Grape Nuts to Corn Flakes: 7 Recipes for Homemade Cereal

If your breakfast of choice is dry cereal with a generous splash of cold milk, these recipes are for you. We had no idea it was so easy to make DIY versions of some of our favorite store brands!

1. Graham Nuts from Chow - This is a version of grape nuts based on a recipe from Kim Boyce's book Good to the Grain.

2. Chocolate Cookie Breakfast Cereal from Family Fresh Cooking - Made with cocoa powder and gluten-free flours, this is definitely a healthier alternative for a morning sweet tooth.

3. Speculoos Cereal from Have Cake, Will Travel - Puffed kamut is sweetened with our favorite gingerbread-flavored speculoos spread.

4. Coco Puffmaranth from The Edible Perspective - Pop some amaranth and toss it with cocoa powder for this version of cocoa puffs.

5. Quick, Raw, Nourishing Homemade Cereal from Just Making Noise - A cross between granola and meusli, this cereal is great with milk. There's also some good information on processed cereals in this post.

6. Homemade Corn Flakes from Dancing in a Field of Tansy - What cornflakes were always meant to be.

7. Nutty Bran Flakes from Mr. Breakfast - This recipe is just waiting for a handful of raisins to round it off.

Fruity Pebbles and Trix might be a bit out of reach for homecooks, but we'd be curious to try grinding dehydrated fruits into a powder and substituting that in the recipes that call for cocoa powder. Could be interesting!

All in all, we're very curious to see how these recipes stack up to the processed versions we're used to. Do any of you make your own cereal?

Related: Recipe: DIY Graham Crackers

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Comments (6)

I make a super healthy granola with nuts and seeds and fruit mixed with oatmeal and other good things. We eat it as a snack rather than a cereal, but of course cereal is what it basically is.

I have always somehow wanted to make my own rice krispies - has anyone ever attempted such a ridiculous thing? Is it even possible?

Wow! Thank you for these links. We're transitioning away from prepackaged food at our house and cereal was one of the few things we have not been able to give up yet! Honestly, I still may keep my death grip on multigrain cheerios though....

I remember having this perfect museli at a cafe in London and thinking to myself that I needed to develop my own house museli blend. I haven't quite figured it out yet, but I'm getting closer. Does anyone have a museli recipe they love? The one in London had goji berries, which I liked a lot.

I have an unhealthy addiction to Vanilla Almond Special K. It's seriously becoming a problem, but it's sooooo good. Fortunately, it's almost constantly on sale at a grocer near me -- about 2 bucks for a box.

I've currently got about four boxes of it in the hall pantry. Just in case Food World decides to change their mind about the pricing.

rolled uncooked oats; unsweetened shredded coconut; little date pieces rolled in oat flour (from the food coop) and broken up walnut pieces. sits on the counter in a big jar; 1/2 cup in the morning over yogurt, with (almond) milk, cider -- the whole thing is flexible.