Aand the winner is - Beeno! My youngest child - six years old - was asked one recent morning, when we'd neglected to offer breakfast, if he wasn't hungry. "No I'm fine thanks, I've had a dog biscuit," he replied.This is how I found myself perusing the ingredients on the box of said dog biscuits. I'm sure you can guess what I discovered: these biscuits were a better breakfast than the cereal he might otherwise have been offered.I'm not being facetious. Both have grain-based starch as the main component, but the canine treats offer almost double the protein of most cereals, plus almost double the fibre and possibly, most importantly, waaaay less sugar.Both are, of course, "fortified" with various vitamins and minerals, for whatever that's worth.Ironically, the biscuits are not particularly good for dogs, whose systems aren't keen on grains, so you should feed them to children and dogs in moderation; in both cases "after an outdoor run" as the box suggests.As the protein comes from "meat and animal derivatives" (nothing scarier than what makes up Bovril, I'll warrant) this is not an option for vegetarians or the squeamish.I'm not, you understand, touting dog-biscuits as a preferred food option. I'm just saying the cereals rank way lower.Our massive consumption of nutritionally empty, tasteless cereals represents, as food writer Felicity Lawrence points out, "a triumph of marketing, packaging and US economic and foreign policy".There's nothing in the box. And we're hooked on that nothing.If you mustHere is a way to make cereal far more delicious and certainly no less nutritious. In this guise it will fill the function of unnecessary-but-good-tasting between meal snack, rather than posing as an actual meal.Yes, we're talking Chocolate Cornflake Blobs! Those delights once de rigueur at children's parties.I know what you're thinking, you're too sophisticated for such ridiculous nonsense. Nowadays we have friandes and salted caramel and such, that's true, but let me tell you there's not an adult I've served this to who hasn't blushingly devoured it.This is a less sweet, darker chocolate version, which is only one step away from a cereal praline. Properly good.For about 12 Cornflake Chocolate Blobs of Delight: 50g butter / 3 tablespoons golden syrup / 50g best milk chocolate / 50g best dark chocolate / 75g cornflakes.How: melt butter and syrup in thick-based pot. Add chocolate, chopped up small, cover pot, remove from heat and leave chocolate to melt for five minutes. Stir in the cornflakes. Place spoonfuls on a buttered baking sheet or in small cupcake papers and leave to set in the fridge, or in the room, if it's winter...