Part of trying to be more self-sufficient is trying to take care of more of your own needs.
One thing that I've always wondered about is cereal. Usually, we are accustomed to a variety of processed grains, combined with sugar and other ingredients, that has become the common "cereal" of our day. Personally I don't need everything to be sweet and would prefer not to have the second or third ingredient be sugar and I don't mind eating things that are little less "refined," if you know what I mean. Recently, I encountered a cereal that gave me a lot of good ideas!
KASHI GO-LEAN VANILLA CLUSTERS
This one caught me off guard. We like to explore options and try new things, and a great byproduct of that is learning to think outside of the traditional box. This cereal looked both interesting and healthy, and it may have forever changed our lives in the years to come.
Many of the ingredients are easy to grow and easy "prepare" to be used as a cereal. This has given me a lot of hope for the years to come. If we can grow our own delicious cereal and be provided with our own fresh milk from a variety of dairy animals, life will certainly be more self-sufficient, not to mention wholesome and healthy. Here are a few of the ingredients that caught my eye.
MILLET & POPPED SORGHUM
This was so cool to see. We've already grown our own millet in the past, and I certainly plan on planting some this year anyway. It is a great grain for many uses, cereal included. The "popped sorghum" caught me off guard though. Basically, it is like a crunchy little mini-popcorn. I've seen sorghum growing on other homesteads, like @mericanhomestead, and was looking forward to growing our own anyway. I knew that the grain could be used as well as the stalk, but never knew that you pop it. To not only be able to pop it an enjoy it, but to use it as a cereal too is very encouraging. It certainly tasted great in this mix!
RED BEANS AND PEAS
This was also cool to see. Check out those red beans in my hand above. They have just been flattened into "flakes" and dried. The flavor didn't really stick out in the mix, and it actually took me a while to figure out what these were. I personally never thought of using beans or peas in a cereal mix, but I'm certainly planning on doing so now. Both are easy enough to grow, and they certainly seem easy enough to prepare to use as a cereal.
PEPITAS
Those tasty little pumpkin seeds! Again, a common food already for many, but I had never considered their use as a cereal. The blend that we enjoyed them in was excellent, and even by simply combining some of these pepitas with a few other easy ingredients, a healthy and homemade cereal would be easy to come by.
So, the question then it, what other foods could we grow ourselves to use for our morning breakfast meals? Has anyone out there used millet, popped sorghum, red beans, or pumpkin seeds in cereal before? Have you ever grown your own or tried growing anything to use for cereal? If so, let me know, as we are exploring our options.
As always, I'm @papa-pepper and here's the proof:
proof-of-inspirational-cereal
Until next time…
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Educational as always. Great story
All these kinds of food exist
God is wonderful
I like to make my granola/cereal by baking oats (I buy old fashioned oatmeal) and shredded coconut at about 350 degrees F. Bake until the oats are browning. Add in almond slices and drizzle honey over the top. Bake for about 10 more minutes and then let cool. Add in dried cranberries, raisins, whatever you'd like. Pour milk and enjoy!
I certainly couldn't make it here in our place but would love to see you doing it in an healthy way and being "self-suffecient". Thanks @papa-pepper.
Thanks for the encouragement @soulbella!
where i live i get to each mostly self grow food i enjoy it since its not contaminated with gmo 100% pure
I agree - that is important!
Great post!
Completely agree with not using sugar at all. There are also alternative such as honey.
Resteemed!
Right! Honey is a great alternative! Good point!
@papa-pepper you are lean and athletic already, you still wanna go lean?lol
LOL! I guess a decade of no alcohol got rid of that beer belly I had started!
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I love such flakes with milk) healthy food @papa-pepper
Glad to hear it!
Knowledge is the best ,nice one @papa-pepper.
Thanks @kelgreen!
It's amazing how much crap is in the conventional cereals that many people eat. This sounds like a nice alternative. I wish it was sold here.
Yeah, too much junk in foods that aren't even considered "junk food."
Hmmm don't forget corn flakes as well as nuts!
Toasted walnuts,pecans,almonds, hazelnuts are all things I consider when it comes to a cereal.
Very good point! I won't forget!
This is amazing I supporting you.
Is there any website we could buy it online?
Perhaps, not sure.
Looks like a great combo. The beans are great for protein and fiber and so much better than Frosted Flakes! I don't eat any cereal with added suger but if I need a sweetener cutting fresh fruit to put on top does the trick. Bananas, blueberries or strawberries depending on the season. I bet you can grow some of those too!
