Nourishing cereal??? It does exist!

  The other day I was browsing around on The Healthy Home Economist's site as I often do, and I was looking at her list of popular posts.  One caught my eye and that was a video on  how to make healthy cold cereal.  The convenience of cold cereal is something that I really do miss now that we have gone to traditional foods and I know that my kids miss it.  How could they not?  They are bombarded with cereal commercials every day.  The moment that the 2 part video ended I knew that we had to try this.  It seemed like a lot of steps but not too overwhelming.  I really suggest checking it out, part 1 shows the steps before you bake and part 2 is what to do after to make it crunchy along with the written out recipe.

  So, the next day I pulled out the flour and yogurt and mixed it up, do to my work schedule and my poor timing this mixture actually sat on my counter for a day and a half.  After that I finished it up in just a few steps and it really didn't interfere with our day.

 

Mixing in all ingredients after soaking for a day.

Bake

Crumble and dehydrate (recipe calls for baking but I set my dehydrator to the highest temp of 160 degrees and it was done in about 8 hours)

 Store in the fridge

  This recipe is great for so many reasons #1 It is pretty easy and doesn't take a lot of thought.  #2  There are so many ways that you could flavor this to your families liking that you would not get bored.  #3  Did I mention how much more nourishing this is for your children than any item purchased in a box.  Seriously, make this cereal!  Everyone here gave it a big thumbs up, my oldest son even said it tasted like ice cream.

  Her recipe is just a starting point, I did not have some of those ingredients so I just went on what I had.  I had very little maple syrup left so I used honey and doubled the vanilla because maple flavoring is not something I keep in the pantry (um never even heard of it).  Also, instead of cinnamon I went with our family favorite and used Chinese 5 spice.  The pictures above are of the recipe cut in half, I figured I would start with less to see if they would even eat it.  Now I need to go and soak more flour as this is going to be a major staple in our home.