I used to rationalize that as long as it was an organic bar, then letting my daughters eat a bar for breakfast as we rushed off for the day was okay.  In fact I would tell myself, I was feeding them a wonderful bar fortified with vitamins and minerals (fortified vitamins to be discussed in the future- I’m not a fan) and that cane sugar was organic so that was okay.  I turned a blind eye to the fact that the kid size bars had as much sugar as the bars I ate.  I chose to ignore the ingredients that I knew weren’t real foods (soy protein isolate rant to come at a later post- spoiler alert: It is not good for you, don’t eat it) and just kept telling myself that these were organic bars and the nice founders of the company seemed to really care about their product according to the note they wrote on the back of the box.  But after I began studying traditional diets and learning about industrialized food products, I could no longer continue to feed my children foods that I knew were not only lacking any true nutritional value but also were doing them harm in the long run.  That being said, we don’t all have time to make breakfast from scratch every morning.   That is why I think this cookie is great.  It’s easy to make and is adaptable to whatever you have on hand.  And you can call it a cookie and being able to eat a cookie for breakfast is pretty sweet (even if the cookie itself isn’t. hehe).