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 that is used 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. For those of you seeking grain free alternatives, these two fantastic grain free breakfast cereal recipes were emailed to me by Heather. Thank you Heather for sharing your creativity with all of us!
Cinnamon Crunch Homemade Breakfast Cereal (Grain Free)
The first recipe is for a healthy version of the Cinnamon Crunch cereal from the supermarket. 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 the yogurt if desired.
Homemade Breakfast Cereal Recipe (grain free)
Recipe for grain free homemade breakfast cereal as alternatives to boxed cereals from the store. Friendly for all gut healing protocols as well!
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
Soak almond flour and coconut flour in yogurt or kefir in a covered glass bowl for 24 hours.
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.
Do not overbake.
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.
Store homemade breakfast cereal in an airtight container in the fridge.
Peanut Butter Cookie Homemade Breakfast Cereal (Grain Free)
Heather’s second recipe is for a healthy peanut butter cookie cereal. Enjoy!
Ingredients
4 cups almond flour (sources)
1 cup store bought or homemade coconut flour (sources)
3 cups plain yogurt or kefir
2 cups organic, roasted peanut or other nut butter of choice (sources)
3/4 cup coconut oil (sources)
1 cup honey (sources)
1 tsp sea salt (sources)
2 tsp baking soda (optional if you are on SCD diet)
2 tsp organic vanilla extract (sources)
Instructions
Soak almond flour and coconut flour in yogurt or kefir in a covered glass bowl for 24 hours. 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.
Do not overbake.
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.
Store homemade breakfast cereal in an airtight container in the fridge.
Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist
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I love your recipes.
Have you written a cook book?
Thanks for a great web site.
andy
Hi Andy .. thanks! Maybe some day ! 🙂
How creative of you! Can’t wait to try these out. Thank you.
I don’t eat it and I’ve never read the labels (I know some of the bread has soy in it!)…but I’ve wondered if eating the Food for Life Ezekiel Sprouted grain and seed breakfast cereals would be ok? What do you think?
Even sprouted soy is not a good idea. I think Food for Life has a similar bread with no soy in it and it is all sprouted.
Yes, they do. I eat that bread w/o the soy…but I was wondering if anyone knew about the breakfast cereal.
All boxed breakfast cereal is a problem. Have not found one yet that I would consider eating.
I am highly allergic to all nuts! What could I use in place of the nut flour!
You can use spelt flour as used in the original recipe (see link in first sentence of the post)
These recipes look great Sarah. I love all the nourishing ingredients and the fact that they are gluten-free. I’m going to share this on my page!
Oh guineas I can’t wait to try this!!! My boys will love it. What can I soak the flour in as a dairy free option? One of my boys cannot do dairy 🙁
Meant to say ” goodness”. Typing off my phone plus auto spell check equals strange sentences sometimes… Lol.
This sounds great. I’ve been looking for an alternative to oatmeal for my husband. It just seems the ingredients are expensive and time consuming to make. I haven’t found a good place to buy nuts in bulk. That would sure help. This is not time consuming for you?
I am so thrilled to find your grain-free tweak of this recipe. I just found it on the Healthy Home Economist site, and my wheels were turning on how I could adapt it, but you’ve done the work for me! Beautiful and thank you! 🙂
Just made a version of these. Added blended banana. Really wonderful.
Oh, Yum, yum, yum!!! What a treat to have a cereal we can eat on GAPS. Thank you!!
Is there a way to do this and it be nut free and gluten free??
The Coconut Mama blog has a good version of this made with rice flour and quinoa flour.
Sarah, do you know if the soaking step is still important to do if I already soaked the almonds before making the almond flour?
My 2 year old daughter will be excited to have cereal back in her life (we’re grain-free) 🙂
I was waiting for an answer to this question, too, as someone else asked it earlier (up above). I can’t imagine that you’d need to soak things twice, but I’m finding out I know very little when it comes to foods I’ve used my whole life! I’ve been cooking for 40+ years and even though we’ve always eaten healthy I had no idea eating could be so complicated. Sometimes I think people make it more complicated than it would have to be. But, that’s just me.
I wonder if I can do another nut. or use coconut and quinoa/rice/ect instead of almond.
My son can’t do almonds.
What do you think?
Thanks for this! It sounds great!!!
Can NOT wait to try these!!! YUM!! My kiddos will be thrilled and hubby too I am sure!
what is the purpose of soaking step for the grain free version? curious… ps – i am so glad you posted this and cannot wait to try it out! i tried my own version a few months ago and it did not come out so good!