Super Easy Homemade Cereal

When it comes to breakfast, we usually prefer fast and nutritious. Of course, it needs to be delicious for the children to eat it!

Most cereals are filled with sugar and are not usually healthy, even the organic brands. Remember organic does not mean healthy, it means not produced with GMO's or heavily sprayed with chemicals. Most organic brands do however, leave a lot of processed ingredients out!

Here are a few ingredients on organic cereals:

Choco Chimps ingredients include: Whole grain corn meal*, corn meal*, cane sugar*, fair traded cocoa*, natural flavor, sea salt.

Puffins ingredients include: Yellow corn flour, corn bran flour, unsulphured mosasses, whole oat flour, expeller pressed high oleic oil (canola and/or Sunflower), sslt baking soda, vitamin C (ascorbic acid), natural vitamin E (mixed tocopherols to maintain freshness)

 Now let us be honest and look at the counterparts of these cereals, the conventional brands.

Cocoa Puffs ingredients include (Sugar, Whole Grains (Corn, Oats, and Rice) and Corn Flour, Modified Corn Starch, Cocoa, Canola and/or Rice Bran Oil, Corn Syrup, Cocoa Processed with Alkali, Salt, Calcium Carbonate, Caramel and Beet Juice Concentrate Color, Tricalcium Phosphate, Trisodium Phosphate, Zinc and Iron, Artificial Flavor, Vitamin C, Niacinamide, Vitamin B6, Vitamin B2, Vitamin B1, Folic Acid, Vitamin B12, Wheat Starch, Vitamin E and BHT to preserve freshness.)

Captain Crunch ingredients include: Corn Flour , Sugar , Oat(s) Flour , Sugar Brown , Coconut Oil , Salt , Niacinamide (Vitamin aB) , Yellow 5 , Iron Reduced , Zinc Oxide , Yellow 6 , Thiamine Mononitrate (Vitamin B1) , BHT ( Preservative ) , Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (HCL) , Riboflavin (Vitamin B2) , Folic Acid (Vitamin aB)


Besides all the additional ingredients added, they also contain GMO's

The organic boxed cereals still have some quality's that does not make it a healthy breakfast, better than conventional, but not healthy! Plus, give my kids one box and they eat it in one sitting and will still be hungry, they are not very filling.

What is the solution?

Get up early and spend time in the kitchen cooking fresh grassfed eggs and cutting up vegetables and fruit.

Or give them cereal! Here is my recipe for Super V Muesli (aka cereal)!

1 cup of  buckwheat grout grits
1 cup of  hemp seeds
1 cup of  chia seeds
1 cup of  dried coconut
1 cup of flax seed (not pictured, I used the last of it and forgot the picture)
  you can use less or more if you like of these:
1 1/2 TABLEspoons of cinnamon (ceylon)
1 teaspoon of nutmeg (or your other favorite spices)
1 cup of raisins, dates, figs or other dried fruit
You can also add a variety of chopped nuts

Mix everything up well and store in an air tight container.

When it comes to making it

Just add some to a bowl (like normal cereal)
Add a little honey or maple syrup if you would like and
add milk of your choice or yogurt!

For a chocolate fix add a little bit of raw cacao (notice it does not say cocoa).

***I want to add, this is just a basic recipe. Feel free to explore and find your own take on it! ***
 

I hope you enjoy this as much as we do.

Please excuse my photos. I am still working on taking fantastic photos....I have not quite mastered it!

Would love to hear your comments and if you add anything additional!!!

Fermented cabbage = Sauerkraut

Fermented cabbage = Sauerkraut, we all know that right?! 

Here is how cheap and how easy this can be done. 

I came about this recipe  the kitchn. 
Here are my thoughts on the process and taste.

What you need:

1 Cabbage 
1.5 TABLEspoons of Sea Salt
Mason Jar or very large container
Smaller container (that can fit inside the larger one)
Piece of cloth 
String 
Mixing bowl 
Cutting board and knife


What to do:

Clean the cabbage then slice it. If you have a food processor great, if not, just slice it!

Place the sliced cabbage in the mixing bowl then add the sea salt. 

Here is where it gets hard and painful. Massage the mixture for several minutes until the cabbage becomes watery and limp. This was painful for me, I suppose I do not have strong hands.

Then pack everything including any juice into the mason jar.

I used a small mason jar (that fit inside the larger one) filled with water to weigh down the cabbage. This can also be obtained with weights or anything else you can think of.

Cover it with clothe and use the string to secure it.

Let it sit for 3-10 days. I let mine sit for about 4 days, I have a warm house. I tried it and it was great, so I placed in the fridge.

So was it worth the time? Was it delicious? Was it worth the cost?

Yes, Yes and Yes! I paid only .50 cents for the organic cabbage at a farmers market, I do use an expensive grey sea salt, but it is only a small amount. This batch cost maybe $1.00. I have about a half of a gallon.
This is full of nutrients and it was easy. This is going to be an added staple into our kitchen, goodbye to store bought kraut!!!