Steve’s Pretty Good Cold Breakfast Cereal

Steve’s Pretty Good Cold Breakfast Cereal

One cup of oat meal flakes - uncooked

One tbsp. low sugar dried cranberries

One tbsp. pecan pieces

One tbsp. hulled sunflower seeds

One tbsp. sliced almonds

@ four dried apricots cut into little pieces

One dried fig cut into little pieces

Two or three dried pineapple pieces cut into bits

Milk as needed – about one cup

(no sugar necessary)

This is a quick cold breakfast cereal about as down home safe from General Mills, et al, as we can do in this morning of the 21^st century.  It can be modified endlessly to suit your likes and available natural items.  If I lived in northern blueberry country it would be fresh blueberries in summer and dried blueberries in winter – either in place of the cranberries or along with then.  Although the initial outlay for the various dried fruits costs a little hefty you’ll find that over the time of using them up with this kind of cereal it ends up being many times cheaper than doing the same basic cereals from high priced boxes in the stores.  Fresh fruit – bananas, apples, etc. – can be substituted when available and you will probably think of other ways to enhance that old staple – Oatmeal Flakes.