Did you know that you can make your own cereal at home? I’m not talking just granola, I am talking full-fledged bran flakes coupled with big juicy raisins, dried apricots, crunchy almonds, sweet rolled oats, and crunchy quinoa. Designer cereal at its best.

Well, if you did already know that, I wish you would have told me about it. I just realized it and I think it’s amazing. If only I had known about it years ago….

Prior to clean eating, I was a bit of a cerealaholic. I lived on cereal the year before graduate school. I was making good money at a tech job, but in an effort to double and triple my car payments every month and have money set aside for graduate school, I lived like the struggling artist that I strove to be. I had a tiny studio apartment: I could fry an egg, get dressed for work, watch the news, and brush my teeth without having to move an inch. I had an egg sandwich as I ran out the door (I had to move my car by 7 am to avoid a parking ticket) and every night I devoured bowls of cereal while reading cookbooks before heading off to play rehearsals or auditions.

After graduate school, I still kept my cereal habit. I had my basic cereals: Cheerios, Fiber One, Crunchy Oat Bran, and then my designer, ‘treat’ cereals like Blueberry Morning and Raisin Nut Bran. My pantry looked like a showroom for Kelloggs and General Mills.

When Manatee and I decided to come clean, we knew our cereal habit had to go. Cereal was  chock full of chemicals and preservatives, not to mention, it’s really expensive. It was tough, but we made it. After staying clean, our taste buds readjusted and anything store bought, even the tree hugging organic granolas, were too sweet for our tastes.

Fast forward to present day: I’m pregnant and I want my cereal back. But between the latest scary recalls and how my taste buds pucker at the overly sweetened cereal flakes found in processed favorites, I was at a loss.

Then I started google searching. Unbeknownst to me, bloggers everywhere have been making their own bran flakes at home. Couple that with a modified granola/muesli recipe and Eureka! Homemade Cereal!

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Today you are going to get 2 recipes for the price of 1. For me, these two recipes go together so well that I can’t imagine tucking into a bowl of one without the other.

 

 

 

The Bran Flakes can be a little tricky the first time you make them, so check out this post for some helpful visuals that walk you through the whole recipe.

Recipe Review:

This cereal has been my go-to for the last 3 weeks. I look forward to it. The Granola Muesli has just enough sweetness to feel like a treat.

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The cinnamon adds warmth and I love the chewy dried fruit. I am particularly fond of jumbo raisins and chopped dried apricots. Yum!

Because of the sweet nature of the Granola Muesli, you almost need something to counterbalance it.

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The nuttiness of the Bran Flakes neutralize the sweetness and give the cereal more heft.

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All I can really say is that I hope you try it. This is a great recipe to make over the weekend and then have on hand for the week (or weeks) to come.

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What is your favorite cereal?

 

 


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