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Jul. 5, 2006 - What's for Breakfast?

    At our house this is one question that's pretty easy to answer. A while back, while trying to get more raw foods into our diet, I began to make muesli for breakfast. Muesli is an oat based cereal that originated in 1900 with a Swiss doctor. He came up with it as a healthy food for patients in his hospital. In it's most basic form it's a mixture of oats, nuts and/or seeds and fresh or dried fruit. Because it's made from whole grains it gives lots of energy that we and our kids need to start the day. In fact, it's one of the only things I feel really keeps me going until lunchtime. It's high in fiber, low in fat and sugar, inexpensive, easy to prepare, and it tastes great! I make a batch about every two weeks and store it in a gallon jar.
    We eat this most weekdays. Once a week I will make pancakes or muffins with the kids for a little variety. On Saturdays we have waffles made from scratch, and Sundays vary. Depending on the time sometimes I will make eggs or we eat cold cereal.
    I make it a little differently each time, depending on what we have around. I try to buy raw nuts and seeds, as they retain more nutrition. You can use whatever kind of nuts, seeds, and dried fruit that your family likes, or add fresh fruit when you serve it. An Austrian woman once made this for me and she mixed it with yogurt the night before and let it soften. There's no one right way to make or eat it, so even though we eat the same basic breakfast most days we still have lots of variety!
    This is a great recipe for the kids to help with. Peregrine loves to help measure and pour and stir, and since the amounts aren't so important he can have a little more freedom than with some other recipes.
    Here's our basic recipe:

Muesli
7 C. Oats
4 C. Oat Bran
1-2 C. Seeds (sunflower, pumpkin, sesame, etc.)
1 1/2 C. Nuts
1-2 C. dried fruit (any combination of raisins, cranberries, blueberries, apples, etc.)
1 T. Cinnamom
1 t. Cardamom (optional, but good for digestion and tastes yummy)

Mix all ingredients in a large bowl then transfer to an airtight container. This makes enough to fill a gallon jar. To serve, scoop out 1/3 to 1/2 cup into each bowl. We like to add 1 teaspoon of pure maple syrup and then mix it with either plain yogurt or kefir. You could also also sweeten it with honey or applesauce. Fresh or frozen berries or chopped apple are a nice addition, but not necessary.

What do you do for breakfast?

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I just made a new "summer menu"

Monday--oatmeal (usually with Peanut butter)
Tuesday-muffins- blueberry, pumpkin and poppyseed are favorites
Wednesday-eggs of some kind (yogurt for the egg hater) toast, bagel or muffin
Thursday- oatcakes (fry the leftover oatmeal in little cakes)
Friday-Dutch Baby with fruit (a delicious eggy baked pancake)
Saturday(with leftover for Sunday)-something like french toast or pancakes, I'd like to make cinnamon rolls once in a while

Crepes with whipped cream and strawberries have become a birthday tradition and we all love breakfast burritos, but usually eat them for dinner or lunch. We use soy chorizo, and tofu instead of eggs for some people.

A lot of these I put out some fruit and the kids have milk or sometimes O.J.

Edited by MintFlower on Jul. 5, 2006 at 7:01 PM

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Jul. 5, 2006 - Untitled Comment

Posted by reformingmama

Now, this is something I would like, but not sure about the kiddos. I'm thinking about trying it though! I made my own granola a couple of months back and was quite pleased with the results! Our breakfast schedule is as follows:
S- cereal, though if I have my act together we have Dutch Babies or daddy makes pancakes
M- toast (with butter or peanut butter)
T- eggs
W- muffins
Th- cereal
F- pancakes
S- their choice, so usually cereal or pancakes!

Hope you have a wonderful evening!
Stacy

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Jul. 5, 2006 - Untitled Comment

Posted by mamaduso

Oh thank you for the recipe. We need something like this. I hope the kids will eat it.
Susan

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Jul. 6, 2006 - What do we have for breakfast ?

Posted by Canadagirl

We have cooked oat for 5 or 6 days a week and some kind of baked muffin or pancakes or..... Redriver. (0:

Thank you for my belated birthday wish. My hubby had to take work off today and tomarrow and I am giving him tinctures every hour to scare this virus out of him.lol. He ended up having to get a puffer because he suffers from asthma. )0: So I really hope threw the tinctures and prayer he will get better real soon.

In Him,
-Canadagirl

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Jul. 7, 2006 - Untitled Comment

Posted by MintFlower

so you inspired me to make some muesli today- i used oats, dried apples almonds and wheat germ and cinnamon and had it with yogurt-- i really like it, not sure if the kids would! i guess it's good to start them young like you are!

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Jul. 8, 2006 - Yummy breakfast

Posted by Sonya

Thanks so much for your comment on my blog.
Regarding breakfast, we eats fermented oats several days a week. I do much like your friend did and soak mine overnight in plain yogurt with Celtic Sea salt and water, or with Kefir. It gives it a wonderful sweet flavor and the nutrients are more readily absorbable (from what I understand anyway.) We have eggs from the farm a couple times a week. Then once in awhile on Saturday we go "wild" and have a breakfast buffet like turkey bacon, eggs, fresh made biscuits and gravy (yes I am from the South),and fresh fruit. Ok..I'm hungry now. :-)
I will definitely try the Muesli recipe, thanks!
~Sonya

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