HEY! Lentil weavers - any of you make your own museli??

[BBBee]

I eat lots of dorset museli - it is really nice nad good for me but occurred to me that whilst expensive ingredients can't cost that much.

Anyone ever made their own that tastes a bit like dorset museli?

I have no idea what dorset muesli is, but i just cut my finger open hacking into a packet of gouda. I have felt a bit ill all day, and suddenly have ravenous hunger, and gouda is all i could find. I bled on my cracker.

me me me me me

will be back shortly with recipe

This makes a crunchy granola style muesli, IMO much nicer than plain old Dorset :

3 cups oats
1 cup wheatgerm
1/4 cup linseed
1/4 cup sesame seeds
1/4 cup sunflower seeds
4 tbsp ground almonds
1 tbsp barley malt
1 tbsp molasses (dissolve this and the barley malt in a little hot water otherwise it is too sticky)
1/4 cup olive oil
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp ground cinnamon
2 cups raisins
Half cup dessicated coconut

Combine barley malt, molasses, oil, vanilla and cinnamon in a bowl. Mix all else except raisins and coconut in another bowl. Mix wet with dry. Stir well until all coated. Spread onto 2 baking trays and bake at 180 / gm 4 for 20 mins, stirring after 10 mins.
Add raisins and coconut and allow to cool. Place in airtight tin or jar in the fridge. Serve with milk as usual.

well I know you haven't had dorset museli bocs but it isn't really like blood and gouda - it's a bit more oaty.

and Boco I am sorry I was Sharp and Unfeeling about your cheese-related injury. It was Unkind of me

what is wrong with sharing about gouda? It's just a cheese, there's no harm in it, and the cracker was wholewheat wholefood type very very brown!

ah

but there was harm in it, wasn't there?

thanks F&Z that sounds wonderful. Will mak a list and shop adn report back.

Not one of my 10 a day though am guessing.

am sorry too bocs. Will also shop for the stuff for blood and gouda on a cracker and let you know how it tastes.

I think she has gone off feeling sad now

I feel like I kicked a puppy

Oh x posts, it's ok franny, i forgive you.

It's just the way the blood has pooled under my nail, it's disturbing - the very hungry and the bit freaked out by injury is a little confusing.

Rather impressed with the muesli recipe though, BBB are you going to make it?

Even better with milk free milk - can't bear the stuff! I make mine with pumpkin seeds, cranberries, dried cherries, ginger, whole brazils and rolled oats. It is such a personal thing that I change it to suit the mood and sometimes my husband objects to my ginger obsession. He calls it "jaw breaker" down to the brazils!

mmm...sounds good (better than the plain old porridge). I'm writing it down right now

Boco, that was the bit I didn't like, the blood bit

did you get anything to eat yet? Do you still feel bad?

it isn't my recipe btw, is from "Optimum Nutrition for Babies and young children" or whatever it is called. Fab book.

I am going to give it a go boco - I don't know where I can get molasses and barley malt but will print out list and take to hippy shop tomorrow.

I am eating 2 boxes or dorset museli a week and it is about £40 a box.

(hmmm ginger)

Franny, does the baking diminish the nutritional value of the seeds?

That Dorset muesli is a shocker

not even organic, just put in a good olf honest cardboard yet tastefully lentilly box and whopped up to quadruple price

v clever marketing

I AM still feeling bad actually. I have a headache in one cheek and eye, all day, felt a bit sick. But now i'm really hungry. Which must be why i'm sitting in a muesli thread.

Although it's more mashed potato that I think i'd like to eat.

Not according to Opt Nut thingy, TooT

you could add them later when it is cold, if you wanted to, I think?

I belivee the most important thing with linseed etc is to crack it prior to eating. And I'm pretty sure raw is optimum. Have you read Patrick Holford?

Is dorset muesli the stuff in really skinny boxes? With a nice font? And a little see through bit?

What, crack each linseed?

Is Dorset muesli the stuff in colour coded boxes with rather creepy outsize raisins?