Make Your Own Cereals

Making your own bars, granola, etc seems to be all the rage these days. Well, I recently was given the opportunity to make my own cereal, which is yet another great idea.

At My Way Cereal you get to design your own handcrafted, custom mixed all organic cereal. You start with the base and then add the fruit, nuts/seeds and something a little sweet, if you'd like. For my mix, I choose the multigrain harvest base with dates, cherries, raisins, almonds, coconut, peanuts, flax and cacao nibs. My mix was really good, but I actually didn't like it so much with milk. I preferred it as a topping to yogurt. I also learned that I really don't like cacao nibs. But don't worry, that didn't stop me from eating it. For a 1 cup serving, my mix had 200 calories, 5g fat, 4g protein and 8g fiber!

Another place to mix up your own cereal is at Me & Goji. It's the same basic premise as I mentioned above, picking organic ingredients to customize your cereal. However, I have to say, I liked this site a lot more! I thought there were a lot more options to choose from and the site was fun to use. My cereal had artisanal cereal, granola, chocolate chips, blueberries, raspberries, raisins, chia and almond. For 3/4 cup, my mix had 169 calories, 3.5g fat, 5.1g protein and 6.5g fiber. Unlike the mix above, I did like this cereal with milk..and straight from the container.
Of the two, I prefer Me & Goji over My Way Cereal. The only thing I would have changed is not getting so many little ingredients (i.e. chia seeds, flax). I enjoy my cereal dry, right out of the container, and it was a little messy to eat it that way with all the tiny pieces.

As for biscuits, I'm giving My Way Cereal 5 biscuits and Me & Goji 7 biscuits. While I thought it was fun to make my own cereal and they tasted good, I think they are a little pricey to incorporate as a staple into my diet.