Originally published July 10 2005
Making cereal from scratch both healthy and affordable
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Customizing your cereal can save you almost half of what you usually spends on breakfast and allow you to tailor-make ingredients for your own personal health.
Gannett News Service Making cereal from scratch lets you customize your breakfast food with healthy ingredients.
Ingredients for this granola recipe are baked and stirred for a half hour.
Dried fruit is added at the end.
If walking down the cereal aisle seems too much like shopping for candy, pass on the boxed varieties and make your own cereal from scratch.
Starting the day with a bowl of homemade, whole-grain breakfast cereal instead of a refined-grain or sugary one from a box might be just what you need to shed flab and fight disease.
It can shave dollars off your weekly grocery bill as well.
A family that spends $10 on two boxes of cereal a week can cut its bill almost in half by making its own from scratch, experts estimate.
Over a year, the two-box-a-week family can save nearly $260.
"It's hard to find anything wrong with cereal from scratch.
It's healthy, it's easy and it's cheap," says Laura Slama, a Tempe, Ariz., caterer who last year turned her homemade granola into a fast-selling commercial success.
Homemade cereal also allows you to avoid the sugars, salt, fats and laundry list of chemicals in many popular boxed varieties.
As with other whole grains, it's the fiber in oatmeal that helps lower the risk of cancer and heart disease and helps control blood sugar.
Studies also show that people who eat a high-fiber, low-fat bowl of cereal with fruit are less likely to nibble before lunch.
"Studies show that it's hard to lose and keep weight off without eating a healthy breakfast."
Slama also recommends eating homemade cereals for snacks or as a light dinner.
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