A little update if you can bear it, if not, feel free to skip over this bit! ;o) Most folk who know me relatively well will know that I like to cook, I like to try new stuff, I hate to waste stuff, I love using leftovers, I love to bake, I try to avoid processed foods, I have a thing about The Devil's Supermarket (aka Tescos) and a bee in my bonnet about organic food and I'm trying to be healthier and lose weight, to name but a few food related facts! Over the last few months, I know not what happened or why, but I slipped into some dirty habits... processed food has been creeping in, I've not been baking or cooking nearly as much as I'd like to, my health has suffered, I've put weight back on, yada, yada, yada! But, for a variety of reasons, the rot has stopped and I'm getting back down to it, yippee! ;o)
Yesterday my husband chalked cereal (well, he actually chalked CERIAL but his spelling misdemeanors are a whole different story!) on the board in the kitchen as he'd run out, he's pretty much the lone cereal eater in this house, his breakfast is always cereal, 365days a year he'll start his day (and sometimes end it) with a bowl of cereal. I try to ring the changes when I buy cereal, keep any boredom setting in and normally buy 3 or 4 different sorts each time but yesterday I'd just declared that we need to go on a serious economy drive so instead of going out to buy said cereal I rummaged about in the pantry and decided to make Maz's Marvellous Muesli thereby saving some money and using up various bits and bobs in the process. The hubster loves muesli, he favours Alpen and I don't blame him, I've bought cheaper stuff in the past and they've amounted to a bowl of dust with a couple of sad raisins if you're lucky! So, museli making it was....
I use my casual chuck it and chance it method when making muesli so no two batches will ever be the same! This time I used porridge oats, natural puffed rice (I found half a bag cowering at the back of the meat safe), a handful of nuts (husband isn't a big fan of nuts), shredded coconut, dried apple, mango, banana and pineapple, figs, sultanas, cherries, cranberries and I even threw in a jigger of chocolate chips. The wide variety of dried fruit was mainly courtesy of Graze boxes. I had a little backlog of these lovely little boxes and decided to put them to good use. Incidentally, if you've never tried a Graze box, go to the website and use this code, CR1BJYV, and you can have a free one. ;o)
And hey presto.... muesli.... ;o)
