Do you eat granola often?

Karl and I eat it almost every morning along with a bowl of fresh fruits and yogurt.

Now have you ever tried looking at all of the ingredients on the store bought granola? I do. Some people call me anal, I choose to believe that I’m an informed consumer ;).

Now, since we are moving from one country to the other, it’s hard for us to find a good brand that doesn’t add a bunch of glucose and sucralose (to name a few) to their granola recipe.

I literally go through almost every “healthy” looking options looking for the healthiest one. Karl really loveeees grocery shopping with me when we have granola on our list. To add to the issue, I can’t eat almonds; I’m intolerant.

 

I know I’m picky but you get the point. It’s just better to make your own! You get to pick what you put in it and Karl doesn’t have to contemplate killing me while I check every single granola box in the grocery store! Everyone wins!

SO!

The perfect granola for us might not be the perfect granola for you so don’t be shy and change the recipe to your liking.

I love chocolate. Granola without chocolate is a deal breaker for me. Now don’t go all crazy on me, I know what you’re thinking; Chocolate is not healthy, bla bla bla…

Well if you put high quality dark chocolate, it’s actually really not that bad!

Karl loves peanut butter. Here goes our two first ingredients.

Again, pick the natural peanut butter. The one without the additional oil (or use the one with the added oil, I won’t be looking!).

I’ve been craving Medjool dates lately, so we added some of those in the granola as well. If you like granola clusters, Medjool dates should be in your mix. They won’t be crunchy clusters but they will be delicious ones for sure!

We also added coconut, because let’s be honest, coconut is delicious! (you can toast it to get extra flavour out of it if you want!)

So, what do we have so far? Chocolate, coconut, Medjool dates and peanut butter.

Now onto the healthier stuff.

We also added some nuts and seeds. We had a big bag of walnuts, pumpkin seeds and sunflower seeds so in they went. We also had some hazelnuts so I added a bit of those as well.

If you’re a peanut butter freak like Karl (this is my way of checking if Karl actually reads my post), you can always substitute the walnuts for peanuts, as long as they a dry roasted and not salted.

We added steel cut oats.

Since we often don’t have an oven in our apartments (we’re on a trip remember?) I decided to make a no bake granola recipe.

This means that since we won’t be crisping everything up in the oven, we need something crunchy.

What’s crunchy and not fried?

Corn flakes! (We got organic corn flakes. No oil added. Actually, the only ingredient is corn.)

And to make everything glue together, (along with the peanut butter and the dates) we added some good old honey.

TADAAAA!

Amazing granola. No baking needed.

This is how I manage to eat somewhat healthy while travelling (a.k.a – with very limited kitchen tools and very often, no oven)

Enjoy!

Alex

xox