Eating breakfast is one of the important things to do every morning to get your metabolism started for the day. If you are woman between the age of 18-50 and tried to consume the recommended daily iron, you already know how hard it is to do without overeating (i.e. consuming more and more calories to get the needed nutrient). Even when eating iron-rich foods, sometimes you still do not meet the daily recommendations. The easiest way is to pop a supplement, but we encourage to try and get the needed iron from food the natural way. For that reason, we are publishing this very simple and fast recipe of hot wheat cereal which is a great source of folic acid, calcium, and iron. You get about 60% of your iron needs with just 130 calories. That is a great deal right there!!
My family loves oatmeal which is another great alternative (recipe here) to get needed iron for the day. However, at some point eating oatmeal, every day gets old. Hence, we are including some other iron-rich alternatives for variety should you need it. The below recipe is just a basic recipe with toppings we use all the time: cinnamon, vanilla extract and honey. You can, of course, put more toppings of your choice such as fruit – banana, strawberry, raspberry, blueberry, etc. You can also substitute the honey with another sweetener of your choice, eliminate it altogether. The sky is the limit of how much different varieties of hot wheat cereal you can do. You can also choose to use another milk – coconut, almond, etc. My kids love regular dairy milk so most of the time I just use regular full-fat milk. Here is a link to a post where we talk a little bit about difference of full fat milk and fat free one.
Ingredients
We have a Chicory button in the button section of the recipe card that will give you more options for buying ingredients online. Here is what we found on Amazon.
Hot Wheat Cereal with Milk
Ingredients
- 1 cup milk
- 3 tbsp Malt-O-Meal Hot Wheat Cereal
- 1 tsp honey raw
- 1/4 tsp cinnamon
- 1/8 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Wash hands with soap and water. Check out our article about how to wash hands properly
- Gather all ingredients for the hot wheat cereal
Cook the hot wheat cereal
- On medium heat, bring 1 cup of milk to boil
- Once boiling, reduce heat to low
- Add 3 tbsp hot wheat cereal gradually. Stir constantly.
- Optional: add ¼ tsp coconut oil
- Cook 2-3 minutes until thickened. Set aside (take it off the stove).
Add topping
- Add 1 tsp raw honey, 1/4 tsp cinnamon, 1/8 tsp vanilla extract
- Optional – Add fruit of your choice – banana, strawberry, raspberry, blueberry, etc
- Enjoy!
Video
Notes
- You can make the hot cereal with water instead of milk
- You can also make the hot cereal with other type of milk – coconut, almond, etc
-
You can eat the hot wheat cereal while hot with your favorite topping. Or, you can split the mixture into cups and refrigerate to serve later as a cold snack or next day breakfast.
- We are extremely excited to announce we are now using the saferecipeguide.org guidelines to make our recipe safe-friendly. We will slowly be incorporating the safe recipe guidelines into our recipe instructions!
Nutrition
We strive to provide the most accurate information possible, however, it is at your own risk when you decide to use it. For example, the nutritional information shown is an estimate provided by our recipe plug in. It should not be considered a substitute for a professional nutritionist’s advice. If we list a recipe as a nut-free, for instance, we do our best to check all ingredients for nuts via an application. However, it is your responsibility to double-check our work prior to using the information as there is always room for manual error on our part or an error on the application we use.