Eat Better, Eat Cheaper – Enjoy Breakfast
Everybody knows that they should start the day with a nutritious breakfast because it provides energy and gives the body enough nutrients to avoid snacking on unhealthy foods later in the morning, so it can actually help us lose weight. And everybody knows that healthy cereals are usually something we should be eating more of. And many of us are looking at our food budgets and wondering where we can save money.
I discovered this recipe by accident. I always eat breakfast, but don’t like raisins or sultanas unless they are rehydrated, so most packaged cereals just didn’t appeal to me. Then I realised that if I made my own cereal I could pack it with the things I do like: nuts and seeds, and dried apples, and leave out the things I don’t. But making cereal in the oven was complicated and not cheap – it meant standing over a tray of grains, stirring them every few minutes, and even then they would sometimes scorch, and using the whole oven’s heat on low just to crisp grains seemed environmentally insane.