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Nothing beats a handful of fresh berries in your cereal. But once blueberries or raspberries or strawberries are out of season, you're out of luck.

Some companies now add freeze-dried berries to their cereals--Berry Burst Cheerios, for example. But they've got more added sugar than the original Cheerios, and you can only eat so many Cheerios.

Enter Cereal Toppers. Now you can toss your own freeze-dried fruit into a bowl of All-Bran, Wheaties, Wheatena, oatmeal, or whatever. Just add milk and you've got scrumptious slices of apples, strawberries, or bananas or whole blueberries or raspberries. No more Quaker Instant Strawberries and Cream Oatmeal, which has more sugar and creaming agent than fruit (dehydrated apples pumped up with artificial strawberry flavor, sodium sulfite, citric acid, and Red 40, to be precise).

Each serving of Cereal Toppers supplies one to four grams of fiber, depending on the fruit. They need no refrigeration or preservatives. Except for a touch of added sugar in the dried apples, fruit is the only ingredient.

But why stop at cereal? Cereal Toppers can work their magic in yogurt, cottage cheese, smoothies, pancakes, even salad. Or you can munch on a handful right out of the (resealable) bag.

No muss, no fuss ... and no more excuses for that bag of chips.

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