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WW Recipe of the Day: Cream of Wheat Cereal with Spiced Fruit Ambrosia
(218 calories | *6 WW Freestyle SmartPoints)
This Weight Watchers cereal with spiced fruit ambrosia is another vintage weight watchers breakfast recipe, this one from the Weight Watchers’ 365-Day Menu Cookbook published in 1981.
I love old cookbooks and Weight Watchers cookbooks are no exception.
While some of the recipes seem dated and unappealing, I always end up finding a few treasures hidden within their pages, like this one for cottage cheese danish.
The Skinny on Cereal with Spiced Fruit Ambrosia
This simple Weight Watchers cereal recipe caught my eye, probably because of its tasty title – “Cereal with Spiced Fruit Ambrosia” sounds so sweet and satisfying.
It’s basically cream of wheat cooked with non-fat milk, to which you add fruit cocktail juice, sweetener, and a little ground cinnamon and ginger. To keep this dairy-free and vegan-friendly, you could also substitute your favorite non-dairy milk, like coconut milk or almond milk beverage.
The original recipe calls for artificial sweetener, but I’m not a big fan, so substituted a little maple syrup instead. Use whatever sweetener you like best and adjust the Points accordingly.
For example, my 2-3 teaspoons of maple syrup has *2 Points, so my breakfast would be *8 WW Freestyle SmartPoints instead of *6.
You place the cereal on top of a serving of fruit cocktail and then sprinkle it with a little shredded coconut. In addition to sounding yummy, it seemed like the perfect way to use up the toasted coconut I had left after making this citrus pomegranate fruit salad.
This Weight Watchers Cereal with Spiced Fruit Ambrosia is a warm, satisfying way to begin the day on a cool fall or winter morning. And it helps me meet this month’s Weight Watchers routine to incorporate fruits and/or veggies at every meal and snack.
To save time during the week you could always make a big batch of cream of wheat on Sunday and store it in the fridge to rewarm during busy weekday mornings .
Do you have a favorite breakfast cereal recipe that incorporates a serving or two of fruit? I’d love for you to tell us about it!
According to my calculations, each serving has 218 calories, *5 Weight Watchers PointsPlus, *6 WW Freestyle SmartPoints (when made with skim milk).
If you were to substitute unsweetened almond milk for the skim milk, each serving becomes *4 WW Freestyle SmartPoints. Enjoy!
If you’ve made this Cream of Wheat Cereal with Spiced Fruit, please give the recipe a star rating below and leave a comment letting me know how you liked it.
WW Cream of Wheat Cereal with Spiced Fruit Ambrosia Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 cups skim milk
- 1-1/2 ounces uncooked cream of wheat cereal
- 1 cup canned fruit cocktail, in fruit juice (no sugar added), drained
- Sweetener of choice (if desired)
- Dash ground ginger
- Dash ground cinnamon
- 2 teaspoons shredded coconut, toasted
Instructions
- Pour the milk into the top of a double boiler. Place over boiling water and cook until hot.
- Slowly stir in the cereal and cook until thickened, 3 to 5 minutes. (I was able to skip the double boiler and cook over low heat in a heavy bottomed saucepan.)
- Remove from the heat and drain juice from the fruit cocktail into the cereal. Add sweetener, ginger and cinnamon and stir to combine.
- Place half of the fruit cocktail into the bottom of each of two small cereal bowls and then spoon the cereal over each, dividing evenly.
- Top each with a teaspoon of toasted coconut.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Recipe source: Weight Watchers’ 365-Day Menu Cookbook
Love this!
My favorite cereal is something I consider a decadent breakfast. I cook oatmeal with skim milk (instead of water), adding a teaspoon of unsweetened cocoa and 1/2 banana per serving. In my mind it still needs some additional sweetening, but obviously the sweetener used is up to the individual.
Judy, I made a similar breakfast in the crock pot recently with multigrain cereal and cocoa. The banana would have been a delicious addition 🙂
I hate that all the old WW stuff advocates for artificial sweetener – so glad they have (mostly) moved away from that!!
It’s really a personal choice with the WW plan, but I’m not a big fan of the artificial sweeteners so try to avoid them as much as I can. I hate the taste and discovered through trial and error that diet coke makes me ravenous and Splenda gives me a headache. So I opt for small amounts of sugar and maple syrup and add in the PointsPlus!!!