Budget-Friendly Homemade Cereal

puppitypup's Note:

With the ever increasing price of store-bought cereal, I decided it was time to come up with a homemade one. You may want to add nuts or dried fruits also. Store it in an airtight container. (I keep it in the cardboard oats canister in a zip-tied bag.)

• Total Time: 25 mins
• Prep Time: 5 mins
• Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 8

• 4 cups old fashioned oats, uncooked
• 1/4 cup honey
• 1 tablespoon canola oil
• 2 tablespoons maple syrup
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt (less if regular salt)
• butter-flavor Pam cooking spray

Directions:

1. Heat oven to 350 degrees and spray 10x15 jelly roll pan with butter-flavor Pam.
2. In a small bowl, mix together honey, syrup, oil, vanilla, cinnamon and salt. Pour over oats in a large bowl and mix thoroughly.
3. Spread evenly in the pan, and bake for 10 minutes, stir and bake 9 more minutes. (If you use a dark pan, shorten cooking time by 1 or 2 minutes.).

Reviews

[Sydney Mike]

Made this one pretty much as written since I'm ALWAYS willing to add nuts & dried fruit (especially raisins &/or cranberries) just before I eat it! It's so easy to make this great-tasting cereal! However, since we do like sweets, I did take the hint from JoyfulCooking & added a 1/4 cup of brown sugar (then didn't add anymore when we actually put it in a bowl to eat)! Most definitely a keeper recipe! [Tagged & made in Please Review My Recipe]

[Boomette]

I had only quick oats and I check each 5 minutes in case it would burn. For us, that's sweet enough. No need to add more sweet. I omitted the salt. After I made them and they were cold, my son wanted a bowl with milk. He liked them. Thanks Puppitypup :) Made for PRMR tag game

[JoyfulCooking]

My husband and I both thought this was good but not quite sweet enough for our taste. I added about a third of a cup of brown sugar the second time around and it was much improved.