homemade museli

Brooks

I make my own museli - a mix of rolled oats..dried berries (blueberry, raspberry, pineapple) seeds and a small amount of nuts..
I read somewhere recently that museli is full of sugar, so the question is : Is mine ok, or does the dry fruit push the sugaryness way up?

justsomebloke

ye depending on the type of museli you buy the majority of the sugar is coming from the added fruit (or should be). Some museli brands will also add honey and some may have a small amount of cornflakes in them. In my opinion I think Lifeforce museli probably has the best nutrional breakdown.

As you make your own the amount of sugar you put in is going to be dependant on the amount of fruit you put in, so I can't say how good your museli is, as it depends on the amount of fruit you put in

rubadub

You can weigh your proportions up and calculate your own nutriotional "label". Obviously you must look up values for dried fruits, i.e. the sugar will be far high than the usual 10-15% a lot of fruits have.

I used to get tesco "value" museli, since it was cheapo stuff it had very few nuts, or fruit compared to some "luxury" brands, so it had a fraction of the caloires, and is extermely cheap.

justsomebloke

I can't remember off the top of my head but the nutrional and ingredients of tesco value museli isn't great. I also though I would be able to ue it as a base for my own museli and then just add more nuts and seeds (as I didn't want the fruit levels that you get in expensive ones) as far as I remember (i could be quite wrong though) they actually add some variety of sugar to it aswell as one of two others, So I owuldn't be pushed about using it

rubadub

jsb wrote:

I can't remember off the top of my head but the nutrional and ingredients of tesco value museli isn't great. I also though I would be able to ue it as a base for my own museli and then just add more nuts and seeds (as I didn't want the fruit levels that you get in expensive ones) as far as I remember (i could be quite wrong though) they actually add some variety of sugar to it aswell as one of two others, So I owuldn't be pushed about using it

Yep they do add sugar to it. It is mainly oats and works out cheaper than buying just oats. I do add some sugar to stuff anyway and it had about the right amount for me. The sugar tends to drop to the end of the bag, I just ditch the last bit as it is sugar laiden, so overall the stuff I am eating has less sugar than quoted on the pack.

Better making your own, I love dried pineapples. But I prefer hot porridge on these cold mornings.

j@utis

I find Luxury muesli mix from Lidl to be the best. It's much cheaper than any other luxury muesli from tesco and realy has loads of nuts/fruits in it.

Brooks

rubadub wrote:

Yep they do add sugar to it. It is mainly oats and works out cheaper than buying just oats. I do add some sugar to stuff anyway and it had about the right amount for me. The sugar tends to drop to the end of the bag, I just ditch the last bit as it is sugar laiden, so overall the stuff I am eating has less sugar than quoted on the pack.

Better making your own, I love dried pineapples. But I prefer hot porridge on these cold mornings.

well Im in oz... so porridge in 30 degrees is not really my cup of tae!
thanks for the help though, will reduce the nuts and add more seeds

justsomebloke

no keep the nuts in and reduce the amount of fruit if possible as nuts are full of good fats,