in the rice milk is much stronger and adds way more flavor to the bowl than these cornflakes did.

As I mentioned above these Telma Vanilla Flavored Cornflakes are sweet but as soon as I added milk they didn’t seem way too sweet like they were when I ate them dry.

 I'm not sure if kids will really go for this cereal because although they are sweet I don’t know if kids really love vanilla flavor in their cereal no matter how delicately it's added.

 Telma's Vanilla Flavored Cornflakes has added vitamins including Iron.

 These cornflakes have no added preservatives.

Bottom Line: I didn’t hate or love these Vanilla Flavored Telma Cornflakes but if I really want a vanilla flavored cornflakes breakfast I think I'd buy a crunchier less sweet cornflake like say a Fitness or a Special K brand cornflake and add vanilla flavored rice milk to the bowl. That will give me much more vanilla flavor and stay crunchier way longer.

500 gram box – 19.99 NIS

Kosher Parve Mehadrin Rabbinate Arad

 ר' יוסף אלבו

 Disclaimer: All items were purchased by me. No one is paying me for this review. All opinions are my own.

This weeks Haveil Havalim Carnival 

 is now up on Esser Agaroth's Blog 

Nestlé Fitness Cereal with Strawberries

נסטלה דגני בוקר פיטנס - תותים

Nestlé Fitness's latest addition to the cereal aisle is a limited edition whole wheat and rice cereal with big slices of real strawberries that were freeze dried in a new and innovative method in order to preserve the taste of fresh strawberries. Once milk is poured into the cereal the strawberries should plump back up and taste like you just added fresh sliced strawberries to the bowl.

As I think I've mentioned in a past cereal review or two, I much prefer cereals dry, as a snack than with milk, but this Nestlé Fitness cereal is not really intended to be eaten dry, the large slices of freeze dried strawberries just do not taste good without milk. So I tasted it with milk.

The whole wheat and rice flakes are nice and big. They remained crunchy and did not go soggy in the milk. That’s always a plus in my book. I thought the cereal flakes were tasty, but that’s not what's new about this cereal.

The strawberries did plump back up after a minute or two in the milk. I'm not sure if they colored the milk a slight pink shade or more likely that came from the small clusters of cereal that are coated in a wild-berry flavor. Regardless of the "culprit" it wasn’t so aesthetically pleasing to me, but it may not bother everyone.

Although they are "real and natural" I would not say they tasted like fresh strawberries. To me they tasted like a soggy artificial strawberry. Then again the artificial flavor could possibly have come from the powdered fruits on the clusters, I mentioned before. Maybe Fitness should have just left those clusters out all together, because I didn’t particularly enjoy how much that flavor overpowered the milk and cereal as a whole.

This new Nestlé Fitness Strawberries Cereals is geared toward women who want a healthy, satisfying and low fat cereal with 12 vitamins and minerals that are important for women; like folic acid and calcium.

Bottom Line: I think Nestlé Fitness had a good idea in wanting to add real strawberries to their cereal but for me this freeze drying process didn't do the trick. For now if I want cereal and milk for breakfast I'll stick with Kellogg's Special K Oats & Honey Cereal and I may possibly add in some fruit. So far I don’t think there's a good replacement for slicing fresh fruit into a bowl of cereal and enjoying it the way "nature" intended.

360 gram box – 26.00 NIS

Kosher Dairy- Bait Din Paris France approved by Chief Rabbinate Israel

אבקת חלב נוכרי - בית דין פאריס ובאישור הרבנות הראשית לישראל

Disclaimer: All items were purchased by me. No one is paying me for this review. All opinions are my own.

         

Kellogg's Special K Oats & Honey Cereal

ספיישל קיי דבש ושיבולת שועל

There's a new Kellogg's Special K product, in the ever expanding cereal aisle, here in Israel. Granted we still have less cereal options than your average supermarket in the U.S. but it seems to me that recently we've been closing the gap faster and faster. I guess there's a market for it so they keep importing or locally manufacturing more and more different options.

After not really being impressed with Telma's newest creation "Thin/Finer Cornflakes" I was actually glad to see this new "Special K with Oats & Honey" on the shelf and wanted to try it.

This new cereal has oats and honey added to the classic and very successful Special K cereal by Kellogg's.

Special K Oats & Honey has less than 3% fat per serving. They have added 9 vitamins and minerals, including iron and folic acid as well as many B vitamins, to the mix.

Special K Oats & Honey is made with whole wheat and white flours but has whole oats and puffed whole rice in it as well.

When I tasted Special K Oats & Honey, dry, without milk I found it crispy and "honey sweet". I didn’t mind the rolled oats mixed in but I didn’t think they added all that much. I did however, enjoy the taste and texture of the puffed rice. I thought it was a nice and somewhat unique addition.

As I mentioned in my review of Nestle Crunch Duo Cereal as well as other cereal reviews I've done, I tend to prefer cereals dry, without milk. Surprisingly this time I much preferred the Special K Oats & Honey with milk.

