Snacking on Little Bird Grawnola

I think most of us would baulk at the idea of paying $18—$20  for what looks like a couple of measly bowlfuls of budgie-food for brekky.

Even forgetting the price, I wouldn’t eat this product as cereal, as it doesn’t appeal to my tactile sensibilities. The idea of pairing it with a spoon jangles my nerves. And, I don’t actually think you could apply milk to it? It would hardly wet things on its way down through the gaps.

However, this doesn’t mean I have dismissed this product entirely. Instead, I’ve re-purposed it as a snack food! I like to peck away at this stuff out of my own special feeders!

Take note of the nutritional information on the back of the 300g packet — you’ll see there are actually seven serves in a bag (that’s 50g per serve). And, the average amount of protein per serving size is 6g — which is roughly a snack-size amount (not a meal-size amount).

Note: A snack-size amount of food only provides enough energy + nutrients to sustain you until your next complete meal.

If you look at it this way, you get seven snacks at $2.78 per snack. That’s not bad at all!

Note: As a cereal, Little Bird actually suggest you ‘Start small, you can always have a second, or third bowl’. It’s a nice thought, but I guarantee that unless you’re padding-out this cereal with another (cheaper) cereal, or using a bunch of full-fat yoghurt and fruit… you’re going to go back for ‘thirds’ in order to feel full!

These products generally live in the nuts + seeds + snacky foods section of your local health food store.

These Little Bird products cost $11.25 for 150g. According to the nutritional information there are 6 x 25g servings per bag which makes each ‘snack’ $1.88.

However, the ‘Superfoods Trail Clusters‘ (with Goji, Chia + Cacao) only have 4g of protein per serve. I don’t think this quite ‘cuts it’ as a snack for the average person (it’s just not that satiating). I’d be more inclined to say this bag contains 3—4 snack servings. This makes it $3.75 or $2.81 per snack respectively.

Note: This product has 6g of sugar per serve.

In this case, you might as well revert to my original plan of using the Grawnola and Cereal for snacks instead @ $1.80—$2.78 per pop!

Then you’ve got the ‘Superfoods salad clusters‘ (with sea veges, activated nuts + seeds).  Now, these things have 7g of protein per 25g serving. And, they only have .5g sugar!

I wouldn’t encourage people to put these clusters on their salads, as I prefer you to only use nuts for snacks (as it’s hard enough coming across a good variety of protein snacks without using up this option in your meals).

Note: Splitting a bag into two portion sizes, and adding these to your salad (2x) would not be such a bad idea if you were Vegan.

However, this product makes the best snack of them all!  It doesn’t contain any novelty super-foods. It’s only $1.88 per feed. And, it’s the only savoury (low sugar) option among this Little Birdie flock.