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Thursday’s Recipe …. How To Get The Iron Out Of Your Breakfast Cereal

OK Sorry, so no real Thursday  Recipe to post today but eventually this  will get around to food.

I love to strew! If you’re not familiar with strewing-it is the art of scattering and spreading interesting stuff in obvious and not so obvious places. I love to set things out for my kids to discover or play with. I always scan the non fiction section of our library to find books to leave in the bathroom or in our window seat. Books filled with Art work, riddles, puzzles. At the moment a book about how everyday things are made, why snot is green, a book about poop, a guide to Houdini and Why Pi are a few of the books that are lying around our house. I also have a table in the dinning room that I use to set different stuff out each week. I usually clean on Thursdays and switch out the activity. But more on that tomorrow!

We have a pretty good collection of magnetic stuff that the kids love to experiment with. It isn’t something that sits out all the time but when I pull it out they always love to mess around with all the different magnets. Today being no different!

I remembered seeing an experiment using magnets to see how much iron is in iron fortified cereal. So after we played around with the magnets this morning we got out yesterday’s cereal plus a  few others out of the cupboard.

We poured a little bit of each kind in a bowl. We looked at the nutritional values on the side of the boxes and Molly decided that the higher in iron the worse the taste. Hmmmm-so she lined them up according to least amount of iron to most—or should I say the one she thinks tastes the best to worst.

We checked the bowls with a magnet but none of the cereal was attracted.

Next we crushed up the cereal.

Checked it again…a few pieces stuck

Then we added a little bit of water and mixed it up.

Success! Some of the iron fortified cereal stuck to the magnets! I hear Total cereal works the best-but I just used what we had in our cupboards.  What kind of cereal is in your cupboards?

And check back tomorrow for a new Friday Feature.

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