The rolled oats and rice kind of "puffed up" in the milk and were a wonderful addition to the honey covered Special K wheat-flakes. The cereal was sweet but not overly so. I was pleasantly surprised that the wheat-flakes stayed fairly crispy and crunchy until the last spoonful. All in all it was a winning combination and an enjoyable bowl of cereal.

Bottom Line: I liked the Special K Oats & Honey cereal. I thought it had a nice mix of flavors and textures. It's one of the only cereals I prefer with milk, for breakfast, as opposed to a dry snack. I just wish it wasn't so relatively expensive, compared to other cereals sold here.

425 gram box -27.99 NIS

Kosher Dairy Chef Rabbinate Israel

אבקת חלב נוכרי

Disclaimer: All items were purchased by me. No one is paying me for this review. All opinions are my own.

Telma's "Finer" Cornflakes

תלמה קורנפלקס מעודן

Telma who recently gave us Cariot Nougat filled Pesach Cereal and a Kosher for Pesach Cornflakes (that I did not taste/review), now have a new, limited edition, "Thinner" Cornflake on the market.

As I mentioned in my review of Klik's Passover Chocolate Covered Cereal I thought the cornflakes in the chocolate covered Klik's were Telma's Passover cornflakes. I'm not 100% sure that they were Telma's, but I did think those cornflakes tasted stale. I can say that I was never a huge fan of Telma's "original recipe" cornflakes. I always found them to be too fluffy and thick. To me cornflakes should be very thin and flaky, like Kellogg's Cornflakes, and not puffy and full of air like Telma's, so I was interested to try these new thinner Telma Cornflakes and see if they are closer to Kellogg's version.

First, I tasted the New Telma Cornflakes dry without milk. If you've read my review of Nestle Duo Crunch Cereal or my Kosher for Passover Cereal review, you may know that I prefer cereal dry; as a snack, and not necessarily with milk as a "breakfast".

When I ate them without milk, I thought these New "Finer" Telma Cornflakes were a major improvement over Telma's "original recipe"; they are definitely thinner and less "fluffy" then the original. They are dry and crispy and they have a nice delicate flavor. I liked them better, but they still are not close to what I consider a thin and "perfect" cornflake.

With rice milk the New Telma Cornflakes got soggy right away and the texture was very much like the original Telma cornflakes. I did not like the taste or the texture at all.

Telma's new cornflakes have no preservatives or food coloring. They do have gluten but Telma does have a gluten free cornflake available as well.

These new Telma Cornflakes do have sugar in them; it's actually the second ingredient after maize (87.6%) but they are not too sweet at all.

Bottom Line: I think Telma's New Thinner Cornflakes are a step in the right direction toward my "ideal" cornflake, but they still missed the mark for me. I'll stick with Kellogg's Cornflakes for now.         

750 gram box 17.90 NIS

Kosher- Parve Beth Din London approved by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel

Disclaimer: All items were purchased by me. No one is paying me for this review. All opinions are my own.

Klik Chocolate Covered Cereal Kosher For Pesach

Klik who recently gave us Orange & Bubblegum Chocolate Covered Cereal for Purim now have 3 Kosher for Pesach snacks on the shelf; Milk-Chocolate covered Cariot Cereal, White & Milk-Chocolate covered Cornflakes and White Chocolate half circles covered in Milk-Chocolate.

My guess is that Kilk has teamed up with Telma (or maybe they are "sister companies" I don’t know) but both of the cereal covered Klik snacks seem to be Telma cereals.

I must not be the only one who thinks Telma's Kosher for Pesach Cariot Cereal is a fun snack "the powers that be" at Kilk had the same idea but they took it to the next level and added a thick layer of milk-chocolate.

The cereal in this Kilk chocolate covered Cariot snack is just as wonderful as Cariot Kosher for Pesach cereal but, the added milk-chocolate makes it a very chocolaty and rich treat. If I have just a few its perfect, more than that might be too rich for me.

Kilk Chocolate covered Cariot absolutely passes the "Potato starch test" and I would enjoy this snack any day of the year.

I wasn’t as impressed with the Kilk Chocolate covered Cornflakes, they seemed stale to me. The chocolate was perfectly tasty but I did not enjoy the cereal part of the snack. I personally would give this one a miss.

White Chocolate covered in Milk-Chocolate are simply a creamy rich chocolate treat. As I was tasting them I thought these chocolates might also work really well in baking. They can be a wonderful & rich addition to your favorite home-made Pesach cake or cookie.

Bottom Line: I really enjoyed the Cariot Kilks and the White Chocolate covered in Milk-Chocolate Kliks. Since they are both a little on the rich side, a few will go a long way for me. I personally will skip the Cornflake Kilks.        

Kilk Cariot & Cornflakes – 75 gram bag - 6.05 NIS

Kilk White Chocolate covered in Milk- Chocolate 70 Gram - 6.05 NIS

(2 for 5.00 NIS at Mega Bool)

  

Kosher Dairy Cholov Yisrael

Kosher for Passover Rabbinate Safed- Kitniyot

  

Disclaimer: All items were purchased by me. No one is paying me for this review. All opinions are my own.