Homemade Corn Flakes Cereal

Healthy recipe for homemade corn flakes made with two whole food ingredients. Easy to digest and nutrient bioavailable!

Giving up boxed breakfast cereal from the store is, without a doubt, one of the hardest tasks to accomplish after adopting a Traditional Diet.

I was the Boxed Breakfast Cereal Queen before opting to get off the processed food train 2 decades ago. I would eat organic cereal morning, noon, and night, sometimes even a bowl before bed.

Can you believe I actually thought this practice was good for me?

Unfortunately, I learned that my boxed breakfast cereal habit, even though it was organic cereal, was far from healthy.

The problem is not with the ingredients themselves, which are simple and seem “whole” enough in the case of organic cereal. The unhealthy aspect of boxed cereal is due to the violent processing required to manufacture it.

Why Make Your Own?

This food manufacturing process, called extrusion, applies so much heat and pressure to the cereal grains that they actually liquefy.

This slurry allows the grains to be quickly and easily shaped into the puffs, flakes, and other shapes that make each cereal distinct.

According to the Weston A. Price Foundation, the manufacturing process used to make boxed cereal is so violent and denaturing that the proteins in the grains are actually rendered toxic and allergenic as a result.

This is why whole grain boxed breakfast cereal is shockingly even more toxic than cheap boxed cereals made with white flour — because whole grains are higher in protein.  The more protein, the more toxic the boxed cereal.

What’s a traditional eating family to do?

The good news is that unhealthy versions of processed foods like boxed breakfast cereal can usually be replicated at home using simple preparation techniques which do not denature the food or add toxins like what happens in a factory.

Boxed breakfast cereal is no exception.  It is very possible to make tasty and healthy cold breakfast cereal yourself. I’ve posted articles and videos in the past about how to do this. Here are a few of the most popular:

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In the recipe below, I add another gluten free cereal recipe on how to make corn flakes!

Wait a Minute!  Is Corn Healthy?

Some of you may be thinking – corn?   No way.  How is corn healthy?

Corn really does have a bad rap these days, doesn’t it?

The fact is that corn is a traditional food, particularly in my area of the country.

The Indian tribes native to Florida ate a soaked corn gruel as a primary staple food. It sustained them well!

They remained strong and vital on their native diet and were able to withstand battle after battle with the United States army, and were never defeated. In 1957, the federal government officially recognized the sovereign rights of the Seminole tribe of Florida.

So corn itself is not the problem. What is unhealthy is genetically modified corn or corn that is violently processed. This creates frankenfoods like high fructose corn syrup and other additives included in supermarket foods.

Worse, processed foods containing GMO corn contain residue of gut-destroying glyphosate, known by consumers as Roundup.

Once you realize that corn is fine to eat when properly and traditionally prepared (unless you have an allergy to it) and that it is processed and genetically modified corn that is the real problem, you are free to enjoy this delicious traditional food!

Healthy Alternative to Commercial Brands

Corn flakes cereal, in particular, is so yummy. It was always one of my favorites in my boxed breakfast cereal eating days.

In a burst of crazy and wild experimenting one afternoon, I came up with this recipe for homemade corn flakes cereal. My kids went nuts and so did I!

These healthy corn flakes taste just like the boxed corn flakes from the store, but this version is actually healthy and very filling!

What is also amazing about this healthy corn flakes cereal recipe is that it is so filling and satisfying.  Just the small bowl you see in the picture above is plenty enough for breakfast or a snack.  

This compares with the several much larger bowls of processed corn flakes that don’t seem to fill you up that well, and you are hungry again a short time later.

Such is the repetitive overeating that constantly occurs when one eats processed foods devoid of nutrients!

I hope you enjoy this healthy corn flakes recipe as much as my family!