Your Personal Muesli

This is my version, adapted from a basic "7 cup muesli" which I found online - it's 8.5 cups now!

About 3 cups cereal flakes - I use 2 cups jumbo oat flakes and 1 cup barley flakes
1 cup puffed whole grain rice
I cup roughly chopped nuts - I use Brazil nuts and pecan nuts
I cup seeds - I use pumpkin seeds and sunflower seeds
Half a cup coconut flakes
2 cups roughly chopped dried fruit - I use apricots, dates and mango (or sometimes cranberries - but they have added sugar)

You can use anything you like in your muesli as long as it is dried. Toasting the cereals, nuts and seeds improves the flavour. I tried Millet flakes once, but never again - they are only suitable for budgies!

Toast the cereal flakes by spreading the out on baking trays and putting in the oven at 170 deg/150 deg fan/ gas mark 4 for 10 minutes until they are slightly brown and smell toasted.

Toast the nuts and seeds in a similar way.

Toast the coconut for 2-3 minutes, watching carefully as it burns easily!

In a large bowl, mix all the toasted ingredients with the puffed rice. Stir well and leave to cool. Finally mix in the chopped dried fruit. Store in an airtight container.

Store in an airtight container, keeps for weeks. Serve with milk or yoghurt and fresh fruit.