Ah… nomad looks good, running like a top.

The lj client for windows is still much, much nicer, though.

Went to the grocery store, and got a sample box of Harmony. (A vanilla-tofu cereal targeted to women. No, really!!) I figured that If I’m in touch enough with my feminine side to start the community, I can have a sample-size box of this stuff. From the package design — soft shades of light blue and yellow — to the key nutrients, the cereal is designed with women in mind. The female silhouette above the product name is reaching, General Mills says, for balance — or harmony — in her life.

I notice the net is surprisingly fee of pictures of the box!
Here’s sort of a shot –

Say, is it me, or does that wisdom wall look like a bathroom?

Anyway, here goes. It’s Yummy! Much sweeter than I’d thought it might be…tasty and deals with milk ok. Vanilla-ish, as opposed to “MEGA VANILLA FLAVOR BOOOOM”. Sort of Vanilla Wheat Flakes with little nutty cluster thingies. (No honey flavor. though… I thought honey and nuts were required to hold hands? Perhaps that’s my cheerios indoctrination showing. ) I heard another review of the stuff, and I do agree… “Rice Crispie Treats and Aluminum Foil”. The aftertaste needs work. You know that feeling you get in your mouth after you eat a multi-vitamin? That sort of tinny taste? You get that after. Bleah. But, it goes away after you take another rmouthful…. until you was it down. then Bleah again… Maybe I’m hypersensitive though.. (I’m one of those picky people that can tell you if the coke I’m drinking was made with sugar or corn syrup this week). Just so you know.. A 1 1/4-cup serving of Harmony provides 100 percent of a woman’s daily recommended intake of folic acid and Vitamin E, 60 percent of the recommended calcium and half of the recommended iron and Vitamin C, plus 2 grams of soy protein… so I have that covered!

From the package design — soft shades of light blue and yellow — to the key nutrients, the cereal is designed with women in mind. The female silhouette above the product name is reaching, General Mills says, for balance — or harmony — in her life. Checked the side of the box against my half-empty total cornflakes…it turns out that Total has way more calcium, iron and vitamin C than Harmony, and it has equal amounts of folic acid and vitamin E. And Total has just 110 calories per serving, compared to Harmony’s 200 calories.

So, I wonder if the people that buy it know that it’s bigger on the hips…antioxidants, soy, calcium, iron and folic acid are all “hot” right now, so General Mills wanted to jump on that bandwagon. How ironic that if a woman chooses the cereal targeted at her, she’s missing the chance to eat an even more enriched cereal from the same manufacturer! Stupid marketing.

(Honestly, If I’m going to have a general mills cereal, lucky charms is my fave sweetened junk food cereal of theirs.. or monster cereals! MMMMmmM Frankenberry. )