Recipe: Coconut, Apple, Date & Almond Breakfast Mix

Let me introduce you to CADA, your newest breakfast obsession. CADA stands for coconut, apples, dates, and almonds, and it’s a fresh and healthy take on breakfast cereal. The ingredients are roughly chopped and tossed together with a little lemon juice, giving it a taste and texture similar to granola or muesli, but without the grains — making it both grain-free and Paleo-friendly.

You can enjoy CADA cereal-style with milk, or use it as a topping for yogurt or cottage cheese. It’s also surprisingly satisfying sprinkled onto toast. Here’s how to make this no-cook, grain-free cereal that you’ll be eating all week.

We love granola or muesli as a big-batch, grab-and-go breakfast option, but switching up the cereal concept with a raw fruit-and-nut-based mix like CADA keeps us from getting bored with breakfast. Not to mention, CADA fits into most diets, thanks to the fact that it’s dairy-free, grain-free, and Paleo.

There are two key steps you need to take that will keep your CADA from browning in the fridge. First, you’ll want to roughly chop the apples and dates before adding them to the food processor, because overworking the mixture will make it brown more quickly. Secondly, a teaspoon of lemon juice will keep the apples from oxidizing.