Good choice to sweeten things up. I'd rather not fill my body with added sugar every day!
I know how to make home made marshmallows. If I can toss them in some home made cereal I'm game to try producing my own.
Very cool! That would be great to learn one day!
Truly inspiring. When we move to our new house, ill definitely make a veggeie, mini crop graden!
Look into keto, it will make everything easier. You grow what you need for giant salads and your meat, a dairy animal would be a great addition. Plus, you will all be healthier and cancer resistant for the change. One good aquaponics or hydro set up, grow your fresh greens all winter. Keep some dried food for preparedness, but keto is to feeding humans as steemit is to empowering humans...
I know some folks nearby who are into keto! Thank you!
We combine it with intermittent fasting, which is basically skip breakfast. It has made every aspect of life easier, less meals, less dishes, less health problems... I hope you will look into it, let me "tease" you with one little fact: Babies come into this world in ketogenic metabolism. Breast fed babies STAY in ketosis.
Think about that long and hard my friend, then go youtube some Dr. Eric Berg. Peace!
thats cool i know how to make few cereal though
Make your own cereal and THEN top it off with fresh, raw goat milk, and you have a winner!! ♥
WINNER! I agree!
We mix our own cereals. I don't use millet as we have allergies to it. We have some other grains that we buy in the farmers market, use seeds such as pumpkin and sunflower, and sweeten with dried fruits. Sometimes honey but we are finding we don't like cereal too sweet. Which is odd because before we started our life style change, the boys would eat that awful prepared stuff with all that added sugar. We buy very little sugar, probably in the neighbourhood of 20 pounds in a year!
Looks and sounds amazing thamks for sharing
Good stuff, man. Normally I'm careful, even with Kashi as some of their products are just as bad as the mainstream products in regards to sugar. Sounds like you found a good one though.
I tired of looking for cereals that were actually healthy, so I started just doing oatmeal with organic raisins, ginger pieces (they have sugar), and chia seeds as desired. It's delicious, easy to make, and fairly healthy.
Thanks for the tip!
We've grown some of our own flax seeds too, but chia would be another good one!
just need to convince the kids it is "cereal" and you will be good to go, good luck!
Yeah, that is a good point.
I went through a similar 'phase' a few years back (I call it a 'phase' because the practice lasted only two years). I made my own soy milk from fresh soy beans, fermented and roasted my own cocoa beans to turn to chocolate, and made century eggs by harvesting eggs from our ducks, covering them in clay and soaking them in a soda ash mix for a month. It was fun while it lasted but things changed and I no longer live on our farm. My current residence has very little gardening space and no grass to raise ducks, rabbits, or Guinea pigs like I used to.
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Wow - Cool!
Looks tasty.
amazing man for sharing this cereal for a healthy lifestyle. my father used to have cereals every morning which is likely more condiments with it. Hopefully we can buy the same as yours for a better and healthy foods thay change the lives for a lifetime.
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This good for morning and afternoon
Great inspiring post, I really like your way of thinking. What process do/would you use to dry out some of these ingredients? Do you bake them in the oven or toast them on a pan over a fire or is there some other method used?
Probably sun-dried for some, baked for others.
Yumm! Seems very wholesome. I LOVE baked and seasoned pepitas (pumpkin seeds).
This is pretty cool! thanks for sharing
Nice article o completely agree with it...sugar is not at all good for health
This is just genius! I could live on sandwiches and cereal. I can easily figure out the makings of a sandwich on a homestead, but cereal might have left me scratching my head. Now that I know it's not just possible, but not too difficult, I have whole new excitement for our future on a homestead!! Excellent post!
I like your ideas and I'm glad I've found someone else so "crazy" in good sense like me)
I wanna to take care of my needs and cover them by myself as much as it's possible too! I don't buy any ready food anywhere, I try to grow something by myself, I even try to make cosmetics at home-)
Healthy life is wisdom and power!
btw, do you sprouted seeds? It's my last passion) I have made some posts about it (for example, the last one is about sprouted buckweat) which can be used as cereal as well! Extremely powerful and healthy cereal!)
Looks werry good :)
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I enjoyed your comment about thinking outside the traditional box, accompanied by a photo of a cereal box. Wonderfully pun-ny.
I dont know how our 'cereals' became just corn and wheat, or why they needed all that sugar. Thanks for a great post, Im going to look for some of the things you described.