Mix and match your own healthy homemade Muesli with kids

Do you like Muesli for breakfast? Whatever we say, this is the easiest, the healthiest and the quickest breakfast for the busy weeks and SURE loved by kids and students. Homemade Muesli has gotten all trendy in the past few years. The beauty of our Muesli “formula” is that it’s so cheap to make using leftovers. Look into your pantry and scratch together whatever nuts, seeds and dried fruits you can find. Get creative with the spices and flavorings! We bet you’ll love this ultimate healthy Homemade Muesli Guide! Mix and match, build your own Muesli by using the ingredients you like and have on hand.

Being honest we didn’t start making Muesli because it’s healthier than store bought. We started because it’s cheaper and we wanted to control how sweet it is. Store bought is so sweet!

Then it evolved into a bit of a game, trying to come up with cute flavor combinations with berries, apple, apricot, blueberry, peach, raisin. You get the picture. Basically, desserts in breakfast form!

Muesli formula for Breakfast muesli and Muesli Bars

Here is the simple Muesli formula. The same base “formula” applies to both types of Muesli – Breakfast muesli and Muesli bars. The difference is in the steps and cooking methods.

Get inspired!

Share your Muesli flavoring ideas in the comments below to inspire other readers!

You can read our suggestions in the notes of the recipe section of the site but we bet you can come up with better ones!

Eat by design!

Making breakfast muesli is as simple as it gets:

1. Combine Dry ingredients,
2. Combine Wet ingredients,
3. Combine Wet & Dry,
4. Spread on tray, bake,
5. Add fruit at end.

The Secret is to stir the dried fruit in at the end, because some bits can burn

Making Muesli Bars for Lunchbox snack, the steps are:

1. Add the fruit in at the beginning, because you cannot stir it in at the end.
2. Use egg white and add them to bind the ingredients together to form clusters.
3. Bake at a lower temperature to ensure that the fruits doesn’t burn and
4. Cool in the turned off oven to finish the crisping and for the clusters to set.

The Secret:
You can never get the middle to go golden and crispy without the edges burning. You can’t stir the granola as it bakes, because otherwise you’ll break up the clusters. The secret is to spread the granola on the tray with a hole in the middle because even using a fan forced/convection oven it will not bake the way you want. Be sure this little secret makes all the difference!!
We use egg whites for Muesli bars, because we want light and tight Muesli bars without adding loads and loads of honey / sugar. Egg is the ultimate food glue, for everything from cakes to cookies, omelettes to meatballs.