Budget-Friendly Homemade Cereal

Name: Budget-Friendly Homemade Cereal
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 8 serving(s)
Ingredients: 946.36 ml old fashioned oats, uncooked; 14.79 ml canola oil; 29.58 ml maple syrup; 59.14 ml honey; 9.85 ml vanilla; 1.23 ml cinnamon; 1.84 ml kosher salt (less if regular salt); butter-flavor Pam cooking spray

Submitted by puppitypup

"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.)"

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Ready In:: 25mins
Ingredients:: 8
Serves:: 8

ingredients

946.36 ml old fashioned oats, uncooked
14.79 ml canola oil
29.58 ml maple syrup
59.14 ml honey
9.85 ml vanilla
1.23 ml cinnamon
1.84 ml kosher salt (less if regular salt)
butter-flavor Pam cooking spray

directions

Heat oven to 350 degrees and spray 10x15 jelly roll pan with butter-flavor Pam. (I also spray both bowls and the spatula I use to mix the cereal, then nothing sticks and clean up is easy.).
In a small bowl, mix together oil, syrup, honey, vanilla, cinnamon and salt. Pour over oats in a large bowl and mix thoroughly.
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.).

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Reviews

My second time trying half the quantity in a toaster oven convection at 325. Checking every 5minuted.

Shanthini J.
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]

Sydney Mike
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

Boomette
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.

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