Cereal Homemade & Budget Friendly
Created by Puppitypup on July 24, 2014
- Servings: 10
- Prep Time: 7m
- Cook Time: 18m
- Recipe #13316
Ingredients
- 1 to 1 1/2 tablespoon oil (vegetable oil)
- 2 tablespoons maple syrup
- 1/4 cup honey
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 3/8 teaspoon kosher salt (scant, less if using regular salt)
- 4 cups oats (old-fashioned)
- 2 ounces chopped pecan nuts
How to Make
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Step 1: Heat oven to 350 degrees, preferably convection. Grease a 11 x 15 shiny rimmed baking sheet. I spray the bowls, the spatulas and the measuring cup too. Then nothing sticks.
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Step 2: In a small bowl, mix together all ingredients except the oats, nuts and fruit. The lower amount of oil works, and that's what I use when I'm dieting. But the increased amount makes the cereal more crispy.
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Step 3: Measure oats and nuts into a large bowl, pour mixture over and stir well.
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Step 4: Spread evenly in the pan and bake for nine minutes. Stir and bake 7-8 more minutes. If making more than one batch, bake subsequent batches 1 minutes less.
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Step 5: Cool completely, then mix in chocolate and dried fruit if desired.
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Step 6: Cereal keeps best in zip-tied plastic bread bags (the kind you can buy at the store) in the original oats canisters. I have kept it in tupperware, but the cereal doesn't stay as crisp.
Nutritional Facts
- Serving Size: 1 (83 g)
- Calories 327.1
- Total Fat - 8.6 g
- Saturated Fat - 1.3 g
- Cholesterol - 0 mg
- Sodium - 110.1 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 52.6 g
- Dietary Fiber - 7.2 g
- Sugars - 10.1 g
- Protein - 11.6 g
- Calcium - 43.1 mg
- Iron - 3.2 mg
- Vitamin C - 0.1 mg
- Thiamin - 0.5 mg