Muesli Pie

I've written before about the "Eating for Sustained Energy" series. This recipe came out of the book for kids. So, it's a low GI supposedly kid friendly breakfast meal.

The only problem is, it really wasn't that great.

Here's the recipe:

Combine 500ml oats, 500ml digestive bran, 125ml sugar, a pinch of salt, 10ml baking powder, 125ml sultanas or dried fruit, 30g chopped walnuts or pecan nuts. In another bowl, beat 2 eggs, and add 4 small grated apples, 500ml fat-free flavoured yoghurt and 5ml vanilla essence.

Add them together, mixing well to make sure that they're all mixed together, and there are no dry patches.

Spoon into a greased cake tin, and bake for 40 mins at 180C, until "firm and golden brown".

Remove from pan and cut into 16 equal sized wedges.

Now, I don't know if I did something wrong, or didn't bake it long enough or what, but I was expecting something like muesli bars. You know, crunchy and tasty. It was more like.... cooked breakfast cereal. Kind of stodgy and, once cold, really not very inspiring.

Frankly, I think I'd have done better just eating it as muesli with yoghurt.

These books are normally great, so I have to wonder if I did something wrong. Maybe I put too much yoghurt in? Maybe the oven didn't cook hot enough? (Our oven can be a bit temperamental at times.)

Either way, this recipe turned out sort of meh all round.

Strawberry Porridge with Oatbran, Honey and Sunflower Seeds

What it says on the tin, basically.

This is one of those recipes that hardly needs to be a recipe, really, but what the hell, I said every one, so I am doing every one.

And it was exceptionally tasty.

Cook up some rolled oats with some oat bran mixed in. Transfer to a bowl. Sprinkle with sunflower seeds and drizzle with honey. Throw on some chopped strawberries and some milk and eat.

Simple simple stuff.

The oatbran makes it a little more GI friendly, I guess.

I will admit it is very tasty. But I am not sure I couldn't have worked it out without a book. ;)

Nevertheless:

Ratings:
Me: Thumbs up
Husband: Thumbs up.

Homemade muesli

One of the greatest collections I have is a series of low GI cookbooks from SA called "Eating for Sustained Energy". I own several of them, and they are a godsend for my wonky sugar levels.

This is the first recipe out of the very first of these books.

It consists mostly of rolled oats and hi fibre bran. From memory, it was about 3 cups of each. And then a cup of chopped mixed dried fruit and about 3 tablespoons of chopped dried nuts. Mix together. Consume.

I will admit that I probably skewed the low GIness of it by putting less oats and bran and more fruit and nuts.

About a million times better than the store bought stuff. YUM.

Ratings:
Me: Thumbs up
Husband: Thumbs up.