Healthy living with Tesco bran flakes (Tesco Healthy Living Bran Flakes)

Member Name: mumsymary

Product:	Tesco Healthy Living Bran Flakes
Date:	18/10/09 (89 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: low calorie

Disadvantages: not much less fattening than other cheaoper bran flakes

My choice of cereal for breakfast is often Tesco healthy living branflakes. I sometimes eat them as just a bowlful of these flakes with some skimmed milk, but more usually I mix them with either special k fruit varieties sometimes I use the cheaper own brand flakes with dried fruit.

Tesco healthy living bran flakes cost £159 for a box containing 1 kg.
There are 335 kcal per 100g a bowl serving 30g 160 kcal. These bran flakes do contain Wheat and salt for full info look at the packet or the Tesco website.

I did a quick comparison of price and calories of other bran flakes in Tesco's.

Tesco health living bran flakes~
per 100g 335k cal per 30g with 125ml semi skim milk 160kcal £1.59 1kg pack,£0.79p 500g pack


Kellogg's Bran Flakes~
Per 100g 326 per 30g with 125ml semi skimmed milk 157kcal £1.76 500g pack

Tesco Value Bran Flakes ~
Per 100g 335 per 30g with 125ml semi skimmed milk 160kcal 0.78p 750g pack


Now any bran flakes are about the most boring cereal you can get.

*Looks.
These Tesco healthy living ones look much like any other bran flake , They are a darkish brown thin sort of irregular elongated circle they have crinkly edges .

*Texture.

The texture rough the surfaces are sort of crinkly. They are crisp will crunch in your mouth. They do get stuck on your mouth roof and between the teeth, but a good swig of tea sorts that out.

*Taste ?
Neutral, you could not find much in the taste to offend anyone. The do have a slightly stronger wheatier bran flavour than the good old basic cornflakes.


*Added interest.
As I said I add a little fruit cereal to these bran flakes to make them more interesting. I sometimes add some fresh fruit to them too

*Recipe
For many years now I have made an apple crunch pudding from these and other bran flakes or cornflakes using this recipe

2 large cooking apples cut thinly or pre stewed with mixed spice or cinnamon a little brown sugar to taste, put this mix in the bottom of a dish.

Then mix up about 75g flour, 150b crushed bran flakes 40g brown sugar blend with a heaped tablespoon of margarine till it looks like crispy breadcrumbs.
Pour this mix onto the apples and bake in an over at about 120c for half an hour.

Serve it hot, its good with plain or vanilla yoghurt.


*Would I recommend these bran flakes ? well yes as much as any other, but my old dad said you may as well eat the cardboard box they come in.

Summary: A healthy bran flake from Tesco