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Healthy Homemade Cereal scooped up in a spoon with raw milk.

Healthy Homemade Cereal

This delicious and healthy homemade cereal tastes like a cross between Grape Nuts and Cracklin' Oat Bran.

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Course: Breakfast
Prep Time: 25 minutes
Cook Time: 5 hours 43 minutes
Total Time: 5 hours 43 minutes
Servings: 2 large boxes of cereal
Author: Full of Days

Ingredients

Instructions

  • If you have a high powered blender, or grain mill, grind up six cups of flour. I recommend freshly ground flour for this recipe to ensure all nutrients are still alive and available. If grinding your flour is not an option, then put 6 cups of flour into a large bowl.
  • Mix in yogurt and soak for 24 hours. You can use yogurt, kefir, buttermilk, or clabbered milk (for dairy free options use 3 cups water plus 2 tablespoons lemon juice or apple cider vinegar).
  • Once your flour has soaked, add remaining ingredients and mix until well combined.
  • Preheat your oven to 350℉.
  • Pour batter into a large sheet pan, or two 9×13 inch pans (line pans with parchment paper if not stainless steel).
  • Bake at 350℉ for about 30 minutes until toothpick inserted comes out clean (or 20 minutes if using a convection oven). It’s important not to over-bake!
  • Let cool completely in the pan. Once cooled, crumble into bite sized pieces (approximately the size of a 4×4 Lego piece!).
  • Bake again at 200℉ for 6-12 hours (you could also use a dehydrator for this step). Stir the cereal occasionally, bringing the pieces on the bottom of the pan to the top so they dehydrate evenly.
  • Once cereal is dry and crunchy, store in airtight containers in the refrigerator.

Notes

  • Please note this recipe has a 24 hour soak time, be sure to account for this time when planning to make this cereal (I have let the soak time stretch to 36 hours with no problems and you can get away with a short 8 hour soak time, but the true nutritional benefits are best after 24 hours!). 
  • The soak time is to break down the anti-nutrients in the flour (phytates present in the grain that our body can’t digest, therefore stealing nutrient stores from our body in an effort to digest the flour).