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Quick Recipe: Kataifi, a Yummy Greek Dessert!

After our annual visit to the Bayport Greek Festival, Erik S. and I realized we don’t feature many Greek recipes here on Poor Couples Food Guide, so we decided to change that! This classic dessert, kataifi, is one you’ll find in many diners and at Greek festivals that tastes like nothing else. While it seems exotic and complex, it’s actually fairly simple to make (after a quick trip to the store for some phyllo dough)!

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The Cereal Report: Quaker Oats Real Medleys

The Cereal Report is a column in which PCFG conducts various cereal reviews, of new or limited products, as well as providing brief backgrounds on the cereal. Cereal is delicious and fairly cheap as far as meals go. Everyone should eat cereal!

I started eating Quaker’s Real Medleys oatmeal not too long after it first came out, and I enjoy it. Well, not all the flavors, but most of them.  They’re my go-to instant oatmeal during oatmeal season.  They have more stuff in them (like dried fruit and nuts) than the regular packets of oatmeal, and I find them to be more filling.  However, this snack report is not about oatmeal.  It is in fact about the new cold cereal version of Real Medleys that Quaker has released.  Considering how much I enjoy the oatmeal, when I saw the new cereal I knew I wanted to try it out.  I got the cherry almond pecan flavor, but it also comes in peach apple walnut.

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