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Healthy Home Economist / Archives / Recipes / Snack Recipes / Homemade Cinnamon Crunch Cereal

Homemade Cinnamon Crunch Cereal

by Sarah Pope / Affiliate Links ✔

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Recipe for homemade cinnamon crunch cereal that is healthy and grain-free for minimal carbs and easier digestion for breakfast.

One of the most popular videos and recipes I’ve posted on this blog is How to Make Cold Breakfast Cereal. 

A frequent question I’ve gotten from that post is how to make a grain free homemade breakfast cereal for those who eat Primal or Paleo or are currently on the GAPS or SCD diet.

Why would you ever want to make your own breakfast cereal when there are oodles of brands at the store, you might ask?

The reason is because ALL boxed cereal from the store, even if organic, should be avoided due to the heavy processing required to make it. 

Called extrusion, this process liquefies the cereal grains into a slurry using very high temperatures and pressures to manufacture the desired shapes, puffs, and flakes.  

This violent processing denatures the proteins in the cereal grains leaving them toxic and allergenic.

Making your own healthy, homemade breakfast cereal is clearly the way to go given the highly processed boxed versions at the store. 

The recipe below is a healthy version of the Cinnamon Crunch cereal from the supermarket. It was shared by Heather, a reader friend who kindly shared her creativity with all of us.

Note that homemade coconut flour and soaked almond flour made at home are best, but in a pinch store bought is fine. Kefir may be substituted for yogurt if desired.

Want a nut butter version? Try this peanut butter grain-free breakfast cereal too!

homemade cinnamon crunch cereal in glass bowl
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Homemade Breakfast Cereal Recipe (grain free)

Recipe for homemade cinnamon crunch cereal that is grain-free for minimal carbs and easier digestion for the morning meal.

Course Breakfast
Cuisine American
Keyword grain free, healthy
Servings 8 servings
Author Sarah Pope

Ingredients

  • 4 cups almond flour
  • 1 cup coconut flour
  • 3 cups plain whole yogurt
  • 3/4 cup expeller pressed coconut oil
  • 1 cup honey
  • 1 tsp sea salt
  • 2 tsp baking soda leave out if on SCD Diet
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1.5 Tbl cinnamon preferably freshly ground

Instructions

  1. Soak almond flour and coconut flour in yogurt or kefir in a covered glass bowl for 24 hours. 

  2. Mix in remaining ingredients into the batter. Pour batter into (2) 9 x13 pans coated with coconut oil. Bake for 30 minutes at 350F or until a toothpick comes out clean.

  3. Do not overbake.

  4. Let cool and then crumble homemade breakfast cereal onto baking sheets and dehydrate at 200 F for about 24 hours. Take out dried cereal off the top every few hours so as not to overdry and make the cereal too hard.

  5. Store homemade breakfast cereal in an airtight container in the fridge.

healthy cinnamon crunch in bowl with bamboo spoon

Reference

Dirty Secrets of the Food Processing Industry

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Category: Cereal, Grain Recipes, Paleo Recipes, Snack Recipes
Sarah Pope

Sarah Pope MGA has been a Health and Nutrition Educator since 2002. She is a summa cum laude graduate in Economics from Furman University and holds a Master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

She is the author of three books: Amazon #1 bestseller Get Your Fats Straight, Traditional Remedies for Modern Families, and Living Green in an Artificial World.

Her four eBooks Good Diet…Bad Diet, Real Food Fermentation, Ketonomics, and Ancestrally Inspired Dairy-Free Recipes are available for complimentary download via Healthy Home Plus.

Her mission is dedicated to helping families effectively incorporate the principles of ancestral diets within the modern household. She is a sought after lecturer around the world for conferences, summits, and podcasts.

Sarah was awarded Activist of the Year in 2010 at the International Wise Traditions Conference, subsequently serving on the Board of Directors of the nutrition nonprofit the Weston A. Price Foundation for seven years.

Her work has been covered by numerous independent and major media including USA Today, ABC, and NBC among many others.

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Comments (173)

  1. Colleen

    Jun 16, 2011 at 5:44 pm

    Hi!
    I am new to this way of eating. Can you please tell me if the flours are soaked for 24 hours on the counter top, or in the fridge? Thanks! ~Colleen~

    Reply
    • Sarah, TheHealthyHomeEconomist

      Jun 16, 2011 at 6:00 pm

      Hi Colleen – welcome to traditional eating! You soak it on the counter covered with a cloth secured with a rubber band.

    • Andrea

      Dec 20, 2011 at 9:31 pm

      Does it matter if it is covered with a plate instead? or does air have to get in? Thanks for all your amazing recipes and information!

  2. Marta Navaret via Facebook

    Jun 16, 2011 at 5:37 pm

    OMG! My mouth watered just by reading the title, picturing a bowl of that cereal with cold raw milk, yum!

    Reply
  3. Denise @ Creative Kitchen

    Jun 16, 2011 at 3:45 pm

    Can’t wait to try!! Thanks for sharing! 🙂

    Reply
  4. Paula Bellman via Facebook

    Jun 16, 2011 at 3:13 pm

    Going to give this a try. My boys will be thrilled

    Reply
  5. Brittnee Turner Horting via Facebook

    Jun 16, 2011 at 2:44 pm

    They both sound so good! I’ve got a weakness for cold cereal…it’s always been a favorite food…but I’ve given it up because it’s so unhealthy. Now I can eat it again! Yay!

    Reply
  6. Samantha Salyer Jacokes via Facebook

    Jun 16, 2011 at 2:01 pm

    I need a dehydrator!

    Reply
    • Karen

      Jun 16, 2011 at 8:32 pm

      You can dehydrate this in your oven.

    • Anna Lee

      May 27, 2012 at 5:37 am

      how do you dehydrate in my oven?? I really want to try this recipe!!!

  7. Tara

    Jun 16, 2011 at 1:59 pm

    Awesome! My kids eat an insane amount of cereal and I would love to give them an alternative.

    Reply
  8. Diane Gamble Markesbery via Facebook

    Jun 16, 2011 at 1:57 pm

    I can’t wait to try them both!!!

    Reply
  9. Nancy Nestel via Facebook

    Jun 16, 2011 at 1:37 pm

    Thank you so much!! I can’t wait to try and make these and better yet eat them!!

    Reply
  10. Kristen Rickloff-Williams via Facebook

    Jun 16, 2011 at 1:32 pm

    My hubby sends his thanks in advance!

    Reply
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