I made a mistake, and bought a bag of muesli thinking it was cereal clusters. There is nobody else to blame other than my stupidity.
I don’t think I know how to eat this thing. It’s practically rolled oats with bits of fruit and nuts and all bran kind of cereals added in the mix but hardly noticeable.
I tried eating it like cereal, adding it to yoghurt or milk. It tastes like insipid cardboard flakes sprinkled with fruit. I tried cooking porridge with it, that was an improvement but I still find it boring.
Perhaps you have some suggestions on how to actually enjoy eating what’s left of it? Bonus points if you know how to make it crunchy.
Thanks
Edit: I don’t typically add sugar to things or even buy sugary cereal. My problem with this thing is the texture first and foremost. Thanks for your concern on how much processed foods I don’t buy or like are harming my life.
Honestly this is just what natural food tastes like when not filled with sugar. It takes a little getting used to if you are normally having processed stuff.
Really? My problem is the texture, not the sweetness. Literally like chewing cardboard.
Western diets are a lot softer than the crunchy or chewy foods that pre-industrial humans ate. It’s cited as one of the reasons for modern orthodontic disorders.
I guess it’s good I’m asking for crunch, not sweetness? No idea why people are upvoting the “get off processed sugary foods” comment. Wtf.
The overall impression I get from peoples’ replies to you is “natural food is to suffer blandness and dislike, just endure”
It’s tragic.
To me it sounds best to go with the honey baked guy’s suggestion, they seem to know what’s up.
I agree 100%. Since I don’t have honey and I’m not planning to get groceries again in a week I might just bake it as it is. I doubt I can ruin this.
Please tell us how it comes out! I have time extra muesli to use up and am following along with curiosity.
It’s great stirred into plain or vanilla yoghurt for breakfast. I think that’s in fact the “traditional European” way it’s eaten?
Or at least at nearly every Bed & Breakfast in western Canada that tries to be “Victorian” :)
Coming from Germany, I don’t know if the traditional way to eat muesli is just adding yoghurt. Most people I know normally add fresh milk to it.
Personally, I enjoy my daily Müsli with vanilla soy milk (but I tend to be the only one liking that), fruit skyr (or yogurt), some oatmeal and/or crunchy granola, and most importantly, at least two kinds of fresh fruit, like bananas, peaches, apples, pears, or grapes. Without fruit, it just tastes bland.
Mainline it.
Put that shit in a blender and inject it straight into your arm.
I like your style
Coming from the Land of Muesli, it’s really quite simple and it’s really the same way we eat any cereal over here:
- put Muesli in a small bowl
- add fresh (ideally cold) cow milk
- eat it all with a spoon (quickly, before it loses most texture and becomes a soggy pulp / porridge-like)
If you like it a bit sweeter, mix a fruit yoghurt into it. Personally, I add the yoghurt after the Muesli and stir/mix it a bit before adding the milk.
Of course you can also add fresh sweet fruits (bananas, apples, strawberries, peaches, etc.) cut into slices/cubes.
If you prefer vegan milk alternatives, oat milk works great. Honestly, I think a good oat milk complements the Muesli (which usually contains oats) better than cow milk and I would suggest everyone try it.
Today I learned there are two types of muesli and I got the non toasted one apparently and unfortunately. Do you also have this distinction wherever you are from?
It’s Switzerland. While I don’t know the answer to your question, having grown up there and in the states, I wanted to compare the cereal industries and how they tried to promote a healthier lifestyle. Then this happened: (from Wikipedia)
An early proponent of the germ theory of disease, Kellogg was well ahead of his time in relating intestinal flora and the presence of bacteria in the intestines to health and disease. The sanitarium approached treatment in a holistic manner, actively promoting vegetarianism, nutrition, the use of enemas to clear “intestinal flora”, exercise, sun-bathing, and hydrotherapy, as well as the abstention from smoking tobacco, drinking alcoholic beverages, and sexual activity. Kellogg dedicated the last 30 years of his life to promoting eugenics and segregation.
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Yes… That and the corn flakes backstory about not masturbating iirc? Not surprising but still interesting, thanks for sharing
Just eat it with a yoghurt. I prefer sweet yoghurts but greek yoghurt is also nice some times.
I dunno. I just like müsli.
Mix it with frozen berries and plain (unsweetened) yoghurt, and let sit in the fridge over night. It’s delicious in the morning.
Huh, overnight you say? I’ll try this, I got all the ingredients already
Yep, it takes a couple hours for the moisture of the yoghurt to fully seep into the muesli. If it’s too soggy for your taste afterwards, you can always stir some more back in to balance it out, but personally I like it very soggy. It becomes almost porridge-like. If it’s too sour, I’d add honey instead of sugar.
If you don’t like it as a ceral, you could try making biscuits out of it? Rolled oats biscuits are pretty good. I know I’m risking my Australian citizenship here but you could try doing an Anzac biscuit like thing to it. Super simple biscuit that lasts forever that just needs rolled oats, golden syrup, bicarb, coconut, and some flour.
Alternatively you could make a muesli bar and eat that. I know they’re not that healthy but when you’re making it yourself you can like control that sort of thing
(I personally eat muesli with yoghurt so there’s a bit of body to the entire thing, but that’s already been suggested)
Heh Anzac biscuits are nice! Some people have suggested baking and toasting in different ways, I just don’t have any ingredients to do so.
If overnight method or plain baking doesn’t work, I might also risk my citizenship and buy ingredients to bake something next time I get groceries. Cheers
Add some brown sugar and butter, little bit of flour. Use it as a crumble topping.
