Recipe for homemade cinnamon crunch cereal that is healthy and grain-free for minimal carbs and easier digestion for breakfast.
One of the most popular videos and recipes I’ve posted on this blog is How to Make Cold Breakfast Cereal.
A frequent question I’ve gotten from that post is how to make a grain free homemade breakfast cereal for those who eat Primal or Paleo or are currently on the GAPS or SCD diet.
Why would you ever want to make your own breakfast cereal when there are oodles of brands at the store, you might ask?
The reason is because ALL boxed cereal from the store, even if organic, should be avoided due to the heavy processing required to make it.
Called extrusion, this process liquefies the cereal grains into a slurry using very high temperatures and pressures to manufacture the desired shapes, puffs, and flakes.
This violent processing denatures the proteins in the cereal grains leaving them toxic and allergenic.
Making your own healthy, homemade breakfast cereal is clearly the way to go given the highly processed boxed versions at the store.
The recipe below is a healthy version of the Cinnamon Crunch cereal from the supermarket. It was shared by Heather, a reader friend who kindly shared her creativity with all of us.
Note that homemade coconut flour and soaked almond flour made at home are best, but in a pinch store bought is fine. Kefir may be substituted for yogurt if desired.
Want a nut butter version? Try this peanut butter grain-free breakfast cereal too!
Homemade Breakfast Cereal Recipe (grain free)
Recipe for homemade cinnamon crunch cereal that is grain-free for minimal carbs and easier digestion for the morning meal.
Ingredients
- 4 cups almond flour
- 1 cup coconut flour
- 3 cups plain whole yogurt
- 3/4 cup expeller pressed coconut oil
- 1 cup honey
- 1 tsp sea salt
- 2 tsp baking soda leave out if on SCD Diet
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1.5 Tbl cinnamon preferably freshly ground
Instructions
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Soak almond flour and coconut flour in yogurt or kefir in a covered glass bowl for 24 hours.
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Mix in remaining ingredients into the batter. Pour batter into (2) 9 x13 pans coated with coconut oil. Bake for 30 minutes at 350F or until a toothpick comes out clean.
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Do not overbake.
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Let cool and then crumble homemade breakfast cereal onto baking sheets and dehydrate at 200 F for about 24 hours. Take out dried cereal off the top every few hours so as not to overdry and make the cereal too hard.
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Store homemade breakfast cereal in an airtight container in the fridge.
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Just made a version of these. Added blended banana. Really wonderful.
I am so thrilled to find your grain-free tweak of this recipe. I just found it on the Healthy Home Economist site, and my wheels were turning on how I could adapt it, but you’ve done the work for me! Beautiful and thank you! 🙂
This sounds great. I’ve been looking for an alternative to oatmeal for my husband. It just seems the ingredients are expensive and time consuming to make. I haven’t found a good place to buy nuts in bulk. That would sure help. This is not time consuming for you?
Meant to say ” goodness”. Typing off my phone plus auto spell check equals strange sentences sometimes… Lol.
Oh guineas I can’t wait to try this!!! My boys will love it. What can I soak the flour in as a dairy free option? One of my boys cannot do dairy 🙁
These recipes look great Sarah. I love all the nourishing ingredients and the fact that they are gluten-free. I’m going to share this on my page!
I am highly allergic to all nuts! What could I use in place of the nut flour!
You can use spelt flour as used in the original recipe (see link in first sentence of the post)
I don’t eat it and I’ve never read the labels (I know some of the bread has soy in it!)…but I’ve wondered if eating the Food for Life Ezekiel Sprouted grain and seed breakfast cereals would be ok? What do you think?
Even sprouted soy is not a good idea. I think Food for Life has a similar bread with no soy in it and it is all sprouted.
Yes, they do. I eat that bread w/o the soy…but I was wondering if anyone knew about the breakfast cereal.
All boxed breakfast cereal is a problem. Have not found one yet that I would consider eating.
How creative of you! Can’t wait to try these out. Thank you.
I love your recipes.
Have you written a cook book?
Thanks for a great web site.
andy
Hi Andy .. thanks! Maybe some day ! 🙂