I made Mom and I Cream of Wheat (using milk) and read on the box that it provides 50% RDA of iron. And if you make it with milk, it provides a boatload of calcium.
Score!
Mom mentioned that they had Cream of Wheat growing up for breakfast: it was either Cream or Wheat or Ralston. She couldn't remember what that was, just the name...and then proceeded to spell it out for me.
So I asked SIRI (our OTHER stay-at-home companion) for information on R A L S T O N. Here's what she found: (full link attached; information below is specific to my post)
"In 1900 Edgerly joined forces with the founder of Purina Food Company, which took the name Ralston Purina Company (which would later become Nestlé Purina PetCare). It made whole wheat cereal that Ralstonites were to consume. The food company Edgerly founded evolved into what is now called Ralcorp which was the original manufacturer of cereal brands including Chex and Cookie Crisp.
Although Edgerly claimed in the 1900 edition of The Book of General Membership of the Ralston Health Club that the letters for the word RALSTON came from Regime, Activity, Light, Strength, Temperation, Oxygen and Nature, earlier editions of the same book are credited to Everett Ralston, a pseudonym of Edgerly, with the implication that Ralstonism is named after this fictitious person.
Edgerly saw his followers as the founding members of a new race, based on Caucasians, and free from "impurities". He advocated the castration of all "anti-racial" (non-Caucasian) males at birth."
PS: Marilyn's Note: The text above is slightly out of order from the linked article because I wanted to point out that Ralston produced a breakfast cereal before showing what the name supposedly stood for and the even more disturbing tenets of the Ralstonian movement.
Also, Cream of Wheat was owned by Kraft, NOT Purina. Not sure who owns it now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralstonism
Score!
Mom mentioned that they had Cream of Wheat growing up for breakfast: it was either Cream or Wheat or Ralston. She couldn't remember what that was, just the name...and then proceeded to spell it out for me.
So I asked SIRI (our OTHER stay-at-home companion) for information on R A L S T O N. Here's what she found: (full link attached; information below is specific to my post)
"In 1900 Edgerly joined forces with the founder of Purina Food Company, which took the name Ralston Purina Company (which would later become Nestlé Purina PetCare). It made whole wheat cereal that Ralstonites were to consume. The food company Edgerly founded evolved into what is now called Ralcorp which was the original manufacturer of cereal brands including Chex and Cookie Crisp.
Although Edgerly claimed in the 1900 edition of The Book of General Membership of the Ralston Health Club that the letters for the word RALSTON came from Regime, Activity, Light, Strength, Temperation, Oxygen and Nature, earlier editions of the same book are credited to Everett Ralston, a pseudonym of Edgerly, with the implication that Ralstonism is named after this fictitious person.
Edgerly saw his followers as the founding members of a new race, based on Caucasians, and free from "impurities". He advocated the castration of all "anti-racial" (non-Caucasian) males at birth."
PS: Marilyn's Note: The text above is slightly out of order from the linked article because I wanted to point out that Ralston produced a breakfast cereal before showing what the name supposedly stood for and the even more disturbing tenets of the Ralstonian movement.
Also, Cream of Wheat was owned by Kraft, NOT Purina. Not sure who owns it now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralstonism
