Sometimes, it’s nice to just have a bowl of cereal for breakfast, or snack, or tea time. But most American cereals are so full of … stuff. So much sugar. So many other things. And while occasionally it’s nice to snack on those little pillows of wheat with frosting on one side, it’s just not a daily thing. Now that the temps in the middle of the corn-and-soybean fields are in the Why am I not much much much much much further North (as in, this week, 36 deg C –> body temp. Plus. Ick), cooking isn’t much fun.
Lots of places have mixes of cereals, nuts, fruits available, boxed or bagged for consumption. But they seem to mostly be quite sweet. One of the things that was learned in the past life in Europe was that hey! this stuff is easy to make. Some seeds and oats, a little yogurt atop (and oh boy, was there nice yogurt to be had), maybe some dried fruit… and one was all set. So it was decided to make up a batch. And then.. another batch, cuz for some reason the heat isn’t going anywhere but the first batch just vanished —-
M Planet has a lot of stuff in the house as a matter of “component needs”. This is partially because of parental units from the Great Depression always had food to survive on aplenty, and partly because M Planet likes to eat good food, and to eat good food on a budget, it’s best to make it oneself. This stuff doesn’t get used up quickly, so dried figs and apricots and the like are plentiful at the moment. Don’t want to have this stuff in the cupboard for years, either, so the decision to make Decadent Musli was made.
Toasted rolled oats, nuts, seeds combined with dried fruit – apricot, fig, plum, apple.